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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
LAKE AND AUSEMAN BRIDGE, CITYPARK NEW ORLEANS. GLEANING SEA WEED FROM LAKE IN CITY PARK, NEW 
ORLEANS. 
THE PUBLIC 
The parks of New Orleans, the chief 
of which are the City Park and Audubon 
Park, have many features of interest that 
are not to be found elsewhere in the coun- 
try, and will afford profitable study to the 
members of the American Association of 
Park Superintendents who visit that city 
for their convention next month. 
The famous City Park contains 220 
acres and was bequeathed to the city by 
John IMcDonogh. It is managed by a 
board of thirty commissioners appointed 
by the legislature and derives its revenue 
from an annual city appropriation of 
$15,000 and income from concessions 
amounting to about $9,000, the annual ex- 
penditure totaling from $23,000 to $26,000. 
There are polo, baseball, golf and tennis 
grounds, and lakes covering from 25 to 
30 acres. 
The principal trees include live oak, 
gum, sycamore, hackberry and practically 
all of the vegetation of the locality. 
The entertainment includes boating, 
moving pictures, concerts, merry-go-rounds 
and two public festivals given in May and 
on July 4. 
PARKS OF N 
I — City Park. 
The principal buildings include the Del- 
gado Art Museum, Casino Building, the 
Perist\'lium or shelter building, greenhouse 
and public comfort Innldings. 
The great event of the year is the May 
festival, held the first week in May each 
year, to mark the opening of the summer 
season. 
With bands playing, flags flying, ad- 
dresses, brilliant displays of fireworks, 
classic and general dancing, parades, vau- 
deville, concerts, motion pictures, swim- 
ming exhibitions, baseball and various 
other shows and attractions, and with the 
park itself adorned in all its spring- 
time splendor of leaf and flower, the an- 
nual May festival and silver jubilee this 
season was a gala occasion. 
Beginning at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, 
with music in the pavilion, followed by 
senior and junior games of baseball at 3 
o’clock, the festival got into full swing, 
and, as the hundreds who came early were 
followed by a steady stream of pleasure 
seekers, it was not long until several 
tbousand persons were enjoying the con- 
tinuous whirl of entertainment. At 4:30 
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o’clock J. T. Faust, who for twenty years 
held the Southern championship in swim- 
ming, gave a short talk on swimming, fol- 
lowed by an exhibition of fancy aquatic 
sports. 
Hon. Paul Capdevielle, president of the 
City Park Association, at 5 :30 o’clock de- 
livered the address of welcome. From 6 
to 7 o’clock Braun’s naval brigade and 
concert band gave a concert in the Casino 
music stand, and at 7 :30 o’clock there 
was a beautifully decorated floral chil- 
dren’s parade, in honor of the silver jubi- 
lee of the park. Throughout the re- 
mainder of the time there were motion 
picture shows and fireworks displays. 
One of the special features of the late 
afternoon was a presentation of classic 
dances by pupils of the Haines School of 
Dancing. 
The officers of the City Park Improve- 
ment Association are : Paul Capdevielle, 
president ; E. W. Smith, first vice-presi- 
dent; V. J. Botto, second vice-president; 
A. Glaudot, secretary; P. M. Schneidau, 
treasurer; J. Bernard, superintendent and 
assistant secretary. 
