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with driveways, which would make material addition to the total 

 area 3 approximately 100 acres. In the same connection, it will be 

 expedient to co-operate with the Board of Water Supply of New 

 York City for the opening of Park lands about the proposed new 

 storage reservoir, comprising approximately 4,000 acres, which will 

 be the mosl extrusive inland water and point of interest near the 

 city. 



The project for a trunk sewer through the Bronx Valley in 

 Westchester County is rapidly advancing, and preliminary surveys 

 and working plans have been completed. The acquisition of the 

 river reservation will permit the most expedient location of this 

 sewer, saving the entire cost of acquiring right-of-way and ease- 

 ments, and admit of considerable economy in greater latitude of 

 location and construction. 



PARK DEVELOPMENT. 



Professor Zueblin states that " no phase of city making speaks 

 more eloquently of the change in American ideals than the growth 

 of parks, playgrounds, and boulevards," and " that not acreage, 

 nor mileage, but distribution is the standard to guide park com- 

 missioners. ' ' 



While New York City has been famed the world over for its 

 splendid park development, it is now surpassed by the City of 

 Boston in the total acreage and comprehensive scope of its park 

 system. The City of Chicago is acquiring extensive areas for a 

 new Outer Park System, anticipating her growth for twenty years 

 and a population increased to 8,000,000 ; and similar progress 

 might be cited, more or less marked, in all of our large American 



cities. 



Also noticeable in this awakening and greater consideration of 

 civic and aesthetic development is the growing sense of unity and 

 intimate relationship between the city and its suburbs, resulting 

 in the increasing subordination of local differences for the sake of 

 metropolitan advancement. 



Thus far practically no provision is being made for parks or 

 open reservations in the city's only immediate suburb, and which 

 may, in the not distant future, be actually absorbed in its limits. 



