Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-07-08


live Row Being Devised-A swimming
pooi in Brnudywips Park and Paviiions
,n Eden and Deiamore Parks.
|I At the meeting Of the Board of Park
E commissioners, Tuesday afternoon, a
Npecial committee appointed for the
y purpose, submitted an estimate of the
epst of work necessary TO make tho
parks about the city more attractive
and useful TO the people, the aggregate
Amount being $40. T63 so. OF COURSE.
The exact total cannot be foretold, but
Id all probability the money expended
dnring the year for improvement will
amount to Bomething like 500, 600. The
Estimate in detail is as follows.
South Brandywine Park k--Foot walks
IVAN Buren street to Jefferson, 10, du0
suuare feet; Jefferson to West, 1890
X 1eet; end of path to wire bridge, GOO
feet; zigzag path, &C.. 1900 feet; Gun
nectiun at Van Buren street. 1.200 feet; /;
total, 90, 100 feet, at s cents per foot,
al, COS: wire bridge TO Rockford, COCO
beet at 10 cents per foot, 5000; approach
10 wire bridge, $500; macadamiaing
foad, West street to Van Burpn, 1000
Meet, "a, COO; drainage of road, 81, l0l !;
Hbauling top soil and dressing elope,
f200; steps at Washington street bridge,
M S300 total, S., l72.
ii North Brandywine Park-Foot walks.
west side Boulevard, 1900 square feet.
q at ID cents, 81, 56O bridge to pavilion,
N 10, 400 feet at s cents, sSi'2; dressing
N bluff near bridge, stone wall, &c,
$500; total, 81, S92.
IA Rockford Park--Gradiug roadway.
O. fA (yhpenh T.up > EAn
\ square Yards, 81. $50; retaining wall,
ss&c., $500; surfacing with ashes, 4,500
Sfeet at 6 cents per foot. $40; total,
s2. $50
E Uelamoie Park-Shelter. 25x25 feet,
octagon. $500; foot walks, six feet
\ wide, Franklin and Maple streets ia
N Beech and Sycamore, =. $50 square feet
Maple and Broome TO pavilion, 2, la
square feet; other walks, .. 720 square
feet, making total Of s, 660 feet. at )
cents rer foot, 3692. 50; spreading tor
soil, &c., SO; total, 81, i42. So
Eden Park--Shelter, 25x54 feet, $500
footwaks, eight feet wide, entrances tc
driveway, 800 square feet; sidewalk,
w 300 square feet walk to pavilion, ], 60t
N square feet, making total OF 2, 4Ot
square feet. at 3 cents per foot, Sl92
Il grading and sodding ut the entrance
and changing the fence $40; refresh
ment stand, l0xl0. $50; total, SB02.
u Kirkwood Parl-Foot walks eigbt
feet wide, Twelfth and Kirkwooc
streets to Eleventh and Bennett streets
M 1900 square feet; centre path line o
n Spruce street, 4. 900 feet; other paths
IA $50 feet, making a total Of s, $50 feet
at s CENTS per foot, S7l6.
The swimming pool at 81, 900 ant
grading Van Buren street in Brandy
wine Park, 5000, are also included.
The comm ission is depising plans ~
making the parks more attractive, will
view to having the people frequen
them more. 1t is the desire OF til
board to make all Of the ground avail
bite for the use of the people and hav
Il lIthem go there. That was the intention
when the additional loan was aske
for at the last session of the Legisla
ture, and that is the purpose for whic
the committee was appointed, to Sc
how the muney could be mos
judiciously expended.
g After the report had been read. o
motion OF Commissioners Samuel Bar
croft, Jr., the general scheme aug
'gestud in tho report was accepted an
,athe matter referred to the eyecutIy
'.fINfulli ulltbbbs vi Cbuiho hhio ioIOAt NbN
Mot bind the board to do the wor
h therein mentioned and further actio
will he necessary, on the part OF th
executive committee, at least, befoI
any of the work suggested can De don't
uxcept such work as is already undt
way. which includes the swimmin
pool and tho pavillions in Eden an
Delamore Parks.
In talking informally over the matt'
Of making the parks more attractive
President Candy stated thut he though
the best way to make Brandywine Par
moru popular would he to impro,
Rockford Park, and make it 10 q
tractiye aa 10 draw the people ther
which he thought the board wou
Y accomplish before very long. lie state
Il that it contained excellent grounds IL
a tennis, base ball, foot-b ball and aimili
outdoor games, and he predicted
.great future for IL. lie also stated tn
WHO thought the Wilmington Oity Raj
i~ay Go. would in time run the tracl
CLOSER TO the park.
M 1t having been suggested that the
hhould be steps from the walk alor
{bs South Long Race TO Wsshingt,
Bridge, it was learned that the exec
live committee proposes first to conf
with tine Street and Saver Departme
and Board of Education, with a vie
10 having those bodies assist with Il
= \. work.
t Tho executive committee was i
etructed to take steps to preserve ii
rams, which have ornameDted Il
posts at the Eden Park gate for
4 long. They are to be taken down al
Y repairsh and preserved other on Il
cato posts or on other posts. The COL
mittee was also directed to look aft
The Improvement OF the road on t
portb side of the Brandywine beyol
a ugustine mills.
&NH The trsaHursr's report showed
balance of Sl4, 1913. 10, which includ
' the special loan of SIS, 900 turned oS
tby City Council.
Messrs. Gawthrop and Mention a
Engineer Lesen, who represented t
board at the Louisville, Ky, &C
ventIon, submitted report of the
s,gisit, which was accepted.
A communication from the Wilmin
ton & lirandywine Cemetery Co., at
ing permission to tap the sewer in
fark. was referred to the executi
committeo, with power to act.