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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
street car he is at once in the deep woods. 
Broad driveways skirt the park, connect- 
ing with the boulevard system, and numer- 
ous foot paths wind through the woods, 
with a charming surprise at every turn. 
The park is bordered on the easterly side 
by a number of amusement places and 
a dancing pavilion, which furnish conveni- 
ent shelter and add to the popularity of 
the park. 
Within a few steps of Lester Park, con- 
nected by the Lake Shore drive, North 
Shore Park is a strip of beach and grassy 
bank between the road and the lake, com- 
prising two acres which was dedicated to 
the public by the original proprietors. It 
is a favorite picnic ground. Drift wood 
furnishes fuel for beach fires, and the 
pebbly shore and clean rocks are a never 
failing invitation to sit and rest, to watch 
the waves break on the unyielding boulders 
or study the ever changing panorama of 
Lake Superior. 
Congdon Park was acquired by gift of 
C. A. Congdon, in 1908, and includes thirty 
acres on both sides of Tischer’s creek. A 
20-foot roadway on grades that can be 
compassed by an automobile, and an 8-foot 
bridle path, traverse the park. On the 
edge of the stream and in its bed is a 
foot path with stairs and steps and rustic 
bridge, and stepping stones to give easy 
progress through the most charming dell. 
The rock here is jasper red worn into 
perpendicular cliffs over which the trees 
cast their wide arches. In the upper 
reaches the cataracts are bolder and the 
rocks more rugged. The sweep of view 
widens until the blue of the lake lies at 
one’s feet and the approaches to the boule- 
vard are gained at the entrance to the 
Woodland suburbs. 
In the infinite variety of the Duluth 
park system, Chester Park has its individ- 
ual features. It comprises 43 acres, through 
which flows Chester Creek. Here the 
stream has cut a deep flume between per- 
pendicular walls ; again its course is 
through the center of a bowl-shaped val- 
ley, and near the head its steep banks 
set with pines have the grandeur, though 
on a smaller scale, of a mountain canyon. 
Hardly a mile from the business center, 
one standing at the head of the gorge may 
fancy himself in some vast wilderness 
where no voice is heard but the rush of 
waters down the rocky declivity, or the 
wind in the pines. In its quieter nooks, 
the white stems of the young birches and 
the dark green of spruce and balsam 
beckon the eye from one winding to the 
next of the footworn path. For the treat- 
ment of walks is so skillful that it seems 
all nature’s work. A shelter house for 
picnic parties is so unobtrusive that it 
blends into the landscape. 
Lincoln Park lies on both sides of Mil- 
ler’s creek, in the neighborhood where a 
densitv of population may in the future 
lay on the park the heaviest requirements, 
and covers 32 acres. 
The ravine is so rich in beauty that 
little had to be done or need be done 
hereafter in the way of formal treatment, 
except at the approaches at Third street 
and Twenty-third avenue west. Here the 
stream has been curbed by cement and an 
effect of breadth has been obtained by 
the arrangement of drives and paths. One 
wing of the boulevard sweeps through 
Lincoln Park, balancing the charms of its 
swerves into Chester and Lester valleys, 
giving fascinating glimpses of nature’s re- 
cesses seen in swift passing. But the real 
enioyment of the park is to be had by 
following on foot the paths that climb the 
banks or dip into the rocky bed of the 
stream or cross it on rustic bridges. 
Central Park, formerly called Zenith, in- 
cludes a mountainous peak in the center 
of the boulevard system, encircled by the 
branching roadway high above the lake, 
and giving a beautiful view of city and 
harbor. The park area is 20 acres. Back 
of it is the course of Miller’s creek in a 
pastoral valley. On the foreside is the 
cornice of the mountain’s shoulder where 
the road is graded in granite and rests 
on rocky abutments, steeply buttressed by 
natural columns. 
Five squares were included in the orig- 
inal plat of London, afterwards annexed 
to the city, which are found today mostly 
in the happy state in which nature left 
CHESTER FALLS, DULUTH PARK SYSTEM. 
