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The village park of Seneca Falls, 
N. Y., which has been used for years 
in part as a playground, is to be im- 
proved by the Village Improvement 
Society. 
In Urbana, III, $9,905 is to be 
levied for park improvements, next 
year. A resolution has also been 
passed by the park Commissioners 
regulating the speed of automobiles 
on the park driveways and fixing a 
penalty of not less than $5 not more 
than $50 for violation of the ordin- 
ance. 
Mr. M. C. Hazen, surveyor of the 
District of Columbia, has recently 
recommended, in his annual report, 
that legislation be secured to author- 
ize the construction of a park system 
for the District ; he says : “There is 
immediate necessity for a bill similar 
to the one introduced at the last ses- 
sion authorizing the appointment of 
a park commissioner, so that there 
may be a systematic and uniform ar- 
rairgement of parks throughout the 
district rather than a disconnected 
system as at present.” 
Surveys for the park and boulevara 
.S 3 'stem of St. Joseph, Mo., are prac- 
tically complete, and further steps 
will be taken in the project after an 
examination by Mr. Geo. E. Kessler. 
It is contemplated to complete all 
the preliminary work from now on 
through winter so that actual con- 
struction work may begin in the 
spring. It is believed that the cost 
of the improvement of the contem- 
plated park district will amount to 
$4,000,000. 
An organization has been formed 
at Omaha, Neb., consisting of uni- 
versity men and others interested in 
the conservation movement, to secure 
the wooded tract of land along the 
Missouri river, extending north of 
Bellevue, for a state park. The tract 
is about three miles long on the river 
front and about a mile wide. It is 
thickly wooded, is well adapted for 
the- establishment of horticultural ex- 
periment gardens, state fish hatcher- 
ies and an excellent location for the 
use of university students for stud)^ 
and outdoor recreation. 
The New York Park department 
asks for an appropriation of $4,769,- 
460 for its needs for 1911. Among 
the more interesting increases are 
$40,600 for playgrounds, and $7,000 
for the establishment of a children’s 
school farm. 
The grounds surrounding the coun- 
try home of W. H. Crocker, in Hills- 
borough, Calif., are to be laid out on 
park plans and thrown open to the 
public, following a public spirited 
custom of a few of the wealthy prop- 
rietors. Some 150 men are employed 
on the work which is going forward 
on 160 acres of the property. The 
estate is to be extended to take in 
1,000 acres and it is contemplated 
that it will all be parked sooner or 
later. The project has been under 
consideration by Mr. Crocker for 
many years. 
At a special meeting of the Canons- 
burg. Pa., council recently, an ordin- 
ance was passed authorizing the sub- 
mission to a vote of the people a 
proposition to issue bonds for $14,- 
000 for the purchase of a park. 
The park sentiment, a matter of 
years of growth, is finally bearing 
fruit in Wym.ore, Nebr. Under an 
ordinance passed July 20, 1910, the 
city has taken an entire block, covered 
with buildings. These were appraised, 
sold, and all are to be removed 
in from 15 to 30 days. The 
ground is to be prepared this 
fall and planting is to be done 
in the spring. Mr. A. D. Mc- 
Candless tells us that the people 
“all think it a great strike for the 
city; it is all paid for in cash,” and 
not a dissenting voice has been 
heard. Previous to this Wymore had 
the following parks; Arbor State 
Park, 33 acres: McCandless Park, 2 
blocks; Furinas Park, 1 block; River- 
side Park; Horseshoe Park; High 
School Park; Burlington Park and 
Taylor Park. 
A 40 acre botanical garden is being 
planned by Dr. Gager, in charge of 
the botanical department of the Brook- 
lyn Institute of Arts and Science. It 
will be located at the back of the In- 
stitute museum between Flatbush and 
Washington Avenues. The city has 
contributed $100,000 and citizens $50,- 
000 for the work, and with this Dr. 
Gager hopes to lay out a botanical 
garden, which will not only be a 
beauty spot but “an animated text 
book in botany.” He will appropriate 
the best of all other notable gardens 
here and abroad. Laboratories and 
greenhouses will be erected on the 
Washington Avenue side of the plot, 
and ample facilities will be provided 
for real work under appropriate con- 
ditions. 
Last year some 1,200 Danish Amer- 
icans gathered in Denmark to cele- 
brate the 4th of July, and it was then 
and there decided to buy a tract of 
land to be preserved for ever in its 
natural state and to provide a meet- 
ing place for Americans in Europe. 
A tract of 700 acres has been bought 
in Jutland, the northern part of Den- 
mark. It is a beautiful and character- 
istic tract, quite distinctive, and will 
be called Rebbild park from the near- 
by town. It will be a European Na- 
tional park owned by Americans. Mr. 
C. H. Hanson, former Danish Consul 
in Chicago was appointed treasurer. 
A movement is on foot in South 
Dakota to have the 100,000 acres which 
the state receives from the govern- 
ment, in exchange for land taken as 
part of the forest reserve, turned into 
a state public park with possibly a 
game preserve. It will be chosen in 
the Black Hills. 
A petition, comprising 20,000 
names, has been submitted to the 
Board of Supervisors, San Fran- 
cisco, Calif., asking for four public 
parks, the estimated cost of which 
will be $790,000. They will be Tele- 
graph Hill, Glen Park, Bay View 
Park and Potnero Park. 
Mrs. Susan Preston Draper, wid- 
ow of the late General William 
Franklin Draper, has made a formal 
offer to Milford, Mass., to purchase 
the First Congregational Church 
Park and erect thereon a memorial 
equestrian statue of General Draper, 
with an absolute conveyance to the 
town of the statue and park as a 
gift. The conditions are that the 
town shall forever hold the property 
as a public park, that no buildings 
shall ever be placed therein, and that 
the statue shall be likewise cared for. 
Mr. John Henes, who a few years 
also presented the John Henes Park, 
of fifty-acres, to Menominee, Mich., 
has presented another tract of land, 
adjoining it, to the city for park pur- 
poses. 
Not being able to purchase three 
blocks of land on the brow of Colum- 
bia Heights, Washington, D. C., for 
park purposes within the amount of 
$490,000 appropriated by Congress at 
its last session, condemnation pro- 
ceedings will be instituted without 
delay. The price asked is claimed to 
be unreasonable. 
The women of Windsor Locks, 
Conn., have associated to secure for 
