sioners cannot doubt, that the City's increased revenue from 

 the enhanced value given fco its taxable property, from Pari? 

 enterprise, will not only enable it to maintain the Park with 

 ease, in a high degree of culture, but will insure the pay- 

 ment of the debt incurred, and to be incurred, for its con- 

 struction,' long before its maturity; and that, too, with a 

 continually diminished hurt hen upon its tax-payers. 



The Board lias the pleasure to announce, that the War 

 Fund Committee of Kings County, lias presented the City 

 with a Bronze Statue of the late President Lincoln, to be 

 erected in the Park, as soon as a suitable place can be pre- 

 pared for its reception. This beautiful work of art, designed 

 and executed by our late townsman, II. K. Brown, the dis- 

 tinguished sculptor, is the result of a dollar subscription, set 

 on foot among our citizens, by the patriotic Committee above 

 mentioned, soon after the decease of the subject of its com- 

 memoration, and may therefore be truly called the People's 

 Monument. 



The Statue is nine feet high, and embodies the true ideal 

 of the late President, the head and shoulders being modelled 

 from a bust taken from life; a correct delineation of its 

 other peculiarities having been secured, by the vivid recollec- 

 tion, which a personal intimacy with the deceased afforded 

 to the artist. A cloak, such as Mr. Lincoln frequently 

 wore, is thrown loosely over the shoulders, falling to the 

 knees, giving dignity and elegance to the figure; the left 

 hand holds an open scroll, on which is written the immortal 

 Proclamation of Emancipation, the finger of the right hand 

 pointing to the words " shall be forever free." It will be 

 erected upon a pedestal of granite fifteen feet high, to be 

 located on the public platform in the Plaza, near the fountain, 

 and will be ornamented on two sides with the Eagle, one of 

 fchem bearing the Coat of Arms of the Citv, and on the 



