PAR K A K D C E M E T E R F. 
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PARK NEWS 
( Co 7 itinued from page 343 ) 
Frank L. Smith, chairman of the park 
committee of the council at Norristown, 
Pa., in discussing the management of the 
new Ston}' Creek Park in that city, ex- 
pressed himself as follows on freedom, 
in the parks ; “We don't propose to 
promulgate a set of rules a yard long 
and keep policemen standing around to 
warn or arrest people for trifling infrac- 
tions. I'd let the children climb every 
tree in the place. If necessary to save 
broken arms, we’ll have to stretch nets 
underneath. I’d let them club the nut 
trees and pick the apples and the cher- 
ries, and treat the place as their own. 
There's only one rule that 1 would keep 
posted in large letters : 'Get On the 
Grass.’ That's what the grass is for. 
If it gets worn out, we'll grow some 
more : but get on it, and keep on it." 
FROM THE PARK REPORTS 
The annual report of the public parks 
board of Winnipeg, Man., for 1907 
shows that in 1907 the board spent only 
$12,076.2.5 for the maintenance of boule- 
vards, while in 1906 $15,560 was ex- 
pended, and in 1905 $19,461.75. The re- 
duction in the cost of maintenance since 
1905 is all the more noteworthy when it 
is remembered that in that year the city 
had 20 miles less of boulevards to care 
for than in 1907. The total cost of 
parks and their maintenance since the 
beginning of park work in Winnipeg is 
given as only $400,000. 
The park commissioners of Haverhill, 
Mass,, in their seventeenth annual state- 
ment report that no important new work 
has been undertaken, but the parks, the 
cemeteries and other grounds entrusted 
to the commission have been maintained 
in their usual well-kept condition. With 
an appropriation of $7,000 the most care- 
ful and economical management was 
necessary. Much excellent work has 
been done in cutting out such wood as 
prevented the growth of more desirable 
trees or marred the appearance of the 
park, and such branches as had reached 
maturity and would soon decay. This 
wood was sold by auction, the proceeds 
being about sufficient to pa}' for the la- 
bor of cutting. Henry Frost is superin- 
tendent. 
The annual report of Col. Chas. S. 
Bromwell on the improvement and care 
of public buildings and grounds and 
upon the care and maintenance of the 
Washington Monument, Washington, D. 
C., notes that six additional spaces w'ere 
added to the park system by the trans- 
fer to the chief of engineers by the com- 
missioners of the District of Columbia 
of six parcels of ground. Tw'o unim- 
proved reser\ations were improved, a 
macadam driveway constructed along 
the north and w-est sides of the tidal 
reservoir in Potomac Park. Work was 
commenced and well advanced for con- 
structing a macadam driveway along the 
river side of Potomac Park. Over 
1,000,000 plants w’ere propagated and 269 
trees, 2,339 shrubs, 31,000 bulbs and 
979,649 plants placed in the parks. 
The annual report of Superintendent 
James Wilson in the 22d annual report 
of the commissioners of the Queen Vic- 
toria Niagara Falls Park contains the 
interesting address of Chairman J. W. 
Langmuir at the last convention of the 
American Civic Association, accom- 
panied by a map of Niagara Falls locat- 
ing the power plants. The grading and 
surfacing has been completed at the 
spillway of the Ontario Power Co. and 
the northern portion of the park proper 
has been greatly improved by the addi- 
tion of permanent shelter buildings at 
Inspiration Point and Rambler’s Rest. 
Another change effected during the year 
was the removal of the park offices from 
the old lodge building to the Adminis- 
tration building. The outlying parks 
have all been carefully maintained dur- 
ing the year and improved in many 
ways. At Queenstown Heights a large 
new boulder stone shelter, of pleasing 
design, has been constructed, and a new 
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