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at the rate of $13,131.33 per mile. The 
total cost of the thirty-foot macadam 
roadway with “tarvia” surfacing, on 
the east bank of the river, was at 
the rate of $16,360.39 per mile. 
Glenwood Parkway is a remarkably 
picturesque, attractive driveway, 
winding in easy curves, first through 
a narrow pass, then along the shores 
of a pretty land-locked sheet of water, 
Birch Pond, at the foot of a steep, 
beautiful, birch-covered hillside, and 
then climbing on an easy grade over 
a ridge covered with fine oak, maple, 
and elm trees. From the top of this 
ridge looking north, the eye beholds 
Glenwood Lake at the foot of the gentle 
hill, with the wooded hills of the 
northern part of Glenwood Park and 
the “Home Wood” residence district 
as a background. Going in either di- 
rection the constant change of scen- 
ery is very pleasing and fascinating, 
and the parkway is already a favorite 
with the driving public. 
The Park Board is now maintain- 
ing refreshment stands at all parks 
that are resorted to by large numbers 
of people and at the principal skating 
rinks during the winter season. Only 
light refreshments are served, but the 
demands are large and constantly in- 
creasing. 
During the past season well 
equipped playgrounds have been 
maintained in seven widely separated 
parks and less fully equipped play- 
grounds have been maintained in four 
other parks. The Supervisor of Play- 
grounds, C. T. Booth, has had the 
assistance during the season of ten 
instructors and excellent results have 
been obtained. The Board considers 
it thoroughly established in relation 
to playgrounds that efficient super- 
vision is absolutely necessary in order 
to insure proper benefits. 
With so many lakes in the park 
system it is not strange that boating 
should be a favorite form of recrea- 
tion during the summer months. The 
Board has 199 row boats, about a 
dozen canoes, three sail boats and a 
launch for hire on Lake Harriet, and 
a smaller number of boats on other 
lakes. These boats, at low rental 
rates, brought in a revenue of $14,- 
433.58 last season. In addition to the 
boats owned by the Board there are 
many private row boats on the lakes, 
the owners of which pay an annual 
license fee of $3.00 each. Canoeing 
is a comparatively new sport in Min- 
neapolis, but has gained very rapidly 
in popularity. Besides the canoes 
that are kept by the Board for rental 
purposes, there were 374 private 
canoes on Lake Harriet last sumifier 
and a considerable number on Lake 
Calhoun and Lake of the Isles. The 
license fee for private canoes is $4.00 
per annum. A “Canoe Carnival” was 
one of the events of last season as wejl 
as of the season before. 
Eighty-one free concerts conducted 
by Wm. Warvell Nelson were given 
during the season at Lake. Harriet and 
neighborhood parks by a band of 
thirty-six regular musicians and occa- 
sional soloists. Concerts were held 
in the neighborhood parks on Satur- 
day and Monday evenings and on 
Sunday afternoons; on all other even- 
ings of the week the concerts were 
held at the Lake Harriet pavilion. 
During the skating season seven- 
teen ice rinks, either natural or arti- 
ficial, are in almost constant use. To- 
bogganing and sledding are also in 
vogue wherever suitable slopes are 
available. 
Since the year 1887 this Board has 
had the power to regulate the plant- 
ing .of trees on city streets, and in 
the year 1889 authority was given to 
plant trees and to assess the cost 
against abutting property. This 
power has been exercised mainly in 
response to petitions of property 
owners, and since 1889 more than fif- 
teen thousand trees have been plant- 
ed and cared for by this Board. Un- 
til very recently the assessment nec- 
essary to cover the cost of planting 
and three years’ care has been at the 
rate of $5.00 per tree, but it has been 
MAP OF 
MINNEAPOLIS 
PARK -SYSTEM 
PROP0.6ED EXTENSIONS 
1910 
PARK AF=^EA 
3379 ACRLe 
(TENSIONS 
