Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-09
SANTA f WOMAN
MAKES BIG GIFT
To ST. LOUIS
Daughter of Man Who Made
Fortune in EARLY Days of
West Joins With Brothers
and Sisters in Memorial

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santa Fe, Nov. N-Mrs T.. A. Fiskc
OF Santa Fe ana brothers and sisters
have Joined with their mother. Mrs.
f. u. Franz OF Santa Fe. i'm present
inc a five-aere playground and home
to the city OF St. Louis. the gift being
valued M "A quarter az Il million dol
lars The deed was formally pre-
scented 10 Mayor Kiel of 81. Louis ON
last Friday noon The property is at
the southeast corner of Mitchell and
Prathcr avenues for playground and
park purposes as memorial to the
late r. d Franz, who made his for
tune trading on the Santa Fe trail
land had large hardware store i'm
santa Fe. The homestead fronts 435
feet on Mitchell avenue 435 feet on
.Glades avenue and 46S feet ON Prath-
Ter avenue and is directly opposite the
Roe school site The plat viii be
known as the e. d. Franz Memorial
square, and is at all times to be main
tanned as a park or Fairgrounds by
the city.
r. ID. Franz was born in Hamburg.
Germany March 20. 1894. and died
in st Louis When he lived in Santa
Fe his daughter, Johanna, became the
second wife Of the late Attorney T.. A..
Fiske Recently efforts were made by
the city of ST. Louis to purchase the
old homestead property and when the
matter was taken under consideration,
il was decided by Mrs. Franz and her
children that the old homestead
should be conveyed to the city as a
memorial to the husband and father.
Besides Mrs Flske, the children are
G. a. Franz, Of Clifton. Ariz Mrs.
Amanda +. Wheeler, of Denver both
of them recent visitors in Santa re:
F. w. Franz, Webb City Mo. r. II.
Franz. Lamanda Park, Calf, Walter
G. Franz, of Cincinnati; otto b.
Franz, Los Angeles; Mrs. Henrietta
Il. Holloway, Chicago, H. Mrs. AIDE
laide Zimmerman, Of Wilhemshaven
Germany. Mr. Franz was also sur
vived by another daughter, Mrs. Min
ma f. Kleinschmidt. wife of S II
Kleinschmidt, Of Webster Park. Mo,
who died April, 1906, leaving two
children. Helen and Eleanore Klein
schmidt.
The presentation TO Mayor Kiel
was made by Walter G. Franz. S. H.
Kleinschmidt, Oscar r. Buder and G.
A. Buder, and was accepted by the
mayor in behalf of the city in a brief
talk i'm which he expressed the hope
that the worthy example would be
followed by other public spirited citi-
zens Of St Louis IT was in the early
fifties that +. D. Franz went west fol-
lowing the Santa Fe trail from indie
pendence, Mo, by oX-team He COW
cred the trip many times, transport
ing wares and merchandise and was
well known by the old-timers i'm New
Mexico. He had his share Of encoun-
ters with the Indians on those peril
Gus trips. Later ne became identified
with the old firm of Fink, Nasse and
wholesale gorcers i'm ST.
Louis, The site Of the Il. d. Franz
Memorial Fairgrounds will mark the
home where ten children five boys
and five girls, were reared to young
and womanhood, all now
living in various parts Of the United
States and Europe. AS a tribute to
their fathers memory and their rccol-
lection Of happy childhood days, the
have joined with their moth
er in presenting the old homestead to
st. Louis and its childhood