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should include repairs and also alter- 
ations in the original improvement, in 
case they are not such as to change 
the character of service rendered or 
materially increase it. 
Operation Account : including all ex- 
penses growing out of the actual use 
of park areas by the puldic and out of 
the need of providing for the comfort 
safety, and amusement of the pul)- 
lic while making such use. This ac- 
count includes lighting, policing, pick- 
ing up papers, sweeping, concerts, oper- 
ation of drinking-fountains, public com- 
fort stations, etc., and includes no ex- 
penses except such as could be stopped 
without leading to deterioration in case 
the public were to be excluded for a 
time from the use and etijoyment of the 
parks. 
But many expenses are of a general 
sort, chargeable to many or all of the 
different divisions of the park system, 
and it is necesary to keep a number of 
general accounts, ultimately apportion- 
able among the primary accounts above 
mentioned. The following are suggest- 
ed as corresponding pretty closely with 
practical and reasonable requirements of 
organization. 
Administration Account : including 
expenses of central office, commission- 
ers, general executive officer, legal ex- 
penses , negotiations for settlement of 
claims, clerical work, etc. 
Design Account: including expenses 
incidental to deciding on work to be 
done, plans, surveys, investigations, su- 
pervisions of the execution of plans that 
may be adopted, etc. 
Equipment Account: including ex- 
pense of accjuiring and maintaining 
tools, appliances, instruments, furniture, 
etc., for executive use, and supplies pur- 
chased and kept in stock for use undei 
more than one account or for more than 
one division of the park system of a 
city. 
Other general accounts will have to 
be added from time to time as occasion 
arises, and some of the above may be 
subdivided. Law and claims might be 
separated from the rest of administra- 
tion instead of being kept as subdivis- 
ions thereof. Design might be divided 
into landscape architecture and engin- 
eering, or into construction design and 
planting design ; but to make such a 
division tends to encourage a serious 
weakness in the practical organization 
of park work the results of which are 
to be too commonly seen in the lack of 
artistic unity in the work as a whole 
that is turned out. 
The minor subdivisions of the ac- 
counts we will not attempt, in this pre- 
liminarjf report, to discuss. 
The Civic League of St. Louis, Mo., 
has started a movement to place a 
proposition before the voters at the 
N^ovember election to acquire land for 
an outer park system. Maps showing 
several schemes have been distrib- 
uted, with radial thoroughfares from 
the city to connect with the outer 
systems, and considerable energy is 
being developed to continue the de- 
velopment of St. Louis parks. 
John C. Olmsted, Brookline, Mass., 
the designers of the New Orleans, 
La., parks, has recently visited 
that city to determine whether the de- 
struction of the Horticultural Hall 
will make any changes in his original 
plan of improvement for Audubon 
Park advisable or desirable. 
Park Superintendent Rudolph G. 
Rau, St. Joseph, Mo., h as presented 
to the board of park commissioners a 
comprehensive plan for creating a 
“City Beautiful.” The project com- 
prises a river front park and park- 
way, general use of St. Joseph’s hill- 
tops as parks, construction of one 
thoroughly modern park of large ex- 
tent with water facilities, small parks 
in the city proper, a civic center and 
open plazas. He urges promptness 
in acquiring land for the purpose. The 
report he presented discussed the de- 
tails of his plan, with locations of his 
several propositions, and he urged 
that the county’s macadam roads 
should be made part of the boulevard 
system. The scheme provides for 87 
miles of boulevards and parkways, 
and 1,770 acres in parks and reserva- 
tions, which would cost ,8600,000. St. 
Joseph should brace itself for the op- 
portunity while it is time. 
Senator Warner hak introduced a 
bill for the establishment of the Wil- 
son Creek National Park, Mo., to be 
ceded by Missouri and to be under the 
control of the Secretary of War. 
Present owners of land who may de- 
isire to retain their residence may do 
so on condition that they will pre- 
serve the present buildings and roads 
and only cut timber under regulations 
provided by the secretary, who is au- 
thorized to appoint three commis- 
sioners with an office in Republic, 
Mo. The duty of the commission 
would be to cut roads and generally 
follow the plans of other military 
parks. The bill carries with it an 
appropriation of .$200,000. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
The city park commissioners of 
Memphis, Tenn., are working out 
plans to make the park system unsur- 
passed. Several costly public com- 
fort stations are under wa}', and a 
magnificent loop drive of some eigh- 
teen miles in length is under con- 
struction and progressing rapidly. 
Permanent bridges have been con- 
structed along the parkway to take 
the place of the old wooden ones. 
The Committee on Parks of AIo- 
line, 111., has recently considered bids 
for the improvement of a plot of land 
detached from Riverside Cemetery for 
park purposes. 
Bay City, Texas, is to have a six- 
acre park tract adjoining the city 
limits, and the Bay City Civic Club 
has decided to proceed with its im- 
provement. A landscape man has 
been engaged to arrange a planting 
scheme. 
The park commission of Greenfield, 
Mass., favor an appropriation of 
$1,000 for the care of the parks. The 
tree warden reports the appearance 
of the elm leaf beetle, on some priv- 
ate grounds, but the street trees, are 
believe to be free from the pest. He 
recommends an appropriation large 
enough to control both the elm tree 
beetle and the brown-tail moth. 
Civic beauty is to cost the city of 
Ogden, Utah, $10,000 this year. Bet- 
ter parks and better grounds about 
the public buildings is the watch- 
word. 
Plans for extensive municipal im- 
provements in Pittsburgh, Pa., are 
being studied by the experts selected 
by the civic commission : Bion J. 
Arnold, Chicago; John R. Freeman, 
Providence, and Frederick Law Olm- 
sted, Boston. 
The park commission of Milwau- 
kee, Wis., will expend $68,000 on the 
improvement of Milwaukee’s parks 
this year. The contemplated improve- 
ments include new road work, an ex- 
tension of the Lake drive, and a sea 
wall. 
The authorities of Terre Haute, 
Ind., propose to change Memorial 
Park into a city playground with wad- 
ing pool and gymnasium for the city 
children. A riverside drive is also 
projected, as well as other small 
parks. 
