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ble. To keep objectionable characters from frequenting it and 

 abusing its use, would require additional policemen as well as 

 the services of a female attendant to look after the building 

 and preserve decency and order, in and about it. The expense 

 attending such a structure would more than counterbalance 

 any advantage that might accrue from its erection. 



If, after making the repairs as above indicated, any funds are 

 left, small roof shelters will be erected, and as these shelters 

 will be open on all sides, and under the eye of the police, they 

 cannot be clandestinely used by immoral characters for im- 

 proper purposes. 



If the city would provide rive electric lights in the place 

 of the forty gas lamps now used in and around the park, they 

 would afford additional protection to persons having business 

 in the park and the neighborhood, and would be an improve- 

 ment that would be greatly appreciated by all classes of citi- 

 zens, besides diffusing a moral influence over the entire place 

 by dissipating the darkness that conceals the vice which infests 

 at night so many of such public resorts. 



CARROLL PARK. 



Of this park there is little to be said . It needs repairs at 

 almost every point. $1,000 has been appropriated for the next 

 year toward its maintenance. This sum will be utilized to the 

 best possible advantage in order to restore it to its-former con- 

 dition. Its most favorable feature is the substantial iron fence 

 surrounding its entire enclosure . This shady park is a great 

 source of comfort in the intense heatspot summer to con- 

 valescents and little children. 



East Side Xands. 



This subject demands the earliest attention and action. The 

 recent decision of the Court of Appeals, that the city can 

 give valid title of the land to purchasers, and the present 

 auspicious opportunity for disposing of the property at fair 

 prices, demand that no time should be lost in converting at 

 least the larger portion of such lands into taxable property, 



