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need renewal. The unfinished ground along the border of the 

 jail and hospital property presents an unsightly appearance, 

 and the slopes overlooking the Gant and on theDeKalb avenue 

 sides adjoining the Phoebe Mission building, require to be 

 worked over and replanted. The conditions of these two 

 points are due to the incomplete finish put upon these areas 

 at the close of construction work ten years ago. This park is 

 admirably designed to meet the requirements of a neighbor- 

 hood resort, and its importance would justify the expen- 

 diture of the money needed to perfect its details and maintain 

 it in good condition. 



TOMPKINS PARK AND CARROLL PARK. 



Tompkins Park and Carroll Park have received such atten- 

 tion and care, together with the necessary police supervision, 

 as was deemed to be desirable and within our available means. 

 Both of these parks are located in neighborhoods where they 

 afford, to young people particularly, a convenient resort for 

 recreation. With the means to perfect and refine their various 

 details, they could be very much improved in usefulness and 

 appearance. 



CITY PARK. 



The deteriorating character of this neighborhood and the 

 growth of manufacturing interests in the locality have rendered 

 it difficult to devise other use for this park than that of a con- 

 venient thoroughfare and as a playground for the large num- 

 ber of pupils from the neighboring public school. If it is to 

 be continued as a park, its proper rehabilitation would require 

 an expenditure for renewing the walks, planting, returling, 

 repairs to railing and entrance gates and the regulation of the 

 boundary of sidewalk, not less than ten to fifteen thousand 

 dollars. 



The several small enclosures about the city, whose locality has 

 been noted elsewhere in this report, have required an average 

 annual expenditure of about $2o0 for their care during the past 

 season, 



