Show LAKE PARKS WELL CARED FOR City's Breathing Places Maintained and arni Generous Years Year's Development STREET PARKING ITEM Forty Thousand Dollars Spent on This Improvement Improve ment Alone M 4 H M M M M H M M Mt 4 41 1 t f 1 PARK PROVE PROVE- 4 METS FOR FOIL YEAR YEAH 4 Spent in parks panis f ff f Springs f ff f Can Canyon ou boulevard 80 4 Street parkin Total 1 f 44 4 H i M H M M 4 M H HA A number of improvements all planned In accordance with a program to embrace a period of several years In inthe the tho city's s growth were carried out during dur dur- lug ing- the past year in Salt Lakes Lake's parks and playgrounds The groundwork was laid for a number of additional ones onesto onesto to be made during the tho years to come During the year time the city took over overactive overactive active operation of time the Warm Springs resort In the northwestern part of the city which It has owned for a number of years but formerly had leased to private firms finns The Tho bathhouse was thoroughly overhauled at n. n cost of Plans have havo been obtained for a bathhouse to bo be erected on the ground In the tho future Considerable work was done dono early In Inthe the tho year on the boulevard which Is ultimately ulti ulti- to skirt the rim of City Creek canyon above the Capitol grounds A roadway forty feet wide was built on the tho west side of the tho canyon wall It crosses the creek almost a mile further up the canyon anti and connects with a similar simi lam lar drive on the east side Toward that work nork the tho city contributed A A. committee of citizens of which Enoch Smith was the moving spirit also subscribed sub sub- scribed considerable sums and contractors contractors con con- tractors donated the use of their equip equip- Improvements nt at Liberty Of the Improvements at Liberty park one of time the most Important was the construction con con- of a comfort station at a cost of The building Is of brick and amid concrete fireproof construction with a atile atile tile roof It will Include a nursery for lost children restroom for women anc and other conveniences 1 A new fence was erected around the large lake in time the park at a cost of It was built to eliminate danger of drowning to children Other permanent improvements in included in- in eluded a new sounding board for the bandstand costing new monkey house construction of benches arid and tables at a cost of wiring center drive for lights at a cost of addition to greenhouse 1500 Financed by the park budget a number of repairs were veru made to various buildings in the park and several additions received at atthe atthe the zoo Several new louver flower gardens some of then Including rare varieties of plants were added At Riverside park a number of im improvements irn- irn were made from the budget Including the planting of two acres of additional lawn flowering flowering- plants and 2500 hardwood trees In Central playgrounds was v.-as installed a concrete swimming pool costing coating 1700 Arrangements were ivere made for convert convert- ing imig the playground into a skating rink during the tho winter months Increase in In Pioneer park Increased attendance at band concerts necessitated the tho construction construction con con- of more benches at a cost of In Athletic park hark south of Liberty park a drainage system was installed at a cost of Another baseball diamond was also laid out Increase of the parkways In the tho was one of time tho notable activities activities ties of the park department during during- the tho past year In Sixth East between Fourth South and Ninth South there were vere established nineteen new sections of park equipped with automatic sprinklers The Tho improvement cost All time the improvements made were In reality hut but preliminaries to greater things planned for the coming year and time the ones to follow S i I PAll TO Io County treasurers and other of officials of- of contributed approximately 60 60 to the coffers of the state yester- yester Ca San San Juan county deposited Uintah county time tho state auditor fees fees- If hi W. W Grif tRim clerk of the supreme court fees the tho Utah state conservation conserva conserva- tion commission fees In addition helm heirs to tIme tho estate of time the late R. R paid into the state treasury inheritance tax |