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Rh reappointed. In addition to the routine work of the year 1903, the principal subjects calling for the attention of the Board may be classified as follows:


 * Monuments.
 * Park music.
 * Landscape architect.
 * Hawthorne Park.
 * Fulton Park.
 * Improvements and suggestions.

Monumental Works of Art. Section 263 of the Charter recites:

"That no work of art shall be placed In any park or In any other public ground which Is subject to the supervision of the Park Board without its permission." This is construed to mean that any person or persons desiring to make use of park property for monuments or works of art as a gift to the City, shall submit to the Board In full the design and a description of the portion of ground desired for the placing of such monumental work, to be passed upon by the Board, before permission is granted.

There are at present two memorial works in charge of the Commission: The Skidmore Fountain, erected in 1888, and the David P. Thompson Fountain, erected in 1900. Three new monuments or memorial works have been proposed during the year, and their projectors having complied with the request for plans, etc., the ground has been assigned as follows:

Gift of the heirs of David P. Thompson, described as a group of statuary iii bronze, representing the coming of the white man to Oregon, to be placed in the City Park on a site which has been selected by the Park Board, an oval shaped grass plot 200 feet by 100 feet, 200 feet southeast of the bear pit and 100 feet northeast of the bird house. This group of statuary is by the celebrated sculptor Mr. H. A. McNeil, who has had the work in charge for about one and a half years, and it is expected that the same will be completed before July 4th, 1904.

Lewis and Clark Memorial. to consist of a granite shaft twenty feet high. The corner stone for the monument was laid by Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, on May 21st, 1903. This monument is to be located at the most prominent point In the City Park, and will commemorate the visit of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific Coast In 1805. 