Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-01

icates Green street 120 feet in
width and all other plans as re-
corded will be required to do the
same.
Third Street This street. if
continued parallel with Second
would pass through the swamp
ground, now to be used for Park
purposes.
Third street, therefore. should
be diverted to the bluff or high
ground. connecting with Third
street. Riverside, at Catherine
street, making a continuous thor
oughfare. This street above
Catherine is now built up to a
considerable extent.
Sixth Street Continue the
lines of Sixth street. as laid out
by the commission of 1872, with
a slight change in the street line
to make them connect with Eliz-
abeth street, Riverside, widened
to conform to the present width
of Sixth street
New Street. Placing street
on the Mckee Tract, between the
ground of the Harrisburg Acad
emy, also a service road or street
between the Park and the Mckee
property on the East or Park
side of their property and con-
Meeting with the new street as
proposed.
These suggestions il carried
out will we believe, prove bene-
fetal to the city at large and all
individuals concerned. We earn
estly urge early and favorable
action upon these suggestions.
To the School Board
Ia
from the Commission to the School
Board:
In connection with the de-
velopment of Italian Park, it
has been suggested that this
same development would make
it very desirable to locate our
new High school on site close
by or connected with this park.
Acting upon this suggestion, we
opened communication with the
Mckee Estate, with the object
in view of ascertaining whether
they would sell part of their
property for school purposes.
The part on the high ground ly-
ing between the proposed new
line of Third street and Sixth
street, seemed to offer a de-
sirable and available site where
acreage could be obtained with
location and surroundings,
everything to be desired. This
plot contains approximately 35
to 3S acres and would permit
your board to build the new
school on the university plan,
giving ample room for athletic
activities and any future build
ing plan necessary. The selection
of the proper school authority
and landscape designers to make
joint plan, not only for pres
ent needs but looking to the fu-
ture needs of the school district
for years to come, would we
believe. put Harrisburg in the
lead in the bigger and better
things done for the present and
future generation.
Harrisburg in common with
all cities has been handicapped
by reason of the limited amount
OF ground purchased for the
erection of school buildings.
Americans are naturally opti-
mistic but few of us are suffi-
ciently so. We apparently pro-
vide for every reasonable
growth expected in fifty years
only to find ten or twenty years
afterward that our vision, large
as we thought it was, has not
been large enough.
Mckee Graham School Site Cost
The executors of the estate
have offered to sell to the
school board the 35 to 80 acres
suggested at $2.250 per acre
exact acreage to be ascertained
after the fixing of the new lines
of Third and Sixth streets
Chairman Herman then read to
he assemblage the following state
ment, which he said embodied the
views of the City Planning Commits
sion:
"The City Planning Commission
n presenting for the consideration
Of City Council in the School Board
If Harrisburg the proposal to take
over for the improvement of the city
'or the development of the park sys-
em and as high school site, all that
.ract of land lying between Third
Ind Sixth streets, and Division and
Catherine streets, now owned by the
Mckee Estate, and described fully
n the outlined maps accompanying.
The portion of this land lying be-
"Sen L IlIu street ana the tOD OF the
bluff commonly known as Italian
Park and comprising about fifteen
acres, the McKee-Graham estate of
fers to give free of all cost to the
city for the development of a lake
and park and the Strengthening of
Green street, which it is proposed
to make 120 feet wide from Division
street north. not only through this
tract, but to the northern building
limits. This donation the Mckee es-
tate will make upon the solicitation
of the City Planning Commission
which sees therein an opportunity
for the development and beautifica-
tion of the city, providing the city
within d reasonable perid of years
will improve the land as outlined.
Forty Acres For School
From the top of the bluff to Sixth
street, and from Division to Cath
crime street, tract of about 35
acres, the Mckee Graham eseate Of
fers, also upon the solicitation of the
City Planning Commission, to the
School Board of Harrisburg at a
price far below what undoubtedly
could be procured if the ground
were broken up and sold in building
lots or even in bulk if sold IN