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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
the tract, paralleling the traffic street. In- 
asmuch as the largest park of the system, 
Woodland Park, fronts on one end of 
the lake the two features combined will 
make a unique and pleasing combination. 
Next in importance to the Green Lake 
project, boulevard extensions received con- 
siderable attention, a scenic drive known 
as Magnolia boulevard, extending from 
the north water front district of the city 
along the crest of a high bluff following 
the shore line and overlooking the en- 
trance to the harbor, for a distance of 
three miles to Fort Lawton, the military 
post which guards the entrance to Seattle 
harbor, being cleared and graded and one- 
third of the distance was metalled with 
macadam Tarvia. On another section of the 
boulevard system leading to Green Lake, 
known as Ravenna boulevard, a mile of 
graded driveway was surfaced 32 feet in 
width with a type of pavement known as 
Dolarway, being a six-inch concrete base 
with a bitumen wearing surface. This 
pavement cost $1.18 per square yard, and 
bids fair to be an economical and service- 
able parkway pavement. On Queen Anne 
boulevard, a division three miles in length, 
following the crest line of a high hill 
which is an aristocratic residence section 
of the city, two miles of grading was ac- 
complished and a half mile of asphalt 
pavement laid. 
A new boulevard extension in the south 
section of the city known as Jefferson 
boulevard, was graded for a distance of 
one mile and a half mile of trestle was 
constructed as an extension to the Lake 
Washington boulevard, being for tempor- 
ary use pending the lowering of the lake, 
which will be brought about within a year 
or two, by the completion of a ship canal 
now being constructed between Puget 
Sound and Lake Washington, which will 
give Seattle both fresh and salt water 
harbors with approximately eighty miles 
of shore bne. 
Approximately one hundred acres of 
wooded land in Jefferson Park was 
cleared and grubbed for a municipal golf 
course, and three new playground sites 
were graded, aggregating twenty-one acres 
in area. A concrete arch bridge was con- 
structed by the department forces, on the 
boulevard system, replacing a wooden 
structure which had outlived its useful- 
ness. 
In building construction the one piece of 
work which the department takes particu- 
lar pride, was the erection of a conserva- 
tory in Volunteer Park, the design and 
structural materials being from Hitchings 
& Co. of Elizabeth, New Jersey. The 
department forces undertook the erection 
of the structure and a saving in excess of 
$5,000.00 was made under the bid of the 
designing firm for the structure erected 
complete. 
Summing up the improvement record for 
Seattle during 1912, we find that about 121 
acres of land was cleared, grubbed and 
graded, seven miles of boulevard was 
graded, two miles was paved, two miles 
of lake front dike was put in place and 
a dredging plant installed, substantial and 
attractive conservatory erected and two 
practical recreation buildings constructed, 
certainly a year’s work which the park de- 
partment of any city might well feel 
proud of, yet quite in line with the pro- 
gressive spirit of Seattle, the young 
metropolis of the great Pacific Northwest. 
Seattle has recently built some remarka- 
bly interesting and efficient types of recrea- 
tion buildings that will be described in the 
next issue of Park and Cemetery. 
PROGRESSIVE YEAR OF PARK WORK IN PORTLAND 
The Park Board of Portland, Ore., has 
just published a comprehensive report 
covering the past five years of its work, 
and marking the commencement of a new 
and advanced policy in the park depart- 
ment. It is the first one of its kind ever 
printed in this city. In presenting the 
report to the people, the mayor and mem- 
bers of the Park Board sign a statement 
that henceforth an annual report will be 
published and distributed to the public. 
The report shows in detail every ex- 
penditure of the park department, the total 
park acreage, the annual cost of mainte- 
nance and the plans for the future devel- 
opment of the park, playground and boule- 
vard system. It is profusely illustrated 
and contains a resume of the activities of 
the park department, explanatory tables, 
charts, plans, financial statements, and, in 
short, all the information which is sought, 
more or less constantly, by citizens and 
others for statistical and sociological pur- 
poses. 
It is the hope of the mayor and board, 
by adopting this new policy of publicity, 
to convince voters of the city that the best 
interests of all demand the passage of a 
charter amendment providing for another 
park bond issue of $2,000,000. To this end 
the board has addressed a special com- 
munication in the body of the report to 
the people of Portland. 
The report is one of the most compre- 
hensive, complete and systematic records of 
park operations, statistics and data issued 
by any city. It is a handsomely printed 
and profusely illustrated book, giving not 
only plans and illustrations of nearly all 
the important parks and structures in the 
system, but comparative maps and statis- 
tical data about other cities. Mayor A. G. 
Rushlight is chairman of the Park Board 
and Emil T. Mische superintendent of 
parks. 
Despite the temporary set-back received 
by the park department by the rejection of 
its bond issue, the work of beautifying the 
parks and children’s playgrounds has been 
carried on without interruption the past 
year. Extensive plans have been made for 
future operations, and development work 
has progressed at a rate conformable with 
the funds available for those purposes. 
Improvements in the form of comfort 
stations, band stands, tree-planting, grad- 
ing, lighting, etc., have been made, and 
the equipment of play places for the chil- 
dren, and the planning of new ones have 
been well advanced by Superintendent 
Mische. 
FERNDALE GULCH IN WASHINGTON PARK, PORTLAND, ORE. 
