Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — RENSSELAER PUBLIC PARK I [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER PUBLIC PARK I

This tjwn -has no public Park and will need one for beauty and ornament. The people will one day long so the pleasure and recreation afford ©1 by a common play ground In tha heart of our town. The land between Vanß msselaer and Cullen Streets exi tended northwest is contiguous to the ' public school site and central for the whole town. This land is now owned by John C. Vanßensselaer, He has generously transferred, at a moderate consideration, grounds for public use and now makes a liberal offer to dos nate a tract 300 x 30 f feet on the high rolling gound west of the drain and between Vanßensselaer aud Cullen Street, conditional that the town will make the following improvements:

1 That tne open drain known as the uiak< -'m self shall be covered and a street opened and improved between said streets at a point 300 feet Northly of Susan street. 2. that the proposed Park shall be fenced and planted in shade trees. This mutter addresses itselt to the good sense of the resident capitalists and town authorities whos e interests will thus be affected. Will the pro Ye re 1 donation be accepted? Those who have means and possess refined tastes should do all tnat can be done to secure this donation on the terms proposed. Let those who feel an interest in the future our beau" tiful and promising town do all tha 4 can be done to secfire a permanen 4 Park. General Vanßensselaer’s hear 4 is with the people, and in gratitude to the memory of his father, whose ashes rest in the Di dst of the town he founded, and in honor his son, who makes this liberal offer, let us accept it arid the near future dedicate as an institution to attract our neighbors and toward which we can all point with pride and satisfaction—“Vanßensselaer Park!”

SIMON P. THOMPSON.