Portland, Seattle, San Francisco 

 and Manila 



Turning from Providence in the East to the Pacific Slope, we publish here- 

 with the proposed outer park system of Portland, Oregon. It shows a clear under- 

 standing that provision must now be made for the needs of coming generations. 

 At the same time that this admirable system was prepared, the City of Seattle, Wash- 

 ington, employed the same landscape architects to suggest a similar system. 



Under the lead of a business organization, the Merchants' Association of San 

 Francisco, four millions of dollars out of a total loan of eighteen millions were 

 recently voted by the people of San Francisco, for the purpose of beautifying that 

 city by means of parks, parkways and public buildings, the sum being about evenly 

 divided between them. San Francisco has less than one-third of Philadelphia's 

 population, so that a loan of $12,000,000 would but add to Philadelphia's attrac- 

 tiveness proportionately as much as San Francisco's recent loan will improve that city. 



Ex-Mayor Phelan, in a recent letter to the New York "Tribune," states that 

 the Golden Gate Park and the Presidio, a United States reservation, are to be con- 

 nected by a park drive a block wide, for the distance which separates them, which 

 i; nearly a mile. He adds : 



"It is proposed to purchase in different parts of the city two large playgrounds for 

 children, and, in that part of the city known as the Mission, to acquire two blocks for a 

 local park. All this work may be said to be under way, inasmuch as the bonds are 

 authorized and will be sold as the funds are needed, and condemnation suits have been 

 ordered by the city fathers. 



"This initial work has been done without any definite plan. But what has been pro- 

 posed is not inconsistent with a plan which is now being made by Daniel H. Burnham. 

 He has twice visited San Francisco recently, and is now in Manila, execu- 

 ting a commission for the Government for the improvement of that city. He is expected 

 in San Francisco on February 25, and will have his report ready, as promised, before June 1. 



" A society of citizens, known as the Association for the Improvement and Adornment 

 of San Francisco, invited Mr. Burnham to make a plan, and he volunteered his services 

 the Association to bear the expense of draftsmen and other accessories. It is the intention 

 of this Association to present the plan to the Board of Supervisors, or City Council, which 

 is much interested in the work, and will, no doubt, be governed by Mr. Burnham's sugges- 

 tions as far as they are practicable." 



For further information regarding Portland and Seattle, apply to the Olmsted Brothers Land- 

 scape Architects, Brookline, Mass. 



For San Francisco and Manila, to Daniel H. Burnham, 1417 Railway Exchange Bld'g, Jack- 

 son and Michigan Boulevards, Chicago, III. 



For San Francisco, L. M. King, Secretary Merchants' Association of San Francisco, Mills 

 Building, 7th floor, San Francisco, Cal. 



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