EEPOET 

 ACCOMPANYING A DESIGN FOR THE PARADE GROUND. 



To the President of the Board of Commissioners of Prospect 

 Park, Brooklyn : 



Sir : We herewith present a plan of improvement for the tract 

 of land required to be prepared by your Commission for a parade 

 ground. 



The plot contains forty acres ; and is situated outside the limits 

 of the park, on the south side of Franklin avenue, and east of the 

 Coney Island plank road. It is quadrangular in general form and is 

 comparatively level, but is sufficiently inclined from the northeast to 

 the southwest for good drainage fall. In respect to general lines of 

 surface, it is therefore well suited for the purpose to which it has 

 been appropriated, and will require comparatively little grading. 



On occasions of ceremony it will be generally desirable that the 

 reviewing officer and staff, or personages to be honored, should pass 

 through the park and enter the parade ground from the circular ves- 

 tibule or ante-park already laid out at its northwest angle. It will 

 be convenient, therefore, that the reviewing point should be directly 

 accessible and in full view from this entrance, and we have arranged 

 the design accordingly. It will then be desirable that the column of 

 troops to be reviewed should enter the parade ground at the side 

 opposite the reviewing point ; and an entrance is prepared for this 

 purpose in the design. A column entering from the street by com- 

 panies, would then form at once into regimental lines, and remain 

 massed on the east side until required to march in review, when it 

 would move in the usual manner along the north side, and return on 

 the south side. 



