PARK AND CEMETERY. 
3b 
building is entirelj- of concrete with 
steel frame roof covered with tile. 
The roof projects ten feet over the 
outside walls. The floor is reinforced 
concrete. The inside dimensions are 
40.X100 feet, all in one large room 
excepting a checkroom’, a small boiler 
the Rose Garden and the grading of 
the surrounding grounds. The Rose 
Garden itself, although its plantings 
were young, was a beautiful sight 
during August and September. 
The new Soldiers’ Home bridge, 
built by the trustees of the Home at 
from Hennepin avenue to Willow 
street. The tennis courts were re- 
built and equipped with iron pipe 
net-posts and the bank along West 
Fifteenth street was planted with 
shrubbery and perennials. 
The demand for floral decorations 
•WORK SHOPS AND STORE HORSES, MINNEAPOLIS P.VRK SYSTEM. 
room and two small store rooms, 
which latter are used for refreshment 
stands during the skating season. 
The shelter is used in the winter as 
a warming house for the skaters, and 
by taking off all the windows and 
doors in the summer, it becomes a cool 
open shelter to be used in connection 
with the playgrounds, and the boating 
on the lake. The building is steam 
heated and lighted by gas. The cost 
.of the building was $13,491. It was 
designed by Architect L. A. Lamo- 
reaux. 
King’s Highway from DuPont ave- 
nue to Lake Harriet, was macadam- 
ized as follows: A six-inch layer of 
2-inch limestone was rolled to a 
smooth surface on which was ap- 
plied a good coat of Tarvia. This 
was immediately covered with screen- 
ed pea gravel and rolled with a ten- 
ton steam roller: the result was a 
very fine, smooth surface. 
Lyndale Park received considera- 
ble attention through the planting of 
a cost of $40,000, was completed in 
September. It is a very handsome 
steel structure, spanning IMinnehaha 
glen in one beautiful, graceful arch 
320 feet long, the abutments of the 
span being about halfway up the steep 
banks on both sides. In summer the 
two ends of the bridge with their 
perpendicular supports are almost en- 
tirely hidden by the foliage of the 
trees on the wooded banks, and only 
the arch-supported part of the bridge 
is visible from the glen. The bridge 
floor of reinforced concrete is 105 
feet above the bed of the creek. The 
bridge has an 18-foot roadwa 3 ' and 
two sidewalks, each six feet wide. 
The entire length of the structure is 
a little over 600 feet. The park board 
furnished the broken stone necessary 
for all concrete work and built the 
approaches and the roadwaj' to and 
over the bridge. 
Loring Park ' received another ad- 
dition of well constructed cement 
walks, thus making a continuous walk 
in the parks, and especially the small 
triangles, is steadily increasing and 
has been complied with as far as pos- 
sible. The total output of plants was 
118,905. A chrysanthemum exhibition 
was given during the first half of 
November. Eight hundred potted 
plants were in bloom, making an ex- 
cellent show. The estimated number 
of visitors was fully six thousand. 
C. N. Ruedlinger, the forester of 
the system, reports the total number 
of deciduous shrubs used in all plant- 
ings as about 14,100 nursery grown 
and 20,000 collected plants. The street 
tree planting of last year consisted 
only of the replacing of 160 dead 
trees. Collected trees have shown a 
very much larger percentage of loss 
than the nursery grown trees. The 
forester recommends that the depart- 
ment use nursery grown trees exclu- 
sively for street planting. He says 
that if an annual appropriation of not 
less than $4,000.00 is made every year, 
it should be possible to keep the 
