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fuperintendent, as there is none in 
charge of the parks in that city now. 
Marshall K. Snell is secretary of the 
board. 
The city trustees of South Pasa- 
dena, Cal., have voted to buy a three- 
acre addition to the park system. 
State Senator Price, of California, 
is preparing a bill to present to the 
California legislature for the purchase 
by the state of the Armstrong woods, 
a great redwood tract in Sonoma, 
Cal., about seventy miles from Cali- 
fornia. 
The park board of Oklahoma City, 
Oklahoma, is planning for a broad 
boulevard thirty miles long to encircle 
the city. It is to be from 50 to 2Q0 
feet wide and will have in its center 
an automobile speedway with all 
grade crossings eliminated. On either 
side of this will be carriage driveways. 
E. P. Ansley, of Atlanta, Ga., has 
offered to that city a thirty-acre tract 
adjoining Piedmont Park for park 
purposes. 
Wilmington, Del., will raze the 
buildings on the triangular tract be- 
tween Market, King and Fifteenth 
streets and make a park there. 
The Gjoa, the boat in which Cap- 
tain Amundsen navigated the North- 
West Passage, has been presented to 
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and 
will be moored in one of the park 
lakes. 
The park board of Denver, Colo., 
has decided to go ahead with the 
plans for the magnificent Civic Cen- 
ter, to cost $1,500,000. The central 
feature, an elaborate fountain by 
Frederick Macmonnies, is now under 
way. 
The city council of Philadelphia has 
passed an ordinance providing for the 
purchase for park purposes of the 
tract between Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, 
Christian and Webster streets. 
Cambridge City, Ind., is developing 
a public park which it is planned to 
make a botanical garden. William 
Grietz, Jeremiah McDaniel and Fred- 
erick Storch are the commissioners 
in charge of the work. 
The city council of Topeka, Kas., 
has passed an ordinance on petition 
of residents to allow the creation of a 
benefit district to purchase a five-acre 
tract between Fifteenth street and 
Euclid avenue, for a park. 
George E. Kessler & Co., of Kan- 
sas City, Mo., have been engaged to 
carry out the park improvements for 
the Park Association of Fort Worth, 
Tex. 
The city of Anderson, Ind., is pre- 
paring to purchase the Riverside Park 
tract. 
The Tree and Park Commission of 
Augusta, Ga., is engaged in extensive 
r>ark improvements, including the 
moving of a number of large trees, 
which has been previously done in Allen 
Park with successful results. W. L. 
Martin is secretary of the commission. 
Rome, Ga., has purchased two acres 
of land in the heart of the city for 
park and public building purposes. 
F. C. Denkman will present to the 
city of Rock Island, 111., a block of 
ground in the west end for a public 
park. 
The park board of Chattanooga, 
Tenn., is receiving bids on the con- 
struction of a concrete floor in the 
Zoo in East Lake Park. 
The state house commission of New 
Jersey has purchased a tract of four- 
teen acres for the extension of the 
capitol grounds at Trenton. 
The cit}^ council of Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y., has voted to purchase Eastman 
Park for about $30,000. 
The Landscape Engineering & Sup- 
ply Co., of which Charles F. Warner 
is president. 50 Broadway, New York, 
has recently completed the laying out 
of the handsome Horton grounds at 
Middletown, N. Y., and have made 
extensive plans for two years of work. 
The annual report of the park board 
of Springfield, Mass., tells of sub- 
stantial additions to Elmwood and 
Riverside parks, and the acquiring of 
a new tract at Jones’ point on which 
improvement work has been begun. 
The appropriation ‘for 1908 was 
$18,000 and the total receipts, includ- 
ing balances and reserve funds, were 
$41,856. There is a total of 92.03 acres 
in the park system. 
Superintendent of Parks George C. 
Walker, of Waterbury, Conn., reports 
that the Indian Basin in Hamilton 
Park has been cleaned and aquatic 
plants established there, and a dam 
has been built north of the swimming 
The famous Garden of the Gods, 
Colorado Springs, Colo., has been pre- 
sented to that city by the Charles E. 
Perkins estate. The tract includes 
480 acres. 
The new entrance to Prospect Park, 
Troy, N. Y., is nearly completed and 
it is expected to surface the drive and 
open it for traffic early next spring. 
The problem of preserving ma- 
cadam on motor roadways appeared 
in its most intense form when the 
Thomas B. Jeffrey Company at Ke- 
nosha, Wisconsin, undertook to build 
and maintain a half-mile track for 
testing their automobiles. It is the 
custom at this factory to give all the 
Rambler cars a test of 200 miles driv- 
ing on the testing track. The output 
of the factory is very large, so that 
15 or 20 cars are running at high 
speed over the track every hour of 
the day. Ordinary macadam would, 
of course, fail under such a test, and 
the dust would be unbearable, es- 
pecially at the turns. Various oil 
treatments and compounds were ex- 
perimented with, and the Tarvia 
treatment was finally adopted. It has 
been found entirely satisfactory and 
has led to its use on all the roads 
surroundin,g the factory. 
pool ; $12,000 was expended in im- 
provements in this park, and a large 
amount of grading and turfing was 
done at Library Park. 
In the report of the district com- 
missioners who constitute the city 
government of Washington, D. C., 
they again invite attention to the de- 
sirability of extending the park sys- 
tem in the built-up portions of the 
District similar to that existing within 
the city limits. 
A handsomely illustrated and com- 
plete report of the Hudson County, 
N. J., Park Commission, covering the 
first five years of work of this body, 
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FROM THE ANNUAL PARK REPORTS 
