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meilt of Parks can profitably be taken in hand at a time when 

 the rapid increase in population and general development threat- 

 ens to deprive us of some of the best sites available for such 



purposes. 



The subject of Parks, viewed on the broadest grounds oi 

 public policy and for the benefit of the future generations to 

 come, naturally divides itself into two sub-divisions. 



First What number of acres are lobe devoted to Parks? 



Second— Where should they be located ? 



One way to answer the question involved in tin' first sub- 

 division, is by a comparison with other cities of the world and 

 particularly in the United States. 



New York City, including all the Boroughs, exclusive oi 

 Richmond, has in its Park System 6,800 acres. The Borough of 

 Richmond at present has about sixty-one acres now set aside 

 f or p ar ks — fifty-seven for Silver Lake and two acres each for- 

 Tort Richmond and Stapleton. 



The City of Boston is next largest in area of its barks. 



Philadelphia has 4,005 acres. 



Los Angeles, California, lias 3,620 acrc-3, and next in the 

 large areas is our adjacent district of Essex County, New Jersey, 

 with _]J^5 acres. 



To state the comparison in another way, the records show 

 that New York has 22 acres to every square mile of territory. 



That Chicago has 12 acres to every square mile of territory. 



Our neighboring County of Essex, New Jersey, has about 

 30 acres to each square mile of territory. They have one park 

 of 2, 500 acres. 



Presenting another comparison as respects the number of 

 persons to each acre of park land, among the larger communi- 

 ties, Washington City comes first, with one acre to every 78 

 persons. 



P.ssex County (Newark) comes second, with one for every 

 100 persons. 



San Francisco, with one acre to each 128 persons. 



Minneapolis, 140 " 



St. Paul, " Mi 



Indianapolis, " 157 " 



Louisville, " 163 " 



Boston, " 230 



Detroit, " 2^^ " 



St. Louis, " 272 " 



Cleveland, " 277 '• 



Philadelphia, " 350 " 



Buffalo, " 352 



Baltimore, " 400 " 



New York, " 500 " 



Chicago, " 818 



