St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-16
RIDGEWOOD PARK GOES
THE PARK BOARD SO DECIDES IN A
SECRET cONFAB YESTERDAY
NOW ROME WILL HOWL.
Fifth Ward Taxpayers Hold a Mass
Meeting and Adopt Radical
Resolutions - They Will De-
scend Like Avengers Upon the
Park Board.

scend Like Avengers Upon the
Park Board.
The park board held an informal
| meeting yesterday afternoon to discuss
the situation as to the abandonment of
proceedings in the condemnation of
Grown Hill park. The protests of the
property owners in the Sixth ward have
been SO decided and unanimous that the
members decided to bow to the wishes
Of the citizens and annul proceedings.
The matter will come up at the meeting
of the park board tomorrow night, and
the resolution introduced by Mr.. Horton
at the last meeting directing the board
of public works to abandon proceedings
will be passed
The property owners to be assessed
for RidgewOod park having seen what
organized opposition and talk could do.
have followed in the lines marked out
10y the Sixth ward citizens. and tonor-
row night will descend in numbers OIL
the park board, and not only request
but demand that proceedings be sus-
pended. The cry made by the people
to be assessed for Ridgewood park is
that in the first place the proposed site
is HOT suitable for park. Aside from
this, the valuation placed on the prop
erty to be taken is too high, and even il
there were not these two objections they
claim the times are such that an assess
ment of even nominal sum for the finest
park in the world would be an outrage.
After the Crown Hill matter had been
settled the members, at least so it is
reported, drifted into a discussion of
the Ridgewood park case. While there
was some question as to the valuation
OF the proposed site as announced by
the board of public works being salts
factory. the sense of the boord was that
the park would be a great acquisition
to the proposed system. The idea of
the park board is to have three parks,
one at Phalen, one at Indian Mound
and another at Ridgewood. These three
are so situated that, with Como park, a
chain OF parks. connected by wide and
handsome drives, are secured
The members who attended the meet
ing yesterday afternoon. while not ar
irving at any definite conclusion, are
CADOClCu W ilolu 10 the carrying out or
the plan outlined above, unless the pro-
tests from the citizens in the vicinity
are so decided as to change their views.
A gentleman who several years ago
was a member OF the park board in
speaking of the opposition to the l0ca-
ton of Ridgewood park, volunteered the
information that all or nearly all the
kicking was Started by persons who
wanted the park located about three
quarters of mile farther west. Ac-
cording to the Statement of the ex-park
commissioner an effort was made some
four years ago to sell to the park board
tract of land near the proposed Ridge
wood park. The property, which had
been purchased at a nominal figure. was
offered to the board at about four times
the cost, but the offer was declined.
Since then, he said, the parties inter-
ested had been opposed to any park in
that section which would not include
the tract they desired to sell.