The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-11-23
CITY ICE }, RINK
SITE SELECTED
BY ENGINEERS
City Will Furnish Water for
Flooding Under Supervision
Il of Engineers
WANT SOUTH SIDE RINK
Would Like Suggestions, and
Also Want Shed to Be
Placed at Main Rink

An ice skating rink tor boys an(
girls, men and women will be con
structed in Bismarck.
This definite announcement was
made today by the Engineers club
which has fathered the project.
The rink will be located in the
block between Mandan avenue and
Washington avenue on the north side
! Of Avenue C. 1t will he approximate
/ ly 100 feet in width and 400 feet long
! Repeated flooding Will Increase tht
width to about $50 feet, it is expect.
ed ..
The city commission will clear the
tract and furnish the water and men
/ to flood it. 1t is expected Boy Scouts
will keep the place clear of snow. The
engineers would like to have some
one offer shed to be placed at the
rink. -uN
The engineers feel that there also
should be an ice rink On the south
side. The engineers have been un-
able to find a suitable place and wish
that someone on the south SIDE would
point out or offer suitable site. The
engineers announcement today said ::
About six weeks ago the engineers
club had informed the citizens of Bis
marck that they had formed a skat-
ng rink committee; that they were
ging to procure, If possible a rink
large enough to accommodate the
older as well as the younger people,
Quite few public spirited citizens
expressed themselves that large
rink was out Of the question; that two
or three smaller ones, similar to those
Of last year were good enough, but
not so with the engineers-they were
after larger game.
.-.. Committee Named
"The Q engineers committee was
composed sbf r. II. Peters and F. w,
Bortell, with B. H. Tong, of the city
engineers office. as chairman
+ "The committee at first decided, that
the location was TO be Such that wa
ter could be poured without too much
expense East side or west side of
town mattered little, as the chairman
said last night in an interview with
several of the city commissioners,
when l was kid / would walk three
or four miles to skate and regard
less of location we want rink large
enough to keep our boys and girls
away from the river
"The Town Criers' committee with
c. F. Bolt as chairman very generous
ly offered their help and suggested
a few probable locations and methods
of financing the proposition.
Call for Sites
'The Commercial club issued a call
to the citizens to send in locations of
lots which would be available. One
person responded with one location
"The engineers decided upon To-
cation, interviewed the owners of the
pOrperty, securing their consent, ana
made small topographic plat show
ing the size of the rink and it's pos
sible size after several floodings. They
also computed the amount of water
W lllCIl "Oulu Ut
'As the matter now stands the rink
will be located in the block between
Mandan ave. and Washington ave. and
on the north side of Ave. c. 1t will be
approximately 100 feet in width and
400 feet long. Repeated flooding will
increase the width to about $50 feet
City TO Clear 1t
T. "The city commission will clear the
tract and furnish the water and the
men to flood it.
1T is understood that Rev Postleth-
waite as Boy Scout Master will see
that the boy scouts keep the rink free
from snow. This will require some
work. The snow must be cleared Off
the entire ice sheet and no water
should be put on until the snow has
been entirely removed.
There is yet some work which
should be done. A shelter should be
provided which could be kept warm,
to serve as a. place where skates could
be put on and removed. An old gar
age would be O. K.
"R f. JAEGER, city fire chief, has
promised to move the shed to the
rink.
elias some one Il building which
cculd be used for this purpose!
"If so notify B. H. Tong at the
City Engineers office, or J. E. Kaul-
fuss, of the State Highway commits
sion"