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PARK AND CEMETERY . 
<lle-po\ver tungsten lamps in clear 
globes on neat cast-iron columns. 
There are altogether 117 of those 
lamps. The cost per lamp is $3.60 
per month for four months, or, in 
other words, the cost of lighting the 
boulevards around Lake Harriet is 
$14.04 per night, the lights burning all 
night. 
The greenhouse has been enlarged 
by the addition of one plant house, 
18x9.2 feet; one temperate house, 
20x54 feet, and an entrance hall, 
20x24 feet. Under the latter and the 
temperate house are roomy, well- 
lighted basements for the storage of 
everything pertaining to the Depart- 
ment of Floriculture. 
properly arranged spillways and gates. 
The pools can be emptied in two 
hours and filled in one hour. The 3 ' 
are surrounded by a wide platform, 
and are enclosed by a wall twelve 
feet high with no roof. To the north 
of the pools are eighty-two double- 
size dressing rooms, the office of the 
atendants, the toilets, and shower 
baths. While the rooms are all roofed 
the alley-ways are open overhead. To 
the south of the main pool and con- 
nected with it through a door and a 
tile-roofed porch, is the John D. Web- 
ber field house, a very attractive and 
convenient shelter building, with a 
main floor 53x27 feet in size. It con- 
tains ever\- modern convenience for 
BRIDGE NO. 1, LAKE CALHOUN, MINNEAPOLIS PARK SYSTEM. 
I :vst Prize Design py H. L. Rogers and Guy Vroman of New York. 
The handsome swimming pool, field 
house and librarj’ building erected in 
Camden Park as a gift of Mr. and 
Mrs. John D. Webber is said to be 
equal to the best of its kind in the 
country. 
There are two swimming pools, one 
00x120 feet in size and from three to 
four feet deep, and one 43x43 feet 
and nine feet deep. The depth in 
both pools can be increased one foot. 
The pools are fed by the stream 
passing through them, the flowage 
being under absolute control through 
public service generallj' found in such 
buildings. 
About fifteen miles of boulevard 
v'ere oiled, two grades of oil being 
used, a heavj' one requiring heating 
and a lighter one, applied cold. The 
results of the oiling are tabulated by 
Mr. Wirth as follows: 
Total cost of oil 028.11 
Total cost of labor 2,632.25 
Total cost of labor, oil, coal and 
steam 6,864.67 
Total number of miles oiled.... 14.98 
Average width of roadway 23.58 ft. 
Average cost per mile $458.25 
Average cost per square yard. . . .0331 
Cost of oil 3.6 cents per gallon f. o. b. 
Minneapolis. 
For the first time in the historj^ of 
the park refectories the board decided 
to conduct those establishments at 
its own risk and responsibility 
through its own employes, instead 
of giving concessions to private indi- 
viduals. The main object in view was 
to give to the public good service at 
the lowest possible cost. No special 
appropriation was made for this pur- 
pose, but it was assumed that the cost 
of the necessary alterations to the 
buildings and the equipment of the 
establishments would be covered by 
the excess of receipts over the ex- 
penditures for merchandise and cost 
of maintenance. In other words, the 
sum of $7,327.74 was borrowed from 
the general fund to cover the cost 
of those alterations and equipments, 
including the installation of the elec- 
tric lighting at Lake Harriet pavilion, 
and as the receipts from both refec- 
tories exceeded the expenditures b\' 
$10,396.37, the earnings above and 
over investment were $3,068.63, or as 
much as would have been received 
had the privileges been leased. Mr. 
A. E. Griggs has been made general 
manager of the refectories. 
