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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ADMINISTRATION OF NEW YORK PARKS 
Reorganization of the executive and 
accounting systems of the Depart- 
ment of Parks of Greater New York 
is vigorously urged by the Bureau of 
Municipal Research in a recent re- 
port. This report points out oppor- 
tunities for mal-administration and 
dishonesty on the part of subordinates 
and declares that as at present organ- 
ized the executive system of the de- 
partment makes it impossible for the 
Commissioner to become acquainted 
with details of' administration in any 
of his subordinates’ offices without 
exhaustive inquiry and personal in- 
vestigation. 'Unnecessary duplication 
of the higher subordinate offices and 
inadequacy of force of clerks and oth- 
er minor employes is reported to be 
a general fault of the present system. 
In its description of the park sys- 
tem Commissioner Smith receives 
The City Council Committee on 
Parks of Ft. 'Wayne, Ind., has recom- 
mended the appropriation of $10,500 
for the purchase of the Weisser Grove 
for park purposes. 
The City Council of Hamilton, O., 
has appropriated $3,500 for the prepa- 
ration of plans for a system of public 
parks. 
Park Keeper Heath, of Salt Lake 
City, Utah, is making preparations to 
resurface Pioneer Park, a ten acre 
tract. 
The city of Stratford, Ont., has 
voted $15,000 for park purposes and 
the work of building driveways on 
both sides of Lake 'Victoria is to be 
begun at once. 
The Christian Brothers have offered 
to sell the city of St. Louis a seven 
acre tract on The Kingshighway for 
$80,000. 
Syracuse, N. Y., has appropriated 
$62,342 for park purposes for the 
present year. 
Union Square, Waterbury, Conn., is 
to be improved this season at an ex- 
pense of about $4,000. 
The estimate of City Engineer Boll- 
ing of Richmond, "Va., for the park 
improvement and maintenance for the 
year calls for the expenditure of $81,- 
718. The work will include the im- 
provement of William Byrd Park and 
credit for efforts to improve the sys- 
tem. The report declares it is im- 
possible to discover by examination of 
the books as now kept the cost of 
maintaining the park system for any 
one year or to learn even approxi- 
mately the cost of maintaining indi- 
vidual parks. 
The report adds that the superin- 
tendent of parks under the present 
system has no means of learning if 
park privileges are abused or used 
without permit, has no stock account 
of tools, and in general is loaded 
down with office detail work to the 
disadvantage of his duties of outside 
supervision. 
In conclusion the report recom- 
mends a complete reorganization of 
the distribution of executive powers 
among principals and subordinates 
and a new system of accounts. 
the opening of driveways in the 
Shields Grove property. 
The Senate at Washington has 
passed Senator Qallinger's bill for 
the appropriation of $210,000 to pur- 
chase Carpenter and Pennsylvania 
Ave., heights tracks for a public park. 
The Quincy Park and Boulevard As- 
sociation of Quincy, 111., has com- 
pleted negotiations for the land for 
a driveway to connect Riverview Park 
and Sunset Heights. In the spring 
some 15,000 trees and shrubs are to 
be planted in Gardner Park and the 
improvement.? at Rogers Clark Terrace 
■finished. 
The Shade Tree Commission of Jer- 
sey City, N. J., has engaged John T. 
Withers, of that city, to prepare plans 
for the improvement of Bayside, Mary 
Benson and L. J. Gordon Parks. 
The schedule of improvements and 
construction for the Baltimore parks 
for this season calls for the expendi- 
ture of $122,970, with an additional fund 
of $11,973 for contingencies. 
A deer park is to be inclosed in 
Riverview Park, Marshalltown, la., 
and other improvements made. 
John M. Deane has presented to the 
Metropolitan Park Commission of 
Rhode Island the Meshanticut Lake 
Park in Cranston, and land for a 
driveway connecting this tract with 
Sockanosset Park. 
State Senator John E. Fox, of Penn- 
sylvania, is to introduce a bill for the 
extension of the capital grounds at 
Harrisburg. It carries an appropria- 
tion of $2,000,000. 
The City Council of Milwaukee has 
appropriated $59,000 for the purchase 
of Bay 'View Park, a 15 acre tract on 
the lake shore. 
Park Commissioner Scanlan of St. 
Louis has asked for an appropriation 
of $40,000 for park purposes for this 
year; $25,000 of this is for Forest 
Park. 
Waterloo, la., is considering the 
purchase of additional tracts on both 
sides of the river. The city now has 
225 acres of parks. 
The Shade Tree Commission of 
Newark, N. J., had granted to them 
the following amounts for work upon 
the public parks for the coming year; 
Park maintenance, $9,000.00; improve- 
ments and new work on parks, $13,- 
850; music in parks, $5,000; prelimi- 
nary work on three new parks, $20,- 
000 . 
FROM ANNUAL REPORTS 
The annual report of Superinten- 
dent Gustav X. Amrhyn, of New 
Haven, Conn., tells of a substantial 
addition to the park system which 
now contains 1,017 acres. Twenty 
acres have been added to East Rock 
Park, and two blocks of land filled in 
for grading in Beaver Ponds. In this 
park a ball field has also been opened 
and new foot paths built in East Rock 
and Edgewood Parks. The nursery 
in East Rock Park has supplied all 
the planting material necessary for 
the parks and left a good surplus. 
Amendment of the city charter of 
St. Paul to increase the limit of ap- 
propriations for park purposes be- 
yond the sum of $90,000 now pre- 
scribed, is advocated by the president 
of the park board, Daniel Aberle, in 
his annual report. Mr. Aberle says 
that the $90,000 available from the tax 
levy is not sufficient for maintenance 
of the present park system and that 
a bond issue of $50,000 as proposed, 
will furnish relief for only two years. 
The report shows that five parks have 
been added to the St. Paul system in 
the last year. These with the pro- 
posed parks in the Crocus Hill district 
and on the West Side, and the com- 
pletion of Wheelock driveway will 
give St. Paul a total of 1,544.44 acres 
of parks. Fred Nussbaumer, super- 
intendent of the St. Paul park system, 
in his annual report urges that the 
city proceed with the proposed ap- 
proaches to the state capitol. 
NEW PARKS. IMPROVEMENTS and ADDITIONS 
