Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-21
Nc Longer Delay Securing SUIT
able Park Site.
TSoL 1-- Foa THE ALDERMEN

Tho Graphic is always progress
stxe. saz5a a prominpnt business man
10 & rs.pnasa ntative 6f-this paper "but
dblGE fHere is one i44ins thai Il has
}.eea uc4leetin2.
N.hon ezatd as TO what that one
thing wa. he said
II is IL he matter of a citEpark.
Had YOU ever stopped to think that
the eity has no public parh2 Il is a
faet thar there few cities anywhere in
the country the size of Pine Bluff
without d city park. That a park is a
necessity in all cities nobody viii
deny; llat it is needed in Pine Bluff
toaaE everybody will admit;
that i will be needed worse
as tbeZ city grows larger is
a fac. There is no park
in he city today to which
people may go to spend
quiet. restful hour. There is
uo place to which the wom-
en- and children may go as
a place of recreation. In the
evening when the days business is
over, the business man who has toll
ad all day long in the store, factory
Oh Office would enjoy an Occasiona!
visit - some park where he might
take brief rest in the open
air There is now no suitable place,
convenient to the city, which may be
had for a park The best place now
aN Naiia5ie is the Seymour property at
Main street and Thirteenth avenue.
Ii is easily accessible, now and the
time is not so far distant as YOU might
suppose when it will be in the central
part of the city. 1t would be much
nicer if there was a suitable piece OF
ground moro centrally located accord
ING - The city's present size. but there
is not hence We should make use OF :
the bes, TO be had. | am not at all in
tcrc$ted in the property have su2-
eesteG hence no AK TO grind. |
have no further interest in the mat
ter than that Of seeing the city secure |
a suitable piece OF ground for a city
park before it is too late. The longer
the matter is postponed the more diff
II, a.yS, n
II may be said by some that there
are many other things which we need |
much worse than we need parks.
do not agree with that view at all.
know that there arc many improve
ment5 needed by the city which may
be needed worse than a
park. but these improvements may be
had gradually, year by year. while in
he matter of a park that cannot be
lone The suitable park sites are be-
ng gradually cleared up and laid Oft
nto town lots, thereby forever de-
'troying them for park purposes, and
also fessening the chances for having
park al all. There is another mat
or to be taken into consideration
even though the site have suggested
hould not be destroyed for park pur-
'Oses and could be had in ten years
rom now. it is increasing in value
very year and though the city might
'ostp0ne the matter of buying park
ite Tor fifteen years, it would gain
othin@ by it by reason of the in :
leased value of the property, and the
itv would be without a park during e
be time. | think ii is one of the
lost important things that the city d
Ouncil could take up. think park t
: due the people of the city, and !
m sure that the aldermen would find L
matter which would meet with
opular approval"
The gentleman is correct in what "
. says about city park. Park sites '
"oW fewer as the years go by. and
icy also increase in value 1t is some i
'ino unusual with a city of the size
Pine Bluff not to have a public
,rk Money invested in them is we'll .