The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-07-03
BAVIS PLEDGES
CITY'S SUPPORT
FOR PARK plan
Citizens and City Get To-
gether to Eliminate West
Side Dump and Substitute
Beautiful Playlots.

West Richmond is to have a park
and Fairgrounds.
The citizens have said so.
Alfred Bavis, representing the ad-
ministration, has pledged the city's
support.
When residents of the west side met
at the Baxter school last night to dis
icuss the project, the plan of purchas-
ing land for the park along the
whitewater by popular subscription
was abandoned.
Acting on the suggestion of Presi-
dent Bavis of the board of public
works. the mass meeting appointed
comr01ee which will take up with
the ESy attorney the question of pur
casfn,s the land by the city after in
stituemg condemnation proceedings.
Persons interested, declare, however
that 1t will not be necessary for the
city to condemn the land. They say
SO pleased to get rid of the dump they
will sell property in the affected zone
ut a reasonable figure.
INF is Chairman.
After Edgar Tiff had been elected
permanent chairman and replaced
John Fosler, who called the meeting,
a committee with power Of investigat-
ing the situation and calling another
meeting soon was appointed. The fol-
lowing are members Of the committees:
John w. Rethemeyer, Mrs. H. D. Rich,
Thomas Hubbard, John Fosler and
Mrs. Emory M. Evans. Joseph W..
Cutland was elected secretary.
The general plan perfected calls for
the purchase OF land from Richmond
avenue south to Main street and West
to West Fifth street. No attempt
will be made to dispose of the public
park, now grown up in weeds at West
Seventh street
When John Fosler called the meet
ing to order he said he already had
subscriptions amounting to between
$500 and $1,000 promised should that
course be adopted.
Alfred Bavis branded the west side
dump as running sore" which he
would be glad to see removed. He
was thankful, he said, that blame for
its being there could not be placed on
this administration. Speaking for the
mayor Mr.. Bavis promised the sup
port Of the city in any movement to
make the conditions better.
Interested in Parks.
I'm providing parks and places for
children to play, he..said, ."syou, are
touching a spot close to my heart
That is one thing l want this admin
istration to do and one thing which
1t will do, provide Fairgrounds for the
children"
He pictured beautiful Illuminated
Doran bridge as the entrance to the
new park.
Mr.. Tiff recalled the purchase of
the Glen and the subsequent wrath of
the voters which fell upon the council
Now, he said, the park could not be
purchased for any money.
Mrs. Harry HaZeltine scored the
city for the dump nuisance. She d.
rected attention to the stringent meas
ures intended to keep alleys and
streets clean, calling this inconsistent
since the city allows such a plague
spot as the west side dump on its
own property
A chalk sketch on the blackboard
by Thomas Hibbard was used to show
the unequal distribution of the public
parks. He showed that six of the pub
lie parks were on the East side of the
river He declared the city owed the
west side a park to balance the Glen
park on the east side.
Citizens at the meeting were unani-
nous in their request that the COM
mittee act at once before the enthus-
iasm for the project had cooled