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compromise the question on artistic lines, however. 
An important park, when arrangements are 
made for improvement, will be Phalen park. The 
park and boulevards will contain an area of nearly 
200 acres of land surface and will enclose a stretch 
of water of nearly four miles in length and embracing 
some 326 acres in area. It is proposed so to treat the 
water area as to provide for all forms of boating and 
aquatic recreation. The land section comprises 
some beautiful sylvan scenery, which in the course 
of improvement will develop into a charming park. 
There is considerable native forest and in combina- 
system comp'ete, and to accord with its grand loca- 
tion a linkwork of boulevards and parkways is es- 
sential and to this end the commissioners are bend- 
ing their energies and much has been accomplished. 
The possibilities in this direction in St. Paul are ex- 
ceedingly promising, for its undulating surface of- 
fers boundless capacity for beautiful effects, and the 
final completion of the system with boulevard and 
parkway adjuncts would give to St. Paul parks and 
recreative facilities unsurpassed anywhere in the 
world. There is in the aggregate, a large area of 
land in the hands of the commissioners yet unim- 
ELECTRIC CAR STATION ENTRANCE TO COMO PARK. ST. PACE, MINN. 
tion with its splendid water features it will have 
distinctive characteristics as a forest and water park, 
and will be a needed complement to Como park with 
its floral and such like attractions. 
Indian Mound park, though small in area com- 
mands a prospect of such magnificent extent, variety 
and beauty, and embraces so many picturesque fea- 
tures within its own limits and in its immediate vi- 
cinity, that it has an attractiveness particulaily its 
own. It is invested in peculiar interest to many 
from being the seat of curious tumular antiquities 
from which it derives its name. 
The work of improvement in a park system such 
as St, Paul is acquiring never ends. To make the 
proved calling for both energy and outlay, to which 
the people must liberally contribute to attain the 
desired ends. 
In the matter of street trees and their care, 
St. Paul has only recently solved the problem, 
although in certain districts property owners have 
provided themselves, through the cit}" authorities, 
with shade and street trees. It has to be said, 
however, that there were difficulties in the way 
of the Park Board taking upon itself this work 
until legislation was secured. The time is 
coming, however, when the park departments of 
our cities will have charge of the city’s trees, or 
that special officers will be elected or appointed by 
