The Portland daily press., 1895-03-12
IRA =. CLARK & CO.,
The One Price SPOT Cash
CL0THERS, MATTERS and FURNISHERS,
20 and q Monument Square, Portland.

GHEAS. HN. HsEDLON.

pleasure and health of her people. The
problem is not difficult. BY fill ing
around the shores of the bay and enclos-
ing the waiter with tide gates, if this
plan is recommended by the engineers,
not only can a. fine sheet OF water be
preserved, but drives and walks can be
laid out around it, with trees and shrub
| berry, forming park of unique interest
OF course this will cost money, but with
a plan properly laid out, and the land
| acquired something could be done each
year towards its completion. Nor should
this land cost the city dollar. 1t is now
OF trlfiing value, and such improvement
as have suggested would so greatly
enhance the value of surrounding prop
erty that the owners could well afford
| to part with the small portion equired
| for an arbor way without an immediate
return in money. No one will doubt that
lii Portland possessed such park. il
would draw around it fine residence, AMI
| add immeasureably to the city's attraok
lions. Lincoln Park l have always re-
| garded as the best exhibition of wise en-
| terprise which Portland has ever made.
At period of great suffering, just after
the calamitous fire of 1866, when the de-
| mands upon our citizens and the city
treasurer were all too great to be salts
| fed, the city council of that tins was
wise. enough and broad enough, in spite
uf a determined opposition, to purchase
and set apart for pu bile use park in
| the midst of the burnt district 1t was
commendable undertaking, and that
| city council will ever be held In grateful
remem brance by our citizens. During
the last summer the committee appointed
| by the last City Council to negotiate for
property adjacent to the Western Prone
made ana the Oaks, held several meetings
| and endeayored to procure terms of pnr-
chase which might be satisfactory to the
city. They failed to procure such terms
of the owners of the property adjoining
| the Promenade, but were successful wi tn
| the Larrabee heirs who owned copsid-
cradle tract adjoining the Oaks. Upon
the report of this committee the reap
| pointment of which I will recommend,
| the Council promptly acted, and the
property was purchased, which will add
much to the attractiveness of this park,
| when properly laid out and adorned, and
with the beautiful shelter in the vicin-
! ity, recently completed, cannot fail to he
appreciated by our citizens. Consider
| able improvements have also been made
| to the Western Promenade and Fort
| Allen Park, and very desirable addi-
lstion has been made to Evergreen ceme-
| terry, by the purchase of the Goss proper
| ty. To supply want long fels recaiv-
| ing tomb of modern construction has
Deeu UullG ab OfeSG lily cemetery, at
| cost of about three thousand dollars,
| In this connection it is proper to re-
| mark that the commissioners of eeme-
teries and public grounds and the trus-
tees of Evergreen cemetery, have shown
commemorate interest in the grounds
| under their control, and are worthy OF
| the need of praise. I have recently re-
ceived the publication of the Tree Plant
ing and Fountain society of Brooklyn,
New York, a society founded as it's con-
stitution declares, to promote the plant
ing and protection Of trees, the erection
of drinking fountains, and otherwise to
render the city of Brooklyn attractive. y
At its head is X-Mayor Dow, and its
officers are so of the most influential
citizens of Brooklyn. I was asked to
| send IN exchange our publications on
| the su bject, and was forced to reply that
We had none. AS we possess no society
| of this kind, though | hope that some
of our public spirited citizens. or ladies
clubs may form one, I shall recommend
| this either the powers OF the park COM
| missioners he enlarged, or committee
appointed to take measures to- protect
our trees. and to plant others where re.
quired, as well as to suggest, and when