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Excerpt from Beardsley Park: Landscape Architects' Preliminary Report, September, 1884
The need of additional level ground for games has been stated. A suitable field for the purpose, which would be in direct extension of the line of small play-grounds provided on the site as it exists, will be found immediately north of it. It is better ground for the purpose than any now held by the city.
The reason for advising the addition of the several other strips and patches shown on the plan, is to be found in the fact that land, situated as these several pieces are, is apt to be used after a while for purposes of private gain that may be advanced by a conspicuous display, serving as an advertisement to people frequenting the park. Such displays, even if not offensive and demoralizing, as in the case of a certain class of dram-shops and taverns is liable to be the case, are extremely out of place in the midst of a preserve of rural scenery. On the other hand the scenery of the park will be greatly im proved by such plantations as the plan proposes upon the ground in question.
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