337 
PARK AND 
CEMETERY. 
MADISON, WIS. 
penal and charitable institutions. Mr. 
Nolen was present at the annual meet- 
ing of the association and delivered an 
interesting address on “Order and [ 
Beauty in State and City,” which is in- !lj 
eluded in the report. j; 
The association, primarily organized ] 
to work outside the city limits, justly p 
feels that the city should new undertake n 
the work of maintenance and further im- I 
provement of the city parks, and Presi- ;• 
GENEROUS WORK for PARKS in 
The unique record of public spirit 
furnished by the Madison Park and 
Pleasure Drive Association, Madison, 
Wis., a voluntary organization that has 
in sixteen years raised $314,629, and es- 
tablished for the city a fine park sys- 
tem of about 1,50 acres, has been be- 
fore noted in these pages and the hand- 
some illustrated report just issued gives 
the details of the work to April 27, 1908. 
The contributions for 1907 amounted to 
due to the presence of the park making 
this plan possible. The total cost of this 
park to date has been $37,301. 
The construction of Brittingham Park 
has secured for the city nearly three- 
quarters of a mile of lake shore, and 
Mr. T. E. Brittingham has offered $7,500 
to the association for the erection of a 
bath liouse in this park. The report 
also strongly recommends the construc- 
tion of a public boat house here. 
I.AKE MFINDOTA DRIVE, PARK SYSTEM OP MADISON, WIS. 
$15,7il, and for only the first four 
months of 1908, $29,306, a sufficient in- 
dication that there is to be no abate- 
m.ent of the good work. 
During 1907 the association has plant- 
ed 46,768 trees and shrubs, of which 
11,046 were along the Yahara River, 
and 36,622 in Henry Vilas Park. The 
season was a very favorable one for 
planting, and most of the plants made 
a good growth. 
The work of filling in the addition to 
Tenney Park, has been nearly com- 
pleted, and the plan of this tract of 45 
acres shows unusual features that make 
it one of the most interesting small 
parks in the country. The money for 
this_ improvement has thus far been se- 
cured from the sale of twenty lots for 
$20,000, the increased value of the lots 
President John M. Olin, in bis re- 
view of the association's activities, com- 
mends the work of former Superintend- 
ent Emil T. Mische, who left in March 
to become Superintendent of Parks at 
Portland, Ore., and the directors have 
decided to divide his work between a 
park .foreman and a landscape architect. 
John Nolen, of Cambridge, Mass., has 
been retained as landscape architect, and 
William G. MacLean, formerly employed 
in the South Park System of Chicago, 
will be park foreman, in charge of main- 
tenance and the carrying out of Mr. 
Nolen’s plans. Mr. Nolen will give as 
much of his time as is necessary to 
the work, and will also act as landscape 
architect for the city, for the State Uni- 
versity, for the State Park Commission 
and the State Board of Control of the 
dent Olin urges the levying of a half 
mill tax for park maintenance, a very 
modest figure that would yield about 
$13,500 a year. When this organiza- 
tion has raised an average of $13,414 a 
year for sixteen years, a city of 25,000 
people with enough public-spirited citi- 
zens in it to voluntarily contribute that 
amount can hardly fail to assume its 
just duty with a strong sense of grati- 
tude to the association for what it has 
already done. 
At the annual meeting most of the 
old officers were re-elected, as follows : 
President, John M. Olin : vice-president, 
Andrew S. Brown ; secretary, Charles 
N. Brown ; treasurer, Frank W. Hoyt ; 
directors-, William R. Bagley, William 
D. Curtis, John M. Naughtin, Fred M. 
Schlimgen and Halle Steensland. 
