The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-21
Sunday, january 81, 1906.

rison and Wilson appointed as said committee.
thic hospital for addition to Elliott parks carried.
Bracket reported improvements made In Gen.
trail park and reported bills.
Meeting of board Jan. 10, 1884. Vice Presi-
Commissioner Chute moved to issue $4,000 Of
city bonds to purchase Homeopathic hospital
property 9ey and other purposes; carried.
Wilson moved to confirm report of appraisers
of Central park property damages; adopted.
Bracket ,Bassett, Morse, Chute and Austin I
appointed committee to see property owners with T
view to acquiring and laying out lake boulevard
park property.
Bracket moved that Lake street property own
ers be- invited to make offers to sell or give
the city land for parkway
Chute offered e resolution in regard to acquiring
Meeting March o. 1884
Report from Professor Cleveland on park i'm
On motion Of Mr.. Chute the assessment for
damages for the east bank Of the Mississippi
T Committee consisting of Roberts, Bracket and
Austin file report to widen Lake street to 100
feet.
| Meeting March 20. 1884.
The sixth ward park awards are confirmed.
Meeting April IL, 1884, ef.
! The new board just elected at the spring gen.
eral election reported for duty. including about
| by reelection.
The election Of president was deferred be-
not @ Of the ne%
Wilson moved to acquire for a parkway the
east bank Of Lake Calhoun thence easterly to
| OF 100 feet thereof; carried.
Meeting April 25, 1854
Communication from Professor Cleveland on
Central park improvements.
Wilson moved an appropriation Of, $1,000 for
Central park improvements; adopted.
/ Ptllsbury moved that Professor Cleveland be
employed by the board as landscape architect on
park improvements at $25 per day; carried.
Z. Brackett and Wilson are appointed COMMITTEES
Meeting May s, 1884,
/ Roberts. Austin and Bassett are empowered
Committee consisting Of Austin. Bracket and
others rerort in favor Of boulevard 250 feet
vide IRON Lake eaihod DUN to Mississippi river va
Horn lake between Ihtrty-hrst and Thirty-hfth
streets.
ened from Lyndale to Lake street eleven feet on
1 each side as parkway adopted.
Meeting May 70, 1884.
Mr.. Loring having returned from leave OF alb
sence and qualified. was elected president:
fourth street to width Of twenty-five feet, and
Powder Horn lake: carried.
Morrison moved that committee on improve
make contract for completing the excavation of
MoTsen lake mo IN a the grading
Elliott par, 5e left to committee on improve
COMMITTEES on improvements is authorized to
have sidewalk laid about Franklin Steele square.
:: Net Result Of First Years Work.
At the close Of its first year, March
/, 1884, the park board reported prog
ress as follows:
assessments ON benefited property. amounting te
Sat 1852. Avn -
Monroe, Broadway and Jefferson streets. 10.s
acres. $50. 42264 assessed.
:. Twenty.sixth avenue, between Fourth street and
: Lyndaie, 2O.s2 acres, $34438. 80 assessed.
Work also begun for acquiring East Side park r.
way, Powder Horn lake park, and widening Lake
street and Hennepin boulevard
Second Year Of the Park Board.
The Endorsement Of the work of the
new board by the people was. evident
the bark idea had eventually secured
permanent footing; the vote at the
polls re-electing such OF the members
> | of the board as would consent to serve
| for continued terms, as witness:
/ Elected for three years-Brackett, Chute
Elected Tor St two years-Austin, oswald, Pills
Elected for one -Bassett. Bredemus' MIN
l ocks. Sutherland
e The second wear Of the board was
( one of great and renewed activity, IN
(which the board not only extended anC
acquired properties for park proper, bu1
proceeded to carry out the idea OF
;. great park system by estab, .shlne
: boulevards in order to artlcula!e tne
: parkway Including the city g lakes ane
: parks.
| Four Years Of Park Labors.
L
On March /, 1887, when the terms Of
:. most of the above members OF tn
board expired, they turned over to the
: city the following park system, organ
: lied in the brief period OF four years:
Prst wfra a.T Rart So 1S0s sc asse'
+ f eapfrsiae pa Rs,k $3.50 80 acres res
Murphy park 1858 acres
N Elliott park 4 acres.
: Franklin ki Steele square, "a acres.
Q Hawthorn square, J. L. acres
{ lake Harriet park, 50 acres Of land and So
aef Lake u Harriet boulevard IS niles ,.t. 40
: Lake Calhoun terrace. e.ss acres ana iake' ~
2 aef Hennepih avenue bouleysol, / So miles
:. Kenwood boulevard IS , miles.
!, Stinson' DO llevard, .35 miles.
e Tn all the twelve parks embrace g
s 1.2O3.85 acres of land and lake. and IN
! four boulevards and other eonnect1ns
Z Z The cost of the lands was $428,O77,.7 q
+ and of the improvements and superin
! tendenee. including the expense OF tn
y hoard. 5000 $685., making total IN
yestment Of $628, 932.98. There ha
IA been received 1874 ,6O692 from assess
: ments. leaving 1854, 326.O6 to be co
n lected. The market value OF the par
3. properties on March i, 1888, was place
d al 81 .3O8, 500, which was over 100 pc
r cent more than the aggregate cost 0
II the properties. /,
(. Acquisition Of Minnehaha Park
q The Falls Of Minnehaha, ever sine
= I,ongfellow sang Of the deeds Of His
- watha, have been among the most ce ,1
i. brated scenic attractions OF the, norIl
4 west. In the mind of the traveller, tn
= historian. and the popular reader an
# sightseer Minnehaha occupies plae
70 If interest and admiration that is WORLD
d. wide. !,
p-1 Minnehaha creek, which is the Quite
It and connecting link of the chain q
er lakes of which Minnetonka, Harrie
10 Calhoun, Cedar, Lake of the isles an
lie Amelia are well-known names, flows fe
Ie twenty five miles thru one Of the mos
q, beautiful natural parks on the cont
"a nent. Five miles below the center z
\. the city and three-quarters of mi
y above the ilincture Of Minnehaha wit
- the Father of Waters, the streal
=, plunges over fifty-foot cliff and theme
~ ~ rushes on thru the deeply wooded +;
e vine of Minnehaha glen to the river
hs For years there had been a. more
q less underlined public sentiment that
-, great state mark should be organize