plan in that direction. The reasons for this acquisition were 

 then stated, and need not be here repeated ; they are, in 

 fact, sufficiently obvious from a mere glance at the Park 

 Map. ■ 



But it may now be said, that the progress of construction 

 on the western drive is entirely arrested, and cannot be 

 resumed without encroaching, to a ruinous extent, upon the 

 beautiful meadow south of it, which forms one of the most 

 attractive features of the design. The Commissioners can- 

 not believe that the people of Brooklyn will ever consent to 

 so serious a mutilation of the plan, as is implied by such a 

 course of procedure ; and they therefore propose to suggest 

 these considerations to the Legislature, at its coming session, 

 trusting that their renewed application will meet with a 

 more favorable response than has hitherto attended their 

 efforts in this behalf. When this addition shall have been 

 made to the park area, it will, in their judgment, be suffi- 

 ciently extended on the western side of Flatbush Avenue, 

 for all useful or ornamental purposes, and will contain over 

 five hundred acres of land, or, if the Parade Ground is to be 

 included in the estimate, as it is already in the general 

 design, about five hundred and fifty acres, conveniently 

 located, and easily maintained, and now rapidly approaching 

 completion, under the plastic hand of the landscape Archi- 

 tects, employed by the Board. 



No plan for the improvement of that portion of the Park 

 lying east of the Avenue has yet been suggested, which is 

 entirely satisfactory to the Board; but the subject has 

 received, and will continue to receive their studious consid- 

 eration. In all adaptations of land, to public use, they have 

 kept steadily in view what they believed to be the require- 

 ments of a rapidly growing city, of greatly diversified tastes, 

 pursuits and habits ; while they have not been unmindful 

 of the expense of maintaining a large pleasure ground, after 



