DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 



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this Park, have drawn many visitors to it from all sections of the 

 city. Early this year it is expected that the various valuable 

 collections that have been housed here for several years will be 

 removed to the permanent home of the Institute, on the East 

 Side Lands, the first section of which is rapidly approaching 

 completion. 



WHERE CHILDREN ENJOY THEMSELVES. 



City Park, located near the Navy Yard, is one of the most 

 treasured of the city's small parks. All through the summer 

 months it is filled with the people of the neighborhood who 

 are not able to enjoy the pleasures of country life in any other 

 way. The restrictions are nearly all removed. The lawns are 



A FAVORITE WITH THE CHILDREN. 



opened up, and various forms of pleasure are provided for the 

 children. A fine shelter has been constructed in the Park, and 

 considerable planting, to repair the damage consequent to the 

 enlarged privileges afforded, has been done. 



City Hall Park has received the usual care, and it has been a 

 source of delight to the thousands who pass it daily, by reason 

 of its magnificent turf, its ever changing flowers, and its lily basin 

 and fountain. 



