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Two statues are to be reproduced in 
Italian marble by Lorado Taft, rep- 
resenting “The Idyl” and “Pastoral,” 
to be placed at the entrance to the 
Conservatories. 
Early in the year, the entrance to 
Humboldt Park at California avenue 
and Division street was remodeled. 
The new roadway and walks were 
completed. The statue in Georgia 
marble by Charles J. Mulligan, “The 
Miner and His Child,” was placed at 
this entrance. The Rose Garden and 
Perennial Garden in this park consti- 
tute one of the most beautiful and 
artistic gardens to be found anywhere 
in the country. They never fail to 
attract special attention and elicit 
praise from those who visit the park. 
The entrance to the Conservatory 
in Garfield Park as originally laid out, 
was found to be too much restricted 
to accommodate the large number of 
visitors and vehicles. To overcome the 
congestion of vehicles, the park drive- 
way was widened about 40 feet and 
the broad central entrance walk, 57 
feet in width, was extended eastward 
to the edge of the drive, thus afford- 
ing ample space for approach to the 
building. Within this space was placed 
a water court, 20x25 feet, flanked with 
border plantation, and four additional 
electric lamps were placed to properly 
illuminate this entrance. The work 
was performed by park employes. 
Two life-size bronze casts of buffaloes, 
reproduced from models by Edward 
Kennys, were placed at the west en- 
trance of the floral display grounds 
upon enduring granite bases. 
The landscape department takes 
care of and renews all the trees and 
plantations on all the boulevards and 
in all the small parks, and also takes 
care of the winter spraying with the 
large spraying machine in the large 
parks. A table showing the number 
and locations of trees, shrubs and 
perennials planted is shown in the re- 
port. There were 3,286 trees, 74,582 
shrubs and 787 perennials planted. 
Among the trees were the following 
large ones planted in Douglas Park, 
south of Ogden avenue: 
2 large elms 16 in. in diameter 
15 large elms 6 to 8 in. in diameter 
11 poplars 6 to 8 in. in diameter 
6 ash 5 to 8 in. in diameter 
65 Hawthorn clusters .. 6 to 12 ft. high 
In order to keep down the dust, an 
oil emulsion consisting of 12^, gal- 
lons of heavy oil with an asphaltic 
base, 112 gallons of crude petroleum 
oil, one-half barrel of soft soap, and 
400 gallons of water, was sprinkled 
over the pavement from a tank wag- 
on; 413,900 square yards of macadam 
pavement were treated from one to 
three times during the year. The 
following table shows the cost of oil- 
ing for the year 1911: 
Oil with asphaltic base, 7,755 
gallons at 6c $ 465.30 
Crude petroleum oil, 49,560 
gallons at 3.45c 1,709.82 
Teams, 148 days at $5.50 814.00 
Soap, 130 bbls. at $2.50 325.00 
Labor and superintendence.. 1.477.50 
Total cost $5,029.24 
Or 1.21c per square yard per year. 
In the range of propagating houses, 
eleven in number, most of the flower- 
ing plants were grown which were re- 
quired in the display grounds in the 
various parks as well as for-, the large 
Conservatory in Garfield Park. 
Elaborate tabular arrangements of 
the expenses for both maintenance 
and improvement are included in the 
report. 
George A. Mugler is secretary of 
the board; Jens Jensen, consulting 
landscape architect, and A. C. Schra- 
der, superintendent and engineer. 
THE MINER’S HOME-COMING; HUMBOLDT PARK. Charles J. Mulligan, Sc. 
