PARK AND CCnCTCRY. 
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VIEW OK WATERFALL IN GOLDEN GATE PARK. 
pal item in a new Park. The annual income is a- 
bout $2 10,000, and the whole investment of the 
city, including costly litigation for the recovery of 
the lands which were a part of the old Spanish 
pueblo grant, has been $2,500,000 to date. It is 
now evident that the city will soon occupy all the 
vacant areas of the peninsula, west to the ocean, 
and every year the value of this great breathing 
space increases. 
The two hundred and fifty acres now more near- 
ly improved, contain about twenty miles of drives, 
a superb speedtrack, seventeen miles of walks, three 
miles of bridle-paths, ten acres of concourse, exten- 
sive lawns and arboretums, the group of conserva- 
tories, the Arizona garden. Deer Glen, the Buffalo 
paddock, the Aviary, the children’s Quarters, Re- 
creation grounds. Music Stand, Casino and water 
canal, various monuments, statuary and many less- 
er attractions. 
Farther west lie the 160 acres which were oc- 
cupied by the Midwinter Fair and some of the best 
of the 120 buildings remain, besides much of the 
planting done at the time. It is estimated that the 
total expenditure for construction at this Fair was 
about $1,500,000, and the total number of paid ad- 
missions was 1,434,281. The management after 
paying all expenses, had a large surplus, and it was 
decided to create a memorial museum in Golden 
Gate Park, in the Midwinter Fair Art Building. 
About $147,000 has been spent on the museum, 
which was formally opened last March. It already 
contains a great deal that is interesting, but its 
educational value depends, of course, upon the 
character of the men who identify themselves with 
its future development. There is as yet no great 
museum of national reputation on the Pacific Coast. 
The most attractive feature of Golden Gate to a 
tourist is probably the extensive floriculture, and the 
vast masses of such brilliant flowering trees as the 
Acacias. In many places the broken, rocky slopes 
are set with tree Ferns, Rhododendrons, rare Palms 
and a host of semi-tropic plants. Cinerarias and 
P'uchsias, for instance, one sees growing all the 
year round, and many of the older portions of the 
Park are masses of bloom at almost every season. 
The additions of a single year embrace about 1 12,- 
000 trees and 170,000 herbaceous plants, besides 
the bulbs, vines, etc. One finds thriving specimens 
of twenty six species of Acacias, forty-seven of Eu- 
calypts, forty of Pines, thirteen of Firs and Spruces 
