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Pacific Coast. He was associated in politics and in business with men of the same high type as himself, and Golden Gate Park was one of their best achievements. United States Supreme Justice Stephen J. Field was also instrumental in clearing all the obstacles to the realization of the people's park project.

In efforts to reclaim the original sand wastes of Golden Gate Park from Strawberry Hill to the Pacific Ocean, the Park Commissioners found that lupin and barley would not hold the sand. Grass seed imported from France proved its efficiency at once. The sea bent grass, a native of the European coast, was also used with gratifying success. This grass requires little moisture and no manure, but it is a wonderful catcher and holder of the sand. The grass performs the initial work of holding back the drifting sands until the Monterey cypress and other branches of the pine family can assist in the work of reclamation. In due time the meadows are sown with Kentucky blue grass, and on the hillsides madrone, manzanita, laurel and other native trees take hold.

The first work of considerable magnitude in the creation of Golden Gate Park was the reclamation and cultivation of the Panhandle. This strip of land one block in width extends from Baker street west to Stanyan, a distance of eight blocks. The Panhandle was really the beginning of Golden Gate Park, from a constructive point of view. The original cypress and eucalyptus trees planted in the Panhandle have attained the size of trees that are commonly found in native forests.

The early Park Commissioners were hampered in a great degree by the lack of funds to procure loam aid fertilizing material. The inadequate supply of water was an obstacle that impeded the progress of reclamation. They labored assiduously and left a work which repays all their effort.

The park or garden in its modern aspect and under the sway of progressive humanity, has come to be regarded as a place where the weary, whether weary of head work or hand work, may be refreshed by breathing pure air, gladdened

by the sight of flowers and trees, and solaced by the sound of running waters. Its loveliness is satisfactory. There is no jarring note in its ensemble; its winding drives, bordered with noble trees; its forests of pine; its graceful and undulating slopes mantled in the richest verdure; its glistening lakes; its romantic waterfall.

Away to the west is the grand old Pacific Ocean, with the fine sweep of coast line. Quite distinctly can be heard the muffled roar of the waves as they roll upon the long stretch of sandy beach. In the distance at sea, faintly outlined against the horizon are the Farallone Islands, twenty-one miles away. Northward an enchanting view of the bay and the Golden Gate, so famed in song and story, is obtained; and looking beyond, the light houses on Points Arena and Bonita are plainly discernible. Nearer is seen Sausalito, nestling 'neath the purple hills of Marin; while to the right is Mount Tamalpais, whose aspect on a fine day is truly a brilliant one, especially when the sun's rays fall upon it, showing beautiful effects of light and shade.

Golden Gate Park fulfills the modern idea as a park at the door of the people, where the children may go for air and play-a park accessible to men and women who cannot go to the country for rest and recreation. Whatever policies may be adopted by inland towns or cities of ordinary size, the fact is now obvious that San Francisco, one of the leading cities of the world, and destined to become densely populated, has made ample provision for the workers in every avenue of industrial life.

The lakes, comprising a chain across Golden Gate Park from northeast to southwest, between Avenues Forty and Forty-two, add in a marvelous degree to the natural charm of the landscape in the western section of the grounds. The designer of the lake group has so cleverly applied the advantages of the site that one is impressed with the idea that nature in one of her happiest moods bestowed the shore curves, the inlets and the isles for the delight of artists in the field of landscapes beautiful. To create the lake effect desired required an im

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mense labor and cost a good deal of money. It was well spent.

The great center of popular interest in Golden Gate Park is the umbrageous spot where stands the Temple of Music, a magnificent gift of the late Claus Spreckels, the sugar king. The design is in the Italian Renaissance. It has a frontage of fifty-five feet and a height of seventy feet, flanked by Corinthian columns. Extending from the Corinthian columns on each side are colonnades, fifty-two feet six inches by fifteen feet wide, each supported by sixteen Ionic columns. The temple is a thing of beauty in its pure simplicity.

In front of this Temple of Music thousands of people sit on Sundays and holidays to listen to the band and special solo artists. The scene is Grecian in its golden sunshine and has no counterpart anywhere in America.

In the vicinity of the Temple of Music is the splendid Memorial Museum erected by M. H. de Young of the San Francisco Chronicle. This museum promises to be the nucleus of one of the most famous in the world and is already a source of delight and wonder to thousands. When completed and fully arranged by the public spirited citizen, who has presented it to the people of San Francisco it will be a monument of which any benefactor should feel proud.

Not far from the Temple of Music is another fine but smaller museum in which can be found many a most admirable zoological exhibit arranged by the Academy of Sciences.

The Stadium at which horse races and other athletic events take place is one of the features of Golden Gate Park that excites much admiration and reflects great credit on its designers, Park Commissioner A. B. Spreckels and Park Superintendent John McLaren.

The Stadium presents features which command the attention of park managers In many cities of the world.

Its area is thirty acres and it is oval in form. It is encircled by a trotting track, sixty feet wide. Sloping toward the center of the field is a grassy terrace ten feet high and thirty feet wide. At the base of the terrace slope is a foot path, twelve

feet wide. Inside of the footpath is a bicycle track twenty-five feet wide. Near the easterly end and inside the bicycle track is a quarter of a mile cinder track. Paralleling the straight-away of the bicycle path, is a 220-yard straight-away cinder track. Inside of the oval formed by the quarter of a mile cinder track there are spaces for hammer throwing, pole vaulting, jumping, etc. Space is also given for. one basket-ball court and six football fields.

The buffalo paddock is one of the sights of Golden Gate Park. Buffalo Bill remarked that the herd of buffalo was one of the best he ever saw. Early in 1890 the Park Commissioners purchased five buffalo in Montana. Three of the animals, surviving the journey by rail to San Francisco, were placed in the Park. The herd now numbers thirty-five and could be doubled or even increased to 100 if a larger number were desirable. It is noted that the animals born in Golden Gate Park attain normal size and are not deficient in vigor or health.

The Elk Park is another delight for sight-seers in Golden Gate Park. California is the natural home of the elk. Alvinza Hayward gave the Commissioners one pair of elk, and the band is now large. Parks in Los Angeles, Fresno and other cities have been supplied from the collection in Golden Gate Park. Several deaths resulting from fights have occur red in the drove. The elk born in Golden Gate Park attain great size.

The Deer Paddock attracts multitudes of people. In 1888 Alex Duncan, of Duncan's Mills, Sonoma county, gave the first black-tailed deer to Golden Gate Park. Later on, Korbel Brothers and L. L. Robinson donated deer. The deer paddock now contains twenty-five bucks, does and fawns. Spotted deer from Hawaii, donated by Mr. Bishop, were subsequently brought to the Park, and they thrive as well as the native California deer.

Kangaroo from Australia mingle with the deer, twelve in number and thrive in a most satisfactory manner.

In 1909 four moose from Alaska were given to the Park by Henry Fortmann of San Francisco. They were caught young and brought to San Francisco at the ex

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