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PARK AND CEMETERY . 
ChilHcothe, O., has appealed to the citi- 
zens for help in order to preserve the 
magnificent old elms in the city park. 
These are some of the finest trees in 
Ohio, and it is assured that expert treat- 
ment will save them and preserve them 
for possibly a century to come. 
Nearly one million dollars has already 
been e.xpended on the Northeast Boule- 
vard, Philadelphia, Pa. It will be a 
magnificent thoroughfare and will open 
up over 40 square miles of suburban 
property for residential purposes. It 
extends from Broad Street, at the inter- 
section of Hunting Park Avenue, to 
Torresdale, a distance of ten and a half 
miles. This great district almost un- 
known to the general community repre- 
sents nearly a third of the city’s entire 
area of 129 square miles. 
Hubbard Park, Meriden, Conn., is to 
have a zoo. It is a large park and such 
a department would undoubtedly add to 
its usefulness aird popularity. 
The Park Board of Indianapolis, Ind., 
is sorely in need of funds and has asked 
the City Council for an additional 2 
mills on the taxes for park improve- 
ments. 
St. Louis, Mo., is making energetic 
efforts to bring into some practical 
shape the proposition to create an out- 
lying park system. It is estimated that 
with an initial expenditure of $2,250,000 
sites may be reserved extending from 
the Missouri River on the north to Jef- 
ferson Barracks on the south. The Civic 
League, which has done so much for 
St. Louis, is about to commence a cam- 
paign on this issue. 
Mr. Frederick W. Kelsey, the well- 
known nurseryman of New York City, 
who has recently returned from an ex- 
tended trip to the Canadian Rockies, 
Alaska, Pacific Coast and the Yellow- 
stone Park, says that the ravages of the 
forest fires throughout the Northwest 
are of alarming extent. “From my per- 
sonal observation,” said Mr. Kelsey, “in 
more than 8,000 miles of travel from 
Montreal to Vancouver, through Puget 
Sound, the Colum.bia River and other 
sources of our national timber supply, 
I am impressed with the imminent 
danger of a lumber famine before 
many years in this country, even 
should a recurrence of the present 
forest fires be prevented.” 
The Massachusetts State Highway 
Commissioners have determined not to 
approve the regulation of the Boston 
Park Commissioners, which has ex- 
cluded motor vehicles from a number 
of the Boston parkways. The reasons 
for the decision are given that the or- 
der would exclude three-quarters of all 
the users of park roads, and that the 
use of oil and improved methods of 
maintenance has reduted the cost of re- 
pairs about 22 per cent yearly since 
1906, in spite of the fact that during 
that time the number of automobiles 
have increased from 6,600 to nearly 24,- 
000 in that time. 
The following is something entirely 
new in the billboard war : Mr. W. A. 
McKenney of the lamp, gas-fixture, etc., 
house of McKenney & Waterbury, Bos- 
ton, Mass., realizing the detrimental ef- 
fect of billboard advertising on the 
landscape, has resolved to give up this 
form of advertising, and has been de- 
stroying all the billboards of the firm. 
Moreover, it is said he has given per- 
mission to any one to tear down and 
carry away for kindling wood any firm 
signs that may be found in the suburbs 
of Boston. 
The Interstate Park along the Hud- 
son and about the Palisades has grown 
very rapidly in public favor as a camp- 
ing-out park, and this season over 5,000 
permits were issued to campers. It is 
carefrdly patrolled, both on the water 
and land, and the efforts of the liquor 
interests have failed to find them 
standing room as yet. It is the aim 
of the authorities to make a camping 
residence there at any time as safe as 
in the city home. 
On August 1 the police department 
of Kansas City, Mo., assumed the re- 
sponsibility of policing the parks and 
boulevards. The police assigned to park 
duty will be subject to the orders of the 
Superintendent of the Parks and other 
officials of the Park Board. 
The Tussock moth has found such a 
lodgment in Chicago that the City For- 
ester was compelled to appeal to the 
Common Council for an appropriation 
of $10,000 to fight the pest. Not con- 
tent with attacking the soft woods, it 
included the elms and maples in its 
foraging activities. 
A movement has started in the 
Georgia legislature to preserve Tallulah 
Falls, Habersham County, Ga., as a per- 
petual pleasure park for Georgia. The 
commission, appointed by the governor, 
is to use its efforts to co-operate with 
the national government and the gov- 
ernments of the adjoining states in pro- 
tecting and preserving the scenery of 
the falls. 
The estimate of the Board of Park 
Commissioners of Seattle, Wash., for 
park e.xpenses in 1911 is $209,530 as 
against $202,564 for the present year. 
Brockton, Mass., has received its 
bequest of $5,000 for park purposes 
from the estate of the late Mrs. Mary 
E. Perkins. 
Automobiles using the parkways of 
Buffalo, N. Y., have to carry two front 
lights and one in the rear, in default of 
which the occupants will be arrested 
and taken to the nearest police station 
instead of being warned as was formerly 
the practice. 
The City Council of Fargo, N. D., has 
decided to take advantage of the state 
law, passed in 1907, providing for the 
establishment of a city board of park 
commissioners, whose business it is to 
acquire land in the city for park pur- 
poses and to superintend the mainte- 
nance of all the city parks. The board 
to consist of five members, serving for 
a term of five years each without com- 
pensation, and to be elected by the 
voters. The city treasurer acts as a 
member ex-officio. 
Dubuque has joined the ranks of play- 
ground park cities and is starting with 
a modest three. 
Mr. Frederick W. Kelsey, well known 
to our readers from his official connec- 
tion with the Essex County park sys- 
tem of New Jersey, was appointed by 
Governor Fort one of the delegates to 
represent that state at the recent Na- 
tional Conservation Congress at St. 
Paul, Minn. 
The new park at Steelton, Pa., is to 
be called the Luther R. Kelker Park, in 
honor of the donor. The Municipal 
League is displaying great activity in 
improvement work, and has already ac- 
complished much good. 
With a view to adding to the park 
facilities of Bloomington, 111., the 
park commissioners have been spend- 
ing considerable energy and money 
on the 17 acres of woodland that was 
purchased a year ago. It is the in- 
tention to improve the tract as a 
forest park, although there is plenty 
of room for sports and pastimes. A 
road system has been laid out and 
is in course of completion and other 
improvements are under way. 
The report of the Board of Park 
Commissioners of Wilmington, Del., 
for the year ending December 31, 
1909, shows the total park area to be 
305.66 acres, with 4.21 miles of drive- 
way. This gives an acre of park land 
to every 250 inhabitants according to 
the 1900 census; or one acre of park 
land to 21.5 acres of city area. The 
total receipts for park purposes were 
$51,486.37 and the expenditures $44,- 
147.40. The maintenance of the main 
Park System cost $16,707.43 and the 
other improvements, $27,439.97. The 
swimming pools were kept open 
from June 1 to September 30, and 
the attendance was as follows: Men. 
1,685 paid, and 52,146 took free baths: 
women, 1,131 paid, and 62,192 were 
free, making a total number of bath- 
ers of 127,154. The receipts were 
