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PARK AND CEMETERY . 
work will begin. It is expected that 
it will take five years to complete the 
project. 
Caledonia, N. Y., has voted to buy 
Tenent park, a lot of five acres, for a 
city park. It will be developed on 
park and playground lines. 
Dr. Rudolph Schiffmann and w'ife, 
formerly of St. Paul, Minn., have pre- 
sented to Pasadena, Cal., three acres 
of land in the Arroya Seco, as a 
nucleus for a beautiful public park. It 
is expected that this gift will inspire 
other owners of this beauty spot to dO' 
likewise. Dr. Schiffmann’s public spir- 
it in park matters was shown in St. 
Paul by his gift to Como Park of the 
handsome Schiffmann fountain. 
Recent ordinance passed by the Cin- 
cinnati, O., Council include the grad- 
ing and landscaping of the Hubbard 
tract at a cost of $4,000, and the fur- 
nishing and laying of water pipe in 
Mount Echo park at an approximate cost 
of $1,200. 
The Hamilton Club, of Chicago, has 
purchased a tract of forty acres of 
land east of the famous “Starved Rock” 
on the Illinois river, with a river front- 
age of one and a quarter miles. 
The park commission of Los An- 
geles, Cal., has taken official action in 
the matter of securing the Arroya Seco 
for a natural public park. This great 
tract includes some of California’s finest 
natural scenery. 
Mr. Warren H. Manning, the well- 
known landscape architect, and Mr. 
John H. Rowell of Billerica, Mass., 
have recently given a nine-acre tract of 
wooded land, known as Gilson Hill, to 
the Appalachian Mountain Club. The 
views from this hill are magnificent and 
only enough of the trees on the hill 
will be removed to afford uninter- 
rupted vistas. 
Under the direction of Mr. Fred C. 
Green, the new superintendent of parks 
of Providence, R. I., a much needed 
change is already manifesting itself in 
their appearance, and a much greater 
one is promised. It would appear that 
the Providence parks have been seri- 
ously overlooked in the matter of or- 
namental planting, until recently no 
means of providing for such work hav- 
ing been planned except that of annual 
purchases. Mr. Green has been devot- 
ing himself to remedying this defect in 
park management and has begun the 
culture on a more adequate scale of 
plants and trees for the park planting 
with a view to making them more at- 
tractive. Nurseries have been estab- 
lished and quantities of planting ma- 
terial will be available the coming spring 
with ample supplies to follow in due 
course. 
With the reorganization of the Cin- 
cinnati, O., park board a new system 
of handling the city parks has been de- 
cided upon. Mr. Maurice Longenecker 
has been appointed park manager and 
secretary, at a salary of $3,000, and a 
new park superintendent and a horti- 
culturist will be chosen who will have 
charge of the work in the parks, their 
cultivation, extension of the system, and 
improvement. 
Estimates secured by the Commercial 
Club of Des Moines, la., make the cost 
of the river front park system $400,000. 
With a view of an early completion of 
the project, the club proposes to ask 
the legislature to permit the issuance 
of fifty-year bonds. 
The French Garden City Association 
has been leading a campaign for the 
appropriation of the disused fortifica- 
tions of Paris for park uses. The ad- 
dress of the French Garden Cities As- 
sociation is 11 Rue Malebranche, Paris, 
where schemes of city beautification and 
town planning can be found concerning 
any place in the world. 
The parks and playgrounds commis- 
sion of Oakland, Cal., asks $500,000 as 
the appropriation for 1910-1911. ' 
Contracts have been let by the park 
department of Oklahoma City for 
about half the grading for a 30- 
mile boulevard around the city, and 
for two dams in the parks. This city 
expects to enter' the field for the Inter- 
national Automobile Races in the fall 
of 1911. A course will be furnished 30 
miles long around the city with a mini- 
mum curve of 1,000 feet radius, and 
maximum grade of 4 per cent ; no re- 
verse curves and no place without a 
clear track of 600 feet in sight. 
In his message to the New York leg- 
islature Governor Hughes has just an- 
nounced the gift, by Mrs. Edward H. 
Harriman, of 10,000 acres of land lying 
in Orange and Sullivan counties, to be 
used as a great park, with a supple- 
mentary gift of a million of dollars for 
the maintenance of the property. The 
governor recommends that the functions 
of the Palisades Park Commission be 
so enlarged as to include the manage- 
ment of the big tract of land, to the 
end that it may be extended into a mag- 
nificant playground and resting spot for 
the people of the congested districts of 
New York. As a result of the activities 
of the Palisades Park Commission, 
which was created in 1900, private dona- 
tions to the amount of $1,625,000, and 
appropriations by New York state of 
$400,000 and New Jersey of $50,000, 
have been secured for the purpose of 
protecting the shores of the Hudson 
and of establishing an accessible great 
park system. 
Mr. Robert J. Doyle, a well known 
insurance man, has been appointed su- 
perintendent of the park system of 
Cleveland, O., by the newl}- elected 
mayor. 
FROM THE PARK REPORT S 
In the 34th annual report of the Bos- 
ton Park Commission, Superintendent 
J. A. Pettigrew notes that by the rapid 
growth of the trees, the young planta- 
tions throughout the park system are 
fast assuming the character of wood- 
lands. This is especially noticeable in 
Franklin Park, where the oaks, beeches, 
maples, etc., which were planted as sap- 
lings nine to twelve years ago, now 
range from 15 to 30 feet in height. The 
pines and hemlocks, too, show a cor- 
responding excellent growth. These 
good results have been brought about 
b}' a thorough use of the horse culti- 
vator, in loosening the surface of the 
ground under the trees, for four or five 
years after planting. The results would 
have been still more pronounced had 
finances enabled them to continue this 
process to a later date. Five or six 
years ago the plantations were seeded 
down, and since then only such hand 
cultivation as the appropriation would 
allow has been given to individual trees. 
Brief accounts of the work in each of 
the parks is given, and several fine half- 
tone views shown. The expenditures 
for the year amounted to $309,008. 
Supt. Adolph Arp, of the Meridian, 
Miss., park system, has made $22,000 
worth of improvements in 1909, includ- 
ing the building of a band stand, three 
shelter houses, drives, walks, fountains 
and a merry-go-round. About two miles 
of roadways were added and a six-inch 
main laid from the city water works, 
and a bridge built. A new residence 
was built for the superintendent. 
The Annual Report of the Public 
Parks Board of Winnipeg, Manitoba, 
for 1908 shows a very active condition 
of affairs. Since the organization of 
the board in 1893 the receipts have 
amounted to $471,176.61 and the expen- 
ditures to $467,879.45. The board has 
319 acres under its control, covering 11 
parks, ranging from one-third of an 
acre to Assiniboine Park with 282 acres. 
The receipts for 1908 were $71,464.37, 
and the expenditures $68,167.21. The 
valuation of the parks in 1907 was 
$1,225,138.75 and their original cost 
$130,633.41, so it may be seen what profit 
there has been in the parks for Winni- 
number of attractive half-tone views of * 
park scenes. 
