The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-05-11
WILL0WBR0OK PARK
IS FORMALLY OPENED
INTEREST IN EXERCISES HELD
ON SATURDAY NIGHT.
West Ends Park Beautifully Loeat-
ed and Laid Out-A Credit to
The Community.

inspiring music and happy ana ap-
propriate addresses, and with fully
one thousand people present, Willow
brook park, in West End, was for
mally opened on Saturday night to
the employees of the Newberry cot
ton mills and to their friends among
the public generally.
Willowbrook park is beautifully
located and laid out. Situated IN
the heart of the mill community IN
spot favored by nature, It Will be
an ideal resort for recreation and IN
nooent amusement. It takes time
and care to bring a park to all the
beauty of which it is capable, be-
cause it takes time to grow plants
and grass and flowers, and Willow
brook will be even much prettier IN
the years to come than now. But
it is a lovely spot now, and NeWber-
ry has right to feel proud of her
first park.
The park is laid out on either bank
of SCOTS creek, which. is pretty
stream in its graceful windings at
this point. The pavilion is located
near the south bank Of the, creek. In
size it is IS As feet. The floor IS
of hard wood and excellent for use IN
the various amusements for which 1t
is intended. At the east end there
is a rostrum for public speakers and
for the music. The pavilion is bril-
liantly Illuminated with incandescent
electric lights of red, white and blue,
as are the grounds, and there is also
an arc light in the grounds.
The grounds, which contain some
four or five acres, have been artls-
tically laid off into plots of grass and
flowers and plants Of various kinds,
with white gravel walks running be-
tween. Swings and other means OF
amusement have been provided for
the children, and for the older folks
as we'll. In fact, everything has been
done to make Willowbrook place
of beauty and of joy, where recrea-
tion and pleasure may be sought and
found by the operatives of the mill.
It is the happy and successful con-
summation of an undertaking for the
health and happiness of the mill COM
munity for which the management of
the mill is to be heartily commended
and upon which the management and
employees are to be congratulated.
The formal exercises, which were
held in the pavilion on Saturday
evening beginning at 8 O'Clock, were
attended by an appreciative audience
of the people of both mill communi-
ties and Of the city generally. The
excellent program which had been ar
ranged was we'll carried out in every
particular, and auspicious occasion
was very much enjoyed by all those
who attended.
President Wright, Of the Newber-
ry mills, presided. In opening his re-
marks at the beginning Of the exer-
cises, he said that great deal Of the
credit for the beauty of the new park
was due to Superintendent J. Marion
Davis, who was not only an excellent
mill uperintendent, but who had also
proved himself a most excellent land
scape gardener. He said that Mr..
Davis had outlined the park and sub
mitted the plans for inspection. Pres,
ident Wright said the occasion was
happy one for him. He wanted t.
say to his friends Of the mill that this
park was theirs, and he wanted them
TO get all the pleasure they could out
of it. 1t was not necessary to say
that unbecoming things would not be
tlerated; he knew the people Of
the community would see to it that
there should never be any such con-
duct in the park. President Wright
said he was a believer in the old
adage that ''all work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy.' and he
wanted to see the children and the
older people, too, ENJOY themselves
here. 1t had been his experience
that the people who worked when
they worked and who enjoyed them
selves when they were outside did the
best work. He hoped there was not
a man in the village who would sit in