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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
THE BROOK, DAVIS PARK, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
bands, and on a very thorough exam- 
nation of the trees after they were 
free from leaves in the fall only three 
egg clusters were discovered. 
During the last season considerable 
concrete paving was done in the 
smaller parks, and 24 acres has recent- 
ly been added to the park system. 
The work of improving the Pleasant 
Valley Parkway has been practically 
completed and planting plans pre- 
pared by Warren H. Planning of Bos- 
ton. 
The commissioners in tlieir last re- 
port call the attention of the City 
Council to the small number of play- 
grounds under the control of the de- 
partment, no new ones having been 
opened during the year. There are 
now under the care of the commis- 
sioners ten tracts of land suitable for 
playgrounds, and which can be opened 
whenever the City Council makes 
suitable provision for their improve- 
ment and the erection of the proper 
athletic apparatus. A resolution has 
been presented to the City Council 
asking for the appropriation of a suf- 
ficient amount to enable the commis- 
sioners to open two of the tracts re- 
ferred to. There were three play- 
grounds maintained during the season 
from June 1st to September 1st. The 
commissioners call attention to the 
inadequate police protection for the 
parks. Roger Williams Park, contain- 
ing 430 acres, has only one officer to 
enforce the city ordinances and keep 
order. 
Permission has been given the 
Rhode Island League of Improve- 
ment Societies to try an experimental 
school garden in Roger Williams Park 
and the construction of a bridle path 
in Blackstone Park is under consid- 
eration. 
Laurel and rhododendrons grow 
naturally in this soil and it is hoped 
that it may be possible to do some 
planting of this kind in the near fu- 
A picturesque park mountain drive 
and automobile road has been con- 
structed to the Summit House of 
Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts. It 
is 20 feet wide and one and one-third 
miles long ,and built almost entirely 
through solid trap rock. The grade of 
this road does not exceed 10 per cent 
at any point, and equals in finish any 
mountain road in New England. 
Mount Holyoke is in the towns of 
Hadley and South Hadley, Mass., 
about two miles from Mount Plolyoke 
College, and is about one thousand 
feet above the sea level. From this 
ture.' It is also recommended to con- 
tinue the road bordering the banks of 
the Seekonk River, past the Butler 
Hospital and Swan Point Grounds 
and as far toward the Pawtucket line 
as possible, with a connection to the 
upper end of Blackstone Boulevard. 
This would give a beautiful ride for 
driving along such picturesque shores 
as shown in one of our illustrations. 
The park affairs are administered by 
Joseph D. Fitts, the superintendent 
and secretary of the Board, which is 
composed of Edward F. Ely, Chair- 
man, Joseph E. C. Farnham and Wil- 
liam A. Walton. 
mountain a view is obtained which in 
extent and beauty is excelled by few 
mountain landscape views in the 
world, comprising as it does a clear 
prospect over one hundred miles in 
diameter of the famous Connecticut 
River Valley and over two hundred 
miles in circumference. Thirty cities 
and towns lie about the mountain and 
the beautiful Northampton Meadows, 
which lie just across the Connecticut 
River, at its base, add to this most 
attractive view. 
Mount Holyoke, like the Catskill 
Alountains, has had a mountain house 
A UNIQUE MOUNTAIN DRIVE 
