St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-05
A MATTER OF COST.
Second Ward Citizens Consider
Once More the Establish
ment Of Parks.
Indian Mound Is All Right, If
Property Owners Will Be
Fair in Price.

A gOod-sized audience Of Second ward
property owners met last night in Luck
er's hall, and discussed the projected
Indian Mound and Cleveland parks.
The matters were disguised in busi-
neSS-like and earnest manner, and the
meeting was found to be a unit in its
purpose. The Indian Mound park
matter was first taken up, and the
unanimous sentiment was that there
was no opposition to establishing the
park, but there is a decided opposition
to paying the price asked by the prop
erty owners for the land. The discus
sion was OH the method to present the
features OF the opposition.
Harry Caldwell said that il was not
right that the people should be asked
to pay for the land the price desired by
the property owners, as that was very
much more than the land is worth i'll
the market.
William Mulligan stated that the
majority of the people. favor the park,
but they wanted the Value of the land
taken put at something like the market
value. He said that the committee Sc
lected by the board of public works had
valued the land at $4,000. The COM
mittee selected by the owners of the
land had placed the value at 500, 200.
The board of public works had pro-
posed compromise at 100000. The
land is assessed on the county books at
a little over $4,000. He believes that
double the price placed on the land by
the assessor is enough for 1t. Mr.. Bass
ford said that his opinion was that the
land would not bring more than S42, 900
in the market.
Matt EgaD made a stirring speech in
which he opposed paying three times
the value of the land to the property
owners. He declared that real estate
men say it is not worth more than
double the assessed valuation. Mr..
Egan enlarged CD a suggestion made by
j. Ii. Kramm and SAID that Henry II.
Fuller has piece of land that forms an
IL" to the proposed Indian Mound
park Will CHI he wants to sell at S26,0 900.
Mr.. Egan favored cutting off the Fuller
tract and substituting another piece
that is just as desirable and may be Sc
cured for much less price and thus
cut down the gross sum to be expended
for the park. Mr.. Canning and Edward
Murphy also made speeches on the mat
ter.
1t was then unanimously decided that
committee should be appointed to go
before the board OF public works at the
meeting Monday morning and present
evidence as to the value of the land
proposed to be taken for Indian Mound
park. The committee named consists
of William Mulligan, Harry Caldwell.
A. L. Massger. Matt Egan, NJ. johnson
and J. Ii. Kramm. This committee
was also asked to act in con-
junction with committee ap-
pointed at previous meeting and
go before the park board and
oppose the Cleveland park in toto, and
also to ask that the park board change
the boundaries of the proposed In
dian Mound park so as to leave
out the Fuller tract and take i'm
another tract in its place that can be
acquired for a less sum. A COMMITTEES
was appointed to canvass the ward with
a remonstrance against the Cleveland
park and also another to ask for the
modification of the plans of the Indian
Mound park.
The committees to go before the board
of public works and the park board will
be accompanied by large delegation
of citizens from the Second ward. The
reason large delegation was not be-
fore the board Of public works at ia