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(a) Outright donations of money for operation and maintenance. On a 

 subscription basis this was widely practiced throughout the United States 

 in the early stages of the playground and recreation movement and in 

 many sections of the country is still used as a supplement to meager public 

 appropriations. This method of financing the operation and maintenance 

 of public recreation is always considered a temporary measure to be given 

 up as soon as public appropriations have grown large enough to take care 

 of the need. 



(b) Trust funds. The notable instance of the Parkman Fund in Boston 

 has already been cited. Providence, Rhode Island, has had a number of 

 interesting bequests. "All the rest and residue of my estate of which I 

 shall die entitled, seized, or possessed to, both real and personal, I give, 

 devise and bequest to said city of Providence, to have and to hold forever 

 in trust as a fund, in such manner and form of investment as the said city 

 may choose, and apply the net proceeds thereof to the support and main- 

 tenance of Roger Williams Park, now owned by said city, as a public park 

 mingling said income with other moneys expended upon said park in such 

 manner as to said city shall seem best." - Extract from will of Anna H. 

 Man. Seventy-ninth annual report of the city auditor, city of Providence, 

 Rhode Island, 1925, page in. This fund in 1925 amounted to $232,875. 



"Twenty- third. I give and bequest to the city of Providence $100,000 

 to be invested and held as a fund, the income thereof to be applied toward 

 the purchase, improvement and maintenance of public parks and play- 

 grounds, with the request that no part of the same be expended on speed- 

 ways." Extract from the will of Samuel H. Tingley. Seventy-ninth 

 annual report of the city auditor, city of Providence, Rhode Island, 1925, 

 page 112. In 1925 the capital of this bequest amounted to $104,646.50. 



A number of other instances might be quoted. In Lancaster, Penn- 

 sylvania, Long Park, a tract of approximately 80.5 acres was donated to 

 the city and endowed to the extent of $200,000. The income which now 

 amounts to about $10,000 a year is used chiefly for the maintenance of the 

 park. From $30,000 to $32,000 is the annual income which Springfield, 

 Massachusetts, receives from the endowment fund of approximately 

 $700,000 for park purposes established by Everett H. Barney. Johnson 

 Park in Camden, New Jersey, is maintained by the Johnson Park Endow- 

 ment Fund established for the purpose. On December 31, 1925 the fund 

 amounted to $46,414.55. Snyder Park of about 237 acres in Springfield, 

 Ohio, was donated to the city in 1900 and endowed to the extent of $200,000, 

 the income of which is used for the maintenance and improvement of the 

 park. The park is controlled by the board of trustees, appointed by the 

 sinking fund trustees of the city. 



