PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PARK NEWS. 
J. J. Levison, aboriculturist for the 
Park Department, Borough of Brook- 
Ijm, N. Y., announces that the tus- 
sock moth is being slowly but surely 
conquered. Brooklyn has many tree 
pests, and the worst of these is the 
tussock moth. The next in destruc- 
tiveness is the elm leaf beetle. Then 
there are the army worms, the tent 
caterpillars, the Cecropia and Cynthia 
moths and the bag worms. Mr. Levi- 
son, last fall made a systematic at- 
tack on the tussock moth within a par- 
ticular area. Wire brushes were used 
to scrape the trees and every sign of 
the eggs was removed. As a result, 
within this area there are hardly any 
of the caterpillars this spring, simply 
a few isolated cases where an egg or 
so escaped the vigilance of the hunt- 
ers. About Alay 20 the eggs began to 
hatch in the other infected sections, 
and Mr. Levison put several gangs of 
sprayers at work. Arsenate of lead is 
the most valuable spray for the tus- 
sock, Cecropia and Cynthia moths and 
the department sprayers are now 
working in the Hill section of Brook- 
lyn. The elm leaf bettle is being at- 
tacked with kerosene emulsion just as 
soon as it passes into the pupa stage. 
Professor Edmund B. Southwick, en- 
tomologist for the park system of 
Manhattan, reports that the tussock 
moth is no longer a real danger to the 
trees of the city. Bushels of the eggs 
have been removed from the trees dur- 
ing the winter and early spring months 
and now the department is watching 
for sporadic signs of the pest in order 
to entirely eliminate it from the city. 
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Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, Mass., 
have prepared an interesting report 
on the management of Lowell Park, a 
2l)2-acre tract recently presented to 
Dixon, 111., by Miss Carlotta Lowell 
of New York City in memory of her 
father. The report of the landscape 
architects recommends maintaining 
the tract as a nearly natural forest res- 
ervation, and says on this point: 
■'Practically nothing that is ordinarily 
considered gardening or landscape 
gardening should be done. There 
should be no formal flower beds, no 
garden flowers and no garden shrubs, 
except in an enclcsed yard next the 
superintendent’s residence. No build- 
ings, fences or other structures should 
be whitewashed or conspicuously col- 
ored. They should biend with the 
woods — not contrast with them. 
The undergrowth should not be re- 
moved except on limited areas and for 
necessary purposes, such as fire 
guards, picnic groves, etc. 
There should be no cobblestone or 
other conspicuously artificial looking 
paving for gutters, brooks or open 
drains. There should be no river bank 
wall or stone pitched river bank. 
There should be no so-called orna- 
mental ‘rustic work.’ 
There should be no cast iron or ce- 
ment ornaments of any sort. 
There should be no statues or mon- 
uments or formal fountains. 
There should be no wild animals in 
confinement nor exotic animals al- 
lowed at large. 
There should be no race track or 
speedway for horses.’’ 
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The Citv Club and the Metropolitan 
Parks’ Association of New York City 
have sent a joint protest to the Park 
Commissioners against private indi- 
viduals, clubs, etc., using park prop- 
erty for personal use. A list of such 
places is given. In Pelham Bay Park 
there are ten buildings used as private 
dwellings inclosed by walls or fences. 
One tenant raises chickens, one pas- 
tures cows, and one maintains kennels. 
There are five buildings used as tran- 
sient hotels or boarding houses, and 
six clubs, and six hotels and three 
clubs the title of which does not vest 
in the city, only a nominal ground 
rent being charged. In each case the 
list gives the name of the lessee, the 
privilege involved, the date of the ex- 
piration of the lease, the rental, if any, 
and a column of remarks. The Tona- 
wanda Club, the Jvletropolitan Yacht 
Club, the White Cross Fish Club, Haf- 
fen’s Talapoosa Club, the Morris 
Yacht Club, and the Stuyvesant Yacht 
Club are among the places mentioned. 
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Charles Mulford Robinson, whose re- 
ports on park and city improvement for 
a number of cities have been noted in 
these pages, was called to Cedar Rapids, 
Ta., last month to make a report on the 
improvement possibilities of that city. 
Citizens of Dubuque, la., have tin:-! 
spring taken several steps toward real- 
izing the park improvements recom- 
mended by Mr. Robinson in his re- 
port for that city last fall; a commit- 
tee of business men has acquired three 
acres in the vicinity of the Julian Du- 
buque monument, and the Woman’s 
Club has purchased a lot in Corriell’s 
Addition to be held for future park 
uses. Jamestown, N. Y.. also recently 
voted by a majority of two to one to 
issue $20,000 in bonds for park pur- 
poses to carry out the recommenda- 
tions made by iMr. Robinson in his 
study of that city last summer. His 
latest work is an elaborate report for 
the town of Ridgewood, N. J., a su- 
burb of New' York. 
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Though the New York Legislature 
of 1906 passed a special act empow'er- 
ing the city of New’ York to e.xpend 
$2,500,000 for the purchase and estab- 
lishment of a seaside park and sani- 
tarium, and arrangements were made 
for the city to take title by condemna- 
tion proceedings of a large tract of 
land on the westerly end of the Rock- 
aw'ay peninsula, the matter is still ly- 
ing in abeyance. On December 6 last 
the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment adopted a resolution which for- 
bade the further issuance of corporate 
stock of the city of New' York because 
of the then condition of the city’s fin- 
ances. This resolution side-tracked 
every improvement at that time au- 
thorized including the seaside park at 
Rockaw'ay. No effort has been made 
since to lift the embargo which that 
resolution created. 
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The matter of determining whether 
the district court judges or the m.ayor 
has the appointing power of park com- 
missioners for Omaha, Neb., will be 
settled through the supreme court by 
quo warranto proceedings to be 
brought in a friendly suit against 
John Latenser, appointed by the 
judges, and John F. Neble, Mayor 
Dahlman’s appointee. At the re- 
cent organization of the board. E. 1’. 
Berr 3 'man W'as elected president, 
Mrs. C. D. C. Jewett secretary, and 
W. R. Adams superintendent of 
parks. J. Y. Craig, the retiring- 
president, who is superintendent of 
Forest Law'ii Cemcter 3 ', is ineligilde 
for reappointjnent, by reason of his 
having taken up his residence at the 
cemetery, 75 feet beyond the city lim- 
its,. The Board at its last meeting 
passed strong resolutions commending 
Mr. Craig’s faithful service. 
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Some time ago the citizens ol Mc- 
Kinney, Tex., voted a bond issue nf 
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