PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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ONE OF THE LIVE OAKS IN GRIFFITH PARK, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 
the park, leaving the landscape part of 
it to the care of the Board of Park 
Commissioners. Many miles of new 
drives have been graded, with an aver- 
age width of twenty feet, and in many 
places heavy cuts and fills had to be 
made. The road made right on the top 
of the Water Department cement con- 
duit in the southeast portion of the 
park, on the river side, will protect the 
cement work and will make a grand 
scenic road. Vitrified pipes have been 
laid under the roads wherever needed. 
More than fifty miles of trails have 
been cut through the chaparral and the 
roots dug out to make it a lasting work. 
The roads will open the park to the 
sight-seers in carriages and tallyhos. 
and the trails to the pedestrians and 
those on horseback, and when the 
trials are widened they, with the 
roads, wil serve as effective fire 
guards and will enable the watch- 
men and working men to reach 
quickly any point whenever a conflagra- 
:ion occurs, or when their service is re- 
quired for some other cause. 
With proper fire protection, judicious 
re-planting of mixed species of trees, 
adapted to different kinds of soil and 
location, and by continuing to make new 
roads and improving the ones already 
made, this is destined to be one of 
the most renowned natural parks of the 
Southwest. 
In carrying out the plan to individu- 
alize the various parks, Superintendent 
John G. Morley planned that the tropical 
features be emphasized at Westlake 
Park. He suggested that many of the 
trees which did not conform to that 
plan be grubbed out. and that those of 
tropical and sub-tropical growth be sub- 
stituted. 
The garden feature, the superinten- 
dent thinks, should predominate in East- 
lake Park. Many eucalyptus trees 
should be removed and large plats laid 
out in flower beds. 
Hollenbeck park, is considered the 
best laid out in the system, the plan 
agreeing well with the topography of 
the ground. 
South park virtually is the city flower 
garden, and the flowers give it its dis- 
tinctive character. 
Sycamore Grove park has a charac- 
teristic all its own in the majestic old 
sycamores. 
Echo park, which has the largest wa- 
ter area in the system is the water park 
of the system. 
In Elysian park the forest feature pre- 
dominates. 
In landscape beauty, Elysian Park is 
a good second to Griffith though the 
scenery is not so bold as in the larger 
tract. Nevertheless, a drive or walk 
along its miles of well-made, well-kept 
roads gives an extended panorama of 
hill and dale and spreading plain — a vast 
sweep of country, stretching to the sea 
in one direction and to the Sierra in 
the other. From the summit all the 
wide and beautiful country lying be- 
tween the ocean and mountains is seen, 
while amid the hills of the park are 
sunny nooks, warm and sheltered, where 
are growing many varieties of orna- 
mental trees and plants. Nature has 
furnished almost everything that en- 
hances the charm of attractive land- 
scape in this park and its surroundings. 
Few visitors would suspect, from the 
wealth of scenery on every hand, that 
the park contained but 550 acres, as 
the country is so rugged and the views 
so extensive. 
Eastlake Park, located in the junction 
of Alhambra avenue and Mission road 
and containing fifty-seven acres, is, next 
to Elysian, the most picturesque of the 
inside parks. It contains a fine lake 
ample for boating on a considerable 
scale, but lacking somewhat in intri- 
cacy of design, as do all of the park 
lakes, being merely large ponds, un- 
broken by sheltered coves and wooded 
points, as are all the best park lakes. 
This lake, too, lacks suitable planting 
on the borders. The lawn spaces in this 
park are larger in proportion to the whole 
than is the case with any other of the 
parks, and much of its attractiveness 
lies in these broad expanses of green. 
This park, also, contains a considerable 
variety of trees, especially of conifers, 
among which are some rare species. 
Westlake Park is the favorite for 
boating, but for the landsman there is 
rather a restricted area as compared 
with the other large parks. Westlake 
contains thirty-five acres, the greatest 
part in water, and is situated in one 
of the most fashionable and thickly set- 
tled portions of the city. Lying in a 
natural depression, it furnishes a pleas- 
ant and restful landscape, a factor which 
had much to do with the building in 
that section of an unusually fine class 
VIEW IN HOLLENBECK PARK, LOS ANGELES. 
