St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-05
of the things needfuI for the future
growth and nrnSneritu of ST Panl Sc

of the things needfuI for the future
growth and prosperity of st. Paul, Sc
cured the passage of an act of the legiS-
lature authorizing the common council
of the city of st. Paul, by three-fourthS
vote of all the members elect, to
plat and divide up into lots
and blocks of suitable size for
the purposes hereinafter named
part or all of the property situated in
the city of ST. Paul known as Como
park, and to lease the same for a term
not exceeding fifty years from the date
Of the passage of the act at such rent as
the common council might determine
and fix, for manufacturing, machine
shops aud stockyards, and for no other
purpose whatever"
This act met with considerable oppo-
Sltl0n, and no action was ever had UNI
der this law by the common council.
While the people wanted manufact-
ures, machine shops. Stockyards, ETC.,
the objection was not so much upon the
grounds that it wiped out the park as
that it prevented the sale of
other property for that purpose in
In 1881 an act of the legislature was
passed authorizing the city of st. Paul
TO establish and maintain
A WORkHoUSE
and the issue of $4,000 of city bonds for
the purchase of q site and the erection of
buildings. The directors-appointed by
Mayor William Dawson, under and by
virture of said act, being Gen. II.
w. johnson, Mark Costello, David
Day, Gen. j. w. Bishop and Louis En-
gel-with view to economy in munich
pal affairs, in place of expanding a
larger part of said appropriation in the
purchase of site because some fellow
had tract of land he wanted to unload
queSted the common council to
grant permission for the use
OF forty acres Of Como park as a site
for WorkhOuse, which request was
granted, and the entire appropriation
was expended in the erection of build
ings, and to this wise action the people
OF st. Paul are in great measure
indebted for the Improvement of
Come park. After the erection
and occupation of the workhouse,
in the absence of machinery, etc.,
to utilize the labor of prisoners in other
directions, during the summer months
nearly the entire force of prisoners have
been kept employed in the park, until it
is one of the most beautiful parks in the
country. After more than twenty
years of waiting and doubt, with
the completion of line OF
street railway it has become what its
originatorS intended. beautiful and
lovely breathing place, where the poor
as we'll as the rich can spend an idle
hour away from the noise and dust of
the city.
As close this article my Imagination
carries me out to the shores of Lake
Como, where in the evening and at a
midnight hour l can see Hon. Cary |.
Warren looking out from. window of
his beautiful home. In pavilion near
by is heard Seibert's band discoursing
sweet music. and there is being
re-enacted the spectacular dances
OF the Midway Plaisance. and as he
turns his eyes to Van Slyke avenue
lovers are seen strolling up and down
its shady walks. humming "Oh, Carry
Me Back to Old Kentucky" and he
realizes that his labors have not been
in vain, and that Como park is sue
cess and the future of Warrendale an
assured fact.
WILLIAM PITT MURRAY.