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the town a public park and play- 
grounds. They purpose to purchase 
Douglas Woods, a tract of seven 
acres, a well known spot and one of 
great natural beauty. 
The Blue River Valley park proj- 
ect, Kansas City, Mo., which has 
been quiet for some time, is still in 
progress and some active construc- 
tion work is expected before long, 
the preliminary plans being well in 
hand. 
Three more small parks and play- 
grounds are purposed for the west 
and northwest sides of Chicago, and 
the people will be called upon to 
vote for $1,000,000 of bonds, for the 
purpose, November next. 
The proposition to purchase a tract 
of 38 to 43 acres in Wauwatosa, Wis., 
for a county park has been recom- 
mended to the county board. The 
tract will cost $46,104. 
The proposition to establish a pub- 
lic park exclusively for the colored 
people is receiving favorable consid- 
eration in Richmond, Va. 
Philadelphia, Pa,, has purchased 
for $3,400, three quarters of an acre 
of ground for Pennypack Park. 
A new city park is to be established 
in Birmingham, Ala., on twenty four 
acres of land at Norwood, the gift of 
the Birmingham Realty Co. 
Mr. W. F. Love has given to 
Corsicana, Texas, a twenty-acre tract 
for park purposes, to which Mr. W. 
M. McAfee has added one acre to 
make the tract symmetrical. 
Mrs. Huntley Russell and Mrs. 
Lucius Boltwood, daughters of the 
late C. C. Comstock, a former pub- 
lic spirited citizen of Grand Rapids, 
Mich., have donated to the city 
through the Creston Citizens Associa- 
tion a 40 acre tract of land, situated 
along the banks of the Grand River, 
to be used by the people of Creston, 
and the city at large as a public 
park. The gift is made in honor of 
the father of the donors. Mr. Com- 
stock was always prominent in phil- 
anthropic work and in the welfare of 
the city. 
Mrs. Hannah M. Spalding has 
offered to the City of Lowell, Mass., 
a small plot of ground in front of 
her home, between Crescent and Park- 
er streets, containing 1,875 feet, for a 
little thoroughfare beauty spot. She 
desires it named Parker-Spalding 
Square in memory of two families 
closely connected with the Revolu- 
tionary period. 
Two more small parks are being 
graded and improved in Paterson, 
N. J. 
Duluth, Minn., recently purchased a 
block of land for small park purposes. 
The Commission of Oakland, Calif., 
has been allowed approximately $170,- 
000 to cover a payment on Mosswood 
Park of $40,000; the McElroy memor- 
ial fountain on Lakeside Park $10,- 
000; and after making provision for 
salaries and office expenses there 
will be left some $80,000 for better- 
ments. West Oakland park is to be 
improved that it may be used as a 
base ball field and general play- 
ground. Important improvements 
will also be made to DeFremery Park, 
and also to Lafayette, Jefferson, 
Madison and other parks. 
A landscape gardener has been in 
conference with the schoolboard of 
Montpelier, Vt., relative to the lay- 
ing out of gardens near the Union 
School street and East State street 
schools. 
The contract for the improvements 
of Gardiner Park, Rochester, N. Y., 
was awarded to F. V. Brotsch Com- 
pany, for $5,685.50. 
Advertising the Park Idea 
In connection with the parade at 
the opening of the great Ohio Valley 
Exposition at Cincinnati, O., the lo- 
cal movers for more parks and play- 
grounds devised an advertisement 
which it might profit other cities to 
copy. This was to mount on a float, 
a bevy of happy boys and girls, the 
latter in white rompers, which 
wouldn’t stay white, in the smoky 
Queen City anywhere but in her 
parks. At the foot of the tier of seats 
occupied by the girls, there was a 
swimming pool, of “really water,” as 
one heard children ‘long the line of 
march say, and, in this, the boys, in 
bathing-suits, disported beneath the 
broiling sun of the line of march. 
Another example of progressive pro- 
motion of park work is also to be cred- 
ited to Cincinnati. The Greater Park 
League, in pushing the bond issues for 
park improvement, sent broadcast big 
post cards, seven by ten inches in size, 
bearing on the one side some statistics 
comparing Cincinnati’s park area with 
that of other cities and some arguments 
in favor of the bond issue. The other 
side was filled with some handsomely 
drawn scenes in the parks, with a white 
space for the address left in the center. 
They tell the story forcibly and pic- 
turesquely and are an example of good 
advertising of the park idea. 
Handsome Memorial Fout'^.^n 
The memorial fountain shown on the 
cover of this issue is a striking e.xample 
of how monumental architecture and 
sculpture may be combined to make a 
dignified, graceful and pleasing me- 
morial. This handsome fountain was 
erected by the Phi Kappa Psi frater- 
nity, one of the largest and strongest 
of the Greek letter societies of our col- 
leges, on the campus of Washington and 
Jefferson College in Washington, Pa. It 
is a memorial to C. P. T. Moore and 
William H. Letherman, who founded 
the fraternity February 19, 1852. It is 
of Barre .granite with bronze embellish- 
ments and is a most striking monument 
in its beautiful location on the college 
grounds. The design was executed by 
Francis A. Gugert, architect, of Wayne, 
Pa. and the granite work furnished by 
the Harrison Granite Company, of 
New York. 
PARK FLOAT IN A CINCINNATI PARADE. 
