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be intersected by an encircling park- 
way about two miles from the center. 
This parkway will touch a number 
of small playgrounds and open spaces, 
and also a large reservation surround- 
ing the city’s water reservoir; this 
•will form a lake of 150 acres. The 
citizens all are working in harmony 
and much public spirit is being dis- 
played in this very admirable venture 
in providing for the future by a small 
city. 
The Parking Commission of New 
Orleans, La., created by ordinance 
last May, is vested with authority 
over trees on all the public highways 
of the city and to establish a nursery 
to supply same. It also has their care 
and maintenance. It is in fact a tree 
commission to inaugurate and carry 
out a systematic planting of the pub- 
lic streets. It is estimated that at 
least 150,000 trees will be needed, and 
under present conditions the commis- 
sion will have work on hand for years 
to come. It has .secured a well lo- 
cated plot of ten acres which has been 
prepared for nursery purposes, and a 
large number of seedling trees set 
out, as well as seeds sown. The com- 
mission is composed of practical men, 
who will undoubtedly make good in 
their work. 
The Association of Cites-Jardins 
of France, which might be explained 
as an association to promote civic 
embellishment and outdoor improve- 
ment is making a vigorous campaign 
to increase its membership and pro- 
mote the good work for which it was 
organized. It published papers, dis- 
cussed the questions arising from ex- 
pert experience and American prog- 
ress and practice is given much at- 
tention. It has a collection of some 
10,000 photographs and 2,000 stereop- 
ticon plates. 
At the recent annual meeting of 
the American Society of Landscape 
Architects the following officers were 
elected: Charles N. Lowrie, New 
York, president; Warren H. Man- 
ning, Boston, vice-president; H. A. 
Caparn, New York, treasurer, and 
Charles D. Lay, New York, secretary. 
Airs. Sarah C. Durbin and children 
of Harrisburg, Pa., have donated a 
plot of six acres of wood land, known 
as Romberger’s grove, to the borough 
of Lykens as a memorial to the late 
Mr. J. C. Durbin, who was a well- 
known lawyer. Mrs. Durbin may 
probably add to the improvements. 
Cleveland, O., is still pushing her 
small park and playground projects, 
and the question of equipping the 
neighborhood centers are quickly as 
possible is being considered. 
The park board of Duluth, Minn., 
has recently purchased a piece of 
property, about 2j/^ acres in extent, 
for a park in the west end. It will 
be not only a breathing spot, but it 
will be improved with playground and 
skating rink. The board is looking 
up other pieces of desirable property. 
At a recent meeting of the Board 
of Park Commissioners of East St. 
Louis, the employment of Mr. Geo. 
E. Kessler, landscape architect, and 
the possible expenditure of $300,000, 
were authorized. Plans for a pro- 
posed boulevard and two new parks 
are to be submitted. 
The Rockford, 111., township park 
commission has recently purchased a 
forty-acre tract, adjacent to Sinissippi 
park for $16,080. 
Huntsville, Ala., has purchased the 
Calhoun block of land, opposite the 
post office, for $20,000. One quarter 
of the lot will be made a site for a 
Carnegie library, one quarter will be 
sold to the Y. AI. C. A., the middle 
part will be used for the New City 
hall, and the whole will be improved 
into a fine city park. 
The Kansas City, Kas., park board 
is considering the matter of establish- 
ing a small park and playground ad- 
joining the Emerson School. 
Senator Root has taken the pre- 
liminary steps for the establishment 
of a national park on the site of Fort 
Fisher, North Carolina. His bill au- 
thorizes the purchase by the govern- 
ment of some 1,800 acres, comprising 
the former site of the old fort, and 
$30,000 to pay for it. 
By the will of the late Alexander 
J. Reid, of Appleton, Wis., is be- 
queathed some 14 acres of land on 
the Fox river for park purposes. On 
it are a log cabin, cottage and stables. 
Louis F. Swift, the Chicago packer, 
has signified his willingness to donate 
a piece of land of about ten acres to 
the municipality of South San Fran- 
cisco, for park purposes. 
Mr. O. C. Simonds, the landscape 
gardener of Chicago, has recommend- 
ed to the town of Decatur, 111., to 
make a great public drive of the strip 
of land occupied as the right-of-way 
of the old Illinois and Michigan canal. 
It would make an ideal parkway drive 
at comparatively small cost, and could 
be improved on up-to-date lines. 
Joliet, III, has under consideration 
a proposition to purchase the large 
tract of land, known as Reed’s wood, 
for park purposes. 
Corhplaint is made that large areas 
of park property in the Borough of 
the Bronx, New York, property that 
for park comeliness cannot be sur- 
passed, is left to deteriorate and to 
absolute neglect, an inheritance of 
Tammany waste and carelessness. 
Some of it is used for dumping 
grounds by the street cleaning de- 
partment. The New York Press 
has taken the matter up and has been 
scoring the municipal authorities for 
the destruction and neglect of these 
park areas whose beauty and appro- 
priateness demand immediate care 
and attention. 
Aberdeen, Wash., is to have a park 
if the Civic Improvement Associa- 
tion can push its plans with the city 
fathers. 
Madera, Cal., has engaged expert 
advice to prepare a plan for beauti- 
fying its new court house park site. 
Pullman, Chicago, is to have two 
new small park sites, on one of 
which may be erected a monument 
to the late George M. Pullman. 
Washington Park is to be the name 
of a new park in Alankato, Minn., 
for which a plan of improvement has 
been prepared by Air. Max Pfaender. 
Alore than a quarter of a million 
of plants have been raised in the 
municipal greenhouses of St. Louis, 
Mo., the past fall and winter for use 
in the city parks, of which more than 
125,000 will be needed in Forest Park 
alone. It is estimated that it requires 
about two months of hard work and 
a large force to put all the city’s 
parks in summer dress. 
The Circuit Court has ruled that 
the state act of 1909, creating a 
.$1,000,000 bond issue for use by the 
city of Memphis, Tenn., to complete 
its parkway system is constitutional, 
and overruled every demurrer pre- 
sented by the Southern Ry. to the bill 
brought by the city to condemn its 
Charleston yards. 
An amusing incident has occurred 
in connection with a new park of Mo- 
line, 111., for unless the matter is set- 
tled before its opening, a for sale 
sign will greet the eyes of visitors. 
It appears that a citizen has a tax 
title on the property, having for over 
two years paid the taxes, and unless 
the city reimburses him, he proposes 
to offer the park for sale to the high- 
est bidder. 
In consideration of private citizens 
donating $30,000 for park improve- 
ments, the city administration of La 
Crosse, Wis., has decided to abandon 
its plan of establishing a new water 
plant in Riverside park against the 
opposition of citizens. 
