The Irish standard., 1903-08-22
Plans for East Side Park.

Plans for East Side Park.
Out of the recent proposal of NJ w.
Savage to give the city land for IL park
On the east bank of the Mississippi near
the Exposition building. has grown ii
plan which. if Carried to completion,
will give Minneapolis one of the finest
river bank parks in the United States.
The plan now under consideration not
only provides for Il beautiful public
park. in Il part Of the city now occu-
pied by Seveia! tliSrpputable resorts OH
Main street southeast. but also i'll
cluheS provisions for Il public lathinw
resort and an additional park on the
bank OF the river lying just north OF
Central avenue and Main street. The
original plan. ais proposed by Mr.. Say
age merely contemplated the use of the
land on Main street southeast for park
purposes. ana it WAS stipulated that the
disreputable resorts in that section
must be removed to some other part of
the city. When this became known,
the residents of Northeast MINNEAPOLIS
feared lest these resorts might move to
Main street northeast. and last week
steps We're taken which. it was hoppd,
would result in the determination of all
the dives in that part of the city, i'll
Guiding the single house north of Cent
raj avenue. Last Saturday Senator
John McGowan and Representative
George II. Smith. both from the 1Nhr-
ty-eghth legislative district, in talking
the matter over, evolved Il new plan
which will be carried to Il rapid con-
summation. North of Central avenue
OH Main street there is but one building
OH the side toward the river, and this
is Il saloon ut the farther end OF the
steel arch bridge. Tie land on which
this stands is owned by the Great
Northern Railway company. Between
Main street and the river for two
blocks is !, long strip Of vacant land
which at present is not being used for
any particular purpose. Part of this
land. Il strip twelve feet wide and 72G
feet long, lying just below Main street
on the river side. extending from Cent
trail avenue to Second avenue northeast,
is owned by the old st. Paul. Minneap-
oils Il Manitoba railway. later merged
into the Great Northern company. Be
tween this strip and the river, forming
the river bank proper, is another section
varying in width from seventy-five to
200 feet and 60 feet in length. This
is held by the Minneapolis Trust COM
pany in trust for six people. and has
never been used. although at one time
a single railway track was laid near
the river. but few trains having been
put over it. Senator MCGOWAN and
Representative Smith will call OIL
James J. Hill. president Of the Great
Northern railway in st. Paul. and will
ask him to donate the part of the land
now held by that company for a pub
lie park, and in view of Mr.. Hills
former public benefactions have every
hope of succeeding in their mission.
The Minneapolis Trust company will
also be called upon and it is very prob
able that the owners of the land di-
rectly OH the river bank will also give
their holdings to this great enterprise.
Beside the saloon ut the end of the
bridge there is IL blacksmith shop on
the property of the trust company.
and these two buildings are all that
will have to he removed. If the plans
contemplated now go through, Il large
bath house will be erected where the
saloon now stands. with steps leading
down from the bridge. This will give
a public bathing resort near the center
of the city and will be in part of
the river particularly suited for such
a purpose. In the branch of the Mis-
sissippi there is little or no current and
this channel nowhere reaches a depth
greater than eleven feet \ boom
would be extended above the bathing
place to shut out all of the logs which
are RATED in that channel and prob
ably an artificial bottom would be put
in the river, making the descent to the
deeper water gradual. The land be-
You'd that used for the bath houses will
be improved in the same manner as
that on the south side of Central ave-
rue and together the two sections will
form continuous park along the river
bank for distance of five Or six
blocks
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