Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-15
PARK Commission
ADOPTS Big Plan
Comprehensive Scheme for
Beautifying Pine Bluff
to Be Submitted.
GREAT WORK STARTS
Broad Plan for Improving Streets and
Establishing Parks to
Be Presented to
People.
GREAT WORK STARTS

Plans by the park committee and
commission for the beautifying OF
Eden park were presented at the
meeting of the park committee last
night and adopted. The commits
sioners who drew up the contemplate
ed improvements were Engineer w.
J. Parkes, City Engineer Frank r
Allen and H. I. Holderness.
At the meeting were representatives
from the Chamber of Commerce,
Young Mems Progressive Business
League, Central Trades council, City
Beautiful club and members of the
city council and park commission.
Mayor Simon Bloom made an ad-
dress before the meeting in which
he said that he was in favor OF the
plan as adopted, which provides that
the city be turned into large i'm
provement district and that the
county and city pay as much as
$4,000 year for the paving OF the
highways leading to the park. He
said that the city expended annually
more than three times that amount
for the maintaining Of streets in this
section now. Mr.. Bloom said that all
the improvement districts in the city
would be paid out within the next
five years, and that payment on the
new district would not start until tina
time. The park committee and com
mission was authorized to confer
with County Judge c. NJ. Philpot IL
regard to seeing what the county
To n
improvements.
Major w. J. Parkes, City Engineer
Allen and H. l. Holderness were
authorized to have page "cut" OF
the improvement district made, and
ordered that this be printed in the
daily papers, SO that the citizens
could see the territory to be included
in the district, the improvements con-
templaled, and estimated cost. Al eff
fort will be made by the committee
to have the "cut" made so that it car
be printed Sunday and work on the
petitions started at once. The map
will show all the civic improvements
to be made.
Mr.. Holderness asked that the
chairman of the park committee senC
out letters to the following Organiza'
tons asking them to cooperate with
the various committees in the pro-
posed improvements: Chamber Of
Commerce, City Beautiful club. Cen.
trail Trades council, Young Mems Pro-
gressive league, Davis hospital com
mittee and the Pine Bluff Clearing
Hous E ASSOCIATION.
Rrnad Plan
Since the sixty acre tract Of
ground known as Eden park has beer
donated to the city and is now the
property of Pine Bluff, plans for i'm.
proving and identifying it have bee.
worked on. The plans recommended
by the park committee and commits
sion carries with it important ant
necessary improvements, which may
be properly termed system of parks
and park ways, which will connect II
a comprehensive manner all of thu
points of Importance in and aroun(
the city, linking together all Of thu
entering the city, touching Eden park
Doris park, Country clubs Sulphur
Springs, Hearndale, cemeteries, hos
pitfalls, athletic field, all of which viii
be accomplished by constructing two
park ways north and south and on
east and west.
Streets in Plan.
The streets recommended for i'm
provement by the engineers commit
tee are Poplar street from Barraqu'
to Eden park, Thirty-sixth, one from
Poplar to Main street pike, bordering
Eden park on the north, using Mali
street from Thirty-sith to terminus
Of present paving on Main street; Sew
enteenth avenue from Noble LAX
pike on east to Main street; Fifteenth
avenue from Main to possibly Null
berry street on the west, thence soutl
one block, thence west on Sixteenth
and Seventeenth to connection OF
Sulphur Springs pike at the city linn
it's; Ohio street to Sixth avenue; Sixtl
avenue from end of paved street cas-
of city limits; two blocks on Elev
enth avenue from Poplar street t
Davis hospital; one half block from
Walnut to athletic field on Ninth. II
Eden park proper approximated tw
and one-half miles of driveway ar
planned. ~
The plans as adopted contemplate
completing the park in every detail
including pavilion, band stand, boa
and bath house, lake, wading pom
and play ground for children, picni
grounds, complete water and sewe
system, sunken gardens, flower bedi
tennis courts, etc.
The engineers committee stated tina
| all Of the above improvements can b
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