Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-10
A TIMELY ADMONITION.


Park and Pleasure Drive association
is not an association gotten up
among ourselves without authority
of law or regulation by it, but is,
in fact, organized and must work
within the statutes of Wisconsin,
and particularly Chap. 55 Of the
Laws of 1899. The association IS
merely the trustee for the city, and
must as such trustee care for and
preserve the park property. The
law referred to gives the assOcia-
ton power to pass regulations for
the government, management and
control Of the park, and gives it's
officers, or superintendent power to
summarily enforce all regulations,
and for that purpose invests them
with the powers of police officers.
Sec. IL of said law provides:
ANY person who shall injure,
remove, break, burn, cut down,
root up, sever or carry away any
tree, shrub, plant, root, vine or
flower, standing or growing in or
upon any such park, boulevard or
pleasure drive, or who shall tear
down, mutilate, deface, destroy or
injure, any sign board, mile stone,
post, guide board, bridge, fence,
walk or railing, or any part there
of, or any printed or written copy
of the rules or regulations of said
corporation, or of any statute relat-
ing to parks, boulevards or pleasure
drives posted up or being in or
upon such parks. boulevards or
pleasure drives, shall be guilty of
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine
not exceeding ten dollars, but upon
proof that any such act was
maliciously done, he shall, upon
conviction thereof, be punished by
fine not exceeding fifty dollars"
This is the provision made by the
legislature, and cannot be changed
by the association, if it would.
There seems to be an idea abroad,
due to the title of the association,
that one of it's objects is to make a
pleasure drive of the park. This is
not the case. The association will
in due season make good roads lead
ing into and out of the park, but it
certainly will not cut up it's beauty
with lot of driveways. To do so
would be ruinOusjto the park. The
words Pleasure Drive" in the title
are taken from the statute, which
permits such associations to acquire
pleasure-drives, boulevards, etc., it
being hoped that some day the
means of the association would en-
able it to improve roads for pleasure
purposes at other points in and out
of the city of Lancaster. The Her
aid unfortunately got the name of
the association twisted last week, re-
ferring to it as the Lancaster Pleas
ure and Driving Park association.
Evidently some people think it is
Driving Park that we are secur-
ing. The whole of the beautiful
b )ttom between the trees is being cut
up by carriages and horses, and
horses are hitched to trees, to the
great damage of the trees. This is
direct violation of the section above
quoted. 1t is TO be hoped that the
association will soon pass regula-
ton prohibiting the tying of horses
to trees in the park, or, for that
matter, prohibiting driving in the
park until such time as suitable
roads and accommodations have
been provided. On last Sunday
there were a great many rigs in the
park. The horses all being hitched
to fine trees. One or two of the
finest young trees in the place were
very seriously barked and damaged,
and the ground is dug up and
rendered filthy.
The association will soon publish
the Law of 1899 above referred to,
together with it's Articles of AS
;sociatiOn and Bylaws, and when
this is done people should procure
copies in order that they may
clearly understand what the associa-
ton is and the laws by which it is
governed. 1t is only trustee, and
cannot be permitted if it would to