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The Children’s Camp at Lincoln 
Park, i\Iarion, O., which was con- 
ceived, organized, and superintended 
by Mr. Addison Bain, health officer 
and park superintendent, was a great 
success. The camping out lasted a 
week and broke up on July 8. Not 
an accident of any kind occurred to 
mar the children’s week of pleasure, 
nor a case of sickness. A daily pro- 
gram was arranged by Mr. Bain. 
The children are cared for without 
their parents and the time is given 
up to healthy recreation and chil- 
dren’s sports. Mr. Bain is devoted 
to this kind of work for the little ones, 
and expects to organize another camp 
in 1911 besides giving certain play 
days. This is a feature of park man- 
agement which might be extended. 
Mr. Lincoln W. Dygert, Syracuse, 
N. Y., has offered to present to the 
city through the Common Council 10 
bubbling-cup drinking fountains with 
dog troughs at the base, provided they 
shall be located at the places named. 
It is probable the gift will be ac- 
cepted . 
The People’s Gardens Association, 
of Washington, D. C., has offered 
eight prizes, in substantial amounts of 
cash, or suitable medals at the option 
of the winners, to residents striving 
for lawn and .garden beauty during 
the summer. 
The drought in New York has been 
ver}^ hard upon the park lawns and 
grass plats, and to minimize the bad 
effects night sprinkling is to be re- 
sorted to. But the method of water- 
ing has been harshly condemned by 
experts. The park authorities are 
said to be behind the age in their 
methods of doing such work. 
Buffalo, N. Y.. has opened its war 
upon the caterpillar and is enrolling 
the children in the work, pajdng 10 
cents a quart for caterpillars, cocoons 
and egg masses. It is not so much 
in the parks, where very effective 
spraying was conducted, as in private 
gardens and yards that the destruc- 
tive pests increase and multiply, and 
the co-operation of city owners is 
earnestly desired. 
It is estimated that the cost of im- 
provements in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 
for 1910. will amount to $775,000, and 
265 acres will have been added to its 
area. The plans for these improve- 
ments are all made at the park offices. 
The pumping station has a capacity 
of 12, 000, 000 gallons in 24 hours. 
Some 5,000 feet of wire fencing has 
been added, and the finished refectory 
;ost $70,000. The commission has put in 
its own roadmaking machinery at a 
cost of $10,000. Some 500,000 trees 
and shrubs have been planted and 
settees and such like park furniture 
to the amount of $2,000 has been dis- 
tributed. 
The Joliet, 111., “Daily News" has 
been sounding a timely note of warn- 
ing on the question of oiled roads, 
and very wisely ktggests that: “be- 
fore our city or parks invest any con- 
siderable sums in oil, they should 
give the matter a very thorough in- 
vestigation.” 
The use of park funds for personal 
interests has brought about the resig- 
nation of Henry S. Keffer, council- 
man of Cedar Rapids, la., and head 
of the department of parks and pub- 
lic property. The deficiency, $650, 
has been made up and no prosecu- 
tion will be resorted to. The city 
council, however, has ordered a com- 
plete investigation into park affairs. 
The history of the Minneapolis 
park system was embodied at a din- 
ner given in honor of Mr. W. M. 
Berry at the Commercial Club, of 
that city, quite recently. Mr. Berry 
was the first superintendent of the 
parks and held the office from 1885 
to 1907, retiring at 80 years of age. 
Of the 27 gentlemen present, 21 were 
members or e.x-members of the park 
board, 4 were ex-presidents and ex- 
members of the original board. Dr. 
W. W. Folwell was toastmaster. Mr. 
Charles M. Coring, familiarly known 
as the father of the Minneapolis 
parks, was the first speaker, and he 
reviewed the early efforts to create a 
park board and obtain parks. Other 
speakers who followed made the his- 
tory complete. 
The new ordinance regulating out- 
door advertising in Providence, R. L, 
passed last month by the ciw council 
of that city, is condemned by the press 
as inefficient and covering too little 
ground. It leaves the battle still to 
be fought on outdoor advertising as 
a public nuisance. 
St. Paul, Minn., has been in the 
throes of a controversy brought about 
by an attack upon the work of the 
Park Board by a new member, Mr. 
A. B. Stickney. The charge was that 
St. Paul has no park system but only 
isolated parks. He also asserted that 
up to the end of 1909 the enormous 
sum of $861,178 had been expended 
for improvements in Como Park, 229 
acres, whereas, accordin.g to the com- 
missioner, but $655,248 had been used 
for the various parks and parkways 
of Minneapolis, 808 acres. His state- 
ments w'ere vigorously combated by 
the president of the board, iMr. Her- 
bert W. Topping. 
A scheme is being encouraged look- 
ing to the construction of a perma- 
nent stadium in Grant Park, Chicago. 
The Army Tournament, which was 
held for nearly two weeks, following 
the Fourth of July, attracted more 
than a million visitors, and for this 
exhibition a depression in the un- 
finished area was made use of. This 
has drawn attention to the Stadium 
idea. About this depression there 
were erected temporary wooden struc- 
tures, which provided some 40,000 
seats for the spectators. 
The large limb of a tree on the 
South Common. Lowell, Mass., hav- 
ing fallen, killed a child and injured 
several others, an examination was 
ordered of all the public trees of the 
city. I'Tom the information obtained 
the park commission is of the opinion 
that some 500 trees will have to be 
cut down. 
Through the public spirit of the 
family of the late Wm. Eliot Smith, 
of Alton, 111., the park commissioners 
will be enabled to carry out quite a 
scheme of road work in Rock Spring 
Park. There was only available from 
the park appropriation some $2,50o, to 
which the Smith family proposed to 
add dollar for dollar. The amount 
then not reaching that desired the 
gift was raised to $4,500, under easy 
conditions which will be carried out. 
According to a preliminary report 
of the Park Commission of Wilming- 
ton, Del., the trees on the River Com- 
mon and the Public Square of that 
city were found to be sorely in need 
of attention owing to the successive 
damages from storms, etc. It was de- 
cided that they should be treated in 
a scientific manner and strengthened 
wherever possible, and this has been 
done. The decayed portions of the 
trees were removed, cement fillings 
used, and they were reinforceil wher- 
ever it was found necessary. In the 
matter of eliminating the sparrow 
nuisance some 5.000 have been de- 
stroyed. 
The Park Commission of Los An- 
geles, Cal., has asked for a total ap- 
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