Show I PRINCELY PRESENT KANSAS CITY INDEBTED TO THOS H SWOrE Land is the Finest in Jackson County and is Easily Worth a Quarter of a Million of Dollars KANSAS CITY Mo June 7Kansas City ha been made the recipient free of cost of park property second in point of area to only one public park in the United States The gift was made by Thomas H Swope one of the citys oldest citizens The property is situated situ-ated four miles southeast of the city ate contains 1314 acres All told there are over 1000 acres of timbered lands J and there is a broad natural lawn df 100 acres I is grandly situated and i admirably adapted for the purpose intended in-tended The only conditions exacted by the donor is that the land be named I Swope park and that the city during the next ten years spend at least 5000 j I a year improving the grounds The land is the finest in Jackson county and is worth easily a quarter of a million dollars I is a perfect park made so by the kind hand of nature na-ture and i will require but a comparatively compara-tively small expenditure to make i a beauty spot unrivalled by any place I will be the second largest park in the j j I United States I will give the seeker 1 after rest from the heat and tumult of i the city a chance to wander for three miles in any direction through green groves I will give the pleasure seeker j I fishing and boating and all sorts of out of door sports It will be laid out I I I with handsome drives boulevards will i I run to It and through i artificial lakes I will be built and ball grounds and ten I n5s grounds will find a place on its beautiful stretches of level meadows I Swopes park will be the grand center of the complete park system that is t make Kansas City radiant It will be the pride of all Kansas Citians The donor is the most modest of men For years Mr Swope ha been a familiar fa-miliar figure upon the streets of Kansas Kan-sas City and yet but few men In Kansas Kan-sas City know him well He is a man who keeps his own counsel and no man Is more opposed to the notoriety of pub I I lie print Mr Swope is a graduate of Yale After his graduation he read law for a I year in Gainsville Alabama From I there in 1856 he came to Kansas City I His early Investments made here and in Wyandotte were the foundation of his fortune In 1864 he made extensive personal explorations in the Rocky mountains At Butte Montana when It was an unimportant mining camp he took up claims and became one of the founders of its industries His of terest in education wa proven five years 3g by the g f of 25000 to Center Cen-ter collese Kentucky Th G |