REPORT 

 ACCOMPANYING A DESIGN FOR THE PARADE GROUND. 



To the President of the Board of Commissioners of Prospect /'"/■/>■, 

 Brooklyn : 



Sir: — We herewith present :i plan of improvement for the tract of 

 land required to be prepared by your Commission for a Parade Ground. 



The plot contains forty acres, and is situated outside the limits of the 

 Park on the south side of Franklin Avenue, and east of the Coney 

 Island Plank Road ; it is quadrangular in general form and is compara- 

 tively Level, hut is sufficiently inclined from the northeast to the south- 

 wesl for good drainage fall. In respect to general lines of surface it is 

 therefore well suited for the purpose to which it has been appropriated 

 and will require comparatively little grading. 



On occasions of ceremony it will be generally desirable that the re- 

 viewing officer and start* or personages to be honored, should pass 

 through the Park and enter the Parade Ground from the circular vesti- 

 bule or ante-park already laid out at its northwest angle. It will he 

 convenient, therefore, that the reviewing point should be dh*ectly acces- 

 sible and in full view from this entrance and we have arranged the de- 

 sign accordingly. It will then be desirable that the column of troops 

 to be reviewed should enter the Parade Ground at the side opposite the 

 reviewing point, and an entrance is prepared for this purpose in the de- 

 sign. A column, entering from the street by companies would then 

 form at once into regimental lines and remain massed on the east side 

 until required to inarch in review, when it would move in the usual 

 manner along the north side, and return on the south side. 



Between the north and south sides, there is a space sufficient for these 

 movements but none to spare; we therefore assume that whenever a 



