The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-29
SHALL LAND BE BOUGHT?
TOWN FISAScIERs AGAIN 00NsID.
 ER BEAVER PONDS PURCHasE.

Park Com misstones Favor Purchase ssd
 tho Town oh,eiais FntaE-siayor sargent
 Says the District is Not unhealthy-Se
 Action Taken.
 The committee on finance of the board of selectmen. composed of Messrs. Pohl- man, Stahl and Forbes, held a meet Ing in the ante room of the sldermanic chamber yesterday afternoon to considT CT tho question Of improving tho lands in the Beaver ponds district Among others who were present at the hearing were Mayor Sargent and Commission CT Henry T. Blake. of the park commis- sion, and Alderman John c. Gallagher, of the city board of finance.
 The mayor and Commissioner Blake asked what action the town fathers intended to take In reference to the vote passed at the town meeting appropriat- Ing N0,000 year to be spent on the Beaver ponds district, and whether or not they Intended to continue the i'm. provements begun In that section. In reply Selectman Pohlman stated that the meeting had been called principally to secure the views of the park com mission on the subject. and also said that a number of residents of the Ninth and Tenth wards were more ip favor of filling in the ponds than of buying any more land. as the land al- ready owned there by the town was full of marshes and bogholes. and that the quantity of dead dogs and refuse mat ter constantly thrown there made the place a menace to the public health. In reply to query from Selectmen Forbes and Pohlman as to whether 1t would not be better to all In these marshes rather than to buy more land Mayor Sargent said that In his opinion the pools were not unhealthy. and ex. plained that the water came from springs and that the green surface was not skum, but on the contrary. was long grass, which was not unhealthy. Commissioner Blake stated that in his opinion the town should purchase more land. and said that he believed that land as far north as Bassett street could be purchased for $l2.0OO. Select man Pohlman declared that this esti- mate was much too low and iu sub- stantiation of his claim produced the list Of prices asked for property ta1 thai section by the land owners.
 Mayor Sargent said that the pools, etc. were being filled in Steadily in some parts of the district, and at a very small cost. but to this statement Selectman Forbes replied that at the rate the filling in was being done at present it would require at least fifteen years to complete the work. He also said that the land in that district be- longing to A.. N. Farnham Ieould not be purchased for less than $5o,eo0, and that if condemnation proceedings were brought, MT. Farnham would carry the case to the highest courts in the land. Mayor Sargent expressed the opinion that there would not be a great deal of litigat tion over the acquisition of land. Selectman stahl favored the- purchase of more land, and Selectman Baldwin suggested that the land be purchased in | continuous sections, instead of buying a piece here and another somewhere else
 No definite action on the matter was taken by the committee. but another meeting will be held within a day or two, and a complete report made to the board of. selectmen at the meeting next Tuesday night. .