Board of Park Commissioners, City of Cincinnati 
Report for 1913 
To the Honorable Henry T. Hunt, Mayor, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Dear Sir — The Board of Park Commissioners has the 
honor to submit herewith, its annual report for the year 1913. 
The several reports of our officers included in this, show, in 
detail, the operations of the Department in Finances, Construc- 
tion and Maintenance. The map accompanying clearly indicates 
the progress m.ade subsequent to the preparation of the general 
plans for the park development of Cincinnati. 
We particularly desire to call attention to the acquisitions 
of lands for parks and parkways, and to recommend further 
immediate progress in the development of these plans. 
Cincinnati possessed in 1907, 469 acres park lands — no 
parkways — no boulevards. Today the city owns, improved and 
otherwise, 1,918 acres of park lands, 84 acres of parkway, and 
no boulevards. The Board's policy — consistently followed 
out — has been to acquire as far as possible, with the limited 
means supplied, the properties which would otherwise be absorbed 
in private use and become impossible to obtain — no matter how 
greatly needed — as permanent open pleasure grounds. In 
pursuance of this determination there have been acquired the 
properties listed in this report, and we earnestly recommend 
that all of the remaining properties shown in this general plan 
be secured at the earliest possible time. Consistent with the 
feeling that acquisition first should be had, improvements on 
these properties have not been undertaken to any great extent. 
However, the playgrounds purchased in the heart of the city 
have been rapidly improved and made available to the popula- 
tion contiguous to them. At present considerable expenditures 
are being made for further useful improvements on a number of 
these playgrounds in the form of shelter and convenience build- 
ings, apparatus for outdoor athletics, and a general development 
of permanent service. Respectfully submitted, 
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS. 
L. A. AuLT. 
Irwin M. Krohn. 
Attest: D. B. Meacham. 
Wm. Hodgkinson, Secretary. 
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