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OIVMIMD ICONOttT.The 'Commercial says:“Eden Park costs us $2,000 per week. Over $1,000 is for ground rent. This rent is paid annually as follows: Lsngwortb estate, *88,580; John Bates, $6,006; Jos. eph Whitaker, $0 000; Washington Me-Lean, $7,500gtotal, $58,000. Tats is exclusive of Dodds’ precipice, the “owl'snest,” which was added at a cost of $28,-000 cash. The expenditures on the various improvements bring the cost up to about $104,000 per annum. We wish the people when they see the park to know the rate at which the productive labor of the city has to pay tor forever. And we want to know: who gets $2,000 worth of breathing out ef Eden Park?”Why was’ not this valuable informal tion furnished about the time that Bur* net Woods wss being so vigorously urged on Council by the* Commeroial and Gazette? Burnet Woods was a bone of contention in the Park Commission, Carson was entirely “fornlnst” It; Har* rison thought we could not afford it; Elsas thought that -the price was too high, that it another suburban park was necessary, proposals should be sollotied for other land as well leoated, or that overtures should be mads toward getting this tract at a reasonable figure; Wil-staoh was on the fence, and in short a gash was out in that Board that never has healed. When the thing got into Council the Park Committee wrangled oYer it; there were Ugh words and failure to agree, and at last when it got back to the Board the project hung fire, and went though solely by reason of the newspaper pressure In its fsvor. Over thirty thousand dollars a ysar—about on# hundred dollars a day, lor all time to come, to kill off other extravagances 1 The hair of the dog cures the bite I The Commeroial should not be so modest when it counts the cost oi muniopal ex. travagance. Its own banUingis as much of a prodigal as Eden Park .There are some people who believe in Parks, convenient to the public, and where those who need them most cun use them; and Cincinnati, if she wants to, can afford all that such things cost; but then the money ought to be pieced where it will do the most good, as It were. Washington Park eost $88,000 originally, Its expense last year for Improvements, music, etc., was $8,758 $8, and when we consider the thousands who find recreation and pleasure there, the value of the investment oan not be computed. The Orphan Assylum lot cost $160,000—one handsome piece bf paper for a round hundred thousand—interest; payable semi-anually, and fifty other bonds for $1000 each. The Interest, however, on this Investment, goes to the orphans and is well spent. Lincoln Park was a gift from the Garrard estate—cost nothing for the ground and it the most attractive and most useful of any park that we have. It Is probably the handsomest square of ground la the county, the cost of Lincoln Park last year for music, improvements, etc., was $8,671 67, irom which should he deduoted the receipts lor boat line $1,501 77. This year the Park Commissioners can not afford music In the parks. Dear people, It costs toe much, and we have an additional hundred dollars a day to pay home respectable people for the ground rent of the Commercial Park. True, it may be wanted in ten years time, and we should not grumble because the gentlemen who bulled it through the Park Commissioners and Counoil are some oi out.best citizens; otherwise it might be aj«.
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The Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, May 27, 1873
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