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serve their health or to briug back health to suffering ones, 

 and it is our duty to see that there is an abundance ot fresh 

 wholesome water in the lakes. 



One feature more should be added, and that is, on " Look- 

 out Hill " an observatory of a quaint, rustic kind should be 

 erected. It would be a pleasing feature in the landscape, and 

 could be erected so that teams might drive up to a height of 

 twenty-five to thirty feet, and pedestrians climb higher. This 

 would be a novelty, and could be erected at a comparatively 

 small outlay of money. The shrubbery has grown upon the 

 slopes of the hill, so that it is almost impossible get a good 

 view of the Park and the surrounding country. There is a 

 great demand for something of this nature in our Park. 



A lake of aquatic plants upon that arid waste near the Vale 

 Cashmere, known as the Children's Playground, but where 

 the children never go to play, would complete and improve 

 Prospect Park, and all our citizens could have the conscious 

 pride that no other city in the world would have a park to 

 rival ours. 



The details of the work on the Park at Hidgewood Heights 

 will be found in the report of General Superintendent De- 

 Wolf. This Park contains some forty-five acres purchased 

 by the Department, and there are about twenty-eight acres 

 adjoining which could not be purchased, and are now under 

 process ot condemnation. This land, in connection with the 

 large area owned by the City surrounding the Reservoir and 

 adjoining it, has been laid out Dy Col. Culyer, the Civil 

 Engineer of the Department, and General Superintendent 

 De Wolf, and their plan adopted by the Department. If this 

 plan is adhered to, and the work of improvement goes on, 

 this Park will in a few years be found to rival Prospect Park 

 in many of its most picturesque features. 



Sunset Park contains at present four blocks of land, 

 bounded by Fifth avenue on the north, and Seventh avenue on 

 the south, and running from Forty-first to Forty-third streets. 



