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PARK AND CE/AETEFn'. 
GARFIELD PARK — “THE GLEN,” CHESTER CREEK 
The Parks of Duluth, Minn. 
The comparatively young, but enterprising and 
rapidly growing city of Duluth, has shown great 
wisdom and foresight in regard to her public parks. 
Several tracts of land of more or less acreage have 
been secured, easy of access, and moreover of his- 
toric interest, and which have been dedicated to the 
use of all her citizens forever. 
This early recognition of the necessity, to say 
nothing of the business acumen displayed, of ac- 
quiring and setting aside certain areas of land for 
park purposes, will result in unques- 
tionable advantages in the future, and 
in the matter of IDuluth, preserves 
right in the midst ot her population, 
tracts of wild, natural scenery, which 
by care and study of the officials in 
charge, may make the Duluth park- 
system unique in itself and unsur- 
passed by any other city of the Un- 
ion. More than this, as the neigh- 
boring country grows and improves 
about the city, her natural and wild 
parks, will be an attraction which 
will redound to the welfare, moral 
and physical, of this city by the 
lakes. 
By the courtesy of the Board of 
Park Commissioners, through its sec- 
retary and superintendent, Mr. H. C. 
Helm, two characteristic views are 
given; One “The Glen,” Chester 
Creek, Garfield Park; the other, Kast 
Branch Falls, Lester River, Lester 
Park. An enchantment steals over 
one while looking at these refreshing 
pictures; one can almost feel the ac- 
tual effects on the human system of 
the delightful combination of water, 
woods and rocks, and hear the music 
of the falls, roaring or gurgling in 
its many moods as the water makes 
its way to its rest. 
The system includes some six 
parks, viz: Lincoln Park, Central 
Park, Garfield Park, Lester River 
Park, Cascade Sc]uare, Portland 
Square, and connecting boulevards or 
parkways. 
Lincoln Park comprises about fif- 
ty acres lying in the valley of Mil- 
ler’s Creek, which traverses its entire 
length. The width of the tract varies 
from four huncLed to eight hundred 
feet, which it makes by a succession 
of rapids and falls, through granite bounded limits, 
forming here and the reswirling pools, whence it re- 
news its vigor and terminates its career in the park 
in a beautiful cascade called the Lower falls. This 
tract is heavily timbered with young and healthy 
trees of many varieties, and with its granite out- 
croppings and boulders form a most romantic and 
attractive resort. 
Central Park, of one hundred acres, contains the 
highest point of land on Lake Superior, 600 feet 
above its level, and the land first sighted by the 
lake pilot. Its roadway reaches a point 500 feet 
