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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
city’s playgrounds as soon as it was 
taken possession of by the Park De- 
partment in the spring. The only 
improvements undertaken consisted 
of the building of two structures giv- 
ing toilet conveniences, and the clean- 
ing of the bed of Pleasant run and 
the small rivulet which flows through 
the woods and empties into the run. 
The meadow land to the east of the 
woods was, however, plowed and 
seeded with blue grass and clover. 
It is the purpose of the department 
to build two baseball diamonds in 
this meadow. With the possible ad- 
dition of one or two tennis courts, 
this will probably complete the im- 
provements to be undertaken in El- 
lenberger woods, as it is the intention 
of the department to maintain the 
woods and adjacent ground as nearly 
as possible in their natural condition. 
The woods will thus remain primarily 
a picnic ground for the entire eastern 
section of the city. 
The work of maintenance in the 
other parks of the system was very 
satisfactorily carried forward. There 
were a few permanent improvements, 
’.vhich may be briefly enumerated as 
follows: new outdoor gymnasium ap- 
paratus in Military park; a tool house 
at Indianola square; the regrading of 
Irving circle, where the soil was im- 
poverished and the ground level much 
too low; and the placing of sheet 
iron boxes with removable bags for 
waste paper in all of the larger parks. 
A review of the year’s work would 
be incomplete without special refer- 
erence to the work of the forestry 
department of the Board of Park 
Commissioners. Early in the year, 
cupancy of the two men who will 
care for the hatchery. 
The equipment for the hatchery 
being furnished by the Park Depart- 
ment. the Fish and Game Associa- 
tion w'ill maintain the hatchery at its 
own expense. It is expected that the 
ponds as they are now being con- 
structed will be capable of breeding 
annually between 100,000 and 150,000 
small-mouthed black bass, and tbe 
success heretofore achieved by the 
men interested in this movement, at 
their hatchery at Allisonville, war- 
rants the belief that the Riverside 
hatchery, under the joint manage- 
ment of the Park Department and 
the Fish and Game Association, will 
be one of the most successful in the 
country. The ponds were con- 
structed in accordance with sugges- 
tions made by Mr. Dwight Lydell. 
assistant superintendent of the Michi- 
SAME VIEW ON POGUES RUN PARKWAY FOUR MONTHS LATER; THE 
BEGINNING OF FINISHED CONDITIONS. 
ion County Fish and Game Protect- 
ive Association, the department early 
in the year built, by the construction 
of inexpensive dams and sluiceways, a 
pond for breeding black bass in the 
lagoon on the west side of White 
river, in the south end of the park. 
The results accomplished with this 
crude plant were so encouraging, and 
seemed so important, that the depart- 
ment began late this fall the con- 
struction of a permanent fish hatch- 
ery in the extreme north end of the 
park, at the foot of the bluff just be- 
low the Myers road. With this work 
completed, the city has one of 
the finest small-mouthed black bass 
hatcheries in the country with two 
ponds, an adequate supply of pure 
spring water, and a lodge for the oc- 
gan State fish hatchery at Comstock 
park, Michigan. 
The most considerable improve- 
ment undertaken in Garfield park, 
outside of very extensive planting, 
was the building of a group of three 
tennis courts in a new location at the 
foot of the bluff not far from the 
shelter house. Widespread demand 
for bathing facilities was partially 
filled in Garfield park by the main- 
tenance during some weeks of the 
hot season of two small bathing 
beaches in the waters of Bean creek, 
one for boys and another for girls. 
The other and much more consid- 
erable park added to the city’s sys- 
tem during the last year, the Ellen- 
berger woods north of Irvington, be- 
came one of the most popular of the 
POGUES RUN PARKWAY, INDIANAPOLIS, IN SPRING OF 1911. 
