After the first ten years, the legislature reviewed the entire situation, and, finding the work good, provided three hundred thousand dollars a year for four years for its continuation. Each year increases the number of friends of the system, and the necessary funds for enlargement or for special treatments, such as building ocean-front driveways, the acquisition of some specially desirable natural feature, or the construction of a connecting parkway, are provided. The plan of Washington provides for a complete system of parks encircling the entire city, uniting Potomac Park, which stretches along the river front, with the present Zoölogical and Rock Creek parks on the north; thence by parkways to the Soldiers’ Home grounds, some seven hundred acres in extent, and on to the valley of the Anacostia, where a tidal basin will be formed. The palisades of the upper Potomac, the Arlington estate, and the chain of abandoned forts on the hills overlooking the city, all become parts of the simple yet comprehensive scheme, which is but the logical development of the original L’Enfant plan. Already Washington is realizing in large measure the commercial advantages of civic beauty. People from all parts of the country are building fine residences along the broad avenues; and new business structures vie with the government office buildings in design and solidity. Thus the plans which seemed but a dream when they were first exhibited eight years ago are now so far accomplished that complete realization seems plainly in sight.