improved and beautiful and appropriate sites would be obtained 

 for as many more. There is no other property in the central 

 part of the City which offers so good an opportunity and it 

 should not be lost by delay. 



(10) Reservation on the Viaduct between North and South 

 La Crosse. Such a property is now easily secured and would 

 provide a park for the future at a central situation. 



(11) Inter-State Fair Grounds. This tract of 37 acres is now 

 owned by the City and it is proposed later to make it the principal 

 athletic ground for the older boys and young men of the City. Here 

 there is room for a very complete provision for all the field sports, 

 tennis, etc. The location is admirable for the purpose. 



System of Parkways and Boulevards. 



(12) Parkways. It is proposed to connect all these parks, 

 squares and praygrounds by a complete system of parkways and 

 boulevards. Beginning, say, at the Levee Park, it would go out 

 State to Seventh, north on Seventh across the Viaduct to Rose, 

 to St. James, to Avon, to Clinton, to Kane, to Livingstone, to 

 George, and to the City limits. Later the roads indicated on the 

 general plan to the north, east, and south of the City would be im- 

 proved so as to make a continuous circuit, bringing the traveller 

 back to Seventh Street on the South Side, on to State Street, and 

 to the Levee Park where the start was made. This circuit of fifteen 

 miles might not be entirely free from some relatively common- 

 place sections, yet most of it could easily be made very attractive. 

 Even now a very large percentage affords views both near and far 

 that could not be equalled by the best parkways in the larger 

 cities. In addition to this Circuit, West Avenue, running north 

 and south, and Cass street, east and west, should receive the atten- 

 tion due to specially important thoroughfares. 



This brief description is intended simply to draw attention to 

 the main elements of the La Crosse Park System. Incidentally 

 there followed also an improvement and extension of school grounds 

 in which the Park Commission assisted. The general plan of the 

 City, and the plans of the Parks and Playgrounds that accompany 

 this report supplement the outline here given. Copeland Park, 

 the West Avenue Playfield, and the Adams Street Playground are 

 already completed and in use. The co-operation of the railroads 

 has been a factor of importance. 



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