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be reserved for the exclusive use of sight-seeing or outing 

 vehicles. For the use of delivery wagons and teams of such 

 description, a roadway forty feet in width is planned. Between 

 the outing and business avenues there will be a strip 40 feet 

 wide with grassy borders. 



It is not expected that private enterprise will ever carry 

 out this projected improvement, but a public spirit may be 

 awakened that will provide means adequate for the great 

 design. If the supremacy of Golden Gate Park is to be 

 maintained in the contest with parks adjacent to other leading 

 cities of this continent, the construction of the Boulevard 

 must be put forward with some degree of activity. The con- 

 templated roadway, with balustrades immediately above the 

 waves, will comprise an exposition in itself that will bring to 

 California every year a legion of tourists and travelers, and 

 encourage them to remain. 



The proposed boulevard will add at once to the value of 

 property along the entire range of hills and valleys south of 

 the Park. A study of the increase of values, from lessons 

 found in the maps and diagrams of the Assessor's Department 

 will convince the public that every dominant feature of the 

 park system that opens a general avenue for an outing adds 

 instantly to the taxable wealth of the city. As an investment 

 the Ocean Boulevard would be highly profitable to San Fran- 

 cisco. 



COMPARISON OF EXPENDITURE 



Since the adoption of Ordinance 800, reserving Golden 

 Gate Park for public use, the city has expended on this pleas- 

 ure ground a sum slightly in excess of seven and a half 

 million dollars. This covers a period of forty-two years. 

 In comparison with park expenditures in Boston, Chicago, 

 New York, Cincinnati and Minneapolis, the amount disbursed 

 is not large. As an example, comment on park management 

 in Chicago is cited. The South Side Park Board (one of 

 the three leading boards in the city) has had one million dol- 



