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Town of Lake View, has proceeded 
vigorously during the past year. The 
breakwater was finished as far as 
planned, to a point 1,200 feet east of 
the shore line at Cornelia street; 
1,868 feet of pier, consisting of a 
double line of piles and Wakefield 
sheeting, 18 feet apart, tied together 
with bolts and ballasted with rock 
brought from the spoil banks of the 
the banks of the Desplaines River, a 
few hundred feet from the park’s 
stone loading plant at Lemont was 
purchased at a cost of $10,461.33. The 
tract is situated in a quarry district 
where the land will be enhanced in 
value by reason of its being stripped 
of soil and will probably be readily 
salable. It is being used in part as 
a nursery until such a time as the 
over the present system of $7,294 or 
25 per cent of the present cost. 
The new concrete bridge, boat 
house, and much other concrete con- 
struction, and the new refectory have 
already been illustrated in these 
pages. 
A new elephant stockade 40x56 feet 
was built in the zoo, and the parterre 
south of the conservatory rearranged. 
NEW CONCRETE BRIDGE AND UNDERGROUND BOAT HOUSE, UINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO. 
Drainage Canal by the park fleet, has 
been constructed at a cost of $36.19 
per lineal foot. 
A total of 672,815 cubic yards of 
material was pumped in place by the 
hydraulic dredge, as against 457,242 
cubic yards the year before. To the 
12.15 acres made the season previous, 
27.6 acres were added, making a total 
of 39.75 acres now showing above 
water. Besides the work of the 
dredge, 15,152 yards of fill have been 
brought in by teams. 
The 230,700 cubic yards of loam 
needed to cover the extension to a 
depth of twelve inches would cost at 
the present average market price 
$219,165. Taking into account the 
scarcity and increasing price of loam 
it was thought advisable to purchase 
the desired amount at once. The 
park engineers were sent out during 
the summer of 1907 to make careful 
surveys and tests within a reasonable 
distance from the city. Acting on 
the recommendations embodied in 
their report, a tract of 107 acres on 
loam is otherwise needed. It is esti- 
mated that a saving of at least $100,- 
000 will be made by this purchase. 
Active operations on this extension 
began in 1905. Since that time a 
large and efficient plant has been pro- 
vided, the breakwaters completed, and 
1,130,057 cubic yards, or 36 1-3 per 
cent of the entire fill, are in place. 
Recent measurements show that out 
of the 1,980^,883 cubic yards yet need- 
ed to finish the proposed fill 713,790 
cubic yards can be still pumped from 
the site of the proposed yacht har- 
bor in which the dredge has been 
operating during the greater part of 
the last season. 
A general rehabilitation of the elec- 
tric light and power plant is taking 
place. A contract was signed with 
the Trustees of the Sanitary District 
of Chicago in which provision was 
made to furnish electric current to 
the parks at a cost of $15 per horse 
power, twelve hour service, thus pro- 
ducing an estimated annual saving 
Forty thousand new shrubs and 
trees have been set out during the 
season, an effort being made to screen 
wherever possible the public streets 
and adjacent buildings in order to 
produce quiet sylvan conditions. 
Corners, intersections and side hills 
have been planted in numerous cases, 
the idea being to establish as large 
a number of vigorous plantations as 
possible without materially reducing 
available lawn spaces. The large 
number and general obtrusiveness of 
the park buildings has also made it 
desirable to screen them as far as 
possible. The construction of mounds 
thickly planted with trees and shrubs 
at the stable, power house, boat house 
and comfort stations has produced a 
decided improvement in the general 
appearance of the park. A consider- 
able number of trees ranging from 
eight to twelve inches in diameter 
have been planted wherever thought 
necessary to produce shade or vary 
the sky line. Many small American 
elms and Norway maples have been 
