Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-13
HGW the Citizens Of Trenton Enjoy
the Famous Park System Of That
City--Its Educational Advantage.
FINANCIAL END CONSIDERED
NEWS by H. D. conover.)
senator Brlggs's statement.

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United States Senator Frank o.
Briggs was mayor of Trenton in 1900
\ and in his message to council that
! year he voiced the sentiment of the
! people on the park question in the
Following language: There is no
expenditure on the part Of the city
which Is so willingly borne, and from
which the benefits are more appar-
ent, than that for our parks The ex-
tent to which they are used and en-
1oyed surpasses the predictions OF
those who were instrumental In their
establishment" That is still the
general opinion of the people here.
While there was opposition to the
| movement at the start, not voice is
now ever raised against the parks.
On the contrary they are constantly
growing In popularity.
When Cadwalader Park was ac-
quired 1t was outside the city limits,
1t was well located. however, and
now the city has grown around 1t.
the pretty pleasure ground. having
offered an indueement for the loca4
tion of fine homes In its vicinity.
Cadwalader Place and Cadwalader
Heights have become the choicest
residential sections of the city. The
Improvement in real estate which
the park brought has added many
thousand dollars worth OF taxable
property to the city ratables so that
it has been solid Investment to the
city from financial standpoint.
One Park Leads to Others.
SO pleased was the city with its
first park experiment that the moves
ment has grown and now Trenton
has Monument Park, pretty setting
for the Trenton Battle Monument;
Roebling Park, an open square IN
the Tenth Ward, and Riverside Park.
The latter is in process Of improve.
ment. The city has acquired the
river front lands from the State
House to a point opposite Cadwala-
der Park, a stretch OF about two
miles. When this is improved the
city Will have magnificent mall
connecting the State House Park.
owned by the state, with CadwaIader
Park.
Common council appropriafes each
year the money for maintaining the
parks and the Park Commission ex-
pends the money as 1t sees fit. Bills
are paid by the commission through
order of the city comptroller, drawn
against the appropriation, and these
orders go to the city treasurer, who
holds the sum appropriated The
commission also has small fund in
the hands of it's treasurer from the
sale of materials, etc.
For the fiscal year ending Febru-
ary 2S, 1903, the appropriation for
the local parks, including improves
ments and maintenance, was $780,
600. 1t was the same the year pre-
vious, and for a year or two before
that the sum appropriated was
$4,000. The last report of the
Park Commission shows the follow
Ing expenditures: Superintendent,
$1 ,050 (salary now is ST. 200); clerk.
$500; labor, $9.088.83; music twice
O week In summer, S1,296; improves
ments, $2,801.17; fuel, uniforms for
guards, and other items, $5,428.61;
total, s19,964.11.
The Issue of Bonds.
For the purchase and improves
ments of park lands the city has is-
sued bonds aggregating $200,S50,
mostly at four per cent In the city
sinking fund there is to the credit or
this indebtedness 1921, ,0Js a2srSEo
the net indebtedness on account OF
parks is only $79,754.b7. The ored-
its In the sinking fund are constants
~ increasing so that when the bonds
an become due the money viii be In
hand TO llquidate them.
from the last of May until the
second or third week in September
band concerts by the full Second
regiment Band are given in Cadwa-
lader Park each Sunday and We'd
nesday afternoon. They are exceed-
ingly popular and some Wednesdays
10000 people flock to the park. The
fame OF the pleasure ground extends
through all this section Every sum-
mer picnic parties come from as far
Allentown ana even Philadelphia.