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PARK AND CEMETERY 
The development of the park has been largely due to 
the generosity of the late Chauncey Hurlbut, who was 
president of the commission for twelve years, and who 
at his death bequeathed his property, amounting to 
about $150,000, to the Board of Water Commissioners, 
An interesting feature that attracts attention in the 
park is a French pear tree which measures 9 feet 4 
inches in circumference, 3 feet above the ground. 
Tradition says that the Jesuit priests who visited the 
Indians some 200 years ago, brought pear seeds from 
WATIiR WORKS PARK, DETROIT. 
the income therefrom to be devoted exclusively to im- 
proving and beautifying the grounds around the pump- 
ing station. A handsome and much used Hurlbut 
Branch of the Public Library forms an attractive fea- 
ture of the park, the reference books contained therein 
having been ]\Ir. Hurlbut’s private library. 
France which they planted along the shores of the 
Detroit River, always placing eleven in a cluster and 
one by itself a little to one side, to represent Judas. 
The cluster at the park was removed to make necessary 
improvements, and “Judas” alone remains, a living 
monument to the zeal of those early explorers. 
