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PARK AND CEMETERY . 
Park during the year was the repair of 
the dam, which was made necessary by 
the development of a bad washout under 
the structure. A part of the apron on 
the dam which had washed out had been 
replaced under contract during the pre- 
ceding *park administration. During the 
rainy season and the high water of last 
spring, however, it developed that not 
only had this new apron construction 
been absolutely dissipated, but as a re- 
ike the park development about the 
bridge conform to its larger lines. Under 
the direction of Mr. Kessler this work 
was undertaken, and it had progressed 
far enough at the end of the season’s 
work to show that when completed, with 
some other work that it made necessary 
in reshaping the banks of the stream, it 
would completely transform the appear- 
ance of a large part of >©rookside Park. 
In place of the narrow winding road- 
part of the park was softened and made 
more attractive. 
Perhaps the most interesting work un- 
dertaken during the year was the build- 
ing of a boulevard along the north bank 
of Fall Creek between Northwestern 
avenue and Capitol avenue. The special 
appropriation made for this purpose was 
$45,000. This special appropriation 
made possible the beginning of parkway 
work in the City of Indianapolis in an 
FOOT APPROACHES TO NEW BRIDGE OVER WHITE RIVER. RIVERSIDE PARK. INDIANAPOLIS. SHOWING 
NEED OP IMPROVEMENT ABOUT THEM. 
suit of this, an immense hole had been 
dug by the water under the main struc- 
ture of the dam, just northeast of the 
center. This washout was of such a 
kind that it was inadvisable to make the 
necessary repairs e.xcept under a force 
account contract. It was completed at a 
total cost of $11,988.16. 
Perhaps the most important construc- 
tion work undertaken during the year, 
aside from the new parkway, was a work 
started in Brookside Park. The new 
bridge to which reference has been made 
spans Pogue’s Run just south of a turn 
in the stream near the northwest corner 
of the park. This bridge replaced an 
old rustic wooden structure to which 
approach was made on the east side by 
a narrow roadway which twisted around 
a high bluff before it reached the bank 
of the stream. When the new bridge 
was completed it was seen that it would 
be necessary to build a new approach to 
this bridge on both sides in order to 
way that approached the old bridge, 
there has been cut a wide, straight ap- 
proach with easy -slopes on either side, 
and the large amount of dirt in the old 
bluff through which the new road was 
cut was carried to the west bank of the 
stream to build new approaches .on that 
side. 
A work somewhat similar in its gen- 
eral purpose to that begun in Brookside 
Park was done in Garfield Park as the 
result of the building of the new bridge 
across Pleasant Run. The lines of the 
new bridge were such that to make the 
park immediately adjacent conform to 
it and to work the whole Ra\^mond 
street front of the park into the bridge 
and bridge approach scheme, it was nec- 
essary to change the lines of the road- 
way .approaches and to alter the banks 
of Pleasant Run for quite a distance 
on either side of the bridge. A great 
deal of filling was done to make this 
possible and the whole effect of that 
entirely new way. East from North- 
western avenue, the natural advantages 
of the ground and the small cost at 
which it could be obtained, supplemented 
by the fact that it was very easily ap- 
parent how the line of the improvement 
should run in order to fit into future 
development on both sides, made this the 
most obvious point at which to begin the 
scheme of the larger development of 
Fall Creek parkways. 
In working out his plans for this con- 
struction, Mr. Kessler did not run the 
lines of the driveway along the mean- 
derings of the stream, but started the 
drive in straight lines, with broad, easy 
curves, and so laid down as to permit 
of a wide parkway space between the 
driveway and the stream. 
It is reported that planting was done 
with a better appreciation of the needs 
of the department than had ever been 
shown bfore. More than six hundred 
trees, two thousand six hundred shrubs 
