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PARK AND CEMETERY 
SCENE IN MINNEHAHA PARK, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
unobtrusively as possible, facilities for the most 
perfect enjoyment of the entrancing prospect. An 
effective water supply has been put into this park 
and it is here the small zoological collection is 
kept. 
Loring Park, named in honor of Hon. C. M. 
Loring, late president of the board of Park Com- 
missioners, and to whom the development of the 
park system is largely due, is situated in the city, 
and the views given in the plate display its main 
features. 
It will be some years before the system as ori- 
ginally suggested will be completed, and the iso- 
lated tracts improved and connected one with the 
other in the finished design which the system sug- 
gests. 
Mr. William W. Folwell, president of the board 
of Park Commissioners, in his report dated January 
1896, says: “It may be that the splendid scheme 
of Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Loring may never be 
perfected in all its details, but Minneapolis will 
never be satisfied unless it is executed in spirit and 
essential features. The ‘Grand Rounds’ must beat 
length accomplished, and the enlightened generos- 
ity of citizens should be so displayed that no taxes, 
or but slight ones, should be needed for the terri- 
tory required. 
“It needs to be borne in mind that up to this 
time no action or consideration hardly has been had 
toward the acquirement of land for the large out- 
lying woodland park or parks which the city will 
demand before the present generation shall have 
passed away. I may perhaps except from this 
statement the suggestion that should the United 
States government improve the lands about Fort 
Snelling as it has done in some other similar situa- 
tions, the need of such a great woodland park may 
in whole or in part be met.’’ 
The Park Commissioners also incidentally give 
attention to street trees, and in certain quarters the 
trees have been greatly improved during the past 
two seasons by skillful attention. With the views 
expressed in the official reports, there can be no 
question that a strong desire exists to make Minne- 
apolis in fact as well as in name a beautiful city. 
Thanks are due for courtesies in preparing this 
article to Mr. Frank H. Nutter, City Park Engi- 
neer, Minneapolis. 
THE INTERSTATE PARK, DALLES OF 'I'HE ST. CROIX. 
The contemplation of the park system of Minne- 
apolis brings to one’s mind the proposed Inter-State 
park at the Dalles of the St. Croix, Minnesota and 
Wisconsin. The site is a beautiful one, combining 
grand natural scenery with other features eminently 
suitable to park necessities, which will afford food 
for reflection, study and recreation seldom found in 
parks so easily accessible to large cities. Mr. Geo. 
H. Hazzard, of Minneapolis, the Minnesota Inter- 
State Park Commissioner, has displayed marked ac- 
