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there are three business organizations among twenty-three associa- 

 tions allied for the improvement of the Borough of Queens of New 

 York City, and it was the Chamber of Commerce of Staten Island 

 that secured the park report heretofore mentioned. 



There have been difficulties in the way, but they have been 

 surmounted. The Boston park system was secured only after thirty- 

 eight differing municipal governments had been either mollified or 

 compelled to surrender. The system of Providence will face a sim- 

 ilar difficulty, only less extensive. The Philadelphia park system 

 will not be complete unless two adjoining counties unite in the 

 work and that co-operation has already been considered at a meeting 

 of representatives of the counties, namely, the State Senators of the 

 respective counties and the Mayor of Philadelphia. The park sys- 

 tem of Kansas City was made complete by the action of an adjoining 

 county. St. Paul and Minneapolis have together begun the creation 

 of a co-ordinated system. The States of New York and New Jersey 

 have joined hands in the preservation of the Palisades as a park, 

 and the State of New York and the Dominion of Canada have pre- 

 served the Falls of Niagara. 



