counsel, and in such case the Commissioners ask for discretionary

power.

Under said section two the Commissioners did not consider themselves authorized to employ a Secretary. They submit that such illjudged economy only operates in such a way as to take up the time of other officers when they could be more profitably employed. Exhibits D and E show the number of visitors to the Park. Attention is called to the fact that the numbers have been steadily increasing.

Permission has been given to the United States to construct a life saving station at the northwest corner of Golden Gate Park. A house is now being built which promises to be ornamental as well as useful.

Exhibit L shows a creditable list of donations made to the Park. It is also proposed by a number of liberal citizens to make a donation of a highly ornamental iron and glass structure imported at great cost by the late James Lick. The Board should be authorized to erect this edifice. The estimated cost of erection is fifteen thousand dollars. When finished it would doubtless return a good rental. In conclusion, we recommend an increase of the Park tax to three (3) cents upon each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property in the city and county for Maintenance Fund, and also the authority to rent an office and employ a Secretary and Engineer, at the discretion of the Commission, as provided in section four, Act eight hundred and two, entitled "An Act to provide for the improvement of public parks in the City and County of San Francisco," approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Control of the grades on D and H Streets should be given to the Commission in order that uniformity of grade may be established from Stanyan Street to the ocean. Respectfully submitted,

SAN FRANCISCO, December 1st, 1877.

E. L. SULLIVAN, WILLIAM ALVORD, LOUIS MCLANE.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.

GOLDEN GATE PARK, November 30th, 1877,

To the Honorable the Board of Park Commissioners:

GENTLEMEN: I herewith submit a statement of the works prosecuted on the grounds under your supervision, during the two years ending November thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

PARK MAINTENANCE.

The labor employed has been engaged principally in the maintenance of the completed drives, walks, and plantations of Golden Gate Park.

MAINTENANCE OF DRIVES AND WALKS.

This work comprises the dressing, sprinkling, cleaning, and smaller repairs necessary to keep them in good condition.

There are now constructed and in use thirty-five thousand eight hundred and eighty-two linear feet of roadway, varying in width from thirty-six to ninety feet, and one million six hundred thousand eight hundred and thirty square feet in area. This has received a coating of rock over its entire extent twice since November, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and as many as four times on considerable portions where the wear and tear has been greatest. Sprinkling with hose and wagons employs a force of men and teams, exclusively, at least five months, and partially during the remainder of the year. The finished walks have been kept in repair. Those unfinished cannot well be completed until the grounds adjacent have received the final work of shaping and plantation.

MAINTENANCE OF PLANTATIONS.

This work embraces watering and attendance, such as trimming, mulching, staking, and hoeing around trees and shrubs, and care of the grass.

In the avenue and eastern district of Golden Gate Park there have been planted up to date, trees and shrubs, sixty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty-six; in the western, or sand district, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.

Attention has been bestowed principally on the plantations in the avenue and eastern district of Golden Gate Park. Their progress has been fair, nothwithstanding the drouth of the past season and insufficient facilities for water distribution, which, under present circumstances, could not be avoided.

Heavy pruning has been resorted to with several varieties of trees, to enable them to withstand the prevailing summer winds and the storms of winter, which while it causes them to present rather an unfavorable appearance at present, will in the future, I believe, be more than recompensed by their strength, compactness, and symetry of form.

PARK IMPROVEMENTS.

The work of improvement has been limited to the completion of a part of the walks, the construction of a bridle-path five thousand feet long and twenty feet broad, the preparation of grounds, formation of compost heaps, and the propagation and planting of trees, shrubs, and flowering plants,

There were raised in the Park Nursery, season of eighteen hundred and seventy-five and six, trees and shrubs, twenty-two thousand four hundred and ninety-nine; season of eighteen hundred and seventysix and seven, trees and shrubs, thirteen thousand one hundred and thirty-seven; season of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eight, trees and shrubs, viz.: Tamarisks, seven thousand; Monterey pine, seven thousand six hundred; blue gums, nine thousand seven hundred; flowering plants, one thousand five hundred.

There are, in addition, in boxes, eighteen thousand Monterey pines, and four thousand seedlings of other sorts, for the season of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and nine; also, there will be about ten thousand flowering plants ready by next spring,

For the cost of all the different works of maintenance and improvement, as well as stock and material purchased for those purposes during the two years ending with this date, I refer you to Exhibit C., accompanying this report.

Respectfully submitted,

EXHIBIT A.

Park Commissioners' receipts and disbursements from organization of the Board, May 3d, 1870, to November 30th, 1875.

Receipts.

Police account

Interest account

Pound account

Balance cash on hand November 30th, 1875.

$115,062 50

Surveying and engineering

16,165 00

Salary account_.

13,395 00

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EXHIBIT E.

Summarized statement of the number of visitors to Golden Gate Park for the year ending November 30th, 1877.