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ris of Hampton, Iowa. He made refer- 
ence to the increased violence of the 
spring freshets and the more frequent 
occurrence of devastating floods since 
the destruction of the forests near the 
sources and along the banks of our 
streams. He attributed the hot dry 
winds of western Iowa to the absence 
of tree growth in the vast territory 
lying directly to the westward. Europe 
far out-classes us in forest management. 
This government should take lessons 
from these older countries and should 
adapt their systems to the conditions in 
the United States. He commended 
President Roosevelt upon his policy of 
waking up the American people to the 
danger of exterminating our forests. 
The economic value of birds as in- 
sect destroyers cannot be over-esti- 
mated. Their food is principally of cut 
worms, grubs, beetles and weed seeds. 
Ogden, Utah, is making considerable 
advancement in the way of park devel- 
opment under the supervision of Park 
Superintendent William T. Stillwell. 
Howard Evarts Weed, Landscape 
Architect of Chicago, has recently been 
engaged by the Park Board to make a 
planting plarLf.,of a new park immedi- 
ately adjoining the City Hall Park. It 
is expected to make this a sample of 
what the other parks of the city should 
be. 
E. B. Chesborough has presented to 
Bay City, Mich., $100,000 for the pur- 
chase of 37 acres for a public park. 
The city council of Terre Haute, 
Ind., has appropriated $6,500 to pur- 
chase Chestnut Place for a park. 
Superintendent Daggett of the parks 
of Portland, Ore., has asked for an ap- 
propriation to convert a five-acre dump 
in North Portland into a public park. 
Peoria, 111., has purchased for $10,- 
500 a 57-acre tract to be developed as 
a public park. 
W. R. Randall has donated to Cort- 
land, N. Y., a six-acre tract for a pub- 
lic park. 
Salem, Mass., has bought a 30-acre 
tract fronting on Salem Harbor for a 
public park. The purchase price was 
$19,500. 
The town of Gardner, Mass., will sub- 
mit to public vote a proposition to 
spend $5,000 for extending the park 
system. 
The city council of Los Angeles, Cal., 
With the wholesale slaugther of “Bob 
White” by the sportsmen, and the des- 
truction of millions of birds with bril- 
liant plumage for decorating women’s 
lhats, a noticeable increase of insects 
has been the result. The necessity 
for stopping this barbarism was 
brought out by Mrs. William F. -Par- 
rott. It was shown that with proper 
legislation, and more planting of trees 
to afford nesting places for the birds, 
that our feathered friends would again 
become numerous. 
At the close of the session resolu- 
tions were adopted urging the exten- 
sion of forest reservations in the East, 
and expressing appreciation of the pol- 
icy and active work of Forester Pin- 
chot, and also asking that congress 
to take measures to preserve and protect 
bird life. 
has authorized the expenditure of $5,000 
for the building of a retaining wall in 
Westlake Park, and $7,500 for a play- 
ground and gymnasium. 
The park commission of Memphis, 
Tenn., has appropriated $5,600 for the 
erection of a pavilion in Riverside 
Park. 
Charles Mulford Robinson, of Ro- 
chester, N. Y., has been appointed to 
the park board of that city. Mr. Rob- 
inson’s experience in making plans for 
the beautifying of cities and for the 
development of park systems in a num- 
ber of important cities makes him par- 
ticularly fitted for usefulness to Ro- 
chester’s fine park system. 
A tract of 34 acres on Sippo Creek 
Valley has been purchased by Massillon, 
O., for a public park. 
An appropriation of $1,000 for thin- 
ning out trees in the parks has been 
made by the city of Toronto, Ont. 
The Young Men’s Club of Lake For- 
est, 111., recently acquired title to some 
vacant property six blocks northwest of 
the railway station. The property was 
subdivided into lots by Landscape 
Architect Howard Evarts Weed, of Chi- 
cago, and, after reserving two acres for 
the building of a club house and seven 
acres for a park, an auction sale of the 
lots was held. The result was that the 
property was all paid for, leaving the 
club a balance of over $12,000 toward 
the building of the club house. The 
seven acres for the park has since been 
deeded to the city and plans for the 
improvements of the tract are now 
being made by Mr. Weed. 
The park commission of the city of 
New York has issued an order forbid- 
ding automobiles with chains on their 
wheels from traversing the park roads 
in Central Park and other parks in its 
jurisdiction. 
General William J. Palmer, of Colo- 
rado Springs, Colo., has offered that 
city a 53-acre tract valued at $20,030 
for a public playground. 
O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, has pre- 
pared plans for the beautifying of John 
Henes Park in Menominee, Mich. 
The town of Gotebo, Oklahoma, will 
set out 1,000 trees in its city park this 
spring and is also considering the con- 
struction of an artificial lake. 
The Board of Public Works, of Oak- 
land, Cal., has decided to purchase the 
DeFremery property for a park at a 
cost of $135,000. 
FROM THE ANNUAL REPORTS, 
The fifth annual report of the board 
of park commissioners of Lowell, 
Mass., together with that of Superin- 
tendent Charles A. Whlttet, tells of the 
work of the year. On the north com- 
mon a playground has been made for 
the children. The apparatus is very 
substantially built, and was in constant 
use during the season. Much work was 
done for the removal of the nests of 
the brown tail and gypsy moths and 
valuable aid has been given by the 
pupils of the public schools. 
The annual report of the park com- 
missioners of Boston calls attention to 
the work of moth extermination, and 
dust suppression, both of which are dis- 
cussed elsewhere in this number by 
officials of the department. The year’s 
work consisted chiefly of the regular 
routine of maintenance, and the report 
of Superintendent Pettigrew gives de- 
tails of this work and of the e.xpendi- 
tures for each of the park areas. The 
total expenditures were $584,154 and 
the total receipts, $613,437. The tables 
of park statistics included show the to- 
tal area of the system to be 2,381 acres. 
The annual report of the park depart- 
ment of Cincinnati for 1906 contains, in 
addition to a statement of the year’s 
work by Superintendent J. W. Rodgers, 
a comparison of Cincinnati parks with 
the parks of twenty other large cities, 
a list of the different species of trees 
grown in the parks, statistics showing 
the area, date of acquisition, and cost 
of each piece of park property owned 
by the city, and a plan of the compre- 
hensive general scheme for a park sys- 
tem prepared by Geo. E. Kessler & Co. 
for the Greater Park League. 
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