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park and promptly donated it as a 
park; another gave a land tract in an- 
other section; one gave a considera- 
ble area adjoining his residence. 
Numerous donations were made of 
shore properties and riparian rights. 
Seattle is forging ahead and her park 
activities are fully abreast of any of 
her public works. 
At one of the sessions Mr. Richards 
read a paper on drive construction. 
is, therefore, especially noteworthy to 
have the conclusions of experiments 
conducted and sustained over a period 
of years under such favorable circum- 
stances. It was stated that Chicago’s 
South Side Park budget would re- 
quire less for maintenance in 1910 
than it did this year and that is with 
greater use of the properties. A par- 
allel to this has not been previously 
announced from any city. 
but rather during ordinary circum- 
stances and while work was in actu- 
al routine progress. Inspection was 
made from behind the scenes as well 
as from the front. 
As a whole the convention was ex- 
ceedingly pleasant and profitable and 
one long to be remembered. 
On the fourth day the members 
journeyed by boat to Tacoma. Nel- 
son Bennett and Judge Snell of the 
INTERESTING LANDSCAPE FEATURES OF SEATTLE EXPOSITION GROUNDS. 
Part of Garden, showing Hybrid Roses and English Daisies Slope at Main Entrance planted with 1,500 White Geraniums 
as Ground Cover in Foreground. 
Everyone recognizes Chicago’s South 
Side parks’ position in park develop- 
ment and Mr. Richards’ responsibil- 
ity in their administration. His pa- 
per amply justified what was to be 
expected from that source. Suffice 
it to say at this time that his deduc- 
tions were in favor of a 2-inch sur- 
face of stone aggregate mixed with 
asphalt of a low melting point as the 
most satisfactory for all sorts of park 
traffic. This conclusion was reached 
in the face of bitulithic, cement 
grouting and various special prepa- 
rations and is supposed to be sani- 
tary, non-slipping, easily repaired, 
long lived, resilient, suitably plastic 
and otherwise multitudinously satis- 
factory. Chicago’s problem requires 
the highest efficiency and utmost sat- 
isfaction first, secondly long life and 
low maintenance cost. This is quite 
a contrast to first cost considerations 
facing most other administrations. It 
It was interesting to learn that Chi- 
cago proposes to asphalt her play- 
grounds rather than pave with hard 
material, such as gravel or to use 
cinders or tan bark — the latter object- 
ed to on sanitary grounds! Mr. Dun- 
can, of Boston, still favors cinders, 
but others preferred the tan bark. 
Playgrounds, appliances, merits and 
demerits of special apparatus and 
provisions were debated, bathing, 
swimming, meeting facilities discussed 
and the ever-present conditions of how 
to make them more efficiently use- 
ful while minimizing the incident 
dangers of use and travel in parks 
and playgrounds were repeatedly ar- 
gued from various phases. 
Altogether the interest and profit 
of mutual interchange of ideas and 
symposiums on park administrative 
affairs was ever present, especially 
since the' visitation was not made af- 
ter careful preparation as to effect 
Tacoma Park Board did the honors 
of the city. After a bay ride via 
launch to a lumber mill and smelter, 
Point Defiance, Wright and McKinley 
parks were visited. Enroute the res- 
idential portion of the city was view- 
ed. Early the following morning — it 
was a memorable morning — Friday, 
the 13th of August, thirteen automo- 
biles left the Tacoma Hotel for “Mt. 
Tacoma.” Seventy-two miles by au- 
to cars and 7 miles a horseback 
brought the party to Paradise valley. 
Enroute grand old cedars (Thuya 
gagantea) Fir (Abies nobilis and Pseu- 
dotsuga Douglasi) and Hemlock 
(Tsuga Mertensiana), some six and 
eight feet in diameter and ascending 
to heights of over 200 ft., were com- 
mon in the Forest Reserve and Park 
traversed on the way. The forest 
scenes were literally sublime, Mt. 
Tacoma, mantled in snow* splashed 
with the dull browns of barren rocks 
