The San Francisco call., 1909-03-22
BURLINGAME HAS
PARK SQUABBLE
Patches of Green Are Used by
the Wealthy Property
Owners
Action to Be Brought for Pur-
pose of Determining
Title

Whose little park are you?" is a
Burlingame is asking over little squares
of green which are situated along the
streets of the aristocratic village. Four
wealthy property owners of Burlingame
are to be cited to show title to patches
of land which the community govern
ment claims. The land owners in ques-
tion are:
Harry II. Taylor, manager of the D.
o. Mills estate.
Francis }. Carolan, clubman and polo
player
e. w. Howard of the Howard estate
company.
Frederick ID. Lorton and Porter e.
Lamb of the Middlefield realty company.
The nemeses of the claimants to park
land are said to be Mrs. George b. Mil
Ter, former president of the Burlingane
Uomen's club; Mayor E. f. Treadwell of
Burlingame and c. n. Kirkbride, attor-
ney of the city of Burlingame.
PARKS SET APART
Once upon time the entire territory
Of what is. now Burlingame was held in
fee by the w. II. Howard estate, of
which E. w. ("Teddy'D Howard is now
manager. When the tract was cut into
suburban lots, as fate DEGREES for mod
ern estates, streets were cut across the
bread acres and in those streets little
parks We're set apart for flowers and
lawn and shrubbery. But title to all
those parks was not vested tightly
enough in the town, it is reported, and
private owners have put forward claims
to ownership.
Harry II. Taylor has a strip of land
20 feet wide and 900 feet long extend
ing to the city plaza near the station.
Now the women's club asserts that 90
feet of this laps over the park, and they
want to oust Taylor and install safety
station in his stead. Taylor, who is
millionaire in his own right in addition
to being the representative of the multi
millionaire, d. o. Mills, claims good and
sufficient title to the point of land.
The Carolans and the Howards are
said to have appropriated park plots
along the streets, or not to have sur
rendered the land in question TO the
city. The families are said to be max
ing use of the diminutive square but
whether for the purpose of stalking the
family cows to square meals of blue
grass or for training polo ponies to turn
in small radius has not yet been es-
ia blished
CORPORATION HAS DEED
The MiddefeId realty company is also
said to oe Judging on the eminent
domain of the city of Burlingame. The
company has a building at the junction
of Burlingame avenue and Middleheld
road which said to abut 15 feet over
the public highway. The corporation
stands On its rights. however, with
deed to the property, including the g
foot strip that should be sidewalk. which
was given by the Howard estate com
pany
Il. w. Howard, manager for the How
ard estate, declares that the town has
no claim to the property which the city
council and the mayor now gaze upon
covetously The claimants to title in
other disputed spots are equally insist
ant that whats mine is my own" If /
the little parks and squares and narrow
strips had souls they undoubtedly would /
regret exceedingly the blots on their
scutcheors. or, in this case deeds At
torney Kirkbride and Mayor TreadweI1
are not discussing their plans The an I
nouncement has been made. however
that suits to quiet title will soon he [
instituted by the city of Burlingame.