DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 



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AN OBJECT LESSON. 



Municipal Park, started a little more than a year ago, more to 

 cover up an ugly space adjoining the Municipal Building, than to 

 produce a park, has developed wonderfully, and demonstrates 

 how much can be accomplished with but a small expenditure of 

 money to improve the appearance of vacant lots. It has become 

 such an attraction, and is enjoyed by so many people, that it will 

 probably be continued as a park for years to come. 



Carroll Park has not required much extra attention this year. 

 It has been kept in its usual attractive condition, and additional 



WINTER SCENE ON THE LAKE — PROSPECT PARK. 



electric lights have been put up in order that the Park might be 

 kept open until midnight during the summer season. 



But little work has been done in Red Hook Park. It has 

 been graded up so as to be used as a playground, but a definite 

 plan of improvement has not yet been adopted. 



The development of Sunset Park is at a standstill, owing to 

 the failure of the City to supply the money needed to purchase 

 the additional block contemplated under the original scheme. 

 The landscape architects were of the opinion that the block 



