The record-union., 1896-10-31
THE BOULEVARD PROPOSIT1ON. i.
1t Did Not Originate With the Capital
City WheeImen.

Some weeks ago citizens living on n
and L streets, between Tenth and Fif-
teenth, and In that section Of the city
generally, started petitions to have the
newly bttuminized streets around Cap
itol Park declared boulevard so FAR
as to prevent the driving over those
blocks of night carts, filth wagons,
manure carts and wagons, refuse, gard
age and slop wagons and carts, and TO
prevent the hauling OF sand and broken
stone on those blocks.
The object was stated to be not to in
hibit the use of the street for delivery
Of goods by wagons that must approach
fronts, nor TO work an injury to any
one, but to keep the streets about the
park in a cleanly condition and prevent
the use for unnecessary purposes OF
streets around the park on which the
Legislature will look out daily; the
hauling of filth, and the carting OF
stone and sand and heavy timbers, that
injure the bitumen, when good grav-
eled streets can as well be used that will
not receive injury.
It was provided that in no case should
the use Of streets for one block be pro-
Gle could be driven from cross street
so as to reach any front. In this the
proposal, say the movers. follows the
ordinances of many other cities which
thus protect their parks. Property
owners on those streets who put up the
money for the paving say that they
thought it entirely proper for them to
move as they have done, not dreaming
, that anyone could wish the park streets
to become the avenues for the filth of
the city, when there are so many alleys
through which that order of truck may
be hauled.
1t was thought also that there was no
necessity for heavy trucks taking those
streets with piles, logs and heavy lum-
Der, until, at least, wide-tire regulations
are adopted. The cases of Cleveland,
Detroit, San Francisco, Oakland, Gin
cinnati, Philadelphia, Columbus, ST.
Louis, Ann Arbor, Indianapolis, Wash
lngton and others are cited, where SINH
lar regulations prevail for park streets.
But good deal of opposition has de-
veloped against the boulevard PROPOSE
ton, and a number of citizens think
| that their rights are being trespassed
NF~A - tiS PlOPOoiIiOll, <lIiQ di OppOS-
ing the boulevard, as it is their right to
do. In their opposition, however, they
have pitched upon the Capital City
| Wheelmen, imagining that that club is
| responsible. This is unjust Members
| of that club who know the facts say
that it did not originate in the club;
that the club has never taken action in
| the matter, and is not likely to- and has
| not had it before 1T. Wheelmen say that
| they can ride on the park streets re-
gardless of its use by night carts and
| manure and slop wagons, and that these
streets are never so crowded as to incon-
venience them. They think that to keep
| NTH carts off of the park streets, as they
are swept but once a week, and to keep
| them as clean as possible, and from be-
| ing crushed and ground by sand and
| stone, will be good policy for all and for
city credit, and tend to help on park i'm
provement by the State; but they object
| hotly to being pitched into for what
their club has not done. Their records
| show nothing concerning it, and the
| club, as a matter of fact, has nothing to
| do with it, So much has been said about
| the c. {. W. in the matter that it is JUS
tice to club members that their denial be
made public though they might well
enough have taken up the matter. since
1t is assumed that they are as much in
| terested in city cleanliness and beauti-
| tying as any other citizens