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with a playground ; to extend the crib 
for the lake shore drive and to improve 
the Pabst street entrance to Washing- 
ton park. Other park improvements 
were also considered. 
Plans of the park commission of New 
Haven, Conn., for important improve- 
ments in the line of playgrounds and 
the general improvement of the Beaver 
Ponds park district were presented at 
a recent meeting of the board of aider- 
men. It is planned to lay out two base- 
ball diamonds which will be surrounded 
by a running track, while about the 
whole athletic field a broad mall is to 
be constructed and planted. Play- 
ground apparatus for the younger chil- 
dren is also to be proxdded. 
Civic improvement has touched the 
conscience of the authorities of Prince- 
ton, lud. It is proposed to clear out 
the dead trees from the city parks and 
use the funds received from that sale 
of the lumber for improvement pur- 
poses. 
The Report of the Board of Park 
Commissioners of Topeka, Kan., an in- 
teresting resume of seven years' his- 
tory, 1902-1908, has however running 
through it a note not in harmony with 
up-to-date park work, and, which an 
important city like Topeka should has- 
ten to remedy. We refer to the chronic 
condition of insufficient funds. Any 
park system so suffering, and it is quite 
a common trouble, is sure to deterio- 
rate, while extravagance is always 
to be deprecated. Common sense is an 
excellent guide to judge of the finan- 
cial requirements of an improving park 
system. At the close of 1908 Topeka 
possessed 12 parks, ranging from a frac- 
tion of an acre to 80 acres in extent, 
and making a total area of 144. .16 acres. 
The first work on the present park sys- 
tem was begun IMa}- 16, 1900. There is 
undoubted good in the number of small 
parks a city may maintain, but the ex- 
pense of maintenance is greater pro- 
portionately than in the larger parks, 
yet between the two, breathing spaces 
at frequent intervals are decidedly de- 
sirable and improve neighborhood con- 
ditions wherever they are located. It 
is therefore to a city’s interest to pro- 
vide funds to maintain such small parks 
in a thoroughly up-to-date manner. 
From February 1, 1902, to December 
31, 1908, the total receipts for the pur- 
chase and maintenance of Topeka’s 
parks were $62,947.50 from the county 
treasurer and $517.88 from other 
sources. The expenditures were $62,- 
791.02, which tells its own story. In 
the conclusion of the report the com- 
missioners call attention to an enact- 
ment by the last legislature restricting 
cities under 60,000 inhabitants to a 
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