PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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THE CIVIC awakening; 
Central Mall and Park System for 
Cincinnati 
A magnificent general system of 
parks and parkways for Cincinnati, . 
■designed by George E. Kessler, of 
PROPOSED MALL ALONG CANAL, 
CINCINNATI 
Kansas City, ■ with the assistance of 
the Joint Committee on Parks of the 
Board of Public Service and a com- 
mittee of citizens, has been submit- 
ted to the Board of Public Service of 
that city. 
The key to the public and semi- 
public great park system planned is 
found in the mall which will pass 
through the center of the city. It 
contemplates the use of the canal 
banks from Main to Plum street and 
will have the court-house at the east 
end and the city hall at the other. 
With this magnificent open space it 
is hoped to centralize great structures 
on either side. 
The plan provides for the ultimate 
removal of all portions of the Miami 
and Erie canal from a point west of 
Spring Grove cemetery directly into 
the city and the use of this canal, to- 
gether with the embankments exclu- 
sively for a great central parkway, 
and thereby securing an entry into 
the heart of the city, which, in mag- 
nificence and location, and for direct- 
ness, will equal any other in the 
United States. 
The mall portion of this great park- 
way into the center of the city, will 
■consist of a tract more than three 
blocks long, south of the south bank 
of the canal, and reaching to Court 
street. The bridges over the canal 
would be of artistic design, and the 
buildings to be erected from time to 
time around the margin of the mall 
would be of uniform architecture and 
harmonious with the general design. 
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The report also provides for a park- 
way from Burnet Woods to Eden 
Park. It provides for no great park 
areas at heavy cost. Rather, the com- 
mission recommends smaller parks in 
every part of the city, connected by 
suitable drives and connections, form- 
ing a general chain, with playgrounds 
for the lower levels and parks for the 
hill tops. The commission also finds 
that the topography of the city is 
wonderfully adapted for utilization for' 
park purposes and for beautification 
of the general landscape. By judicious 
utilization of bits of characteris- 
tic scenery, of which there is a 
great deal now going to waste, 
the visible aspect of Cincinnati 
can be transformed, 'I'liis part of 
the plan provides for the dress- 
ing-up of hillsides 
now going to 
waste, the beau- 
tification of these 
spots as points of vantage and look- 
outs, and their connection by drive- 
ways. The intervening valleys, which 
are more or less obscure at the pres- 
ent time, and which thrust themselves 
into the center of the city will be 
beautified and redeemed. An esti- 
mate of the probable cost is from $3,- 
000,000 to $5,000,000. 
City Beautiful Plans for Chicago 
Architect Daniel H. Burnham of 
Chicago, who has been employed by 
the Merchant’s Club of that city to 
make plans for magnificent lake 
front improvements connecting the 
north and south park systems, is at 
work on the details of the plan, the 
general features of which may be 
gathered from the accompanying il- 
lustrations. 
The legislature has passed the en- 
abling act permitting the improve- 
ment, and its successful inauguration 
is practically assured. 
When the proposed work is com- 
pleted there will be a continuous 
boulevard between Jackson and Lin- 
coln parks and the city will possess a 
shore line, the beauty of which can 
challenge comparison with any in the 
world. 
The proposed south shore boule- 
PROPOSED GROTTPING OF CIVIC STRUC- 
TLRES ON LAKE FRONT, ■CHICAGO 
vard will be GOO to 1,000 feet out 
in the lake and will be built on 
made land. There will be anoth- 
er drive along the inner shore, 
with a large canal between the 
two, which will widen occasion- 
ally into lagoons. This will fur- 
nish a sheltered water connection 
between the mouth of the river 
and the ponds of Jackson Park. 
The northern end will open in- 
to a yacht harbor, east of Grant 
Park, which is now being filled 
in. Several bridges will connect 
