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was published by one of oiii' citizens. And I his man, while 

 he had mauy faults, nevertheless did much ^ood work and 

 helped those of us engaged in park work. This park consists 

 of more than thirty-three acres, and there is not another spot 

 equal to it in the state of Nebraska. The land belongs to 

 the city, and it will grow more valuable as time passes. The 

 work of keeping these parks up, however, will fall upon 

 future generations and they will get much of the benefit from 

 them. McKinley Park is another one of our spots to which 

 the city has acquired the legal title; this consists of two blocks 

 of ground with the street betAveen vacated and added to it. 

 In this little park there are nearly six hundred splendid trees 

 growing. In all the parks of Wymore now there are some 

 two thousand trees being cultivated, and they range from four 

 to eight years of age. ]Many years ago we had a very good 

 man in AVymore, — a man a\ ho was for several years Secretary 

 of this Society, — L. M. Russell. He Avas for several years a 

 member of our city council and also a member of the school 

 board. While he was a member of the school board he had the 

 high school grounds planted to shade trees ; there were forty- 

 two of them, — ash and elm interspersed alternately. It is 

 only a question of time, however, until the elm will have to 

 come out. Our high school gTound is one of the most beauti- 

 ful spots in the country ; those trees have been taken care of 

 and the grounds v^eU looked after. 



Another thing we do in our parking system, and that is to 

 park all of the little triangular spots here and there. We 

 don't number these in our parks though, but just call it park- 

 ing our street-ends. We have two streets in the residence 

 section of the city tliat are one hundred feet wide and we are 

 parking each of these Avith a little park ten feet wide down the 

 center of them. At th(^ Burlington station the railroad 

 company has a beautiful little park where the people while 

 waiting can enjoy the shade and plants. While many of our 

 people are interested in this Avork, it has bcnm the result 

 principally of tAvo or three men. And many of them have 



