The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-21

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Editor of the Palladium:
A few weeks ago attention was call
ed, through your columns to the fac'
that while it is said that the scheme
Of the Young Mems Business club tt
sell the entrance to Glen Miller. is
impracticable, that, according to the
public prints, the committee was still
continued, emphasizing the fact that
the same idea as the running the
freight line through the Glen. namely
its impracticability. prevailed, but
none the less the freight line now ex.
lists in the city park. .z
Persons prominent in denouncing
the abominable outrage of placing the
traction company's line in Glen Mil
Ter. and who were for it before it was
done stated afterward that they
didn't know how it would look" II
they had known they never would
have given the movement to put the
tracks in the park their support.
This is exactly the same attitude
people are taking now toward the pro-
position to forever ruin the entrance
to the Glen by selling it for city lots.
A beginning has already been made
by putting down, or starting to put
down, a cement walk from the point
where the freight line enters the park
to the east gateway to the Glen. The
board of works, which is, supposedly.
responsible for this. says. as 1t always
does when cement Is brought into the
that we. have put
down cement walk the east entrance
win be the popular one"
Perhaps it will and perhaps it
won't. People don't go to city parks
to walk on cement. They generally
go there to get away from it. The city
authorities offer for every i'll uni
versal panacea. cement.
why" they say in surprise against
a protest to cutting down trees, de-
spelling vegetation, running landscape
effects and generally mutilating ev-
erything beautiful. I'VE put down a
cement walk" Or a gutter. or what.
ever form it may take.
The truth is, as was said before.
the city is at the mercy OF the bar
barians. Three very common. ordin-
airy citizens of the town. constitute
themselves czar-like arbiters They
Issue mandates. Thus and SO shall be
done and anybody who doesn't like it
be damned. What's the odds Of fif-
teen thousand o. so more other per-
sons object.
Can any sane person. endowed with
the faculty of observation. acquiesce
with complacence in this preposterous
They say the part OF
he park that will be left viii be the
same. 1t will not and cannot be the
'ame. The part of the park east Of
he freight line will be forever ruin
ed in landscape effect and sylvan
'harm by the destruction of the trees
vest. The track does not constitute
N impenetrable barrier between the
wo parts of the park. The track is |
scar, but the converting Of the part |
rest OF 1t into city lots would be mut- |
iation- As well say that a man looks
he same with his head cut off.
AS to the cement walk now being |
destruction of the
- I'D eASCS vas luucIGuS1OlG. "A 1
'ravei walk with these trees is SO far |
be preferred to the cement waste |
as to make the latter entirely
ut OF the running. Why do the board
I works in this city disregard all the
anons and practices of modern city
That row OF trees should
ave been preserved To ruthlessly
ack them down because they were
in the way argues Richmond dexeu-
rate and provincial To call this town
n art center is simply to laugh.
ordinary intelligence would tell
itch digger that the walk. especially
this point. could be built around
ne trees. No farther away than
IoEth PENNSYLVANIA street. In Indiana
OILS. are to be found numbers OF II
'ees standing in the middle OF the
dewalk with the walk built round
Din sides and plenty OF space left for
'oisture to reach the roots. The de
,ruction OF this row OF trees was sim
y another of the insane acts OF 4 |
ody OF Officials who, before they are
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