Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-04-15

gentleman I approached laughed
heartily and seemed in sympathy
with civic something of i
joke, however, and said: My par
ticular hobby is-cows. Take care
of the cows I promised support.
Somewhat elated, / pushed on. The
third gentleman was very serious;
he said: II can't keep lawn, grow
any flowers or nourish any vines or
have any potatoes, because the cows
push down my fences and eat them
up. But say, can't you help scare
away those cows?" BY the time the
fourth gentleman-yes, the seventh
or eighth, had something of more or
less force and eloquence to say ab,;le
cows, and horses, too, and great big
dogs-and chickene-I concluded
that never had I known such unan-
unity of opinion to prevail in Bis
marck! And hied me home to my
dictionary, my tones and volumns
and my own inward sanctuary for
additional inspiration.
Ladies, we must get the COWS off
the streets!
How may we do this? BY inter
viewing individually the members of
the city council, then going to their
meetings to see that they vote as they
promise Mayor Smyth's sugges-
tions.
1t is unfortunate that the earlv
city fathers were perhaps governed
more by their regard for dollars and
cents than for the eternal fitness Of
things, when they allowed our city
to be plated into monotonous rec
tangles, affording small opportunity
for the enthusiast for the City Beau
tiful, to expand into flour. Yet our
case is far from hopeless, for my
next inspired move-and it was in
spired-was to seek out the city en-
gineer, who greeted me with-I'll
not say affection, but with warmth
and hearty welcome. He has been
wanting the aid of the women of the
community, and knew this, there
fore the interview; and from him
obtained what we think is to be the
saving grace of our barren streets.
The city is already fortunate in
the possession of fine cement walks,
and thanking these, extending into
the present street, for the depth of
10 feet, on each side, Mr.. Atkinson's
great desire is to create a parkway,
establishing a curb as the dividing
line between this parkway and a
driveway, which shall be so feet in
width. I hope I have made this
clear, as it is the newest and most
popular method of procedure toward
rectifying and identifying the I'M
compromising mononony of retangu-
lar blocks. Even "a foot driveways
have been adopted with great sue
cess, and 80 feet leaves, in Mr.. At
kinson's opinion, ample room for
traffic. We shall hope for perfectly
graded roads, in time, so that you
will see for yourself the immense
advantage to our homes, of beauti-
flying this parkway, augmenting any
flower or garden scheme we may en-
terrain within our own yards. Trees
are here set out, preserving perfect
alignment, while between them it
rests entirely with the property own
ers to beautify as he will. think
that even those residents whose
hearts are but slow in responding to
a love of growing things, will awak-
en- at least to sense of the differ
ence between good and bad citizen
ship, and see to it that ordinary i'm
provement is not conspicuous by it's
abesnce. Let it not be understood
that the park-like proposition is for
one street, or one section of the city,
but for all the residence portion
We can see in this comprehensive
scheme a grand beginning toward
the greenery that the eye delights in.
We can look forward to a time when
trees will vie with one another for
strength and beauty of foliage, these
to be set no less than 20 feet apart,
to allow for future expansion. And
why should not these be apple trees,
or cherry, or plum, a departure that
is encouraged by civic workers, to
the last degree, and as adopted in
Salt Lake City and other common
wealths? The first question-abou
the small boy, you knows speed
lily satisfied by the fact that If a
small boy really can get all the APP
Piles he wants-why, then-he'd Z
rather ego fishin'!' Block after
block of symmetrical trees, care
fully pruned, we'll tended shrubbery
and a greensward that would be the
glory of Bismarck.
Now, it was impressed upon me
that curbing, although we already
possess the pavements-a fact en-
tirely in our favor-costs money.
grading costs money, too; and I
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