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room is so limited that what should be the deer or 

 buffalo pasture becomes merely a piece of bare, 

 muddy or dusty ground. 



There are organizations of various kinds, such 

 as gun clubs, natural history societies and others, 

 that will seek to appropriate parts of parks to their 

 own uses. A museum may with advantage be near 

 a park, but should not be intruded within the park 

 itself. The noise of a gun club seems quite out of 

 harmony with the legitimate purposes of a park, 

 and it is only on rare occasions that a suitable site 

 for the operations of such a club can be found. 

 If there should be a point of land extending out from 

 a park into a large body of water to a place far re- 

 moved from dwellings and from most of the park 

 visitors and protected also by a hill or embank- 

 ment which would deaden the sound, an excep- 

 tion might be made to the general rule of exclu- 

 sion. 



THE PARK COMMISSION 



The park commission should be small, preferably 

 made up of not over five members. At least one 

 large city in the United States has a park com- 

 mission of only three members. A commission 

 should be practically continuous by having only 



