Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-07-02
WOULD VOTE BONDS
FOR CITY PARKS
Business Men Endorse Plan to Vote
$4,000 To $4,000 Bonds for
Permanent Park improvements

Another community betterment
campaign was launched with a bang
Tuesday when the chamber of COM
merce, in session extraordinary at the
city automobile park, voted its
unanimous endorsement to a plan
proposed by Councilman-at-Large w.
G., Kruegel to bond the city in the
sum of $25, 900 this fall to improve
the two city parks. In the remarks
which led up to the motion and it's
unanimous endorsement Councilman
Kruegel called attention to the fact
that for years several hundred dol
lars have been expended on the park
each summer, with but little in the
way of permanent improvement ac-
complished, The expenditure this
fall and next spring of between $780,
600 and $4,000, he argued, would
place both parks in first class condi-
ton, with adequate play apparatus
for the children and ample facilities
for the touring and local public.
The matter was placed in the
hands of the roads and parks COM
mittee of the chamber, which in
cludes j. S. Klemgard, w L. Greena-
walt, II. Il. Phelps, Thomas Neill and
James Emert. The committee will
circulate petitions requesting the city
administration to call special city
election at the same time as the regu-
lar primary election this fall to vote
on the question of bonding the city
in the amount deemed necessary to
effect the permanent and complete
improvement of both parks and will
take such other steps as will be
necessary to insure the permanent
and complete improvement of botn
parks and will take such other steps
as will be necessary in boosting the
campaign for the betterment,
Tentative plans for the improve
ment include the purchase of addy-
tional property for Reaney park,
probably the strip of privately owned
property which now separates the
park and the municipal swimming
tank and the installation of play
ground equipment. In the big auto
mobile park it is proposed to install
play apparatus in the west end, in
GLIDING wading pool for the young
sters, while the east end will be i'm
proved and retained as a tourist
park, with every convenience for the
travelling public. AS soon as the two
parks are improved a permanent park
custodian will be nameI to care fol
them.
The voting of a $25,0O0 bond issue
for park purposes will entail no add
/ ed municipal taxation, according to
! Councilman Kruegel. The entire
/ bond issue can be paid off in six to
! eight years by continuing the SIX
mill levy which has been effective
! Tor IL years Tor the purpose of re-
! firing the old current expense war
rants of Is years standing, the last
Of which was called by City Treas
urer Clark last month. The old debt
| is now entirely wiped out and the
time is ripe the citizens believe, to
proceed with needed and permanent
Improvements, which have been per-
mitted to lay over while the city took
steps to recover it's financial equi-
| librium.
Practically every tax-paying bust
ness establishment in the city was
represented at the big meeting of the
chamber Tuesday, and the unanimous
vote of favor to the plan is taken as
an indication that the bond election
will carry by an overwhelming ma
jOrity.