St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-16
SANDY LAKE PARK.
1t Was Ordered, but Was 1t Or
dered Legally?

The park board has declared for the &C
ceptance OF the Sandy lake tract--and 1t has
not. 1t all depends upon the legality of the
vote by which the park was bought and Or
dered.
+. G. James. the secretary of the Minneap-
oils Improvement Company Northeast, was
the busiest man i'll town yesterday when the
park board met. The board went on with
minor matters while Mr.. james held SEES
sion in the outer room with the committee
Oh designation of grounds. Reason-1he
proposition made by the Improvement
company to the board had been
changed somewhat. Newspaper read
ers are tolerably familiar with this
Sandy Lake park project. In brief: The Min
neapolis Improvement Company Northeast,
organized for and building up manutactur-
ing center near the Anoka llne has IA acres
OF land, surrounding and including Sandy
lake. which it wants made into park. 1t
offered to sell that tract to the park board
and to contribute 800, 600 to help pay for i'm
proyements. The committee on designation
of grounds reported on this proposition yes
terday through its chairman, Prof. w w:
Folwell The committee as whole reporied
resolution. designating that tract for park
purposes-that is, recommending that 1t be
ACQUIRED for park, and naming the pro-
posed park Columbia park. That was
ALL The committee did not recommend
theacceptanceof the Improvement company S
proposition entire. The resolution of designa-
ton was adopted unanimously. Then Com
missioner Ridgeway offered the vital reSolJl-
ton and the one that stirred up discussion:
His resolution provided for the acceptance OF
the title to the land and the issuance of GER
titicates of Indebtedness, amounting 10 Sos
1856 to pay for it. the improvement company
10 give the board 81 900 and pay all taxes on
| the property levied this year aud due i'll 1893.
| Prof. FoiWell moved to lay that resolution
on the table until the next regular meeting.
10 confident a heller
| could be received from the Improvement
| company, The price asked, S20S, 156, was too
| high. About half Of it would be nearer
right.
| no make a comparison said Prof. Fol.
| WELL lit is as if this company had purchased
| a fine fleece of wool for its own use and had
| cut off the tag locks TO sell. This company
owns lot OF valuable property and 1t wants
! to get rid of this absolutely worthless prop
| erty at $3.50 an acre. This tract is valuable
| for park purposes, but for nothing else, ex-
cept it be for speculation"
Prof FolWells motion would have sem
this question over TO the new board, yester-
days meeting being the last of the year. Bul
the sentiment of the board was against post
popement that long, SO Commissioner Alier
| moved to postpone action until an al
| iourned meeting, one week hence. The
motion was lost. but Bradish got TO Loyee
ear. and Loye. who had voted wrong, III
| said by mistake, effected reconsideration
More debate followed. Folwen insisted
that no cause for haste existed The majorit.
of the 200, or more, who had signed the petl
ton for the park understood that the parl
would cost Sl37, 600, not S2lS, 756. The peopl
should have a chance to know just nov
much they were to pay before park wa
forced upon them. Baldwin Brown cited tn
case of the First ward park. Like the pres
ent case. not an objection was heard agalns
that park until the board had accepted tn
land Delay could do no harm, and nigh