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onhr:n,ndtonoisofhedaofiin )U(1 11V.k.iiu-ichthemdX1)0tomgoreitesthesheingthis\\-irth ten-t heare ul-ring e oflab-erly has )on. 1 of oral ican cat,Diiimiii” in i iiuin;iviuc.The Park Question.The lease anil option of purchase hold by the city on Paradise Park expires with the year.The benefit? to the city fiorn the use of tlisplendid piece of property as a park have increased vjth the three years that has passed siuce it was leased and #the purchase option secured, and as a natural sequence the necessity of keeping it open as a park for all time to come has increased in the same ratio.As showing how the que. tion s regarded by outside parties, that arc conversant with the needs and future of the city, wc give an extract from a private letter received from a well known New York gentleman, who ha? spent many seasons in Thomasville, and who will, in all probability spend many more here. The gentleman says:“I am pleased to m.*c that you advocate the purchase of Paradise Park, for the insignificant sum of 815,WO. When our Central Park was outside the city, and it was proposed to pay (I think ) about 81:2,000,000 for it, ft met with determined opposition from certain quarters. The same parties that then opposed the purchase would opjiose the sale of it now for 8100,-000,000, Indeed for building lots i as it is almost in the heart of the city it would bring more than 810O,fkM),-000. Never was money more judiciously invested.”The writer of this letter takes precisely the same view of this matter that every visitor will take, and it is not too much to say that the same views are entertained by a great many of our own people; that is to say, that Thomasville cannot afford to lose the park.The question will come up for sct-themcnt in the near future, and it ought to receive the careful attention and a conclusion prompted by public spirit and a desire to see Thomasville continue her onward march.
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Thomasville Times
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Sat, Jun 15, 1889
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