KEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 29 



The land (D) proposed to be added to the Zoological Park from 

 Quarry road to Kenyon street is of great importance in the landscape 

 from almost all parts of the park. It would be a great misfortune if 

 this land were to be occupied and built upon for private residences. 

 Houses and other constructions on this steep, open hillside, close to the 

 creek and facing toward the most used portions of the Zoological Park, 

 would be excessively conspicuous and destructive of the landscape, 

 which would otherwise have a most unusual degree of continuity and 

 completeness. 



The southerly section (E) of the proposed addition to the Zoological 

 Park, extending from the southerly branch of Summit road to a point 

 near the southeast boundary of the Zoological Park, is a very desira- 

 ble addition to the park, not only for landscape reasons above referred 

 to, but also because if occupied by private residences they would almost 

 necessarily back upon the park, and owing to their high position and 

 the lack of sufficient woods on the steep slopes south of the quarried 

 they would be annoyingly conspicuous from a large part of the park. 



One important object to be attained by the whole of the proposes, 

 addition on the easterly side of the Zoological Park is that of securing 

 a frontage upon the new public street recently laid out, and which is 

 from Ontario avenue northward practically an extension of Eighteenth 

 street. The importance of having a public park bound upon public 

 streets instead of against back yards of houses is generally recognized 

 and would alone justify the proposed addition to the park, even if it 

 was not of enormous advantage to the general landscape of the park. 



In conclusion, we wish to point out that if the reasons which we have 

 given for the proposed addition are sound ones, and if it is conceded 

 that it should be made very soon because the required land is in a 

 neighborhood which is rising rapidly in value, and which is being 

 rapidly built upon, delay will not only involve additional expense for 

 land and probably much in excess of the interest on its probable present 

 cost, but also there is a strong probability that if the addition is not 

 made at once there will be the cost of new houses and other improve- 

 ments to be met. * * * 

 Yours, respectfully, 



Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot. 



The amount of land that would be added to the park by these vari- 

 ous additions is as follows: 



Acres. 



Property of H. D. Walbridge (D) 2. 22 



Property of Everett Hayden (C) 1. 27 



Property of Donald McPherson and Mark F. Finley (E) 1. 19 



Cemetery (F) 5. 50 



Cliffbourne (G) 2.34 



The adjustment of the boundaries of the park and the final estab- 

 lishment of the roads that lead to it will naturally make it necessary 

 to devise a system, of roads within the park connecting with the en- 

 trance. This can not be fully done until the exterior roads are finally 

 settled, upon the western as well as upon the eastern side. One road 

 has, however, been contemplated, leading from the Adams Mill entrance 

 through the grounds to communicate with the road already adverted 

 to running up the valley from the Woodley Lane road. A small appro- 

 priation was set aside for this purpose by the act of March 2, 1805. 

 This will not be available until the beginning of the next fiscal year. 



