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PARK NEWS. 
The State Forestry Commission of 
Pennsylvania has announced that it would 
plant 3,8(IU,0(I0 seeding trees in state for- 
estry reserves as a conservation measure. 
In addition more than 1,. 100, 1100 young trees 
will be distributed to the public for re- 
foresting work. 
The eighteenth annual report of the 
Park Commissioners of Hcpedale, Mass., 
for the year of 1910 has been submitted. 
Some of the work this department carried 
on during the year is as follows ; The 
tennis courts were made over at an out- 
lay of over $700.00; grading on the baseball 
diamond was started ; the usual cutting 
and widening of old paths and trails has 
been done; a oO-foot roadway from Free- 
dom Street to the height of land on Darling 
Hill has been started, which upon comple- 
tion will open the most sightly part of the 
park territory to the public. Six thousand 
eight hundred forty-two bathers used the 
bath house this year. The cutting and re- 
moval of the chestnut trees affected by the 
blight left spaces looking decidedly bare 
and over 12,0(10 red and white pines were 
planted. 
The report of the Board of Park Com- 
missioners of Brookline, Mass., recently 
issued for 1016, gives an account of work- 
accomplished and improvements suggested 
and other interesting statistical data. The 
trees on the grounds controlled by the Park 
Commission have been kept practicall>' free 
of insects during the year. The work 
which has been carried on by the town 
with so much energy in recent years has 
greatly reduced the number of gypsy-moth 
caterpillars and other insect pests in Brook- 
line. The work of improving the Putter- 
ham woods has been carried on during the 
\ear. These woods have some of the finest 
hemlock groves to be found in eastern 
Massachusetts, and it is the purpose of the 
Commission to improve these by thinning 
from time to time as it is necessary, and 
by removing the deciduous-leaved trees 
where these threaten to injure the hem- 
locks. Pruning of the trees on this town 
property has been carried on for a number 
of years, and a few hundred white pines 
and hemlocks have been planted through 
the woods every spring. In view of their 
probable early destruction by disease the 
chestnut trees are being gradually removed 
from these woods that a market may be 
found for the wood before it has been in- 
jured by disease. Following is a summary 
of some of the larger expenditures of 1916 : 
Maintenance — General expenses, $7,512.99 ; 
playgrounds, $6,205.69 ; school grounds, $2,- 
606.17; parks, $7,653.49; moth suppression, 
$1,612.57 ; total, $-30,199.87. Park Construc- 
tion — Playground apparatus, $1,326.93 ; field 
houses, $2,039.76; Brookline field, $2,032.20; 
fences, $3,198.14; total, $9,871.79. 
John Nolen, landscape architect of Cam- 
liridge, Mass., has been engaged to prepare 
a number of interesting city plans. The 
plan for flint, Alich., will cover the essen- 
tial physical features of the city, such as 
main streets and roads, locations for the 
principal public buildings, etc., and a gen- 
eral plan for a park system. This plan 
is to be worked out in co-operation with 
Bion J. Arnold of Chicago. The city of 
Niagara Falls’ plan will be a general city 
plan, including a park system. E. P. Good- 
rich of New York has been engaged as 
expert on railroad and city electric line 
transportation in co-operation with this 
plan. Another plan is for the city of 
Charlotte, N. C., covering all of the usual 
features of streets, buildings, parks, homes, 
etc. Some plans he is now preparing for 
new towns and villages, especially in con- 
nection with industrial plants, are as fol- 
lows: Brighton Alills, Allwood, near Pas- 
saic, N. J., 200 acres including cotton mills 
and homes for operatives ; General Chem- 
ical Company, property near Marcus Hook, 
Pa., about 200 acres near the Delaware 
state line, to be developed as a complete 
town site for various classes of employes; 
Green Acres, Waterbury, Conn., a well 
located tract of more than 75 acres owned 
by Miss Helen E. Ch.ase. The general plan 
The directors of Swan Point Cemetery, 
Providence, R. I., have issued their sixty- 
ninth annual report for the year ending 
December 31, 1916. The principal new con- 
struction work for the year was done in 
the portion of the cemetery west of the 
Old Swan Point Road, wdiere large areas 
were graded and subsoiled and some 32,000 
square feet of new avenues w'ere macad- 
amized with the stones obtained in this 
grading. Nearly 1,800 linear feet of four- 
inch water mains, with seven hydrants, 
have been laid in these avenues and over 
1,700 linear feet of tarvia gutters built. 
This year marks the beginning of construc- 
tion work west of the Boulevard, where 
the new greenhouse is to be erected. Five 
hundred feet of four-inch water main has 
been laid in the new avenue through this 
section to meet the needs of the green- 
house and the other requirements that will 
come later. Some four hundred shrubs 
and evergreens have been set out this year, 
mostly in the old portion of the cemetery, 
and 7,000 or 8,000 bulbs have been dis- 
tributed about the grounds. There were 
293 interments made during the year. 
includes a village center, store sites, and 
areas for recreation. 
The annual report of the New Orleans 
City Park Improvement Association for 
1916 gives an interesting account of the 
work of that association during the year 
and financial reports, etc. The hot-house, 
which was totally destroyed by the storm 
the year before, has been rebuilt with 
financial aid from the city. It was rebuilt 
entirely of reinforced concrete and cement. 
All the other damages in the park, and also 
to the Delgado Museum have been re- 
paired. The usual good attention has been 
given to every department in the park. 
The golf course was taken in charge. The 
city has appropriated one thousand dollars 
for 1917, for its maintenance, as a public 
golf course. A great deal of repairing w'as 
done to boats, bridges, benches, swings and 
stable in the rear. All roads and walks 
have been kept in good trim and condition. 
The usual concerts were given beginning 
May 7, and every Sunday thereafter, until 
September 13, 1916. Following is some 
data from the report of the treasurer: 
Receipts — January 1, 1916, balance, 
$626.17 ; amounts received from January 1, 
1916, to December 31, 1916, as per State- 
ments No. 791 to 844, inclusive, $68,516.90; 
total receipts, $69,143.07. 
Disbursements — Payments made from 
January 1, 1916, to December 31, 1916, as 
per warrants No. 4634 to 4928, inclusive, 
$67,360.63; cash in bank, $1,782.44; add spe- 
cial donation for band stand, deposited in 
Savings Department Canal Bank & Trust 
Following are some items of interest 
from the treasurer's report: Balance of 
cash on hand December 31, 1915, $21,- 
273.46. Cash receipts : From sale of lots 
in cemetery, $80,777 ; from perpetual Care 
Fund deposits, $22,712; from payments on 
mortgages and investments : General Fund 
$74,600, Perpetual Care and Bequest Fund 
$22,915, the Permanent Fund $13,970; from 
labor and material, $18,309.51. Total, $308,- 
907.55. Cash payments : For investment 
of General Fund, $165,200.00. Transferred 
to: Perpetual Care and Bequest Fund, 
$46,577.00; the Permanent Fund, $22,251.65. 
For labor in the cemetery, labor in the 
greenhouse and labor, teamsters and 
hostlers, $33,794.61. For salaries of treas- 
urer, secretary, superintendent, surveyor 
and clerk, $8,083.22. For construction ac- 
count — sewers, water pipe, etc., $2,439.90. 
Transferred to the Permanent Fund: Fif- 
teen cents per square foot on land in the 
cemetery sold during the year, $5,424.00 
Balance cash on hand, $12,570.15. Total, 
$308,907.55. The Perpetual Care Fund in- 
creased $23,662.00, making a total of 
$555,543.82. 
Co., $7,500. 
