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tion of Leschi Park and around Mer- 
cer Island to Alaska-Yukon-Pacific 
Exposition grounds, where the bal- 
ance of the day will be spent. 
Third day, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 9 
A. M.: General business, election of 
officers and selection of next meeting 
place. 
1:30 P. M.: Visit to the play- 
grounds and trip along the boulevard 
t© the shores of Lake Washington 
and over to Bailey Peninsula. 
Fourth and fifth days, Thursday and 
Friday, August 12 and 13, will be 
spent in Tacoma under the direction 
of the Park Board of that city, vis- 
iting the parks and going through the 
Paradise Valley. 
A carefully arranged itinerary has 
been mapped out, and members, 
friends, guests and visitors should 
plan to meet the party somewhere en 
route. Two dates for leaving Boston 
have been fixed, July 27 for those who 
plan to take the 514 days’ trip in Yel- 
lowstone Park, and August 2 for 
those who will omit Yellowstone' 
Park. 
The schedule is as follows: 
Leave Boston, 10:30 a. m., July 27, 
by Boston & Albany and Lake Shore 
for Chicago; leave Chicago 6:40 p. m., 
GOOD PARK 
The city of Bellingham, Washing- 
ton, has a population of forty thou- 
sand people, but had few parks until 
the year 1908, when Mr. C. X. Larra- 
bee donated to the city a ten acre 
tract which the South Side Industrial 
Club employed Olmsted Brothers, 
Brookline, Mass., to lay out on a 
modern landscape plan. 
Later in the same year the Young 
Men’s Commercial Club was instru- 
mental in purchasing a forty acre 
tract for park purposes, securing a 
succession of picturesquely beautiful 
falls in Whatcom Creek, a stream tra- 
versing magnificent native timber 
(chiefly Douglas Spruce) with an in- 
teresting and varied undergrowth. 
Beautiful views of great bodies of wa- 
ter and majestic snow-capped moun- 
tains also show from the tract. 
Mrs. Bertha Cornwall Fischer, real- 
izing that Bellingham, in a manner 
characteristic of Western cities, was 
increasing in population very rapidly, 
has given the crowning feature of the 
system by presenting to the city a 
beautiful park of approximately sixty 
acres with a market value today of 
one hundred thousand dollars. It is 
to be known as “Cornwall Memorial 
Park,” in honor of her father, whose 
July 28, via C. M. & St. P for Min- 
neapolis; leave Minneapolis 10:45 p. 
m., July 29, via Northern Pacific; ar- 
rive Gardiner 10:15 a. m., July 31. 
From there a 5)4 days’ tour of Yel- 
lowstone Park will be made and the 
party will leave Gardiner at 7:15 p. m., 
Aug. 5; arrive in Seattle at 8:30 a. m., 
Aug. 8, after spending Friday, August 
6, in Spokane as guests of the Spo- 
kane Chamber of Commerce. 
The other itinerary, for those who 
will omit the Yellowstone Park trip, 
is as follows: 
Leave Boston 10:30 a .m., August 
2; leave Chicago 6:40 p. m., August 
3; leave Minneapolis 10:45 p. m. Aug- 
ust 4; meet the Yellowstone Park 
party at Livingstone August 6; arrive 
Seattle 8:30 a. m., August 8. 
Rates of Fare: Boston to Seattle 
and return, $94.95. 
Yellowstone Park: Side trip from 
Livingston, Mont. — a complete tour 
of the park, including 5l4 days’ ac- 
commodations at hotels, $55. 
Sleeping car rates: Double berth 
in the standard sleeping car accom- 
modating two persons, Boston to Se- 
attle, $19.00. 
Return routes: Tickets may be 
routed returning from Seattle as fol- 
lows: Northern Pacific Railway, via 
St. Paul, or via Billings & Omaha: 
Great Northern Ry., via Spokane and 
St. Paul; Canadian Pacific Ry., via 
Winnipeg and St. Paul; Oregon Short 
Line, via Salt Lake City, Denver and 
Omaha; via San Francisco or Los An- 
geles, $15.25 addition. The return 
route must be selected when ticket 
is purchased. 
Any other particulars may be had 
from the committee in charge: Pres. 
J. W. Duncan, Boston, Mass.; Sec.- 
Treas. F. L. Mulford, Harrisburg, Pa., 
or Theodore Wirth, Minneapolis, 
Minn. 
This is an ideal opportunity for 
western park commissioners and of- 
ficials to get identified with this live 
and useful organization. The wide- 
awake park commissioners know that 
up-to-date information and inter- 
change of ideas is as important to 
Park Departments as to other depart- 
ments of a city government, and they 
should see to it that superintendent, 
engineer, forester, or assistants at- 
tend this convention, and that the 
Board or Commission pay their ex- 
penses. Western park boards espe- 
cially should consider this matter and 
take favorable action. 
WORK IN BELLINGHAM 
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name is honored in Bellingham as Nature has already done. In none of 
the founder of the city. This beau- the parks in the Pacific Northwest 
tiful park lies directly north of a can be seen park pictures surpassing 
choice residence section known as the natural beauty of Whatcom and 
Broadway Park, contains the famous Bed rock Falls. 
Bed Rock Falls in Squalicum Creek. This 110 acres of parks gives Bel- 
This acquisition of parks by a city lingham an average of one acre to 
of this size is remarkable when we 363 people, a remarkably high aver- 
consider that it would take millions age to be attained in one year of park 
of dollars to even rudely imitate what acquisition. 
WHATCOM FALLS, BELLINGHAM, WASH. 
