PART FIVE
PAGES 33 TO 42
VOL. XXIII.
SUNDAY MORNING, PORTLANfi OREGON, OCTOBER 30, 1904.
NO. U.
Park Scenes as Conceived by
Artist F A Routledge
THE PARK POSSIBILITIES OF THE LEWIS AND
CLARK EXPOSITION SITE , .
How the-Four Hundred and Twenty Acrs
Could Be Utilized in the Future as Pleasure
Grounds for the People of Portland
UP ready material for a pubMe par MmMlMfflMMHMMMM
ORTLAXD has the site and the
ready material for a public park
that need not doff Its hat to the fa
mous public parks of the -world. Fur
thermore, a very decided sentiment In
favor of a park of this description has
taken hold of the public fancy, and It
now seems probable that Portland Is
soon to Include among- Its attractions a
park -whose fame will vie with the fa
mous Golden Gate Park, of San Fran
cisco; Lincoln Park, of Chicago; Fair
mount Park. Philadelphia, and even with
Central Park, of New York.
In the Lewis and Clark Exposition
grounds unusual parking possibilities are
offered.. This fact has come to be fully
recognised by all who have been there
since the beautifying of the site for
next year's Fair. Not a person has
gone there in the last six months and
there have been some 50,000 visitors In
that time who has not been enraptured
with the scene.
Ask the tourist what he saw and he
will deal in nothing but superlatives In
answering you. He will tell you with
out hesitation It Is one of the most rarely
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