PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PUBLIC SQUARES OF DETROIT 
PARKS AND 
Detroit has a well-rounded and effi- 
cient park system that is in some re- 
spects unique and in many ways dis- 
tinctive and individual. The great Belle 
Isle Park is the largest island park in 
the world and has many unique and in- 
teresting features that could not be 
matched in any other park system in 
the country. 
Detroit is also unusually well sup- 
plied with small parks and squares in 
the central business district. These 
furnish convenient breathing spots 
where they are most needed and make 
pastime of Detroit — canoeing. The 
greater part of Detroit appears to own 
or be in some way connected with a 
canoe. 
The Campus Martins is the center 
of business and the hub of the wheel 
from which radiate the main avenues 
to the suburbs. All suburban cars either 
pass through or within one block of it. 
Capitol Square Park is a beautiful 
little park of l /z acre, formerly the site 
of the Detroit High School, but now 
the burial place of Stevens T. Mason 
Michigan’s first governor. His burial 
which has been artificially increased to 
a marked degree by the intelligent ex- 
penditure of a liberal amount of money. 
Water Works Park is the gift of 
Hon. Chauncey Hurlbut, the father of 
Detroit Water Works, and the pet spot 
of all the land parks of Detroit. It is 
rendered doubly beautiful by expert 
gardening and many flowers. It con- 
tains tbe Hurlbut Memorial gate and 
statue and the widely known floral 
clock. 
Belle Isle has an aquarium that 
is one of the largest and best 
BRIDGE OVER NASHUA CANAL, BELLE ISLE PARK, DETROIT. 
impressive backgrounds and vistas for 
public and business buildings. These 
small squares furnish admirable sites 
also for public monuments and foun- 
tains, and many fine public works of 
sculpture and monumental architecture 
may be seen in these little parks in the 
center of the busy city. 
Belle Isle, the great park of Detroit, 
that is the wonder of all visitors, is an 
island in the Detroit River, just off the 
northern angle of the city. One of the 
main avenues of the city runs over 
the river on a long bridge out to Belle 
Isle. The island makes a park three 
miles long, three-quarters of a mile 
broad, 700 acres in area, with a seven- 
mile automobile drive around it. But 
the great feature of Belle Isle is its 
canals. And they make the peculiar 
place is marked by a handsome bronze 
.statue. 
Cass Park of 5 acres, is bounded by 
Ledyard and Bagg Sts. and Second 
Ave. 
Grand Boulevard, a handsome drive 
varying from 100 to 200 feet in width 
and about 12 miles long, completely 
encircles the city, intersecting Fort 
St., Woodward Ave. and Jefferson 
Ave. 
Grand Circus Park, 5 T / 2 acres, is four 
blocks north of City Hall. It is the 
site of the statue of Ex-Governor Pin- 
gree, and is bisected by Woodward 
Ave. between Park and Witherill Sts. 
Palmer Park, containing 840 acres, 
is also known as “Log Cabin,” a gift 
to the city by Ex-U. S. Senator Thomas 
W. Palmer, is of great natural beauty, 
equipped in the country, and a 
bathhouse that is one of its 
greatest attractions in summer. 
The attendance at the aquarium last 
year was 1,082,767, an increase of 133,- 
192 over that of the year before. In 
addition to putting forth every effort 
to keep this educational feature of 
the parks up to the highest possible 
standard, there were hatched at the 
aquarium for exhibition and later 
planted in the Detroit river 275,000 
whitefish fry and 5,000 lake trout fry. 
There were also turned over to the 
Michigan Fish Commission 5,000 
Spotted trout. At the bathhouse last 
season 159,862 persons were accom- 
modated, of which 27,053 were females 
and 32,619 boys who patronized the 
Tee department. The maximum at- 
