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INDEX 



Gas lighting, 73 

 Gasoline lighting, 73 

 Grading, 51, 94 



cableway, 103 



drag scraper, 100 



dredge, 99, 101, 105 



economy, 104 



grading machine, 98 



muck excavation, 100, 109, 113 



pick and shovel, 97 



plow and shovel, 98 



rooter plow, 83 



staking out, 94 



steam shovel, 32, 91, 95, 98 



topsoil stripping, 29, 37, 97 



view of operations, 109, 113 



wheel scraper, 83, 100 

 Grass gutters, 15, 49, 51, 57, 70 



Hudson County parks, 2 

 Hydrants : 



cranes, 61, 63 



lawn, 61, 63 

 Hydrographical survey, 32, 33 



Inlets, 44, 65 



Labor, 74 



Lakes, 52, 99, 100, 105, 109, 113 

 Landscape architecture, iv, 36 

 Lands suitable for parks, 2, 3, 15, 



19, 21, 103 



Lewis, A. S., bituminous con- 

 crete, 123 

 Lighting, 72, 126 



acetylene, 73 



electric, 72 



gas, 73 



gasoline, 73 

 Lincoln Park, 123 

 Long Island Motor Parkway, 125 

 Lynn parks, 10 



Macadam pavement, 71, 115, 120 

 Mapes, Prof., tile drains, 93 

 Martin, T. S., 8 



Masonry : 



steps, 58 



walls, 55, 57, 108 

 Middlesex Fells Reservation, 10 

 Minneapolis, dredging at, 99, 105 

 Muck excavation, 100, 109, 113 



New York parks, 2, 6, 7, 21, 41 

 Nokomis, Lake, Minneapolis, 

 dredging, 99, 105 



Office buildings, 90 



Oil emulsion, 117 



Oils, as dust palliatives, 116, 117, 

 118 



Olmsted Brothers, 7 



Olmsted, J. C., iv 



Organization for work: 

 architect, 17 

 clerical force, 18 

 counsel, 14 



engineering department, 17 

 landscape architect, 14 

 purchasing department, 14 

 superintendent's department, 18 

 title guarantee department, 18 



Park engineer, his function, iv 

 Park movement, its magnitude, iii 

 Parker, G. A. : 



efficiency in grading operations, 

 103 



sod steps, 59, 61 

 Parks: 



acquisition of property, 23 



actual results, 7 



classification, 6 



earning capacity, 6 



economic advantage, 5 



future possibilities, 13 



lands, selection of, 3, 15, 19, 21, 

 103 



organization for work, 14 



social need, 1, 21 



surveys, 23 



the obtaining of, 10, 14 



