Evening journal., 1897-06-09
EAGER FOR The TWO PARKS
EVEN THE WOMEN ARE zEALoUsLY
AT WORK.

WELL-KNOWN ATTORNEY CLAIMS
THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY DO
NATE s1OO OR $1,000 TO ANY PUB
Lie PURPOSE.
The Trustees of the Market Square
and Trustees Of the Court House have
probably never been so conspicuously
before the public gaze as this week.
Public opinion has become thorough
" aroused on the subject Of having two
public parks made of the school green
and market square and, now that the
trustees have manifested a Willingness
to do their part, the people are all the
more anxious and eager.
A noticeable feature of the movement
for these parks is the interest taken
by the women of New Castle. Nearly
every public-spirited woman is de-
lighted with the idea of having these
two picturesque places permanently
improved and provided with benches,
flowers, fountain, etc. Some of the
best women in town have signed the
Evening Journals petitions. 1t is more
than probable that a delegation OF
women will go before the trustees al
City Council last night, in obeisanc6
to a request from Colonel j. Harry
Rogers. contracted with superintendent
Lancaster. of the gas company, to re
move the street lamps now standing on
market square They would be direct
ly in The way of the granite walk to be
laid DOWN the centre of market square
City Council As more than pleased tC
L.. III
A well-known attorney, in conversa
tion with an Evening Journal repre-
sentative, to-day said:
Il see where some question has beer
raised as to the legal right of the Trus
tees of the Court House to appropriate
money to help along the public parks
| have carefully examined the act
creating the corporations of the Trus
tees Of the Market Square and tn
Trustees OF the Court House, and tal
to see any provision that prevent
them from donating 500 or $1,000 4
public purposes.
CITY Councilman r. II. Harrington
who circulated one of the Evenin
Journals petitions, was the first to re-
turn with the petition full. II read
as follows:
ITO the Honorable, the Trustees of th
Market Square of New Castle, Dela
ware:
''We. the undersigned, residents an
property owners of New Castle, belie'
ing he city to be in great need of
public park, and knowing that at IN
time most desirable park can be ha
by your honorable body taking the in
tiatory, do hereby petition:
oil "a ufff
priation Of money to provide the scho
green and market square with con
Portable benches or settees, suitab
walks to and from the same, and
stand or platform for the accommod
ton of musicians;
and your petitioners will ever pra
etc"
Edwin NJ. Herbert, George Hewle
Robert Shaw, r. III. Harrington, j.
Stoops. Joseph II. Dougherty, G. All
smith. James E. Biggs, George T. 7
bin. S. Greenbaum, John G. King,
A. Bradley. G. NJ Deakyne, James
Challenger. Patrick ]. Ahren. NJ
sarah Wnmot. G. II. Lewis, Eph
Wise. r. l.. Chase, Frank Meredith,
G. Knause J. c. Bridgewater, 10
Bacon, L. Cummings.
TWO VESSELS SMASH ToGETHE
The three-masted schooner Gardir
B. Reynolds, from Kennebec, Me,
PHILADELPHIA with a cargo of ice. VIII
living off Dan Baker shoal, near Rec
Island. was run into by the schooi
Gertrude Abbott yesterday and b'
vessels were badly damaged.
REYNOLDS was dismasted. while the
Mott Inst hpr iihbOOm The latter v