the Park Board, signed 1 by the President or Vice- 
President of said Board, and countersigned by the 
City Auditor and Secretary of the Park Board. 
Sec. 5. The members of the Park Board shall 
possess the same qualifications and be subject to 
the same disqualifications provided by law for 
Commissioners of the City of Ft. Worth, and shall 
serve without compensation. 
The Park Board may select and engage such em- 
ployes as may be necessary in the up-keep and 
maintenance of the Parks, Parking Places and such 
other places over which the Park Board has jur- 
isdiction, of the City of Ft. Worth. Their com- 
pensaton shall be fixed by such Park Board and 
they shall be subject to removal and dismissal at 
the pleasure of said Boardi; provided, that the. ex- 
pense of such employment shall not exceed the 
revenues applicable to such purposes unless approved 
by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Ft. 
Worth. 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
S’ec. 6. The Board of Commissioners of the City 
of Ft. Worth shall have authority to issue and sell 
bonds for the purpose of carrying out the powers 
herein conferred, and for the purchase and improve- 
ments of Park Grounds, Parkways and Boulevards, 
such bonds to be issued and sold on such terms as 
may be prescribed by the Board of Commissioners, 
and in accordance with the limitations prescribed 
by the laws of the said City and the Constitution 
of Texas. 
Sec. 7. The Board of Commissioners shall have 
power to appropriate, purchase or condemn on 
such compensation duly paid, private property for 
the use of the City for parks, public plazas and 
squares and in such event the Board of Commis- 
sioners shall declare, by ordinance, the necessity 
for such appropriation, describing the property 
sought to be appropriated and stating the name 
and residence of the owner, if known, and if un- 
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known, stating that fact, and shall cause to be 
filed with the City Clerk a plat of the property 
proposed to be condemned, and such private prop- 
erty shall be condemned, for the use of the City 
for the purposes expressed in the ordinance by the 
same proceedings and under the same rules, so 
far as applicable as are now or may hereafter be 
provided by the General Laws of this State for 
the condemnation of private property for the use 
of railroad corporations, or in any other manner or 
by any other proceedings authorized by the Gen- 
eral Laws of this State for the condemnation of 
private property for general use. 
Sec. 8. The Board of Commissioners may, by 
ordinance, from time to time enlarge the authority 
and jurisdiction of the Park Board and confer upon 
it additional powers not inconsistent with the 
law: and it is not intended by the foregoing to 
fully define or limit the powers of said Park 
Board. 
BOULEVARD 
The Green Lake park and parkway proj- 
ect now in course of development at Seat- 
tle is an example of a city taking advan- 
tage of an unusually attractive parking 
opportunity. 
Green Lake is a body of water 247 acres 
in area, with over three miles of shore line, 
and, with the exception of a half mile of 
frontage of Woodland Park, is entirely 
surrounded by a well built up residence 
section of the city. A street railway line 
and commercial highway follows the shore 
line of the lake practically all the way 
around, leaving a narrow rim of land vary- 
ing in width from 50 to 3C0 feet, between 
BUILDING 
By Roland Cotterill, Secretary. 
the highway and the old shore line, which 
was in private ownership. This entire rim 
of property was acquired for park pur- 
poses, eliminating privately owned lake 
frontage completely, also street ends, so 
that the entire frontage became parking 
area. 
A comprehensive development plan was 
secured from Olmsted Bros, in 1910 and 
its execution has been proceeding steadily 
since that time under the direction of Su- 
perintendent J. W. Thompson. 
In order to widen the rim of land be- 
tween the highway and the shore line it 
was decided to lower the lake about four 
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feet, thereby uncovering considerable area. 
This was accomplished by the installation 
of a 24-inch pipe line from Green Lake for 
a distance of approximately 4,000 feet to a 
brook having its outlet in Lake Washing- 
ton, which is at a considerably lower level. 
Following up the lowering of the lake 
over a mile of diking was constructed on a 
new shore line on the marshy side of the 
lake. A pile of trestle was built on the 
dike line, over which dirt trains operated, 
dumping through the trestle and thus form- 
ing the dike. 
The earth for this dike was secured 
from a rugged tract of upland adjacent to 
