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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
IS a strip of macadam in front of a 
private residence, the Tarvia can be 
spread with a watering pot and a 
broom. This change in the method of 
application brings the cost of Tarvia B 
treatment to a figure which will allow 
of its widest possible use — approximate- 
ly $300 per mile of roadway, 16 feet 
wide. 
In the use of Tarvia the manufactur- 
ers recommend a radical departure 
from the former methods of road main- 
tenance, although Tarvia will give per- 
fectly satisfactory results on macadam 
roads as built in the past. This recom- 
mendation is to omit the usual top dress- 
ing of fine stone entirely, traffic being 
admitted directly upon the 1^-inch 
stone, provided it has been well 
smoothed down and filled by use. The 
top dressing is the source of dust, inas- 
much as it is already finely pulverized, 
and only needs the loosening effect of 
The board of park commissioners 
of Topeka, Kan., have made a report 
covering the six years of the board’s 
existence. It shows that during this 
time the board has spent $50,000. 
The ejtpenditure in 1907 was $11,739.37. 
The annual report of the park de- 
partment of Nashville, Tenn., for 
1907 shows a total annual expendi- 
ture of $36,151. During the year two 
concrete and one steel bridge were 
constructed at Centennial Park; for- 
ty-six columns of the Parthenon were 
restored; four new sun dials were in- 
stalled, and other improvements 
made. In Watkins and Richland 
parks many trees were set out. 
The annual report of Park Engi- 
neer Stinchcomb, of Cleveland, O., 
shows that the 1692 acres of park land 
now owned by the city are worth 
$20,780,828. Owing to the inability of 
the city to issue park bonds during 
the past year the addition to the park 
system in 1907 as compared with that 
of previous years was rather small, 
but forty-seven acres were added. 
The addition of the speedway and 
boulevard extending from Euclid ave- 
nue, opposite Forest Hill to St. Clair 
avenue, N. E., which is expected this 
year, will give the system an addi- 
tion of 150 acres. In the report of 
the park engineer, the public square 
is valued at $5,600,000. 
At the annual meeting of the 
Quincy Boulevard and Park Associa- 
tion, Quincy, 111., president Edward 
J. Parker submitted his annual re- 
port, which not only covered the past 
year but contained a review of the 
traffic to turn it into dust. Its useful- 
ness as a water shedder and a protec- 
tion to the number 2 stone is done away 
with when Tarvia is used. The Tarvia 
being waterproof causes the unprotect- 
ed road to shed water perfectly, and its 
action as a binder is likewise sufficient- 
ly effective to keep the larger stone in 
position without the fine stone cushion. 
Road engineers will readily appre- 
ciate the economy of maintaining roads 
in this manner, since the maintenance 
of the fine stone top dressing is a prin- 
cipal item in road repair bills. 
The roads on which this treatment 
has been tried out are in Oyster Bay, 
Long Island City and various parts of 
Nassau County, Long Island. The Bar- 
rett Manufacturing Company, makers 
of Tarvia, have put the record of their 
experiments into book form ; and this 
may be had without charge, by any en- 
gineer or other party interested. 
twenty years’ work of the association, 
which has been a remarkable record 
of public spirited park work. Quincy 
now has 165 acres of parks and the 
following is a brief statement of the 
expeditures for the purchase of 
park sites and maintenance since the 
organization of the association in 
1888: Expended by association on 
purchases of park sites, $7,533.45; for 
improvement and maintenance of 
parks and boulevards, $90,989.44. Ex- 
pended by the city for park sites, 
$49,269.52. Expended by the city for 
street improvement, etc., $557.79. To- 
tal amount expended $148,350.20. 
Superintendent of Parks William 
H. Cahill, of Troy, N. Y., in his an- 
nual report to Commissioner of Pub- 
lic Works Shields, reviews the work 
done in the various parks, gives a 
number of recommendations and also 
an inventory of the property in the 
custody of the superintendent, and 
brief descriptive notes about each of 
the tracts. 
The annual report of the park 
commissioners of Hopedale, Mass., 
shows expenditures of $2,840, and 
recommends an appropriation of 
$2,500 for this year. The playground 
was well patronized throughout the 
year, the field day was as great a 
success as ever, and the bath-house 
records, a total of 4,768, show its in- 
creasing popularity. 
The annual report of John F. Don- 
nelly, superintendent of parks, Cam- 
bridge, Mass., tells of some interest- 
ing tree planting and gives a com- 
plete inventory of the trees and 
shrubs in the nursery as well as a 
detailed account of the park work in 
each of the different sections. The 
macadamizing of Garden street with 
bitulithic made it evident that some 
plan would have to be found to give 
the historic Washington Elm some 
moisture. With the advice of Pro- 
fessor Sargent, of the Arnold Arbore- 
tum, 80 feet of two-inch perforated 
water pipe was laid on the south side 
of the tree five feet deep, so that in 
the dry season or whenever necessary 
the water can be turned on so as to 
supply the roots with sufficient mois- 
ture. On the north side a trench, 16 
feet long and three feet wide and six 
feet deep, was excavated and filled 
with paving block to within six 
inches of the surface, then a layer of 
cracked stone was laid, and the bitu- 
lithic laid on this as a foundation. A 
six-inch earthen pipe was laid here a 
depth of 18 inches to run from the 
car track and empty into the trench 
or dry well. This pipe is fed with 
water from a hydrant through an 
iron grating between the tracks. 
The nineteenth annual report of the 
park department of New Haven, 
Conn., tells of the acquiring of sev- 
eral important additions to parks; 
six acres were added to Alum Rock. 
Important progress has been made 
in the gradual sequestration of the 
Beaver Ponds district, primarily as a 
sanitary measure, but with ultimate 
reference to park uses. In this dis- 
trict a tract of about ten acres has 
been acquired during the past year. 
Henry F. English, secretary of the 
board, made a handsome gift for the 
improvement of Edgewood Park by 
the construction of a beautiful lake 
with surrounding margins. Superin- 
tendent Gustave X. Amrhyn, who 
planned the lake and supervised its 
construction, is entitled to much cred- 
it for the satisfactory execution of 
the work. 
The report of Park Superintendent 
Charles A. Whittet, of Lowell, Mass., 
besides telling of the work of the year 
in the several parks, tells of an en- 
ergetic warfare against the Brown- 
tail and Gypsy moths. He has re- 
moved from the street trees and from 
the trees on private property 375,703 
nest and pup* ; the city has received 
back from the owners of the property 
for work performed $3,011.05. Mr. 
Whittet, whose forestry work is very 
thorough and has been previously 
noted in these pages, includes some 
good information about street trees 
and two striking pictures of damage 
to unprotected trees. The expendi- 
tures for the year were $12,277. 
FROM THE ANNUAL REPORTS 
