Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-08
RULES FOR THE PARKS.
FREQ uenters Are to Be Restricted in
Their Privileges
PROPERTY MUST BE PRESERVED
That the Greatest Enjoyment May Be
Obtained by the Majority. ,
PROVISIONS FOR RIDERS AND CYCLERs.

The Committee on Parks met yesterday
afternoon and afirmatively returned to
Councils an ordinance creating rules for the
parks of this city. The rules were made up
BY Chief Bigelow and are substantially the
same as those in force in other cities through.
out the country.
The list starts out BY making it mis-
demeanor for anyone to destroy or deface
any notices, rules or regulations posted in
the parks They provide that no one shall
be allowed to turn chickens, geese, fowls,
cattle or goats loose or bring any unhsr-
messed horse into the parks No person is
to be allowed to carry firearms or to shoot,
set snsres for or injure any birds, rabbits,
squirrels or fish.
No one will be allowed to cut, pluck or
deiace any trees, plants, shrubs, turf,
buildings or fences, and no horse will be
permitted to be fastened to any tree, bush
or shrub. No military or other professions
or funeral can pass through the parks with
out permission of the Chief of Public
Works
There VIII Be No Politics There.
The rules further provide that no one
shall ride or drive on any of the avenues or
roads at rate exceeding eight miles per
r hour
No gathering or meeting of any kind,
through advertisement, will be permitted
without permission, and no meeting for po-
litical purpose will be allowed under any
consideration. No wagon or vehicle of bur-
den or traffic will be allowed to pass through
the park except on such avenues as may be
designated. No coach or vehicle for hire
shall stand upon any part of the park un-
less at points designated by the Chief of the
Department of Public Works.
No profsne, indecent, abusive or insult
ing language, gambling or drunkenness will
allowed within the park, nor shall anyone
be allowed to introduce any spurious
liquors within the limits of the park, either
for his own use or for sale. No person may
climb any tree or attach any swing thereto
without the consent of the superintendent
Picnics Must Be UnmoIested.
No picnic shall take place within the
park without written permission, and all
picnic parties must clean up the ground oc-
cupied by them on quitting it
No person shall distub any picnic or in
trude himself or herself without the consent
Of those composing the picnic party. No
person shall set up any booth or stand for
the sale of any article without the consent
of the Chief of the Department. No per-
son shall stand, walk or sit on any fence,
wall or embsnkment or slide, sit or roll
down anv embankment OF the park
When carriages or equestrians meet they
must keep to the right No person shall
drive any vehicle displaying any plscard or
advertisement on any road in the park; nor
shall any person display any placard or ad-
vertisement of any kind, or post or fix no
tices of any kind on any tree, lamp post,
hydrant, curbstone, coping, fagstone, fence
or wall, building or other place in the park.
Restrictions for the Cyclers.
No benches or seats shall be removed ex-
cept by permission of the superintendent
Bicycles and tricycles are to be restricted to
the use of the roadways and be controlled
by the same law that governs horses, ve-
hices and equestrians
All racing by horses, bicycles or tricycles
is prohibited at any time, and bicycles and
tricycles must not travel more than two
abreast and at no greater speed than eight
miles per hour.
At the invitation of Chief Bigelow the
committee fixed Thursday next to visit the
parks and inspect the work being done.