Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-13
PARK QUESTION NOW
 SQUARELY UP TO THE
 PEOPLE OF THE CITY
Monster Mass Meeting Next Wednesday at the Royal Will Determine, to a Large Extent, What Shall Be Done.


 Whether Bisbee shall have city park at this time or whether uqt city park shall De located on the pres ent site of the abandoned cemetery are the questions that are now put squarely up to the people of the city.
 If a large proportion of the citi- zens do desire park as is indicated | by the many expressions that have come to members of the committees. there will be an outpouring to attend the mass meeting at the Royal We'd nesday afternoon that will test the capacity Of the house This is what | the arrangements committee looks | for. It is a matter that Is if interest [ not to property owners alone. but to every parent of children, to every resident whether married or single | who would enjoy a comfortable rest ! spot during the summer days and evenings such a place as Bisbee now has not
 At the mass meeting that has been announced for Wednesday at ? there will be more than idle talk. At that time the committees that for the past several days have been working will Lave reports to present The ceme- tery committee will tell what 1t will cost to remove the bodies and to re- inter them al Evergreen The Gen eral Committee will have a report on what it will cost for obtaining adia- cent property, for grading and put ting in shape the tract for park pur- poses. Several speakers will briefly point out the need of a breathing spot and the advantages the park will offer there will be opportunity for public expression of opinions on tie subject from those who desire to be heard, suggestions of ways and means of procedure will be welcome and if sentiment is as it appears to be, enthusiastically back of the park project further committees will be named to carry out plans already formulated and those that may meet the approval of the meeting.
 The present city administration might of its own monition push the park project to a completion but such a policy is not along the lines that it has adopted. Its policy is to take the people into it's full confidence in all matters and SO far as possible. 10 give them what they may need and desire. This administration feels that a park is a matter of general public interest and that the general public should therefore be given an oppor- tunity 10 express its ideas, to parti- cipate in its creation, instead of it's being mere administrative matter.
 Those who have recently visited the old cemetery are among the most enthusiastic advocates Of the city park upon its site. Each year, for long time past it has become more dilapidated in appearance, more aban doned and broken down. Vehicles are driven across it, children race and play over the sinking graves. Each year it becomes more difficult to locate the resting places Of some of the bodies. each heavy rain fur ther tends to oblterate traces of some of the graves. Unless some action is speedily taken, it is evident that not a fourth of those buried there can be located and reburied in marked graves. As a mere matter of respect 10 the memory of the early settlers Of Bisbee the removal is advocated at this time.
 It has been proposed to secure the adjacent property between the cem- etery and Brewery Gulch and upon ! the back of this property to erect a retaining wall. To this suggestion | is made that it will be more economi- cal and in other ways better to grade and terrace down to-, or almost to the i street and at most to have low re, taining wall. Suggestions on the man ner of improving the tract will there. fore be welcomed by the council which earnestly desires to give the people the park and at the same time desires to do' this with as little as possible expense to the taxpayers for the doing of il right, the making of permanent and complete city improvement.