The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-07-29

provements contemplated for the Pal
afox street Parkway.
This committees conference with
the bond trustees and Consulting En-
giheer 7. ChaIkIey Hatton, resulted n
the receipt of the communication
hereto attached. The trustees and
their engineer both advise that the
proposed change of the paving plans
is entirely feasible and that it pre-
sent5 no engineering or legal dlITl
cuIties, but they recommend this
change only on condition that the
street car tracks remain in the cen
ter of the Parkway as at present.
But as the location o: the street
car tracks has no bearing whatever
upon the paving plans proper, and as
the bond trustees have TO deal sim
ply with the paving plans and not
with the location of the street car
tracks, this committee asks the city
council to consider the propositions
IL their logical order as follows:
First-Pass a resolution directing
the bond trustees TO have the Pala-
fox street paving plans changed N
accordance with the Kessler plan and
in accordance with the bond trustees
recommendation as to PalafOx and
Wright streets. without reference to
the location of the street car tracks.
Second-Pass a resolution request
ms the street car company to change
it's tracks to conform to the Kessler
plan on Palafox street, and to change
the location of its tracks to the CEN
ter of Wright street between PalafoX
and Tarragona streets.
This committee desires to say that
it believes the vast majority Of the
people of Pensacola, and it knows
that practically all of the principal
property owners on Palafox and
Wright streets, desire this change in
the paving plans.
The committee also believes that
the vast majority Of the people o.
Pensacola desire to have the Palafcx
Street Parkway improved in accord
ance with the Kessler plans, and this
cal be done only by changing the 10
cation of the street car tracks from
the center of the parkway to the
sides OF the Parkway. We further
believe, though not having any defn-
tie assurance from the company To
that effect, that the street car COM
pany will remove its tracks in accord
ance with these plans if so requested
/ by the city council.
While there is little doubt that the
city council may require the street
car company 70 remove It's tracks II
such action were necessary, We be-
Iieve that all of these things can be
accomplished by general consent and
that the company will, in this case,
act in accordance with a request from
the council.
In this connection we may state
that the KessleT plan as to Palafox
street is, Mr.. Hatton informs us, the
same Tlan which he originally pro-
rCsed, but which was abandoned be-
cause the street car company under
Mr. IzeadIey refused at that time to
remove it's tracks in accordance with
the plan. We submit that if it was a
good plan then, 1t is equally as good
a plan now and particularly as we
believe the street car company is now
ready to change its tracks in defer
ence to the overwhelming public SEN
timent which desires that change.
The members of the city council
may be interested in knowing that
Geo w Kessler and Henry Virgin.
who prepared this plan, are landscape
architects for the park commissions
of Cincinnati, Denver. Kansas City,
Mo, Kansas City, Kansas, Memphis