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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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THREE ISLANDS, DOWN RIVER PARK, SPOKANE. 
The first annual report of the Park Board 
of Spokane, Wash., is an unusually interest- 
ing book embodying in a beautifully illus- 
trated volume a history of park develop- 
ment in that city and a complete descrip- 
tive survey of the park system. 
Some remarkable development and ex- 
tension work that has been accomplished 
under Superintendent John W. Duncan is 
described in detail, and the report of Olm- 
sted Brothers, which has been the guide in 
development work, is published in full. 
The policy of the board during the first 
six years of its existence has been to ac- 
quire the land for the establishment of a 
modern park and playground system in ac- 
cordance with the general recommenda- 
tions of the Olmsted report, while such 
PROGRESSIVE PAR 
land could be acquired at a low price and 
before the desirable sites should be ren- 
dered unavailable by the cutting down of 
the natural growth of trees and shrubbery, 
and the extension of the city streets and 
construction of buildings. Land require- 
ments have been practically completed and 
PLAY FESTIVAL, MANITO PARK, SPOKANE. 
