South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-07
CONTROLLER AND
CLUB HEAD CLASH
PreS't Heideman of Civic Fed
GRAFTON Questions Rum
Village Purchase.

The purchase of Rum VILLAGE for
park purposes. contemplated by The
city council. came near causing q
sensation among the members of tho
civic club federation i'm session Mon
Gav night. when PRIEST George IT.
Heideman iutiaated that Mayo.
Fred Kcuer's letter Co the orgoui1.-
ton was a gross Misrepresentation
o. the citys present financial conli-
ton.
No sooner were the words spoken
- M. Heidemau than city Control
Ter l. c.. N.nniug. who was present
jumped 20 his feet and i'm ct heated
manner began 20 upbraid the speak
ct fer making such AN assertion.
However. the excitement only lasted
Tor q mOuent as Mr Manning con-
trolled himself to the cNteut of re-
ferrirg to AIr. Heidemans utter
ances as MISUNDERSTANDING of the
oitys financial condition as explain
cd By City Atty. Sec1irt at "a recent
meeting OF the council members ard
"a committee Of the Franklin school
OF whicn Mr HciGeman was q menu
her.
Mr.. Heideman then interrupted
Mr.. Manning and demanded 20 know
from the latter hoW the city could.
according TO the letter of Mayor
Keller 90 the federation make
rrrHf D.
out at least reaching the limit OF
the clty's bonded Indebtedness when
city Attorney Seebirt made the
statement that mo- Improvements
could be made in the way of the
erection Of structure for the pur.
pose Of a gym" al the Franklin
school because of the fact that the
city had reached Cts limit OF bonding
margins
Manning Explains.
Mr. Manning explained this as a
misunderstanding of the city at
torney's explanation as 20 why the
building could not be built He
stated that the construction of the
structure would have to- Doe made
10y the park commissioners and that
they had already reached the limit
of their appropriation, and that the
Rum Village land purchase was To-
be made by the city council which
is permitted 10y the legislature He
said that Seebirt had reference 20
the park commissioners and not the
city council and that the former had
nothing 10 do with the purchase of
Rum Village.
The letter referred 90 10y Mr..
Heideman from Mayor Keller was
an invitation for the federation 90
appoint a committee to attend the
conference scheduled for March
at the city hall Ii was decided on
a motion Of Mr.. Hammerschmidt
that a committee composed of at
least one representative from every
civic center organization i'm the fed
Grafton attend the conference. with
copies OF the minutes of every meet
ing Of each organization at which
the matter of the land purchase was
discussed
Outlines Centennial Program.
An outline OF a program for the
centennial celebration was made 10y
Municipal Recreation Director T.. B
Barnes and was turned over To the
committee I'm charge for approval.
II was also decided TO give this
committee fun power To- act i'm the
matter OF the selection oe q suitable
program. II was Mr. Barnes opin-
ion that the centennial celebration
be held az early i'm the spring as
possible. about the latter part of
May or the early part of April This
was the sentiment of the meeting.
Plans of the municipal recreation
committee in regard 20 school gar
dens for this year were discussed by
J ?. Wolfe of the committee He
said that n new effort would Doe
made I'm the work of the school chill
dren in the matter OF keeping alive
the interest OF those who partiCi-
pate Last year. he asserted. over
half Of the 1853 who started fen ont
before the season was well under
way. This. ne stated. would have 90
be overcome. as if any good is 90
come from the school gardens it
must come from the interest OF the
students. FOR it is the purpose 10
Inoculate them with constant de-
sire for clean hard work
Expects 5000 Garden Entries.
lie next took up the matter of
the lawn and garden contest and
stated that. though there were 300
entries from ont of the seven civic
clubs of the city. 81 was expected
that this YEAR there would be total
of 5000. He announced that at
present it was the plan TO give %
prizes. three FOR the best selection
for the city and three for each ward.
The amounts FOR the prizes for the
city would probably boz SIS. $50 anG
SIS. and for the wards $40. $3.50
and $500. said the speaker
The meeting opened with the am
nual election Of officers. which re-
suited as follows w a. Erier. pres
ident: r W Morse vice president.
and Miss Edith Miller. secretary
treasurer.
The retiring officers are the fol-
lowing. Georse u. Heideman. presi-