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the last few months makes us feel as though the coming year 
will be a record-breaker in the development of new park prop- 
erty, as well as in the acquisition of additional properties. 
Hunt-Street Athletic Ground — This property has 
been filled in as far as it is expedient to go until such excava- 
tion at the upper portion of the park as is necessary, is made, 
which work has been delayed because of the lack of funds. 
I would again respectfully call the attention of your 
honorable board to the need of necessary funds to complete 
this splendid piece of park property, as the entire western 
boundary is traversed by several of the most-used car lines in 
the city, which condition will advertise our park work when 
finished, as no other piece of property that we have acquir- 
ed up to this time would do. 
A most complete plan has been devised by Mr. Geo. E. 
Kessler for this park, combining therein the most useful play- 
ground features possible, which when carried out, will provide 
one of the largest athletic and gymnasium fields that has been 
acquired by the Park Department up to this time. 
Another incentive towards having this v^ork pushed to 
completion at an early date is the fact that Mrs. Charles 
Fleischmann has placed at the disposal of the Park Department 
the sum of $500.00 towards the equipment of a playground, 
or such other sum as is found necessary to secure proper ap- 
paratus. 
The portion of ground that has been finished to an estab- 
lished grade was utilized in playing baseball during the latter 
part of the summer. Extensive recreation grounds are needed 
for ball, tennis, and children's play facihties in this thickly- 
populated district, as the rough topography of this immediate 
neighborhood forbids such sports and amusements, and as 
above stated, splendid street car facilities here will place con- 
ditions where this park can be used as a general, as well as 
a local, recreation field. 
Therefore, I would urge the most earnest favor of your 
honorable board towards providing funds that this ground may 
be placed in a condition whereby it can be put to the best 
possible use by the public at the earliest possible date. 
