PARK DEPARTMENT 
Cincinnati, O., January 1, 1908. 
To the Honorable the Board of Public Service: 
Gentlemen — In accordance with the requirements of 
your honorable board I take pleasure in submitting to you a 
report of the proceedings in the Park Department for the past 
year. 
Owing to the lack of money in the Park Improvement 
Fund, the placing in condition of new park property has been 
greatly delayed. This state of affairs should not exist because 
of the fact that the cessation of needed improvements and in- 
novations causes the general public to grow apathetic con- 
cerning the welfare of the parks of our city. 
If there could be provided a fund of from $150,000 to 
$200,000 per annum for the improvement of new and existing 
park properties, this expenditure could be used along a defi- 
nitely prepared plan, and our parks would soon become a 
splendid feature of the city government. With the above- 
named sum of money available each year for some four or 
five years, adequate shelter-houses could be built in the ex- 
isting parks, comfort facilities provided, and additional neces- 
sary roadways built, as well as the unkept places resurfaced 
and graded where it has been found to be necessary in both 
Burnet Woods and Eden Park, especially in a number of the 
more conspicuous places where it has become an absolute 
necessity. 
Water mains so badly needed along all the driveways in the 
large parks could also be laid, making it possible to have hose 
connections at intervals of from one to two hundred feet, thus 
giving the department an opportunity to keep the lawns thor- 
