The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-19
pARKWAYOHSUNNIT
Park BOARD TAKES ACTION LOOK
ING TO IMPROVING THE
BOULEVARD.
LEXINGTON TO THE RIVER.
LONG DISCUSSION ABOUT PROPosED
AGREEMENT WITH STREET
RAILWAY COMPANY
FOR EXTENDING COMO AVE. LINE,
President WheeIock VIII Subui+
the Proposed Form of Agree
ment to the Company.

The park board, at it's adjourned reg
uIar meeting last night, devoted most
OF the time to discussing the form Of
an agreement to be entered into he
tween the board and the st. Paul Civ
railway company, with reference to
granting the company the right of wav
TO run Its proposed extension of the
Como avenue line through Como park
In the nature of the case no final ac-
ton could be taken. as the nronosed
agreement must be first submitted to
the street railway company and a
conference had before matters can take
dehn1te shape. The agreement or reso-
lutions granting the desired right of
way through Como park contains
numerous conditions, chief among
Which are the following:
The company will be required to
build bridges over the park roadways
as no grade crossings will be permit.
ted; the company must maintain and
operate ISI arc lights-that is, 100 more
than are at present in use In the park
and the company will also be re-
CURED to erect a suitable street rail-
way station, to cost not less than 81, 900.
and to expend s., 800 for the grading
On motion of Commissioner Hampo
PRESIDENT Wheelock was authorized to
CONFER with the street railway com
pany and submit the proposed form of
agreement to it's officers. AS soon as
the latter come to a conclusion re-
gardlng the conditions they will ac-
cept, they will be invited to submit
their proposition to the park board.
commissioner Wheelock then brought
up the subject Of Summit avenue hon
levard, which the park board desires
TO nave declared parkway in order
that 1t may provide a suitable road
way, care for the trees, etc.
superintendent of Parks Nussbau-
mer SAID that the trees were greatly
in need of proper care, and that, if the
present condition of things was al
lowed to continue, there would be no
trees left on the boulevard in five
years.
The difficulty confronting the board
in this matter was, so Commissioner
Wheelock said, to be relieved. if the
boulevard was declared a highway.
from paying the assessments for local
improvements, which are now paid by
abutting thereon. After some discus
sion, Commissioner Wheelock drafted
the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the honorable the common
council is respectfully requested to declare
that portion of Summit avenue, between Lex
ington avenue and the Mississippi river, a
parkway, and place the same under the su-
pervision of the board of park commission
ers. subject to the easement of the public
and of the owners of the private property
abutting thereon-but not in any way re-
leasing the said owners of private property
from the obligation to pay the cost of i'm
provements which the common council may
determine should be paid by assessment in
the usual way.
The superintendent Of parks was in
structed to confer with the secretary
of the water board and request said
board to cause to be flooded Lake Iris
and the lake in Merriam Park, so as to
make the same available for skating.
The resolution condemning a strip Of
land 200 feet wide, extending from
Hamline to Smelling avenue, was for
mally adopted. The strip, when COM
pleted as a parkway, will be known
as Midway boulevard.