Park Department 
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Cyler Davidson Fountain 
The maintenance feature of Fountain Square is a serious one, as 
there are thousand of people passing over the esplanade daily. 
The steps that encircle the entire esplanade are a very enticing 
place for people to sit down and rest. The fountain, being a 
very noted and interesting piece of work, attracts hundreds of 
transient people here to see and study the beautiful work of art, 
while others eat their lunches and distribute paper and other 
debris that causes an endless amount of cleaning at this place. 
The trees were fertilized, and the circles that were placed 
there filled with tropical plants, which add very materially to 
the embellishment of the surroundings. 
There has been an urgent appeal to Council to pass a bond 
issue for the placing of public comfort stations under either end 
of the esplanade, and while there has been some strenuous oppo- 
sition, the public is becoming educated in the nature of these 
facilities, and the opposition is gradually dying away. If nothing 
unforeseen happens, Council will have provided sufficient funds 
to place these public comfort stations underneath the esplanade 
within a very short time. If this feature of our work is accom- 
plished, Cincinnati will have advanced one step more toward 
emulating the great cities of the East, as well as all the oriental 
centers of Europe, where improvements of this kind have proven 
very beneficial both to the health and convenience of the great 
mass of people of those cities. 
Before making comment on the new work which has or will 
have to be taken up by this department, I wish to say that the 
maintenance feature of park work consists of so many different 
branches that it is of necessity very arduous work both from a 
technical as well as a physical point of view. . 
