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Annual Report 
rough, that one end of the park could be provided with a 
wading-pool and used for playground purposes. As it is 
at the present time the children get no benefit of the park, the 
neighbors objecting very bitterly to their even being allowed 
on the grass. Therefore this office is trying to work out a 
plan whereby we can convert at least a portion of this park 
into a playground, and with the co-operation of your honor- 
able board these features will be carried out during the com- 
ing year. 
Lincoln Park 
With the splendid lake to furnish boating during the summer 
months for thousands of children and young people, and 
skating to an equal number during the winter months, this 
feature of the park alone, supplying the above-mentioned 
divergency of pleasures during the summer and winter seasons, 
makes of Lincoln Park one of the most utilitarian parks in 
the down-town district. 
There were but a few days this winter that the ice was 
thick enough to be used for skating, but during that time it 
was estimated that there were 5,000 people skating daily. 
The concrete dock built this summer to replace the old 
wooden one which had outlived its usefulness, was an im- 
provement much appreciated here. 
The children's playground was well patronized. An ad- 
ditional sand box was supplied to accommodate the increased 
number of little children, and other paraphernalia was installed 
for the larger ones. The space allotted for ball games is util- 
ized daily from early morning until darkness drives the little 
fellows to their homes. It is not an unusual thing to see 
three games of ball on this field when it is scarcely large 
enough for one. 
Trimming trees, sowing grass-seed on the lawns, planting 
flowers in the beds and general park housekeeping, such as 
raking leaves, cutting and raking grass, painting benches, etc., 
made up the routine work, all of which was done in a good, 
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