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and Rochester avenue. No price mentioned. Suggested by I. 

 M. Bon. 



Land bounded by Hamburg, Knickerbocker and Jefferson 

 avenues and Weirfield street. No price mentioned. Suggested 

 by T. G. Sellew. 



Part of Plum Island. No price mentioned. Suggested by 

 Barnaby & Co. 



Landed bounded by Bay Ridge, Eleventh and Thirteenth ave- 

 nues and Seventy-fifth street, 50 acres. Price, Si 00,000. Offered 

 by Wm. Spence, Esq. 



Estate of O. B. Jennings, Eleventh, Twelfth and Bay Ridge 

 avenues. Price, $3,000 per acre. Offered by Wm. Spence, Esq. 



Land known as " The Anchorage," bounded by Fifty-sixth 

 to Sixty-fifth streets, First avenue to the bay. No price men- 

 tioned. Suggested by Theodore L. Arnold. 



Sidney V. Lowell, as attorney for Murphy & McCormack, re- 

 duced price on 254 acres offered at hearing of December 3, 1894, 

 from S3, 800 per acre to 83,500 per acre. 



William Moore, Esq., filed a protest against selection of land 

 bounded by Kingston and Albany avenues and Dean and Bergen 

 streets. 



FiftJi — All of the foregoing pieces of property so offered or 

 suggested as sites suitable and desirable for a public park or 

 parks, were visited and inspected by the consulting landscape 

 architects of the Department of Parks of the City of Brooklyn, 

 Messrs. Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, and a report was made by 

 said architects to me as to the adaptability of each piece for the 

 required purpose, and as to the advisability of its selection. 



In this report Messrs. Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, among other 

 things, say : 



~ " In order to advise you what sites would be desirable for addi- 

 tional parks, consideration should be given, first, to the present 

 and future needs of the county, and to the extent of land it 

 would be reasonable to secure, either now or in the near future : 

 second, to suitable locations for large parks, local parks, park- 

 ways to serve as approaches to or connections between the parks, 

 squares and playgrounds. 



" First — As to the present and future needs of Kings count}-, 

 we have no reason to suppose that any less area of park lands 

 should be secured in proportion to population than is now pos- 

 sessed by New York. The last annual report of the New York 

 Park Department gives the area of park lands under its control as 

 5,126 acres. The population of New York in 1893 is estimated 

 by the State Board of Health as 1,860,803. This gives a ratio of 

 362 inhabitants to each acre of park land. At this ratio Kings 



