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each of these parks in The Bronx is considerably in 
excess of one thousand acres. 
All permanent betterments and original construction 
in connection with the city parks are paid for by the 
issue of corporate stock, and the parks are maintained 
by annual appropriations in the city budget. An idea 
of the amount of public moneys devoted to the main- 
tenance of parks may be gleaned from the appropria- 
tions made annually since consolidation. 
The cost of maintenance for the city parks, including 
the small parks in the various boroughs, has practic- 
ally doubled in the nine years that have elapsed since 
the consolidation of the metropolitan district into the 
present city. These maintenance expenditures were 
as follows : 
Manhattan Borough — 1898, $758,470; 1902, $944,- 
800; 1905, $1,207,105; 1906, $1,280,812. 
The Bronx — 1898, $230,200; 1902, $433,580; 1905, 
$551,302; 1906, $622,975. 
Queens and Brooklyn — 1898, $532,400; 1902, $556,- 
264; 1905, $669,913; 1906, $891,764. 
Administration — 1898, $32,300; 1902, $20,300; 
1905, $27,800; 1906, $27,800. 
Total cost, 1898, $1,472,370; 1902, $1,963,944; 1905, 
$2,356,021 ; 1906, $2,803,357. 
It will be noted that in the past two years there have 
been notable increases in the appropriation for the 
maintenance of the parks of The Bronx, Queens and 
Brooklyn. Since the suburban hegira there has been a 
constant agitation in The Bronx and Queens for the 
development of the park lands in those boroughs. 
Controller Metz has been making an investigation 
into the matter of the neglect of the city authorities 
to develop and improve the small park sites purchased 
during the past fifteen years at a purchase cost of 
about $20,000,000, and declares that he will not favor 
the expenditure of another cent for new parks until 
those the city now owns are properly cared for. 
WASHINGTON MEMORIAL GATE TO CAMBRIDGE COMMON, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 
The Washington memorial gateway to Cambridge 
Common, Cambridge, Mass., was erected by the Gen- 
eral Society, Daughters of the Revolution, to mark the 
spot where Washington first took command of the 
Continental forces. It is a handsome, elaborate struct- 
ure of Milford pink granite, and cost $5,000, of which 
one-half was contributed by the Massachusetts Society. 
Two massive posts, ii feet high, with cap and sur- 
mounting ball, form the gateway. Extending from 
either side of each post is a wall, which, with its cor- 
nice, is seven feet high. Both sides of these walls 
are recessed, and in the center panel of each, at a height 
of above five feet from the ground, is a bronze tablet. 
As one approaches the gateway from Harvard square, 
the tablet on the left reads: “Near this place, on July 
3, 1775, George Washington took command of the 
American army” — a medallion of General Washington 
is in the center of this tablet. Walls extending at right 
angles make a three-cornered inclosure, with seats in 
front of each side wall. 
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WASHINGTON MEMORIAI, GATE TO CAMBRIDGE COMMON 
Cambridge, Mass. 
