Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-10
ware men mum ON
PUBLIC GOLF LINKS
Council Majority Blocks Move
for Tacony Course and Prop
erty Release, Says Won Tagen
'cIRcUMvENTIoN OF RIGHTS
by SANDY McN1BLICK


"II1E. Of City Council" continued
w Charles Il. Hall. ''are servants
IT the people of PHILADELPHIA. What
they want ht us give" And things.
Mr.. Hall was talking when we ar.
rived ut City Councils meeting and
was still holding the fort when we left.
the words above ringing in our ears
as we walked down the lobby from the
session yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Hall
was the only one in a cutaway coat
and was most impressive.
There were other visitors there, too.
They were DOING, most of them, In the
seats at the rear.
We had come to hear an ordinance
for another public golf course intro.
1t wasn't introduced. Therefore there
wasn't any argument.
In the pinch, Councilman Won Tagen
came to our rescue.
There" stated the Councilman.
waving dramatically toward the right :
hand side of the Council Chamber.
sit sixteen reasons why no public
day"
We looked.
DuV E>Ot OOu
'Those sixteen Councilmcn represent
the FIJI II strength of the Ware forces In
this chamber. Mr.. Hall. their leader,
j. now speaking." continued Mr.. Won
Iagcn,. "but not about public golf.
He's already had his say about that.
Thc bill for public golf won't pass
till he and the other fifteen reasons
come to reason. They are the hitch in
giving another links to thousands and
thousands Of Philadelphia citizens,
JIG golf course. The land has been
Park Commission has mapped out the
sites for two courses. It has tho
money to build them. The Mayor says
he will sign the bill If passed. Every
thing is set.
but that handful of men won't vote
for It. It's killed till they will"
Councilman Won Tagen pulled a copy
of the ordinance from his pocket and
proceeded to 90 over the history of the
proposition for another public goli
course in Philadelphia from beginning
to end.
''This ordnance explained Mr..
Won Tagen. Twas introduced almost cx :
actly one year ago. Here is the word
Ing OF the ordinance:
s'ss,rT asssTS and certain sra,
park and opsn public piscs HSs for the sFS eais IL
the co%mssloneSs Of FaTnoune anP ParE sFsS'in to m
same.
1.-THE ordinance was referred to tn,
Committee OH City Property and Serv
ice, Of which I nm the chairman.
II held conference with Eli Kirl
Price and Alan Carson. of the Parl
Commission. We agreed the lane
would be ideal for an eighteen hole ant
a n!ne-hole golf course. They said the
commission had the money and wn.
willing to spend it for that purpose.
Mayor Willing
81 took the Director Of Public
Works. the Councilmcn representing
that district, some property holders o,lt
there and others interested for per-
sonal inspection. The Mayor said he
would sign the bill if passed. All was
ready.
Then came the monkey wrench. Our
committee was told that there was nc
use of reporting the bill beause |,
would be killed on Council floor by the
Ware majority. They refused to have
anything to do with it,
Councilman Won Tagen glaret
angrily at tho jolly blockaders.
'The city has set aside this section
Of the city for park purposes. Holders
Of the land are, therefore, denied the
right to sell. The assessment has been
raised and those people have to pay
the taxes. The city is delaying the
purchase Of the property. 1t is a grave
wrong that this ordinance would right. .