Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-08-09
How to Secure Parks

Lie I1LOT HAS OllcH Sdiu JDaU the
city of Wausau had not the means to
purchase beautiful parks; put up ex-
pensiye hospitals; lay conduits to rent
to public service corporations; make
every barren spot to blossom like ii
rose, etc. Our wealthy citizens must
do something if they want CITY
beautiful and not place burdensome
taxes on the man who barely makes
enough for living. Any person or
paper that would advocate differ
emily has rot the welfare of the city
at heart, and we doubt if any but
transients would venture the PROPOSE
tion of purchasing parks, ETC., and
thus burden our citizens. This article
is prompted by the very generous
gifts of Hon. A. H. STANCE to the city
of Merrill. He gave Merrill beauti-
full park several years ago, which is
located between what is known as the
east and west sides of that city. He
noticed that one part of the park was
used by the pupils OF the high school
for athletic sports, SO as to interfere
with the plans for improving the
same. So last week this man, whose
good deeds are making his name known
throughout Wisconsin, again made
that city a donation of nearly two
blocks of valuable ground, the same
to be used as a public play ground.
Mr.. STANCE is continually doing for
Merrill, and this one man will contrib
ute sufficiently to make Merrill one
of the handSomest cities in the state.
Merrill has been fortunate in having
generous men. The late ThoS. B.
Scott, one of it's wealthy and generous
citizens, gave the city public library
and means to support it continually.
Wausau has, perhaps, the largest
number of wealthy men of any city
of its size In Wisconsin,; all are liberal
and have donated generously in every
! public movement. Walter Alexander
helped largely, in donating property,
| to give Wausau the McIndoe park.
B. G. Plumer and Aug. Kickbusch
donated the fair grounds, which is
one of the prettiest parks in Wiscon.
sin. Walter Alexander, so we are
told, is identifying the grounds in the
neighborhood of Jim Moore creek, and
that he will eventually donate this &c
the city. Neal Brown and G. f. Dun.
bar donated the beautiful high school
grounds. Messrs. Neal Brown, Win.
ton and Gilbert, we are informed, are
also arranging to donate the city a
park near St. Marys hospital.
We need more parks and public
play grounds in the central part OF
the city. We need "a sanitarium
where our people can go and rest and
receive baths, treatment, ETC.; san,
itarium for those afflicted with tuber.
culosis, one in which treatment can
be had at a price which will not bar a
single patient.
There are many institutions for the
good of humanity that can be built
| right here in Wausau by those phil.
| anthropically inclined, and which not
only hand down their names to pos
terity, but will make Wausau the
one great city of Wisconsin, in which
| to reside. Let us stop all this silly
talk about the municipality buying
up parks, building hospitals, sanitar
iums, making the city beautiful, etc.
! but instead, let US prevail upon oul
| people of wealth, to do something
| along these lines. Beautiful parks
can be made of grounds that, Today
have not even shrub growing upon
them, and which can be bought for q
song; a thousand small trees can be
set out, yearly, at small expense
ninety per cent. of which will live
and in five years will be large enough
to produce beauty, shade and com
fort. Neal Brown did this in the
Wausau cemetery, and why not in g
public park