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Annual Report 
The lawn was treated with fertilizer and sowed with a special 
mixture of grass-seed, flowers planted and the trees trimmed, 
and during the summer the grass was kept trimmed, and the park 
kept in a high state of cultivation throughout the entire season. 
This park is one of the beauty-spots of the city, and, being 
in a very seckided place, were it properly used it would become 
a most desirable resting-place for aged people and infant children. 
Garfiem Park 
Garfield Park, being centrally located, is used as a resting-place 
for the transient public more than any other park in the city. 
Noticing that the benches were inadequate at times, there 
were provided quite a number of additional ones, that the people 
passing that portion of the city, and being enticed within the 
park by the beautiful shade-trees and display of tropical plants, 
might have an opportunity to rest for a few moments and enjoy 
themselves in a comfortable seat. The floricultural decorations 
here were carried out last summer with tropical plants, such as 
palms, croton, araucaria and dracsena. 
This park was kept open during the hot months of July 
and August, and accommodated hundreds of tired and homeless 
people. There were but few nights when all the benches were not 
occupied by sleepers during the entire heated term, as is shown 
by the report of the policeman in charge, which states that 3,287 
people took advantage of this privilege. 
As this park is so near the heart of the city, I would respect- 
fully recommend to your honorable board that there be placed 
near Race Street a public comfort station for the accommodation 
of the many shopping-people passing at all times. 
During the past five or six years I have visited most of the 
park systems of this country, and I have observed that the parks 
are very much embellished through the removal of fences, and 
