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bus, Ohio, had been cut up into build- 
ing lots and would be put on the mar- 
ket this spring. The importance of 
the news lay in the fact that the tract 
was the key to the elaborate park 
plans made for Columbus by the Co- 
lumbus Plan Commission, and that 
this disposition of it would block for- 
ever the complete execution of the 
plan. Announcement now comes that 
the entire tract has been purchased 
by a public spirited citizen of Colum- 
bus, Robert Wolfe, that he has asked 
Charles N. Lowrie of New York, the 
landscape architect of the Commis- 
sion, to prepare detailed plans for its 
park development, and that he pro- 
poses to present to the city, fully 
executed, this strategic portion of the 
Commission’s plans. The tract in- 
cludes 55 acres adjoining Franklin 
Park. The other members of the 
Commission, whose comprehensive 
plan for the improvement of Colum- 
bus has been noted in these pages, 
were Charles Mulford Robinson, civic 
advisor, of Rochester, N. Y. ; Austin 
W. Lord, architect, of New York; Al- 
bert Kelsey, architect, of Philadel- 
phia, and Hermon A. MacNeil, sculp- 
tor, of New York. 
Moline, 111., has bought from the 
Silvis Land Co., a six acre park tract 
for $400 an acre. 
J. S. Bussell has presented to the 
town of Orel, Neb., a sixty acre tract 
on condition that it be maintained as 
a park. 
Henry C. Putnam has presented to 
Eau Claire, Wis., a 200 acre tract for 
a park and the city council has passed 
an ordinance accepting the gift, lev- 
ied a tax of $1,000 a year for main- 
tenance and advertised for bids to 
build a bridge across the Chippewa 
river to reach the land. 
The city council of Columbia, S. C., 
has accepted E. W. Robertson’s of- 
fer to park three blocks on Assembly 
street, as recommended in the report 
of Kelsey & Guild on the improve- 
ment of Columbia. 
Michael Erickson has given a five 
acre park tract to Roland, la. 
The park commissioners of Rock 
Island, 111., have recommended the 
purchase of the Case property for a 
park. The price is $15,000 and the 
city has promised to appropriate 
$2,000 a year if the first payment of 
$5,000 is raised by popular subscrip- 
tion. 
A large amount of planting is plan- 
ned for the parks of Madison, Wis., 
this season; 10,000 trees and shrubs 
will be required for Tenney park and 
4,000 for Brittingham Park in addi- 
tion to those to be collected locally 
and furnished from the park nurseries. 
The contract for furnishing this ma- 
terial was awarded to Thomas Mee- 
han & Sons of Dresher, Pa., on a bid 
of $1,509. Four bridges of reinforced 
concrete are also to be constructed 
from plans by the city engineer, with 
George B. Ferry of Milwaukee, as 
consulting architect. 
The Ottumwa Commercial Associa- 
tion of Ottumwa, la., recently held a 
mass meeting to arouse interest in 
the establishing of a system of parks 
for which a plan has been suggested. 
Joseph Dain is president of the asso- 
ciation. 
M. F. Rohrer and Leonard Everett 
have donated to Council Bluffs, la., 
a ten acre tract to be known as Lin- 
coln Park. The city is to spend 
$1,000 in improving it this year. 
The Dubuque (la.) Park Committee 
has received general plans for the 
landscape development of the large 
tract at Eagle Point lately purchased 
by them. The plans were secured 
from Charles Mulford Robinson of 
Rochester, N. Y., who had made 
the original report recommending 
the purchase of the tract for a park. 
Mr. Robinson associated Charles N. 
Lowrie, of New York, with him in 
the preparation of the plans, and 
work is already under way on their 
execution. The committee bought the 
land, ordered the plans and has 
commenced the making of the park 
with money derived from a popular 
subscription. This was sufficient to 
enable the committee not only to buy 
the hundred acres originally contem- 
plated, but some twenty-five acres be- 
sides, making possible a long walk 
and drive on the high bluffs overlook- 
ing the Mississippi. There is the 
promise of a very noble park. 
A citizens’ committee has been ap- 
pointed at Wahoo, Neb., to select a 
site for a park. 
At a special election to determine 
whether the city should have a park 
commission, Rockford, III., voted 
1,229 in favor of the commission and 
798 against. 
The Twentieth Century Topic Club 
of Wauwatosa, Wis., has raised funds 
for placing a fountain on the high 
school grounds. 
The city of Portland, Ore., has ap- 
propriated $60,000 for the purchase 
of a twenty acre tract at Piedmont 
for a park. 
The annual budget submitted by 
Mayor Johnson of Cleveland to the 
city council provides $250,000 for the 
park department. 
Ogden, Utah, has appropriated 
$5,000 for park purposes and the park 
board has organized by the election 
of J. W. Volker as president. 
Holyoke, Mass., has adopted a plan 
for the connection of the different 
parks into a unified system. 
Superintendent of Public Works 
C. R. Bush of Tonawanda, N. Y., has 
trimmed the trees in Clinton Park and 
is to carry out other improvements 
this spring. 
LANDSCAPE FORESTERS 
MEET IN NEW YORK 
The Employers’ Association of 
Landscape Foresters and Entomolo- 
gists was formed at a meeting held 
at the offices of Munson Whitaker, 
Flatiron Building, New York City, 
.March 29, with eight charter mem- 
bers. The objects of the Association 
are to advance the interests of its 
members in the practice of the sci- 
ences of forestry and entomology 
from a landscape and commercial 
standpoint; and to establish a guaran- 
tee to clients as to the standing and 
qualifications of its members. The 
following officers were elected: Pres- 
ident, John T. Withers, Jersey City, 
N. J.; vice-presidents, Munson Whit- 
aker, New York„ F. A. Bartlett, of H. 
L. Frost & Co., Concord and Boston, 
Mass.; executive and examining com- 
mittee, Chester Whitaker, New York; 
H. L. Frost, Boston. A special meet- 
ing of the Association will be held in 
New York at the end of April to 
complete organization; and a general 
meeting is to be held in August, which 
will be the annual meeting. At the 
latter a programme will be carried out 
consisting mainly of instructive pa- 
pers and addresses, with probably 
one or two excursions. 
GARDENERS’ CONVENTION 
The National Association of Gar- 
deners, which met March 17 and 18 
at Sheffel’s hall. New York city, 
brought together 160 gardeners and 
florists and ninety remained to the 
banquet in the evening. John T. 
Withers, of Jersey City, N. J., deliv- 
ered an interesting lecture, with ster- 
eopticon slides, on “Tree Preserva- 
tion,” and James Bell read a paper 
on carnations. Will C. Rickards 
acted as manager. W. E. Maynard, 
the secretary of the society, reported 
over 1,000 members on the books, 
and over 200 of these beyond the 
Rockies. John Shore is president of 
the Association. 
