Board of Park Commissioners, City of Cincinnati 
Engineer's Report 
To the Honorable Board of Park Commissioners, Cincinnati, Ohio, 
Gentlemen: — With this, permit me to submit a report of 
the conditions of the properties and the improvements therein 
for the year 1913. As a matter of course, all improved properties 
have been maintained in a useful condition through the year. 
No unusual maintenance expenditures were essential. In the 
following properties, improvements have been made, and these 
improvements are herewith briefly described. In several of 
these, improvements have been planned, and are being provided 
for at the present time, but not yet begun. 
AULT PARK 
In Ault Park, the residence building — known as the Mon- 
roe House — was thoroughly cleaned and put in order for a shelter 
house, and water supply and lavatories placed therein. On the 
grounds, only a very small bit of work in cleaning was done, and 
the removal of a few indifferent trees and bushes made useful a 
very large surface of the high ground surrounding the Monroe, 
Williams and Heekin places, and this during the past year has 
been used very extensively by almost daily picnic parties. The 
old Heekin residence was wrecked and its materials saved for 
the use of the department. A small portion of the open ground 
was used for a small nursery growth of trees for that section of 
the department's properties. A possible entrance way over the 
paved surface on Principio Avenue, from Herschell Avenue to 
Park Avenue, is just begun by the City Service Department, 
insuring for the next year a paved roadway to the park. 
BISHOP AND JEFFERSON TRIANGLE 
On this little triangle the Service Department of the city 
has corrected the curb and sidewalk lines, and blunted the point 
of the triangle, making necessary the reshaping of ground surface 
within the triangle. The planting of trees and shrubs, and sow- 
ing of grass seed on this surface was done just before winter. 
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