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PARK AND 
CEMETERY. 
Calcium chloride was used again on the j 
roadways at Garfield Park. 
las. H. Lowry, Executive Officer of the 
Park system recommends the use of the | 
light oils on all roadways. 
The maintenance in small parks and on 
street centers consists of caring for lawns, 
shrubbery, flowers and walks. It is sug- 
gested that this phase of the work could 
logically be placed directly under the su- 
pervision of the horticultural department. 
This plan if adopted would relieve the 
executive from a portion of the mainte- 
nance and permit more attention to be given 
to the more important problems of main- 
tenance in the larger parks and parkways. 
West Riverside Drive, four thousand 
eight hundred feet in length, was con- 
structed during 1912 and 1913. The road- j 
way is thirty feet in width, with a thirty- i 
five foot lawn on the west side and a fif- 
teen foot lawn on the east or park side I 
between Thirtieth Street and Crooked 
Creek. Beyond Crooked Creek for about 
one thousand feet, the lawns are twenty- 
five feet wide on each side, and for the 
remainder of the distance they are the 
same as the first section. The roadway 
is constructed of Asphaltic Macadam un- 
der the standard specifications of the Park 
Department and after several months’ j 
service it is still apparently satisfactory. A 
section of concrete roadway one hundred 
and seventy-five feet in length was con- 
structed as an experiment. It is the first 
piece of concrete road in Indianapolis. The 
specifications of the Universal Portland 
Cement Company for one-course pave- 
ment were used. Reinforcement of wire 
mesh and metal expansion joints were 
used. At present the pavement is in ex- j 
cellent condition. A few surface cracks 
have appeared but none of serious nature. 
An oil storage station was built at River- 
side Park, having a storage capacity of I 
14,000 gallons. This station is equipped 
to unload directly from cars and is a valu- 
able asset to the Department in avoiding 
demurrage on cars during bad weather and 
in enabling the force to heat the oil to 
any desired temperature. This plant com- 
plete, including storage tank, pump, boiler, 
and pump house cost $1,887.80. 
OIL STORAGE— RIVERSIDE PARK. 
Capacity 14,000 Gallons. 
WEST RIVERSIDE DRIVE, INDIANAPOLIS, COMPLETED. 
and macadam pavements, and it is reported the application of heavy oil have been elim- 
that the disagreeable conditions attending mated. 
SPREADING ROAD OIL. 
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