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In settling a case in probate in 
Youngstown, O., Mr. Volney Rogers, 
one of the Mill Creek Park commis- 
sioners, was called in to testify to 
the value of an oak tree on the es- 
tate. The tree was over 300 years 
old and Mr. Rogers placed its value 
at .$300. 
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Jacob H. Prost, the recently ap- 
pointed city forester of Chicago, 
has issued a set of instructions 
for the guidance of householders and 
property owners in taking care of 
shrubbery and trees. Since he took 
office Mr. Prost has been besieged 
with almost every imaginable query 
concerning the removal of unsightly 
trees, the treatment of trees attacked 
by insect pests and similar subjects. 
His set of instructions is aimed to 
meet the needs of the majority of 
these cases. His first directions bear 
on the removal of dead or unsightly 
trees and the trimming of dead or 
obstructing branches — part of his 
work to which he is giving his first 
attention. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
The Merrimac Town Improvement 
Society, Merrimac, Mass., is raising a 
fund of $2,000 to purchase and im- 
prove a park. 
The park board of Springfield, 111., 
has purchased the Mildred Park tract 
from Edward W. Payne. 
W. F. Horn has given to Oklahoma 
City, Okla., 49 acres for park pur- 
poses. J. J. Culbertson and J. C. 
Robertson have donated four and nine 
acres, respectively. 
Four small parks in congested dis- 
tricts of the West Park System of 
Chicago are to be developed with a 
bond issue of $1,000,000 recently 
granted by the legislature, subject to 
popular vote. 
Philadelphia has purchased a small 
triangular tract at Passyunk Ave. and 
Tasker St., for a park. 
The Board of Public Works of 
Waterbury, Conn., is to build a stone 
wall and substitute granite curbing 
for dilapidated fences at Union 
Square and Stanley Park. 
Denver, Col., has bought a 130- 
acre addition to the City Park for 
$125,000 from the State Fand Board. 
Andrew Melgaard has given to 
Aberdeen, S. D., an eleven acre grove 
and offered to sell fourteen acres ad- 
joining. 
Rock Island, 111., has raised $5,000 
as part of the purchase price of a 24- 
acre tract. The city is to contribute 
$10,000 more in annual instalments. 
Davenport, la., has secured an op- 
tion on a 32-acre tract to be bought 
by the city and public subscriptions. 
A law passed by the Missouri 
Legislature makes the Superintendent 
of Parks of St. Joseph, city forester, 
and gives him power to regulate and 
care for the street trees. 
Mason City, la., has bought a 
twenty-acre park tract from the Park- 
er estate. 
The Civic League of Jennings, La., 
has purchased a block adjoining the 
school house and will park it. 
The Newton Center Improvement 
Association, Newton Center, Mass., 
has bought two park tracts and is 
improving them. 
Durant, Okla., has voted at a re- 
cent election to issue $6,000 in bonds 
for a city park. 
Adolph Arp, formerly superintend- 
ent of parks at Davenport, la., is in 
charge of the parks of Meridian, 
Miss., where he is improving a new 
tract of 30 acres. 
The Chebeague Park Association 
has bought ten acres on Chebeague 
Island, Me., for a park. 
Governor Fort of New Jersey ad- 
vocates the acquirement by that state 
of a tract of about 200,000 acres in 
the northern part of the state for a 
state park. E. H. Harriman, who 
owns a part of the tract, has offered 
to give 23,000 acres on condition that 
the state gets possession of the rest 
of the property. 
A movement has been started at 
Los Angeles to get possession of a 
forty-acre tract owned by Rosedale 
Cemetery on Pico Heights for a park, 
under a new law recently passed by 
the legislature. Under a city ordi- 
nance the land cannot be used for 
cemetery purposes. 
Condemnation proceedings are un- 
der way in Buffalo, N. Y., to secure 
a water front park of 87 acres. 
In the report of Olmsted Brothers, 
landscape architects, Brookline, Mass., 
for improving Piedmont Park, Atlan- 
ta, Ga., they suggest that the park 
should be divided up into a large 
meadow area, a lake for boating and 
bathing, woodlands with driveways, 
a rolling landscape, covered with 
grass, shade trees, shrubs and flow- 
ers, and borders of terraces. The 
race track, the architects point out, 
should give way to a meadow. 
The park, cemtery and street com- 
mission of Marquette, Mich., has 
asked for $18,000 for the department 
this year. 
The city council of Haverhill, 
Mass., has agreed with the Swasey 
estate on the purchase price of a 
fourteen-acre tract to be used for a 
park. 
The park commissioners of Apple- 
ton, Wis., have recommended the ex- 
penditure of $500 on the Jones tract, 
recently acquired. 
The park commissioners of Glou- 
cester, Alass., have a fund of $5,000 
for park improvements along the 
banks of the canal. 
Deadwood, S. D., has voted a bond 
issue of $25,000 for park purposes. 
Silvis, 111., has bought a seven-acre 
tract for a park. 
Lincoln, 111., has appropriated $1,600 
for park maintenance this year. 
Lewis N. Gilbert has presented to 
Ware, Mass., land on the shore of 
Snow’s pond for a park. 
Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, 
Mass., have been engaged to plan the 
new grounds for the Male High 
School, Louisville, Ky. 
Frank H. Nutter, landscape archi- 
tect of Minneapolis, recently made 
surveys and plans for the park at 
Glenwood, Minn. 
The Kansas City park board is to 
lay out bridle paths in Swope Park 
and Swope Parkway to connect with 
the down-town boulevards. 
The park board of Nashville, Tenn., 
has asked the city council to make a 
special levy of five cents on every 
$100 of taxable property for park 
purposes, the maximum amount al- 
lowed by the state law. 
Carey, O., has appropriated $400 
for parking the waterworks grounds, 
and further funds are to be raised by 
private contributions. 
The new park board of Rockford, 
111., has purchased an eighty-acre 
tract as the beginning of a park sys- 
tem. George D. Roper and H. W. 
Williams are on the board and Frank 
O’Brien is secretary. 
Bastrop, Tex., has decided to buy 
a 24-acre tract for a park. 
George E. Kessler, Kansas City, 
Mo., has been engaged to plan a park 
system for Fort Worth, Tex. 
