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A FEATURE OF PARK DEVELOPMENT, CAMBRIDGE, 
MASS. 
The latest report of the Board of Park Commis- 
sioners of the city of Cambridge, Mass., like pre- 
vious issues, affords an interesting and instructive 
view of the activity and resulting progress in the 
work of park development for an enlightened city, 
after it realizes the propriety and advantages to be 
secured, for old Cambridge has been a very con- 
servative city. It is true that in its vicinity are to 
be found the most advanced practitioners in land- 
scape designing and park work, and that no higher 
order of intelligence predominates anywhere than 
that which animates its society; still the amount 
of work necessary, and continued expenditure re- 
quired, to efficiently carry out any complete system 
of “art out-of-doors” development, often tends to 
hinder projects of great importance. 
Park work in Cambridge has been very varied 
in class, and consequently in style. From the Cam- 
bridge Field, designed to afford more or less physi- 
cal recreation, summer and winter, for young and 
old, with incidentally a glimpse or two of landscape 
effect, to the public square and small park, the 
schoolhouse yard, the beautiful river embankments 
and parkways, and the work of adopting the whole 
scheme to fit in in some way to the Metropolitan 
Park system of Boston, involves a thorough appre- 
ciation of the demands of park work and the high- 
est intelligence to meet and control the many ques- 
tions offering themselves for solution. 
The above diagram shows a plan of section G of 
the St. Charles River improvement, a portion of the 
improvement upon which most of the work of last 
year was concentrated. The effectual treatment of 
this section involved some engineering work to 
commence with, the area comprising considerable 
marshland to take care of and fill in, and to provide 
for several springs of water in the vicinity. The 
latter was accomplished by sinking two large dry 
wells, some ten feet in diameter, from which wooden 
pipes led the water into the river. No trouble has 
since been experienced from either water or settle- 
ment. All the necessities of street and boulevard 
improvement have been provided, and most of the 
planting carried out. 
The construction work on this section G, since 
the commencement of the work, has cost $95,573-50, 
