The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-22
Petition For a Park Com
 mission. FOR CIVIC IMPROVEMENT I Interesting Movement by Commercial Association. Speakers Urge Desirabiiity of Beauti- flying the Waste Places-secre- tary Gilbert Reports on Ac-
 tivity of the Body.

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 "The City Beautiful" was the subject discussed at the monthly meeting of the Montgomery Commercial and In- dustrial Association last night and resolutions were adopted memorializ- ing the City Council to appoint Park Commission to advise as to methods and means of making Montgomery."the city beautiful"
 Strong talks and suggestions on these lines were made by F. w. Jack son. Jacques Loeb and Frank P. Glass.
 The meeting was in charge of F. P. Chaffee. Chairman of the City Develop ment Committee of the Association. It was called to order at S:30 o'clock by President H. c. Davidson.
 II MT. Davids0n's First Meeting. T This was the first meeting of the As- sociation held since MT. Davidson was elected to fill the unexpired term of | A. G. Forbes resigned. He called the attention of the members to this fact and thanked them for the honor con- ferred on him.
 Secretary l.. L. Gilbert of the Asso- citation, called attention in his report II to the recent work of the Association. He told of the organization of the | Alabama State Fair Committed; the immigration conference with s. H. Hardwick of the Southern Railway; the movement for the establishment of a freight bureau; the movement for the establishment of an immigration T bureau; the location of a mattress fac tory in Montgomery; the convention of the State fruit growers; the convention of tftp Southern sugar cane growers: the securing of the recommendation from Congress for $10o.0o0 for improv- ing the Alabama river and other small CT works.
 He recommended the organization of "A Manufacturing Aid Association" to render financial assistance in locating new industries by taking stocks or bonds and after the successful launch- ing of the enterprise, selling the stock and taking stock in other enterprises.
 Mir. Gilbert also spoke on the excel lent work being done by the Montgom- cry City Band and the necessity of fostering such an institution and rec commended that a fund be raised for open air concerts during the summer months.
 At the close of the reading of the re- port of the Secretary. the meeting was turned over to the Committee on City Development.
 MT. Chaffee, Chairman of the Com-
 
 making Montgomery beautiful He alluded to the importance of this work not only from the viewpoint of It's be- ing a medium of social and civic en- joyment but also of commercial and ' industrial benefit.
 F. w. Jackson Introduced.
 He introduced F. w. Jackson to speak on Improvements on the River Front"
 | Mr Tao arlx hy saying that Montgomery was not orig iually intended for city. An exarni- nation of the city map. he said, would show that Montgomery of today is a succession of plats. tackled on to the original village around Court Square. | During the course of expansion the owners of the plats made no provision for breathing spaces or parks between lthe additions and the original village. Resulting from this. there are few places about Montgomery which are anywhere near the centre of the city which can be utilized for park pur+ poses. Z
 The river front, however, he said, is admirably suited for this purpose. The lefty owns a strip of land all along the river front which Is now being used las a trash pile. This could easily, by the planting of Southern shrubs and trees be turned into a public park and Istrangers entering Montgomery would not view first a repulsive trash heap but thing of beauty.
 Mir Jackson said that old maps con- clusively show that the streets rum ming at right angles with Bell Street originally belonged to the city and ran to the river front. This space Is now being occupied by railroads and to lprevent danger these railroads have fenced in the property. entirely oh- structing the view of the river and the beautiful country beyond. The rail- roads could be compelled to vacate this property and by decorating the bluffs on the Montgomery side of the river. no more attractive landscape could be lseen anywhere.
 MT. Jackson also suggested river drive along the banks of the Alabama, and called attention to the necessity of this for access and egress to and from the city after the completion of the proposed river bridge
 Mir. Loeb's Paper Read.
 Mir. Jackson was followed by Leopold Strauss. who read a paper. written by Jacques Loeb. who was unable to be lpresent. MT. Loeb's paper was on Beau tifying Waste Areas" Tn 1t he called attention to many Improvements which might be made around the city at little 
 down of the Five Points Hill. the en- lactment of a law to prevent filth from being put on the streets in certain sec tions of the city: a law to compel property owners to have the paved sidewalks swept: law providing ways and means to keep green the grass plots between the sidewalks and the curbing; the removal of fences; the inn provement of the little park at the tcorner of Bibb and Goldthwaite Streets; the establishment of a park at the in- tersection of Church. Clayton and Gold Ithwaite Streets, and the planting of flowers in the grass plots on Dexter Avenue.
 Mir Strauss was followed by F. P. Glass, who spoke on the establishment of a city park commission. He said that while MT Jackson's point that Montgomery is a patchwork of plats Is very true, that Montgomery is not alone in this respect. Many great and beau tiful cities of both this continent and l Europe had the same sort of begin ming. He reminded the members of Paris. which It's people decided to make the most beautiful city in the world, and in which endeavor they succeeded He spoke of the financial benefit Paris reaped from this. The people expended several million dollars beautifying their city, but every summer millions on