Park improvement papers
Subtitle: A series of seventeen papers relating to the improvement of the park system of the District of Columbia; printed for the use of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia
By: ed. and comp. by Charles Moore, the clerk of that Committee
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1901
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Parks
Table of contents: title: no. 1. Action of the Washington Board of trade in relation to the park system of the District of Columbia.; title: no. 2. Action toward the establishment of an arboretum.; title: no. 3. The need of additional playgrounds, parks and reservations.; title: no. 4. Fort Stevens, where Lincoln was under fire. By William V. Cox.; title: no. 5. Informal hearing before the subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia.; title: no. 6. Notes on the parks and their connections.; title: no. 7. Notes on the establishment of a national park in the District ... by William V. Cox.; title: no. 8. Men on horseback. A paper or the equestrian statuary in Washington ... by S. H. Kauffmann.; title: no. 9. Essay on the city of Washington. Reprinted from the Washington gazette for November 19, 23, 26, and December 7, 1796.; title: no. 10. Informal conference of the Park improvement commission ... October 21, 1901. Remarks of Hon. Henry B. F. Macfarland ... remarks of Dr. S. P. Langley.; title: no. 11. Extract from a paper on the commercial value of beauty, by Daniel H. Burnham.; title: no. 12. Centennial avenue. Editorials reprinted from the Evening star.; title: no. 13. The making of a plan for Washington city ... by Glenn Brown.; title: no. 14. Abstract of laws and ordinances relative to the Washington market company.; title: no. 15. A paper relating to the trees, shrubs, and plants in the ... Capitol grounds, and an index of the same ... observations upon the planting and care of trees in the District of Columbia, by Frederick Law Olmsted.; title: no. 16. The eighteenth and twentieth century plans for Washington city. A paper read before the National arts club, New York, Feb. 12, 1902, by Glenn Brown.; title: no. 17. The embellishment of Washington, by Clarence E. Messer. Art and the toilers ... by Rev. Frank Sewall.