Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-15
MEMORIAL PARK CANVASS ID bE:
 HELD TUESDAY Rotarians, Chamber and Ad Club Assisted by Committees to
 Raise $25,O0O Fund. SITE IS CHOSEN ON
 SOUTH CHERRY STREET Articles Filed With County 1nsuring Completion of PrOject-Lake, Car dens, Ornamental Entrance
 To Be Features.


 Next Tuesday October 21 has been designated as the date for a general canvass for subscriptions with which to establish recreation park in Pine Bluff as memorial to the sol diers and sailors and others who went from Jefferson county to serve with the colors during the world war.
 This was announced at the meet ing at the Rotary club, at the Hotel Pines yesterday, after the charter under which the park will be held in trust and administered for the public by board of 12 delegates, had been read by Attorney w. F. Cole man, and a map of the ground and proposed park improvements, pre- pared by Maj. w. J. Parkes, and a perspective view of the proposed en- trance, drafted by G. A. Edelsvard, had been displayed to the Rotarians, members of the Chamber of Com merce, and guests at the meeting.
 It is proposed to raise at least $25,0O0 in subscriptions before next Tuesday night, which is to be cele- brated by the Rotary club with a Ladies' Day program. Subscrip- tions will be payable one-fourth cash, and the balance four equal in- stallments, due on January IS, March 15 and May 15, 1920. While it is expected that the major part of the fund will be cash subscrip- tions, it is the purpose to permit all who desire to show appreciation of the services of Jefferson's patriots by helping to establish recreation ground for present and future gen. erations to share in the movement, without burdening themselves in any way. Consequently, the sub- scriptions are divided into four in- stallments.
 Trustees Chosen.
 The charter was filed with Circuit Clerk S. F. Vaulx yesterday after noon, and appears in it's entirety in another part of the Graphic today. It is published because the Memorial park is to be for the public and it is the desire that the public be fla miliar with all details of the project. These articles were prepared by At torney Coleman. assisted by Judge w. T. Woodbridge, who served as chairman of the Rotary clubs park committee, and Attorney H. Kemp Toney, past president of the Rotary club. The 12 men selected to serve on the first board of trustees are Chas. w. Holmes, J. Harvey Means, w. T. Woodbridge, H. c. Couch, H II. Holderness, H. Kemp Toney, Thos. F. Gadberry, E. B. Bloom, J. Frank Franey, Pinchback Taylor, Maj. w. J. Parkes and w. F. Coleman.
 Tentative plans for improvement of the park, which will occupy about 54 acres on the east side of Cherry, south of Thirty-fourth avenue, pro- vide for an archway entrance, which may be erected by the local branch of the American Legion; monu. ment, sunken garden, artificial lake, auditorium, bandstand, children's play ground, and attractive drive ways, walks and shrubbery. It will be impossible to achieve all these things at once, but it is the plan by which the trustees will be guided.
 There is now about $2,800 in the Memorial park fund, and the move ment to establish recreation park as memorial to those who served with the fighting forces has been so generally commended, and the need for public park is so wildly recog- nized that, no difficulty is anticipat- ed in obtaining all the subscriptions required. In fact, the view has been expressed that there will be hundreds of voluntary small sub- scriptions, and to take care of these arrangements have been made with every bank in the city to accept sub scriptions to the Memorial park fund. Every contributor will be an honor ary member of the association, and their names will be recorded in the history, which will be handed down to future Pine Bluffians to show how the people of 1919 appreciated the heroes of the world war, and. in displaying this appreciation, build- ed with view to the welfare of the people of Pine Bluff of the future.
 Ad Club to Help.
 Practically all of the time at yes terday's session of the Rotary club was devoted to the Memorial park project. J. Harvey Means, chair man of the campaign committee, re- ported that the canvass would be by occupations, and assignments of these were made. The captain of each classification was empowered to draft any member of the Rotary club or Chamber of Commerce, not simi- larly engaged. to serve with him. The cooperation of these was pledeed by MT. Holmes. president of the Rotary club. and w. w. Tavlor, president of the Chamber of Com merce. The work of Attorneys Coleman, Woodbridge and Toney; | /Nnrf;ruod nn y1ouo fivol