PARK AND CEMETERY. 
IX 
Councilman Eckert of Cincinnati 
wants the city to purchase the “English 
Woods,” a 200 acre tract in the West 
End, for a park. The Business Men’s 
Club is also advocating the parking of 
the grounds about the water works. 
Superintendent of Parks Rogers, who 
estimated that $181,000 would be needed 
for park purposes in 1909, has had his 
estimate cut to $85,000. 
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The Central Parking on Broadway, 
New York City, which has been lan- 
guishing since the construction of the 
subway tore it up, is to be restored with 
an appropration of $50,000, and will be 
fenced with an appropriation of $55,000. 
FROM THE PARK REPORTS 
The twelfth annual report of the 
Essex County, N. J., Park Commission 
shows that there are now ten parks 
and reservations in the system. During 
last year the Park Commission expend- 
ed $249,512.83 in construction and re- 
pairs, including work on the new River- 
bank, Irvington and Watsessing, or 
Bloomfield, Parks, and $177,409.72 for 
maintenance. The forestry work at 
the Eagle Rock Reservation has been 
completed and that at South Mountain 
Reservation is proceeding rapidly. The 
report is attractively printed and con- 
tains nearly forty illustrations showing 
many of the beauty spots in the park 
system. During last summer the three 
wading pools, at Branch Brook, West 
Side and Orange Parks, were patron- 
ized 126,249 times. There were nearly 
8,000 attendances at the athletic fields. 
According to the recent annual report 
of Park Commissioner Philip C. Scan- 
lan of St. Louis that city has 2,186.12 
acres of parks, included in 25 tracts, 
22 of which are under the care of the 
Park Commissioner. The average an- 
nual cost of maintenance for the past 
few years, according to the Park Com- 
missioner’s figures, is $175,000. During 
the last year the total was $176,598. 
About 300 men are employed. This 
summer nine playgrounds are main- 
tained in the parks. Last summer rec- 
ord was made of 471,941 children who 
spent half a day or more at the play- 
grounds. During the present summer 
free band concerts are being given in 
thirteen parks and one playground. 
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