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PARK NEWS. 
EASTERN PARK SUPERINTENDENTS MEET 
Eastern members of the American 
Association of Park Superintendents 
met February 26 with Superintendent 
George A. Parker, at Hartford, Conn., 
and- formed an eastern branch of that 
organization for more frequent and 
personal intercourse than can be had 
from the annual meetings of the na- 
tional organization. 
The occasion was made a reunion of 
a few of the original members of the 
former New England Association that 
later broadened out into a national 
body. 
By-laws and rules conformable to 
those that govern the larger associa- 
tion were adopted, and officers were 
elected as follows; President, J. A. 
Pettigrew, Boston; secretary-treas- 
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
Co. is to erect in Forest Park, St. Louis, 
a shelter house to cost $50,000 as a 
memorial to the exposition. Work 
has already been started on the struc- 
ture. The St. Louis Civic League is 
preparing a map for a comprehensive 
system of parks and boulevards which 
is to be embodied in a bill to be pre- 
sented to the Missouri legislature to 
authorize the work. St. Louis claims 
a larger park area per capita than any 
other large city in the country. The 
park areas and the park area per 
capita are based on the following 
figures recently quoted by Mayor 
Wells in that city: 
PARK AREA. 
Acres. 
New York 6,979.07 
Philadelphia 3,969.40 
Chicago 3,402 
St. Louis t 2,885.11 
Boston 2,782.01 
Kansas City 2,067 
Baltimore 1,600 
PARK AREA PER CAPITA. 
Acreage 
*Population. Per 1,000. 
St. Louis 575,000 3.84 
Philadelphia .. ..1,293697 3.08 
New York 3,437,702 2.02 
Chicago 1,698,575 2.00 
The council of Virginia, Minn., has 
passed resolutions authorizing the 
urer, G. A. Parker, Hartford, Conn.; 
executive committee, the president, 
secretary-treasurer and W. J. Zart- 
mann, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The first 
meeting will be held in Brooklyn, 
April 16, 1909. 
Among those present were J. A. 
Pettigrew and J. B. Shea, of Boston 
park department; Robert Cameron, 
Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass.; 
G. X. Amrhyn, of New Haven parks; 
Samuel Parsons, Jr., landscape archi- 
tect, New York parks; Geo. A. Park- 
er, of Hartford; J. F. Huss, Goodwin 
Castle, Hartford; J. D. Fitts and H. 
A. Parker of Providence, R. I.; Mr. 
Ladd of Springfield, -and J. hi. Hem- 
ingway of Worcester, and C. E. Keith 
of Bridgeport park department. 
purchase of two lots for park pur- 
poses. 
Drs. C. H. and W. J. Mayo have 
presented to Rochester, Minn., two 
lots for a substantial addition to Mayo 
Park. 
The bill making the Calaveras big 
tree grove in California a National 
park was one of the last bills signed 
by President Roosevelt. 
Holyoke, Mass., has authorized a 
loan of $5,000 for park purposes. 
Henry H. Loomis has presented to 
Geneva, Ind., a fifteen-acre tract for 
a public park. 
Two railroads have presented to the 
Civic Improvement League of Hum- 
boldt. Tenn., a triangular tract at the 
crossing of their lines to be parked. 
W. H. Dunn, superintendent of 
parks at Kansas City, AIo., recently 
visited Oklahoma City to examine and 
report on the elaborate system of 
parks and boulevards planned for that 
city. 
The Civic Association of Morris- 
town, N. J., has been offered the old 
Speedwell Lake for park purposes, 
and will raise $25,000 for its improve- 
ment. 
The state park board of Wisconsin, 
composed of T. E. Brittingham, Madi- 
son; Senator E. E. Browne, Wau- 
paca; W. H. McFetridge, Baraboo, 
has submitted its first annual report 
to the legislature, recommending the 
establishment of four parks. The 
recommendations are: First — To au- 
thorize the state park board to secure 
as soon as may be, the refusal of such 
property as would constitute the most 
attractive reservation in connection 
with the dells of Wisconsin, and to 
do all that is possible to check any 
further action that would impair the 
beauty of the dells for park purposes; 
Second — To empower the state park 
board to make an official investigation 
of the Devil’s Lake region, with au- 
thority to acquire all the wild land, 
5,000 acres, at a rate not to exceed 
an average of $25 an acre, and as 
much of the level land around the 
lake as possible at a rate not to ex- 
ceed $100 an acre; Third — To author- 
ize the board to acquire the land in 
Door County near Fish creek, approx- 
imately 3,800 acres for not to exceed 
$75 an acre. Fourth — To authorize 
the board to acquire the land in Grant 
county, near Wyalusing, at the junction 
of the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. 
The trustees of Pine Banks Park, in 
Malden and Melrose, Mass., ask for 
an appropriation of $3,000, one-hal£ 
of which is to come from each of the 
two towns. 
The Coit estate has offered to Grand 
Rapids, Mich., nine acres for park 
purposes. 
A new field house and playfield is 
to be built this season in Penn Val- 
ley Park, Kansas City, at a cost of 
$71,000. 
The Metropolitan Park Commission 
of Rhode Island has voted to establish 
the Lincoln Woods Reservation, 
near Providence, a tract of 475 acres 
adjoining the Quinsnicket tract re- 
cently secured. 
The committee on parks has recom- 
mended to the city council of Chat- 
tanooga, Tenn., the appropriation of 
$3,500 for the completion of the im- 
provements at Jackson Park. 
Charles W. Leavitt, of New York, 
has prepared plans for a park to be 
laid out near the Cathedral in Garden 
City, a suburb of Brooklyn. 
A committee of the council of 
Scranton, Pa., is selecting the sites 
for the four new parks for which a 
fund of $100,000 is available. 
A bill is before the Delaware Leg- 
islature to allow the park board of 
Wilmington to own park land five 
miles beyond the city limits instead 
of two miles, as at present. 
S. M. Foster, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., 
is to donate to that town a tract of 
land for a park. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has purchased 
Eastman Park for $38,000. 
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