. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . l littlestandards, with wires in conduits, may be placed near enoughthe water to be reflected in its surface. The park needs as awhole very careful expert planning. It has admirable possi-bilities—in fact, it is capable of being made one of the most in-teresting parks of its kind in the United States, for one doesnot often find in a single city square a good sized lake, contain-ing an island, and then a high hill with an unlimited supplyof water at the top of it. For the present, pending the preparation
. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . l littlestandards, with wires in conduits, may be placed near enoughthe water to be reflected in its surface. The park needs as awhole very careful expert planning. It has admirable possi-bilities—in fact, it is capable of being made one of the most in-teresting parks of its kind in the United States, for one doesnot often find in a single city square a good sized lake, contain-ing an island, and then a high hill with an unlimited supplyof water at the top of it. For the present, pending the preparation of a careful gen-eral plan, it is enough perhaps to advocate the beautifying of 92 Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association the margin of the lake, the removal of the thronging poplars,the more artistic lighting of the whole park—this need not bean expensive undertaking—and the correction of the walk sys-tem south of the reservoir, by taking up the present walk whichparallels the street and placing it where the well worn diagonalpath gives unmistakable hint that a walk is investment value to the money Hayden and McCulloehParks are little ornamentalsquares, properly developedwith multitudes of would be saving ofexpense, however, and noloss of beauty, if perennialsand flowering shrubs wereused to some extent insteadof quite so many the latter require re-placing every season the}result, by their demandson labor and stock, in thecostliest kind of of this character arenecessarily show y t butthere should be effort togive a relatively permanentexpended on them. These city squares, as such ornamental open spaces areusually called, are a delightful kind of park, but they are alsothe most expensive kind. For more important that the costof maintenance is the circumstance that through their existencemany valuable building lots are taken from the tax lists. Theadded value of abutting property seldom restores the whole ofthis loss. But if,
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