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Annual Report 
Just as our work in this park had begun to make a good 
showing it was turned over to the Cincinnati Fall Festival Asso- 
ciation, and when the Fall Festival was over there was nothing 
left but barren ground and a couple of hundred loads of refuse. 
Wc immediately began to clear away the debris, spade the ground, 
and sow it with grass-seed, but the entire month of October had 
passed before this was accomplished. The cold winds of Novem- 
ber prohibited the germination of the seed sown, and as a con- 
sequence the ground will remain barren during the entire winter. 
The cost of placing the park in its original condition was defrayed 
by the Cincinnati Fall Festival Association. Mr. J. Charles 
McCullough very generously supplied enough seed to sow one 
section of the park. 
Washington Park is situated in one of the most populous 
districts of the city, and there is not a day from early spring until 
late in the fall which will not find innumerable people resting 
or seeking recreation in the shade of the trees and on the benches. 
The numbers of children who visit this park almost constantly 
