The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-28
IMPROVE MENTS
IN CITY PARK
Riverside Drives Raised and
Covered With Crushed Rock.
PROTECTION FOR TREES
Water viii Not be Allowed to
Carry Big Films Away.

The board of park commissioners met
yesterday and organized for the new
years work. c. l.. Davidson is chairman
ex-officio. q. NJ. Dickson is secretary and
J. H. Stewart is treasurer The board
determined on the first work of improve
ment of the parks this summer The
crowds have already commenced visiting
the parks, and the number of people will
increase every day for two or three
weeks
During the entire winter the parks have
been visited by many people every day.
especially Sundays. for the drives through
the parks are the finest in the west. and
this summer they will be placed in better
condition than ever. +. Keuchenmeister
was made superintendent of Riverside
park and Will have entire charge of the
floral designs trimming and work in this
park during the summer
During the winter the commissioners
have widened the river in a number of
places, and have raised the drives along
the bank The commissioners have been
promised thirty cars of crushed shale by
the railroads and twenty cars of this is
yet To come and awaiting the commits
s!oners wishes. The shale will be
spread on the drives as fast as ii can be
procured and men can do il. Nearly all
OF the drives have received at least one
layer Of this crushed rock. and all will
be covered again this summer and the
lev drives given the same thickness of
wearing surface the old ones
Since the high water of last spring the
commissioners have found that the big
elm trees along the banks of the river
are being undermined by the water. and
within short time would be washed
away If something was not done. The
superintendent was instructed to prepare
wooden boxes to be placed around the
tree roots and filled with earth and Tins
protect the trees and prevent them being
washed away. Riverside park is without
doubt the finest natural park in the west.
ana the men who look after II are doing
sit IN their power to preserve the trees
winch have stood in 1t for years, and by
setting out young trees make this mark
the equal of any in the country. The
people of Wichita have watched with in I
terest the improved appearance of the /
park. and each year the enthusiasm in /
creases as Wichitans note with nrida tho /
work the commissioners have done. Riv- /
erslde park Is the favorite resting place of I
every NlchitaH. and the money spent In ]
making II more inviting is not wasted. 1
Nithln the past few years Riverside mark
mas changed wonderfully and more
NiiallS'S VIII come not TO DESTROY its nat
nral appearance but to make 1t more so.
There is not a foot of the park except
'he drives that is not covered with grass.
ana this has grown under the most try
ing circumstances.
l1nwood park also gets its share of at
tehuon- AIR Bagbv was appointed super
lhtenGent of this park. Linwood is not so
large and has been under the city's con-
trol longer than Riverside. aud does not
need So much Improvement as the newer
and larger park. but il will be ken, nm N
the present mark. and all lines of i'm
proNement Will be carefully looked after.
but many have said that Linwood mark
IS about as pretty place now as it could
re made, and the commissioners feel that
the public Judgment can be relied on in
the matter OF parks
charles Davis was appointed park po-
llceiilah Tor Riverside All N the park
employees are special officers. bur Mr. Da-
vas VIII have plenty Of work to do after
the Others quit work and on Sunday.