Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-08-16
BISMARCK A CITY OF PARKS.
The Capital City will be Within a
a Beauty Spot Of the State.

me NaP tai ~itJ VIII De WITHIN
Beauty Spot Of the State.
There has been more street work
done around the city the past twelve
months than for many years pre-
vious. The city has graded and boule-
varded Avenue'D from Third to Sew
enth street and has filed up great
deal of the low place on upper Third
street between Avenue c and Avenue
D, besides which it has graded and
boulevarded Seventh street from
Broadway to Avenue D; graded Thay-
er street between Fourth a1d Sew
enth street; graded and boulevarded
Sixth street between Avenue A and
Avenue c, and has cut out the un-
slightly mound on Avenue c between
Fifth and Sixth streets, as well as
grading and boulevarding Avenue c
between Fourth and Fifth streets.
While the city has spent almost its
entire street fund east of Fourth
street, at least seventy-five per cent
Of the street appropriation being spent
on the above-named streets, to say
nothing of the three or four blocks
of expensive work done in the Fourth
ward last fall, in which part of town
there had been practically no street
money spent for years before, private
citizens have been busy in the west
end Of the city doing great amount
of work on their own accord and with
out asking the city for any help. OF
course, this work has been in the
nature of private speculation, but
it adds to the looks of the city just
the same. Rosser street has been
graded in the new addition as we'll a.
Thayer and several of the north and
sonth streets, and as soon as the
sewer mains and water mains have
been laid the streets will be rolled
and probably couple Of blocks oiled,
as an experiment. The owners Of the
addition are now laying something
like 1000 feet of sever, the water COM
pany has started laying several blocks
of mains and already there have been
several blocks of sidewalk laid so that
people may walk all over the add.
ton dry shod. 1t is understood that
the ladies of the Civic league have
plans to plow up the four acres they
donated the city for park purposes
this fall preparatory to starting lawn
next spring, and as the city commits
sioners each promised the ladies to
make an appropriation this fall for
the park, Bisnarckers may be assur.
ed that they will at last have a park
started, anyway, If not completed.
Undoubtedly, the block recently pur'
chased, the old baseball grounds in
the Fourth ward, will some time be
turned into a public park, so the city
park system can at last be said to
be started. These two tracts with
the depot grounds, the court house
square so ably handled under Sheriff
McGillis, and the capitol grounds will
make a park system of which cities a
great deal larger than Bismarck might
we'll be proud. This taken in connec'
ton with the beautiful lay of the
ground all over town and the plans
of the city engineer for buolevarding
the streets and the work of Commits
sioner Jackson in carrying out a def.
note plan of street Improvement will
before a great while make Bismarck
what nature intended it should be, the
prettiest city in the state and the most
desirable place in which to live.