40 REPORT OF THE 



Advisor)' Committee made its report to Mayor Charles A. 

 Schieren and to me. 



The report was as follows : 



THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORT. 



We, the Committee appointed by the Hon. Charles A. 

 Schieren, Mayor of the City of Brooklyn, to assist and advise with 

 you in the matter of securing sites for new parks in the county 

 of Kings, desire to submit the following report of our proceedings, 

 together with our recommendations as to the plots of land which 

 we deem desirable for acquisition. 



Soon after our appointment we began to consider the various 

 plots of land that had been offered, at the public meetings called 

 by you under the provisions of Chapter 461 of the Laws of 1892, 

 governing our proceedings. 



Altogether there were over seventy-five pieces of land offered, 

 and, in addition to these, several other plots were considered, in 

 sections that the Committee thought suitable for park purposes. 



In giving these our attention, our labors were materially 

 lightened by the assistance given by Messrs. Olmsted, Olmsted & 

 Eliot, who had previously examined the property and who re- 

 ported upon the conditions existing in each locality, and the 

 adaptability of each plot for the purposes required. 



After all these plots had been placed upon a map of the county, 

 and their relation to each other established, the Committee took 

 into consideration two questions: First, that of the need of addi- 

 tional park lands and the amount to be required ; and, second, 

 the location of the new parks with relation to their easy approach 

 by the parkways now established, or to be established, and by 

 the railroads existing or which would probably exist in the near 

 future, in order that they might be of easy access, thus furnish- 

 ing the greatest possibilities for the pleasure and health of the 

 people. 



With relation to the need of additional parks, the Com- 

 mittee decided that the fact could not be negatively considered. 

 Statistics demonstrated that the area of park lands in Brooklyn 

 with reference to her population, was much less than that of any 

 other leading city. In New York, the area of park land is 5,136 

 acres. This is a ratio of one acre of park land to each three 

 hundred and sixty-two inhabitants. In Kings County there are 

 754 acres of park land to a population of one million. This de- 

 monstrates that to bring up the area of park land in Kings 

 County to that of Xew York County would require the purchase 

 of 2,000 addition. d acres of land. This fact demonstrated to the 



