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Show OGDEN ILL Eft ADDITIONAL PARK Work on New Spot for Recreation Re-creation and Rest Will Commence This Week. Special to The Tribune. OGDKX, Fob. 18. Acting under instructions instruc-tions from the city board of park "commissioners "com-missioners Bercnd Van dor Soiiuit. superintendent super-intendent of Ogdcu's public park system, will start work early tills week laying out the new park Just south of the firu department bunding. With exception or the space occupied oy the fire Rtiulou No. I ana tne waterworks building the entire en-tire tiuartcr of a block ts to be Hans-formed Hans-formed into a foeaut spot. A chief feature fea-ture of the little park is to be a public pub-lic walk extending diagonally across Lie square from the police department building build-ing to the Grant avenue and Twenty-sixth street corner. TIiIb walk will bo constructed con-structed on the line of a nath already established by pedestrians. The lot just south of the police department headquarters head-quarters would also have been laid out as a. park at this time were It not for the fact that the city 1ms not yet provided a place for storing the junk which now tills the lot. Mr. Van dcr Schuil recently made a trip to Lakeside, where he secured samples sam-ples of sand which will probably he used in the said pit to be built at t lie Liberty park playgrounds. The board was Informed In-formed that the Lakeside sand was equal to quality to llyit found al Lonp: Beach, Cal,, and the superintendent's report cor-robrntcs cor-robrntcs this information. The sand found on the west shore of the lake is exeep-tlonally exeep-tlonally while and contains no dirt. The board expects to brinp a. cavioad of the sand to this city. The pit will be surrounded sur-rounded by a concrete (.opinp eighteen Inr.liOB in height and twenty-five feet In diameter. Plans for the concrete wad-Inp: wad-Inp: pool to be built at the playgrounds are bclnp prepared by the city engineer. The basin will be surrounded by a concrete con-crete copinpr two feet in height, while the pool will be twenty by forty feet in size. The waiter will bo eighteen inches deep. The original plan to remove a number vi li ccs iroin wie v-arncse iidih.iv pain to tho new park at Monroe and Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth street has been abandoned to the extent that the trees will be placed in the new fire station park. Superintendent Van do SYhuit will, within a few days, place 1"0 trees in the new southeast park. Another An-other improvement under consideration by the park commission Is the Installation Installa-tion of a new water system at Liberty park. The fountain basin in Union square, the downtown park, will be stocked with prold fish this spring. While discussing the subject of trees the park superintendent stated that this is the proper time of the year for the trimming' of all kinds of trees with f ho exception of soft maples and box elder. 'He also says that.it is advisable to apply i he winter spray this time. |
