power of this city. In the forest growth, covering in particular 
its extremely rugged hillsides, there already exists a charm of the 
remote forests. Through a further development of these prop- 
erties, distinctly as forests, Cincinnati will acquire an excep- 
tionally fine outlying park, which already emphasizes — and will 
far more so in future — the good judgment which brought about 
the purchase of these lands. 
On the parkways, (an important portion of the connecting 
parkway between Eden Park and the new park on the Blachly 
Farm,) the Board has acquired the greater portion of the lands 
necessary in Bloody Run to connect the Blachly Farm property 
at Reading Road, and thence southward through the valley of 
Bloody Run to Gilbert Avenue, and thence south and easterly at 
present to Durrell Avenue and Chapel Street, expecting to pro- 
ceed to acquire the ground needed to complete this improvement 
as a boulevard from Chapel Street south and westerly to the 
northern border of Eden Park. With this accomplished there 
will have been created a new and fine highway directly connect- 
ing two great parks, passing through one of the great residential 
districts of the city, and receiving through the many streets 
which intersect these improvements, all pleasure travel seeking 
shorter communication between the south and the east, and be- 
tween the east and north residential portions of the city. 
In the matter of boulevard development, a very small be- 
ginning has been made on Observatory Road from Madison 
Road eastward. At this point the late Lucien Wulsin presented 
to the city a valuable triangle of land for a small park at the 
junction of these two streets, and made possible, together with 
the Country Club, the widening of sidewalk spaces and therefore 
the beginning of a parking of Observatory Road, which should 
lead to the completion of a boulevard widened and made hand- 
some from Observatory Road to Madison Road directly into 
Ault Park on the east. 
While the preceding statement is purely a general one, per- 
mit me to recall in the following list the properties actually ac- 
quired, and in part improved, since the development of the 
general plan in 1907. It will certainly be well worth while for 
the citizens of Cincinnati to understand the very great work 
being done for their comfort in the development of these im- 
provements. The direct value of all this, of course, can only be 
brought home to the individual in each section when the proper- 
ties are not only acquired, but rationally improved. 
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