The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-02-25

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cannot please everybody
However as the board cannot ac-
cept Woods proposition for the city.
the city council being vested with
final authority, the proposition will
be thoroughly ventilated before Il
Eeea into effect.
Judge Wood spoke Of hts attitude
in the matter this morning aa fol-
lows.
There Il as matter OF fact
nothing between me and the ma
tority OF the people living at Green
Lake. They say they do not want
% take any rights away from me.
but uneonAciously they are demand
lnE H. senator Tucker realizes a..
and he Is willing 60 stand for the
change In the bill ask. Nobody Al
Green Lake Is as anxious TO secure
the construction OF that boulevard
as / Nobody has worked as hard
for Il. It's construction has been the
drcam OF my life. am more anx-
ious than any body else To secure the
passage OF the bill before the legia-
lature as soon a. tho word vested
stricken out. The Green Lake
citizens think n Is trick OF mine
@ 80 amend the bill I realize that
II the bin IA not 80 amended they
will be uneonsciously trieking me.
Fifteen years Rgo | bought up
muro than half OF the Green lake
Shorthand. as we'll as the land above
t. Later ! sold the upland ground.
after plating a boulevard 40 feet
vide around the lake and expressly
Feaerying the riparian rights 10 the
ton for a purpose. | saw that the
lake would ultimately belong 20 the
city Tor park purposes and ! was de-
termined 10 prevent other owners
from Eetting possession of the shore
rlkhta 50 that they could erect any
kind OF structures along the shore.
In order 10 secure the eonstruc-
tiun of the boulevard /. two years
uKo. agreed 10 surrender my rights
70 the city. provided the other prop
arty owners would do likewise. The
city never took up the offer. and
when my rights recently became so
valuable | Withdrew thu offer. I
am not a philautropiat I am a poor
man. My righta 10 that lake shore
comprise hair % ny worldly goods
Il is only for the sake uf keetlng the
boulevard that I made my present
offer 90 the park board.
II cannot get the other prop
erty owners 20 accept the same rate
% payment for their rights az
am wtlllng to take. the park board
can proceed TO secure the rights BY
condemnation. Had been willing
Co sell my Shorthand rights To tho
persons who have tried u purchase.
euuld have procured at least u.s.
e99 Tor them Had I thus sold. the
buyers would be making a bigger
protest against the present bin than
ana T.
All want Is 10 have my rights
protected in tho bill. II they are
not. I viii Immediately 90 into liti-
cation. will first fight the bill
on the grounds tia the legislature
had 40 right % pass Il Failing In
that I will fall back upon the COM
mun law that gives Shorthand own
era u lakes control Of the latter 20
the middle.
should again fAit. I viii fight
on the grounds that he lake Is not
controlled BY the state. because Il
Is not a body naviEahie for COM
merelai purposes. This litigation
viii take five years II the city Ia
not willing 10 treat me right | VIII
appeal 10 the conscience Of the
state The park board realizes that
I have rights That Is why Il has
consented 20 the liberal proposition
I have offered.
As to the boulevard. there II no
danger about that One Is already
plated around the lake. except al
woodland Park. ground which the
city now owns IL n 10 feet wide.
except one strip 500 feet long
which Is only 100 feet wide. and an
s90-foot strip So feet wide.
The board once offered 10 give
me acreage now included in Wood
land park ia return for my rights.
but I did not want to take the land.
I would rather see Il used for park
purposes. and secure cash remuner-
alton"