Show LEASING LIBERTY PARK ax AN effort Is being made to induce the tee city council to lease liberty park toa to a private party while there is a pretension that the public interest is sought by such a project it is 18 not a great stretch to presume that moneymaking money making is really at the bottom of it there are not many mefir running around with their hair streaming in the wind hunting bunting for a chance to serve the dear public but many can be discovered looking alter after opportunities to line their pockets favorable action by the council upon this application would result in the peopled having to pay for admission to their own premises and the grounds would therefore no longer be public but private the rule associated with pleasure resorts conducted by private parties or corporations po rations in this section at present is that pecuniary profit is the chief consideration and morality a very secondary affair there is no reason to expect that liberty park in private hands would be any exception to this rule altogether the people in this matter are much safer in their own hands than in the hands of private parties if public control of the park Js is relinquished there will be no resort in this whole neighborhood to which the people can obtain free admittance it would be an imposition on the poor who have not the means and we hope not much inclination as well to go to certain places toward which there appears to be an inordinate rush of pleasure hunters bunkers large numbers of people go to liberty park now and there enjoy the grateful shade afforded by the groves in which troops of happy children of the poorer claw class engage in pleasant sports and pastimes the gates should not be shut against them by a demand for the almighty dollar rather bather let the city fathers make the grounds gradually more pleasant by improvements it is even now a very good place in which to spend a few hours of recreation but a little money judiciously expended would make it far more desirable after a certain fixed hour it should be closed and even then a watch should be kept over the en ed closure for obvious reasons a |