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Fic. 2490. The Archway, Duxlurn Park. Hamiltin. 



city, both in this country and in Europe, 

 vindicates the correctness of this statement. 

 While the work of creating a park system is 

 going on and the costly improvements are 

 under way there is invariably criticism and 

 honest difference in conviction as to the plans 

 and the advisability of the expenditures. 

 But when the work is once accomplished ;ind 

 the people have be- 

 fore them the object 

 lesson of a contin- 

 uous park and park- 

 way development, 

 uniting the varied 

 attractions and ben- 

 efits into a harmon- 

 ious whole, doubts 

 and misgivings give 

 way to civic pride, 

 complaints to com- 

 pliments, and the 

 fear of unreason- 

 able cost changes 

 to gratification at 

 the result. The 

 time has passed 



when public funds well 

 spent in a park system can 

 be considered other than 

 advantageously invested, 

 any more than county or 

 municipal expenditure for 

 roads, schools, hospitals 

 and city buildings can be 

 deemed extravagances. 



In all metropolitan or 

 suburban districts, park at- 

 tractions for residential and 

 industrial sections are now 

 great factors and constant- 

 ly growing features of the 

 times. They are necessities, 

 not luxuries, not for any 

 class or privileged few, but 

 are priceless possessions for 

 all the people and the one 

 place where neither social, financial, intel- 

 lectual nor political distinctions give any 

 one citizen rights, prerogatives or privileges 

 over another. 



BEAITIFY THE SCHOOL GROUNDS 



TO a Canadian whose taste for landscape 

 gardening has been cultivated by tra- 

 velling, it is very disappointing to observe 



li<; 2491. A Bit of the Casile and Lawn, Dlndurn Park, Hamilton. 



