The Fight for Point Defiance

Are the taxpayers of Tacoma aware of the destruction going on in Point Defiance park? The present superintendent, Mr. Nelson Bennett, is using railroad and not park ideas of construction in his work there, and there should be concerted action to stop it before it is too late. He has already cleared a spot over 300 feet long and 35 feet wide to make a borrow pit for a fill of dirt, where an ornamental rustic bridge had fallen out last winter. A 'borrow' is borrowing dirt and leaving a hole—the place is about 20 minutes' walk beyond the rustic bridge. There occurs a gulch which should be left as nature formed it. Mr. Bennett is for filling it, packing it tight with dirt dug from the park. It is good engineering and atrocious park building. Mr. Bennett and Mr. Snell make a practice of shooting crows and even pigeons in the park, which is against park rules. On Thanksgiving day they shot nine pigeons, it is said, and they have admitted it. Why should a big, heavy railroad man and park commissioner be allowed to do what a boy would be arrested and fined for doing?