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[[letterhead]]
Submarine Signal Company
Boston
[[/letterhead]]
Nov 16.

[[handwritten note]]
Referred to Col Stecker & Mr Donaldson C.L.F. Dec 4
[[/note]]

Dear Mr. Freer,

At the risk of seeming intrusive I am constrained to suggest to you that if McMillan Park is ever to be a park indeed it is essential that a plan be prepared for the treatment of the entire space embraced in the Resevoir and the Filtration Plant. Those in charge of the latter have already begun some planting, and they have applied to the War Department for some suggestions. This means bad work and blunders irretrievable.

I have just sent to the Secretary of War a letter signed by Messrs Bumham, McKien, Saint. Gaunders and Olmsted asking the Secretary to stop