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Annual Report 
Mowing the grass and cleaning up the driveways made up 
the greater part of the work. In fact, having but one man to 
every twelve acres, we were very nearly swamped with work 
throughout the entire summer. The small buildings and all 
the benches were painted in this park with our own labor. 
During April and May some 1,000 trees and shrubs were 
planted. This additional planting, however, makes but little 
showing on 160 acres of ground. There should be 50,000 trees 
and shrubs established to properly finish the planting of this 
park. I would recommend that sufficient funds be provided to 
complete this planting, as the popularity of a park depends on 
its trees, both as to (|uantity and character of arrangement or 
grouping. 
The unsightly appearance of the clay banks on Hopson 
Street, from University Avenue to St. Clair Street, causes 
more comment than any other unimproved feature of this park. 
Through a request from Council as to the cost of needed 
improvements at this point, an estimate was submitted show- 
ing the amount of grading necessary, but lack of funds at the 
city's disposal during the past year precluded the possibility of 
any monev being placed in the hands of this department to park 
this unsightly embankment. 
I must again call the attention of your honorable board to 
the unsightly condition of the abrupt embankment along Clif- 
ton Avenue, caused by excessive cuts in establishing the grade 
on this avenue. This a^^enue forms the entire western bound- 
ary of the park, and there are two car lines passing over it, 
carrying thousands of people daily. Therefore, I would 
recommend that $50,000 be provided to embellish and place in 
park condition this slope, as well as the unfinished portion of 
Burnet Woods above mentioned. 
One of the most pleasant features of the skating season at 
Burnet Woods was the skating contest conducted under the au- 
spices of The Cincinnati Post. There were hundreds of people 
gathered to see the contestants, there being a large number 
of entries, and altogether it was a very enjoyable occasion. 
Could we depend upon the weather for a sufficient depth 
of ice to justify the arrangement of such contests, it would 
add wonderfully to the usefulness of the park and to the 
pleasure of the people in the winter season. 
Through the courtesy of this department, during the past 
year the University grounds were sown with our special mix- 
ture of grass-seed and several hundred trees and shrubs plant- 
ed, all of which added wonderfully to the embellishment of 
these grounds. In fact, the work done there has shown what 
