Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners (1913) . available for acquirements or construc-tion of each of the projects specified in the act. These projectswere ones which had been studied and reported on in generalform by direction of the Legislature in previous years, and hadall been deemed advisable and consistent with completeness ofthe parkway system. The Board feared, however, and sostated in its report last year, that some embarrassment mightbe found in the limitations imposed by the act, but is very gladto say that while this apprehension has been somewhat justifiedby the e
Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners (1913) . available for acquirements or construc-tion of each of the projects specified in the act. These projectswere ones which had been studied and reported on in generalform by direction of the Legislature in previous years, and hadall been deemed advisable and consistent with completeness ofthe parkway system. The Board feared, however, and sostated in its report last year, that some embarrassment mightbe found in the limitations imposed by the act, but is very gladto say that while this apprehension has been somewhat justifiedby the experience of the year, yet, on the whole, the degree ofsuccess in adjusting expenditures has been such as to permita good beginning. Results already attained promise a verysatisfactory accomplishment in relation to all the was undoubtedly helped by the general hearing given toall interested in the various projects which preceded the assign-ment of the funds, and made it evident to all that all the pro-jects could not be entered upon 1914.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 48. 9 After careful consideration, based upon a study of all thework to be done, the Board decided to assign the funds availablefor the year 1913 for the provision of land and constructionof the Woburn Parkway along Horn Pond; for the preparationof plans for acquiring the land for the Old Colony Parkwayfrom Columbia Road to Neponset River in Boston, and in thefollowing year from Neponset River to the Quincy Shore Drive- -way; for construction of Mystic River Driveway in extensionfrom Cradock Bridge to Mystic Avenue, in Medford, as part ofan extension all the way to Middlesex Fells and Revere Beachparkways, near Wellington Bridge, when additional fundsshould be provided; for land for Dedham Parkway from StonyBrook Reservation roads to Dedham, near Boyden Square; andfor land for Hammond Pond Parkway from Beacon Street,Newton, to Hammond Street in Brookline. This assignmentwas made in expectatio
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