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Additions to national parks author- 
ized by President Roosevelt two days 
before he retired from office are 
named by the State Department in 
proclamations recently issued. These 
announce a construction of Lassen 
Park, parts of Diamond Mountain and 
the Plumas and Shasta National For- 
ests under the name of Lassen Na- 
tional Forest. The Shasta forest, a 
portion of the area heretofore em- 
braced in the Lassen National Forest, 
is transferred and lands within Cali- 
fornia, which are in part covered by 
timber, are added to the Lassen for- 
est. The volcanic islands, commonly 
known as the Bogeslof islands, of the 
Aleutian archipelago, Alaska, are or- 
dered set apart and reserved for the 
use of the Department of Agriculture 
as a preserve and breeding ground 
for native birds. The tract of 627,840 
acres of land in the Olympic National 
Forest in the northwest corner of 
Washington, which has just been pro- 
claimed a National monument, em- 
braces the region which has formed 
the summer range and breeding 
grounds for the Olympic elk. 
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The Garden of the Gods, near Col- 
orado Springs, Colo., is to become, by 
gift from the children of the late 
Charles E. Perkins, the property of 
the city of Colorado Springs. Formal 
transfer of the 480 acres comprising 
this famed scenic attraction has just 
been effected. The property is placed 
in the hands of three trustees: Henry 
Le B. Wills, David V. Donaldson, and 
Henry C. Hall, who are to devise 
methods whereby the Garden of the 
Gods may be presented to the city 
and become a part of its park system. 
FROM THE PARK REPORTS 
At the annual meeting of the 
Quincy Park and Boulevard Associa- 
tion, Quincy, 111., a successful year’s 
work was reported. President E. J. 
Parker reported donations of $5,000 
during the year, in addition to the 
regular three mill tax levy which pro- 
duces about $15,000 a year, and a gift 
of twenty acres of land. A continu- 
ous parkway has been opened from 
Twelfth street to Indian Mounds 
Park, and a driveway leased between 
Fifth street and the Soldiers’ Home, 
in order to connect them with the 
City Park System. Tennis courts 
have been provided in two parks and 
gymnastic apparatus in South Park. 
The treasurer’s report showed ex- 
penditures of $30,049 and receipts of 
$30,375. The following officers were 
elected: President, E. J. Parker; vice- 
presidents, T. C. Pelling, Fred. P. 
Taylor and George F. Miller; treas- 
urer, E. A. Clarke; secretary, Floyd 
W. Munroe. 
The annual reports of the Park and 
Cemetery Commissioners of Wal- 
tham, Mass., show receipts of $11,574, 
and expenditures of $10,948. 
Bulletin of the New York Botanical 
Garden, Vol. 6, No. 20, gives reports 
of Director N. L. Britton and the 
other officers, and George V. Nash, 
head gardener, tells of the condition 
of the various plantations and the 
horticultural operations in general. 
F. A. Schilling, superintendent of 
grounds, reports considerable work in 
the construction of roads and paths, 
grading and drainage. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
Col. Breckenridge, of San Antonio, 
Tex., has offered the city of Austin 
some river property for a memorial 
park to the late Governor Hogg. 
George E. Kessler, of Kansas City, 
Mo., has been engaged to prepare 
plans for the park and boulevard im- 
provements to be made by the city 
of Indianapolis under a state law al- 
lowing an expenditure of $1,2'50,000 in 
ten years. Mr. Kessler will also make 
general plans and surveys for a sys- 
tem of parks and boulevards for 
Hamilton, Ohio. 
Grand Haven, Mich., has purchased 
a large sand hill across the river from 
the city and will make it into a park. 
The Fort Wayne, Ind., Commercial 
Club, recently gave a banquet at 
which leading citizens discussed the 
formation of a park association to 
acquire a system of public parks on 
the same plans as those so success- 
fully used in Madison, Wis. John 
M. Olin, president of the Madison 
Park and Pleasure Drive Association, 
was the guest of honor. C. H. Wor- 
den is chairman of the Commercial 
Club committee in charge of the 
work. 
The Portsmouth, N. H., Park De- 
partment has an appropriation of 
$4,500 available for the year’s work. 
The Park and Cemetery Commis- 
sion of Grand Rapids, Mich., has 
asked for an appropriation of $5,000 
for improvements in the Settling 
Basin Park. 
John Schuette, of Manitowoc, Wis., 
has offered to donate a park on the 
river front, and care for it during his 
lifetime. 
An addition to Rock Spring Park, 
Alton, 111., has been purchased for 
$1,500. 
Commissioner of Public Works 
Shields of Troy, N. Y., has submitted 
an estimate of the improvements need- 
ed for Prospect Park, and has recom- 
mended a bond issue of $20,000 for 
this work. 
The Sul Ross Park Association of 
Waco, Tex., is to buy and lay out a 
park to the memory of L. S. Ross, 
former governor of Texas. J. R. Mi- 
lam is president of the association and 
Will S. Duke, secretary. 
Truxton Beale, who donated a park 
to Bakersfield, Cal., has adopted plans 
for its improvement which will cost 
about $5,000. 
The Park Board of Portland, Ore., 
has built a greenhouse in Columbia 
Park and adopted plans for its further 
improvement that will cost $25,000. 
The Shade Tree Commission of East 
Orange, N. J., has proposed to spray 
all trees on private grounds at a 
charge of $2 a tree in its war on the 
elm tree beetle. 
The late Caroline Whitman, of 
Whitman, Mass., left a fund for the 
erection of a fountain in Whitman 
Park, Whitman, Mass. 
The Park Board of Milwaukee has 
bought a six-acre tract south of High- 
land Boulevard. 
The Park Commission of San 
Diego, Cal., has recommended the 
acquisition of the old Protestant 
Cemeterj'- and a sixty-acre tract on 
Point Loma for park purposes. 
The city council of Terre Haute, 
Ind., has voted to appropriate $12,509 
for the purchase of Parsons Field for 
a park. 
Hon. Albert K. Smiley, whose Can- 
on Crest Park is one of the attrac- 
tions of Redlands, Cal., has bought 
an additional tract of 200 acres and 
will park it at his own expense. 
The park commission of Spokane, 
Wash., have purchased a park tract 
of 160 acres with a half-mile river 
frontage. 
Announcement was made a few 
months ago that a very valuable tract 
of land, at the end of the most fash- 
ionable residential street in Colum- 
