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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Its continuity makes a desirable trunk line drive from 
the center of the city to the suburbs and its winding 
course tends to lessen the policing necessary to re- 
strict all other traffic but pleasure driving upon it. 
About a dozen cheap buildings were removed and 
the work undertaken to transform at a comparatively 
slight cost a noisome and dreary area to one of health- 
fulness and beauty. If the construction had been de- 
la\ed it would eventualh' have l^ecome an expensive 
and unpleasant obligation. 
It is but necessary to imagine a formal canal with 
masonry walls to fbrm an idea of a possible alter- 
native and to this could probably be added the extra 
expense of covering the entire channel to avoid the 
nuisance a fluctuating water elevation would cause. 
Treating it merely in its engineering aspect and 
(To be ( 
without regard to its potential beauty would have been 
equivalent to encouraging ■ private residences with 
stables and outbuildings to back upon it whereas the 
plan adopted encouraged the better class of buildings 
to face it. 
During the progress of this work the financial 
aspect kept it continuall}' before the attention of the 
public. The early stages were made notable by the 
data presented showing the real value resulting from 
liberal expenditures judiciously made for parks. New 
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore and San Fran- 
cisco ofifered a basis of reckoning and the unbiased 
conclusion from evidence deduced from the experiences 
of these cities tended to satisfy the general public 
as to the wisdom of constructing successively proposed 
extensions of parks and their incidental appendages, 
itinued.) 
Prospect ParK, BrooKlyn, N. Y. 
By Mrs. Fr.xnces Copley Seavey. 
For grounds that were deliberately designed as “a gradually acquired a fair share of artificial features, 
great natural park, in opposition to the artificial fea- though it may be said that most of them are more 
times of Central Park,” Prospect Park, Brooklyn, has acceptable in character and better placed than are many 
if 
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PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
1. Vale of Cashmere. 2. Maryland Monument. 3. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch at Entrance. 4. A Glimpse of 
Three-Arch Bridge. 
