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| Protest Against
Amusement Park
Ravenswood Residents Ask for Establishment of New Prohibition District Many Sign a Petition Members of Council License Committee Impressed by the Arguments Made Source: Chicago Daily Tribune, 12 January 1907, pg. 4. A delegation of residents of Ravenswood descended upon the council license committee yesterday afternoon and almost convinced the aldermen that a new prohibition district should be established. If the wishes of the delegation are carried out a proposed amusement park, the construction of which soon was to have been begun, also will be prevented from settling there. The district which it is proposed to make "dry" is bounded on the north by a line 300 feet north of Sunnyside avenue, on the south by Montrose avenue, on the east by Leavitt street, and on the west by Western avenue. A company was arranging to construct a park in that territory to accommodate "The Tyrolean Alps," now in St. Louis, as well as a beer garden. Invasion by Rowdies Feared. "What we want to do, gentlemen, is to prevent the establishment of an institution of this sort in the midst of our homes," said W. R. Bentley, chairman of the delegation. "The neighborhoods that have already been invaded by these parks have become the resorts for thieves and rowdies. We do not care to have them in Ravenswood." The members of the committee said nothing, apparently agreeing with the statement of the spokesman of the delegation. "I was driven away from one home by the taking and retaking of Port Arthur, long after the Japs [sic] had forgotten all about it," said Samuel Donaldson, 295 Wilson avenue. "And then I suppose that the guns of San Juan hill of Riverview park will continue to keep the residents awake until they are sorry it ever was taken. I thought I was getting into a quiet neighborhood without any exciting attractions, and now I understand there is to be some sort of mountains with a beer garden attached. I protest." Large Petition Is Presented. The aldermen were told of the hurried meeting of citizens at the Lutheran church of Ravenswood Thursday evening and the circulation of a petition there and throughout the neighborhood. The petition, bearing the names of a majority of the citizens of Ravenswood, according to the delegation was placed in the hands of the aldermen. "In order to convince you that this move is bona fide and that the citizens really want it, I would like to have you aldermen come to our meeting at the church next Wednesday evening," suggested Mr. Donaldson. "O, no. You don't get us that way," cried several of the committee members. "We will take the matter up, but not in the church; we have seen that done before." Chairman Dunn said a committee would be sent to the district within a few days to look the ground over and make a report at the next meeting of the license committee, when action would be taken. |
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