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in Newark will also be developed into 
a small park, after a plan by Harry B. 
Filer, forester for the Newark Slidde 
Tree Commission. . This scheme calls 
for massing of evergreen and deciduous 
shrubs, including dwarf rhode'ndrons, 
boxwood, spirea and English ivy on 
half of the park. The other half will 
be in lawn. 
New Parks and Improvements 
Sid. J. Hare, Kansas City, Ho., has 
been commissioned to prepare plans 
for a 250 acre park and a city square 
at Moberh', Mo. The park is a natu- 
rally beautiful tract and some unique 
features will be developed. Mr. Hare 
has also recently completed plans for 
a • town site of 400 acres at Empire, 
Harold A. Caparn. Landscape Architect. 
Ark., whe-re he has also sub-divided 
16,102 acres into farm tracts with a 
park road traversing the sub-division. 
With commissions for several fine home 
grounds and considerable cemetery work 
in addition to this, Mr. Hare is in the 
midst of a very busy season of work. 
F. E. Pease, landscape gardener of 
Des Moines, la., has made plans for a 
small park at Cameron. Mo., and is 
working on plans for a city park along 
the banks of the Cedar River at Vinton, 
la. 
Ira 13. Wines has presented the town 
of Lehi, Utah, with a block of ground 
for a city park. 
The “open treatment” of Rock Creek 
Park, which provides that that pleasure 
ground be left as much as possible in 
its natural state, has been recommended 
to the Commissioners of Washington, 
D. C., by Engineer Commissioner Mor- 
row. The treatment of Rock Creek val- 
le\’ in this waj^ will involve an expendi- 
ture of $4,750,000. 
The Essex County, N. J,, park com- 
missioners will experiment with oil 
sprinkling on Park avenue, this season. 
P'our English swans have been placed 
in Weequahic Park in this system. 
Frederick N. Shepard has been re-elect- 
ed president of the Commission and 
Alonzo Church secretary. 
An ordinance to be introduced in the 
city council of Atlanta, Ga., provides 
for the election 'of the park commission- 
ers by the council and creates the office 
of general superintendent at a salary of 
$2,000 a year. 
The Park Board of Peoria, 111., has 
added ten acres to Glen Oak Park at 
a cost of $13,150, 
The park board of Springfield, Mass., 
has bought a 20-acre tract at the end. 
of No. Pleasant street, for future park 
development. The purchase price was 
$3,000. 
Charles L. Denison, of New York 
City, has donated $10,000 to Corning, 
N, Y., toward a fund to establish a pub- 
lic park. 
The state of New York 'has Itought 
3,500 acres of land in the Adirondack 
region for an addition to the Adirondack 
State Park. 
George E. Kessler, of Kansas City, 
Mo., has prepared plans for an elabo- 
rate park extension system for Spring- 
field, O., at the request of the Commer- 
cial Club, which l:)ody has asked the city 
council to put the matter of issuing 
bonds to acquire the land before the 
I)eopIe. 
The park board of Providence, R. I., 
is considering the establishment of a 
bathing beach in Roger Williams Park. 
Park Superintendent Charles Carette, 
of Pomona, Cal., has prepared plans for 
the parking of the grounds near the two 
railroad stations. 
The grass will be cut by contract at 
Harrisburg, Pa., this season for the first 
• time instead of by the park force. 
The city council of Atlanta, Ga., has 
voted to buy a tract for a small park in 
the congested district of the fifth ward. 
The city council of Pasadena, Cal., 
has been asked to authorize a popular 
vote on the question of issuing $50,000 
in bonds for the improvement of Tour- 
nament Park. 
The park commissioners of Fall River, 
Mass., have advertised for bids for the 
erection of a bandstand and shelter 
house in South Park, 
The LaCrosse Light & Power Co., 
LaCrosse, Wis., will convert a large 
tract at Hatfield, Wis., into a park with 
a view of making the town a summer 
resort. 
Dallas, Tex., has acquired four lots 
at Cedar Springs and Ashland avenues 
for a public playground. 
The park board of Seattle, Wash., 
will equip one of the city parks with 
a playground. 
The park board of Kansas City, Mo., 
asks for $241,640 in addition to $156,000 
for the three mill tax levy for park 
purposes this year. 
A proposition to issue $100,000 in 
bonds for park improvements will be 
submitted to popular vote at Boise, 
Idaho. 
The park committee of the Detroit 
city council has cut $106,650 from the 
park budget of $443,870 for this sea- 
son’s work. 
Frederick Law Olmsted has made an 
e.xamination of the proposed Metropoli- 
tan Park System of Rhode Island, with 
a view' to a preliminary study of the 
work for which there is an appropria- 
tion of $250,000.. 
The Parks and Ferries Committee of 
Montreal estimates tliat $45,000 will be 
required for the parks and boulevards 
this year. 
The Elm Park Hotel property at Wel- 
lesly Hills, Mass., has been acquired for 
park purposes. 
I'he Hackensack Imi)ro\-ement Com- 
mission, Hackensack, N. J., has decided 
to buy' or condemn land for park pur- 
[joses on the Hackensack river between 
Court and Anderson streets. 
Roscoe Conkling Park, a tract do- 
nated to the city of Syracuse, N. 3’., by 
T. R. Proctor, has been enlargeil by 
the addition of 120 .acres, making the 
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