34 REPORT OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 



daily engages the attention of many tourists and resident visi- 

 tors. Recognition of the public spirit evinced by men and 

 women of California in donating rare relics to this department 

 of the Museum is reserved for the publication which may be 

 made in the near future under the immediate direction of the 

 Curator. 



LAKE, STADIUM AND PRESIDIO PARKWAY 

 The Chain of Lakes across Golden Gate Park from north- 

 east to southwest between Fortieth and Forty-second avenues, 

 is an alluring feature of the reservation. One is impressed with 

 the idea that Nature bestowed the graceful curves of the inlet. 

 Seven small islands clad in verdure and teeming in foliage 

 lend a charm to the view. In creating the lake effect, the ex- 

 cavation of a vast quantity of sand was required. 



The Stadium of Golden Gate Park is a feature that com- 

 mands the attentive admiration of residents and tourists. It is in 

 the middle of the Park between Fulton street on the north and 

 H street on the south, east of Thirty-sixth avenue. The grassy 

 terrace affords space for sixty thousand spectators. When the 

 Grand Stand is completed, there will be seating space for one 

 hundred thousand people. 



The Presidio Parkway, the connecting link between Golden 

 Gate Park and the U. S. Military Reservation known as the 

 Presidio of San Francisco, consists of seven blocks of land 

 which were acquired at a cost of $360,000. The length of the 

 boulevard is nearly one mile. It is between Tenth and Eleventh 

 avenues extending from Fulton street, the northerly boundary 

 line of the Park to a point not far from the old U. S. Marine 

 Hospital. There is gratifying prospect that the War Depart- 

 ment will obtain from Congress the means for extending and 

 improving the boulevard system of the Presidio. 



Zoo AND AVIARY 



San Francisco is making some headway in the zoological 

 department, but plans for the creation of a zoo such as Chicago 



