PARK AND C EM E T ER\ 
ing of trees and shrubs. Practically 
the same applies to P'halen park, 
where the lake shore grading and 
planting must be postponed from year 
to year on account of lack of funds, 
and this brings us face to face with 
a temporary character, for the sake 
of economy. But this narrow policy 
must change and give room to a more 
liberal dealing in regard to our park 
system. The city’s wealth, growth 
and far-reaching ambitions demand a 
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boulevard where land rose in value 
from $150 to $200 an acre to $1,500 
to $2,000 for fifty-foot lots. He 
quoted one large property owner as 
stating that the owners could easily 
have paid for the entire cost and still 
park and Parkway System 
U\ -r( OP OAlti'f PAUL LJJMN 
1, Mendota Boul.; 2, West End Commons; 3, Snelling Heights;!, Riverside Boul.; 5, Newell Park; 6, Como Park; 7, Catholic 
Cemetery; 8, Oakland Cemetery; 9, Lake Gervais; 10, Lake Phalen; 11, Indian Mounds; 12, Lincoln Park; 13, Grand View; 
14, Ridgewood Park. 
The city will be almost surrounded by boulevards when this system is complete; Beginning at lower right corner of map, 
follow Point Douglas Road north to the Fork where Johnson boulevard begins and runs to Lake Phalen; Wheelock Park- 
way connects Lake Phalen with Lake Como, from which Como River boulevard leads to Riverside boulevard, and Lexington 
Parkway straight south; Reserve boulevard runs on the north side of the River and the West Side boulevard on the south 
side of the river, both in the lower left Quarter of the map. 
conditions existing for years back. 
The board never had any amount of 
money on hand to do any improve- 
ment in its entirety as it should have 
been done. All of it had to be done 
by piecemeal, and a great deal of it of 
corresponding development of its pre- 
tentious park system on commensur- 
ate lines.” 
He illustrated the increase in value 
to property adjacent to improve- 
ments by the case of the Mississippi 
have made 500 per cent on the in- 
creased value of their property. 
He presented an interesting com- 
parison of expenditures on parks and 
parkways in St. Paul and in Minne- 
apolis from 1873 to 1911. 
