DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 



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municipal administration to fill the high office to which you have 

 been chosen by the vote of the people of this State. 



" Permit me to express the hope that you will find its duties 

 congenial. Very truly yours, 



"F. W. WURSTER, 



" Mayor" 



Upon the first day of December, the Mayor having named 

 me to succeed Mr. Woodruff, I formally qualified, and since that 

 time have been familiarizing myself with the duties of the office, 

 in order that during the present year I may carry on the work of 

 improvement so ably begun and forwarded by my predecessors, 

 together with such other improvements as may be determined 

 upon by me as time progresses. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. G. DETTMER, 



Commissioner. 



THE GRANT MONUMENT AND TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT ARMORY. 



