BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 
To the Honorable Board of Park Commissioners, Cincinnati, O. : 
Gentlemen — I herewith submit a report for the year 1911, 
which will deal with the acquisition of park and playground 
properties more than a detailed report of the improvement and 
^ maintenance work that is carried on year after year in the older 
properties. 
For the first time since its appointment the Board had funds 
i'- at its disposal to proceed in accordance with the plan for a park 
^ system that had been adopted and accepted by the City Council 
in 1907, the commission of carrying out said plan having been 
entrusted to your Board. 
With the receipt of the one million dollars as voted by the 
people for park purposes, a program of procedure was early 
adopted that provided for — 
r; 1. The purchase of large acreage tracts for general park 
purposes, objective sites, so located to serve best a distinct local- 
■ ity or portion of the city. 
2. The acquisition of properties for parkways, to associate 
and connect the larger acreage tracts, that would serve and 
3 direct travel to the large park properties. 
5j 3. The selection of playground sites in the congested por- 
tions of the city. 
4. The improvement of the existing park properties, all 
_p tending to a more inviting and practical use for the public at 
'cJ large. 
^ The policy of this course needs but little explanation ; but it 
_^ can be said that Cincinnati has been endowed by nature with 
certain natural park properties, from which are to be had mag- 
nificent views of the surrounding country. To protect these 
^-c unimproved properties to the city it became the manifest duty 
' of the Board to acquire them at the earliest time, more espe- 
cially at the then existing values, which have since been much 
