Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-11
|125 PETITION
FOR FAIRVIEW
AS BUTLER SITE
Call Attention to Schools
Needs-Point to Benefits
for City.

Fairview Park may become the future
home for a newer bigger. better Butler
College if the petition of 125 citizens and
business men of Indiana presented today
to Robert I. Todd, president of the In
dianapolis Street Railway Company and
DR.. Henry Jameson, chairman of the
board of directors, receives a favorable
reception at their hands.
The petition sets forth that with the
present facilities Butler College cannot
hope 70 expand as it should, and that
comparatively few available tracts of
sufficient acreage can be found near In
dianapolis. OF those available Fairview
Park is one Of the best, both from the
standpoint Of natural beauty and ac-
feasibility.
1t is pointed out that several years ago
the street car company offered the site
to the city for park purposes, but the
offer was not accepted. 1t is suggested
the street car company now offer the
ground fer educational purposes and that
the board of directors of Butler College
be designated as trustees, with the dis
tinct understanding that 1t be used as
site for an institution which it is hoped
will be of such a character as to make
indianapolis great educational center.
AT IRVINGTON
FOR FIFTY YEARS.
For the last fifty years Butler College
has been/situated in Irvington. and the
institution has now outgrown its quar-
tiers. For many years friends and alumni
of Butler have had a vision of new
Butler, located on a large tract Of ground
which would give the college room to
expand and to reach ultimately. size
equal to any educational institution in
the State. 1t is believed that IL the col
lege is assured of a new location suit-
able TO its needs It win greatly simplify
the matter Of raising an endowment
FUND Of sufficient size to make the sue
cess OF a larger institution certain.
In part the resolution petition to the
street railway company is as follows:
comparatively few available tracts Of
suHIclent acreage remain inside the city
or Immediately adjacent. Fairview Park
Is one OF these, 1t ought to be pre-
served as an open tract Of ground We
think that all win agree that II would
De unfortunate for this site 10 be di-
vided into small tracts. 1t is diversified
by nature and Is susceptible 10 landscape
treatment that will greatly enhance its
beauty. II this ground should be used
as a university campus its natural beauty
and pSfk like quality would be pre-
served, and the community would have
the advantage Of the conservation Of a
large tract OF wooded land IL lies
along White River and the Canal. and
Is in the line OF parkway and anti food
development. Suitable reservations for
boulevard purposes might be made. and
guarantees given on both sides, that
would make here a campus Of unriyaled
beauty and accessible to It's people.
POINTS NEED Oh CITY
FOR SUCH INSTITUTION.
indianapolis needs such an institution
Butler College. a well equipped college
Of liberal arts. With a long and hon
orable history. is admirably qualified to
form the nucleus OF the university Other
educational units and forces doubtless
exist that could be assembled and given
greater opportunity 70 carry out their ed
ucational purposes under a general plan
without impairlng the rights or tradl-
lions Of any Of the Incorporated units"
Signers Of the petition are as follows /:
Louis c. Huesmann, John II. Holiday,
Hilton L. Brown, William 9. Irwin Fred q
rick NJ. Ayres. Fred -. Gardner. Charles
b. Sommers. Matthias L. Haiues Edward
A. Kahn, Il. +. Lawrence. Fred C. Dick
son, Arthur V. Brown. Hugh Mckay
Landon. Arthur r. Baxter, John B. Rey-
IL II
Nonnegut, Albert NJ Rosenthal Eugene
II. Darrach. James W. Lilly, J. f. Wild,
Louis J. Borinstein. Charles Mayer. Jr..
Carl II. Lieber. Carl A Walk. c. d Over,
Sol Schloss, Ell Schloss. A. C Snider.
Fred ]. Hoke, L. L. Graft, L. \ Hines.
henry Kahn. K f. Davidson. Thomas c.
Day, I. w. Grafton. Merle Sidener
Guernsey Van Ripper. James Collins. VII
liam scott. Scot Butler, G. l. Reeves. J
II. Lederer William J Mooney, Marion
ward, l.. o. Hamilton. Hugh 'rh Miller.
Robert H. HGssler. Emsley W Johnson
John c Ruckelshaus, f. II. Wolcott
Riley e. Adams, Aaron Wolfson G. Bar
rett Moxley, James I. Clark. joseph A.
Bernstein. Allen r. Philput. II. A
Lemcke, Harper J. Ransburg, John w
Holtzman, Dick Miller, Frederick Il. Mat
son, t. w. Harris. William A. Umphrey
Ralph II, Edgerton, F. E. Floyd. c. W
Wells, w. r. Pittsford Bert Mcbride. A.
G. Rudden. c. L. Buschmann, Roy o.
Adams, Ferd. l.. Hollweg, F. c. Krauss,
II. 5. King, W. e. Smith. Alvin II. Smith
g. f. Quick, w. r. Evans, George Snider
Richard Y. Sipe. John W. Castor Lewis
w. George, j. c. Douglas. Marsh III Hac-
ker, Chauncy Butler A. d. Hit. Harry
born. Charles b. Riley, Jesse A. Shearer
Ferd. L. MUIR Wilbur T. Gruber. L.
G. Ferguson. Henry l.. Stenger. A w
Freund, II. J Lacy, Remster 4 Bingham
Scion J. Carter, Robert w Mcbride. V.
II. Lockwood, William l.. DAY. Lee e.
Swails. John e. Canaday, George r.
Davis Stanley Sellick Larz A. Whitcomb,
w. G. Oliver. Robert L. Moorhead. Perry
II Clifford. Harry b. Smith La Monte
Daniels, L. S. Lesh, Fred B. Brown, VII
liam Il. Burford, Demarchus Brown.
Arthur Il. Robinson. Mahlon f. Bash.
George A Gay. Joseph R. Morgan. VII,
liam II: Block, j. J. Cole, B. C. Downey,
II. II. Fout.