The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-06
PLAN FOR BIC PARK
SYSTEM OUTLINED
Noted Landscape Gardner to Be
Procured to Lay Out Parks
and BOuIeyards.
IDEA Is LAUNCHED BY
COMMERCIAL CLUB BODY
Park Commissioners to Follow
System as Mapped Out by
Expert.

Plans for an extensive park system
| for Salt Lake TO he prepared by one o.
! The greatest landscape artists of thu
country, were outlined at mcoting o.
the public improvements and parks
committee of the Commercial club a
meeting Tuesday,
! The sanction of the committee wa!
given to the movement and the matter
will be brought before the board OF
governors of the club and, through thi:
board. will be presented TO the city
council. The attitude Of the members
of the board of governors Of the clut
is known 10 be favorable and sevcra
members of the city council also are
known to bc in favor Of the plan which
will be fostercd by the club. Mayor
Bransford is also known to be in favor
of n systematic expansion of tho move
ment To beautify Salt Lake rs far as
finances will permit, and the strong ad
vOcatcs Of the movement arc confident
Of its success.
To Procure Expert.
The idea outlined at the committee
meeting of the Commercial club is To
procure the services of Landscape
gardener OF national reputation. This
expert will be engaged TO lay out q
park and boulevard system which will
be the line to which the board of park
commissioners will hew in future years
Making all the improvements contem-
plated by this plan within the next few
years is. Of course, ont of the question
but with the plan definitely mapped
out, the work can be done year by year
as fast as finances viii allow and all
expenditures in this line Will be made
towards definite end instead of IN "A
hap-haZard manner.
George Y. Wallace. chairman Of the
committee, introduced Nicholas Byhow.
er, park superintendent, who presented
TO the committee the plans for The i'm
provement of Pioneer square. whereby
two and one half acres viii be set apart
for n public playground and the re
mainder of the park beautlfied and
opened to the public. Mr.. Wallace said
the object of the committee meeting
was for the exchange of ideas on the
general subject of parks and the beau
tifying of Salt Lake. He called attcn-
tion to the fact that Salt Lake has n
location second 10 that of no city in the
country and that the natural advantages
of the city should be improved to their
fullest extent. The surest way. he said,
TO accomplish this end is first, 10 provide
n definite plan on which TO work, The
Importance of this start, said Mr.. Wal
ldtt. CDulu UJlIlN Dt
Commends Street Park Plan.
o. j.. Peterson said he regarded the
present plan of parking the residence
streets between sidewalk and curb as
one on which no improvements could
be made. The general appearance of
tho streets of the city, he said, could
be improved greatly by a strict enforce
menG Of the ordinance requiring all
wires 10 be put underground when the
streets are paved.
j. j. Stewart, former city councilman,
recommended that the board Of COVER
nors Of the Commercial club be asked To
petition the city council TO procure the
services of an expert 10 outline the
plans for future park and boulevard
This suggestion was in
stantly approved and the matter will be
brought before the board Of governors
al its next meeting.