Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . y Mayor Rolph. During his long service as member of the Park Commission, ofwdiich he was many times elected president, Commissioner Spreckelshas done much for the adornment and improvement of the world-famous Golden Gate Park. Among the notable examples of his publicspirited efforts is the music stand, which he induced his father, ClausSpreckels, to give to the public. Prompted by his love of horses andopen-air sports, he was the main factor in the building of the Stadium,and was also instrumental in bringing about the construction of thepicturesque
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . y Mayor Rolph. During his long service as member of the Park Commission, ofwdiich he was many times elected president, Commissioner Spreckelshas done much for the adornment and improvement of the world-famous Golden Gate Park. Among the notable examples of his publicspirited efforts is the music stand, which he induced his father, ClausSpreckels, to give to the public. Prompted by his love of horses andopen-air sports, he was the main factor in the building of the Stadium,and was also instrumental in bringing about the construction of thepicturesque Dutch windmill near the Ocean Boulevard, which hasmade possible the Spreckels Lake, named in his honor, and otherlakes to which the windmill pumps water. Mr. Spreckels married Miss Alma de Bretteville in PhiladelphiaMay 11, 1907, and they have a son and daughter. He is a member ofthe Pacific L^nion, Bohemian, L^nion League, San Francisco Yacht andOlympic Clubs, being a life member of the last named. 136 Municipal Blue Book of San Francisco. J JOHN McLaren Superintendent of Golden Gate Park OHN McLaren, Superintend-ent of Golden Gate Park since1887 and Chief of the LandscapeDepartment of the Panama-PacificInternational Exposition, has thetwofold distinction of transforming-a waste of sand dunes into one of themost beautiful parks in the world,and a barren Exposition site into averitable fairyland of trees andflowers. Natures ruggedness hasbeen so perfectly imitated in GoldenGate Park that it is popularly re-garded as one of the foremostnatural beauty spots in existence,while the floral and sylvan settingof the Exposition gives the impres-sion that flowers, palaces and treesare old associates in a garden thathas been for years a place of luxuri-ant beauty. The truth is that the Exposition site, hardly more thana year ago, was a stretch of sand and mud pumped in from the McLaren, who has this rare genius of paintingupon the soil of waste places these living lan
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