PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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' PARK NEWS. 
Mr. Geo. A. Hill, superintendent of 
Tacoma Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash., 
for ten years, has resigned to accept 
a similar position on the parks of that 
city, under a three years’ contract. 
Mr. Thomas Topping, head gardener 
at the Cemetery for five years, suc- 
ceeds Mr. Hill. 
The park commissioners of Wake- 
field, Mass., have asked for $1,425, 
$625 more than their regular appro- 
priation. The additional sum is 
wanted for the care and trimming of 
trees in the park and common and 
for repairs on the roof of the band 
stand. An inspection of the city trees 
has been made by a state forester, 
who reports that the elms have suf- 
fered severely from the elm leaf 
beetle, and many other trees are in 
poor condition. 
Atlantic City is promised legal 
trouble over the purchase and valid- 
ity of the subsequent bond issue of 
$242,000 to provide funds for the ac- 
quisition of the Vogler tract and the 
landing fronting upon Gardner’s 
Basin. 
Tentative plans have been made at 
a conference of prominent citizens of 
Syracuse, N. Y., for acquiring the 
90 acre Thornden estate of the late 
Maj. Alexander Davis, for park pur- 
poses. It is valued at $275,000 and 
would make a fine park property. 
The legality of the proposed plan 
of parking Coney Island Avenue, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., has been established 
by a decision recently handed down 
by the Supreme Court of the state. 
The work will now proceed. 
The twenty acre tract on which 
the Floyd monument is located at 
Sioux City, la., is to be improved by 
the planting of large trees during this 
season. An effort is to be made to 
transplant large growing trees, such 
as has been done elsewhere, and some 
fine standing trees have been donated 
for the purpose. 
Twenty-five acres of land near 
Denny Station have been given to the 
Pittsburg Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution, for park pur- 
poses, by Miss Anna Melazina Spring, 
great-granddaughter of Ebenezer 
Denny, the first mayor of Pittsburg. 
The plot will be known as the Eben- 
ezer Denny Memorial Park and will 
be utilized for the patriotic educa- 
tion of boys and girls. Miss Spring, 
who resides at Denny Station, has 
established a Boys’ Brigade among 
the boys of the neighborhood and 
wants the chapter to take up the 
work and organize clubs for both boys 
and girls. 
The city forestry department of 
Cleveland, O., beginning with 1911 
will have the work of removing and 
planting street trees done by contract 
as an economic move and to give the 
tree wardens more time to supervise 
tree culture and lessen the time spent 
in inspecting the work of gangs of 
city workmen. 
A movement to build a public park 
at the corner of Washington and 
Spring streets, opposite the new Big 
Four depot, at Springfield, O., has 
been proposed. Some $6,000 is avail- 
able to start the project. 
On the question of treating Rock 
Creek Park, Washington, D. C., on 
the open valley plan, and for which 
Congress is to be asked for an ap- 
propriation at this session, Mr. Mal- 
colm J. Harrington, an English land- 
scape architect, says: “It was my 
great pleasure to traverse Rock Creek, 
down through the meadows, under 
the high bridge, on by the picturesque 
cemetery, the old mill, and two or 
three ancestral homes, still in good 
state of preservation, on down to the 
entrance of Rock Creek, into the 
headwaters of the Potomac. Never 
in my travels, mostly in Europe, has 
an opportunity of such promise and 
splendor presented itself for mag- 
nificent landscaping as that view af- 
fords along the Rock Creek, from 
Rock Creek Park to the Speedway 
Park. I have visited other great 
American cities — Chicago, St. Louis, 
Denver, Salt Lake, St. Paul, Minne- 
apolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, 
New York, Boston — but nowhere are 
found natural park advantages to com- 
pare with the Rock Creek proposi- 
tion. It would by far excel any and 
all the public improvements of the 
cities of the Old World, and would 
tend to Washington the enchantment 
of a world-wide fame of having the 
most sumptuous public gardens and 
drives of any city in the world.” 
An aquatic garden for the upper 
Shaker Lake; a rose garden for Gar- 
field Park and a Japanese garden for 
Wade Park are the artificial attrac- 
tions that Consulting City Forester 
Horvath, of Cleveland, O., has in 
mind for the Cleveland park system. 
He is advising this on the grounds 
that the Cleveland park system, which 
is rich in natural landscape beauties, 
lacks the artificial features which 
many people find more beautiful than 
wild scenery. A little of the formal 
“goes a long way,” however. 
By the will of Mary A. Starbuck, 
Rochester, N. Y., it is provided that 
$20,000 be turned over to the mayor 
and the Rochester park board for the 
purpose of improving Highland Park 
and constructing a house for the ex- 
hibition of plants. A bronze inscrip- 
tion plate will give the following: 
“In memory of Alexnder B. Lamber- 
ton. President of the Rochester Park 
Board, by Mary Abbey Starbuck. The 
park board has asked for $166,470 for 
1911 improvements. 
Gov. Mead, of Vermont, has re- 
ceived a communication from Joseph 
Battell offering to give to the state 
of Vermont for a state park 1,000 
acres of virgin forest, including the 
peak of the Green Mountain range 
known as “Camel’s Hump.” Mr. Bat- 
tell offers to deed the property to the 
state “under proper conditions as to 
the preservation of the forest and pro- 
visions for suitable paths; and as the 
park is intended for the safe use of 
the whole population of Vermont, au- 
tomobiles are to be excluded from the 
sam.e.” The donor suggests that the 
park be named Mt. Ethan Allen. 
A movement has been inaugurated 
for bringing the matter of establish- 
ing a national park on Saddle moun- 
tain, near Seaside, Oregon, to the at- 
tention of the present congress. 
Should the park become a fact, it is 
proposed to build an automobile road 
from Seaside to Saddle Mountain, 
which is only a short distance. This 
would place Seaside in the same rank 
with Santa Cruz, Cal., with her na- 
tional park of giant sequoias, and 
other great Pacific coast resorts, and 
would be of incalculable benefit to 
this section of country in general. 
It is proposed to construct in Court 
Square, Springfield, Mass., a public 
sanitary and waiting room, probably 
underground, at an estimated cost of 
between $9,000 and $10,000. 
Major A. H. Davis, the largest 
stockholder of the Louisville, Ky., 
Traction Co., who recently died in 
London, England, has again remem- 
bered Louisville’s park system by a 
bequest of $25,000 to extend the park- 
way system. 
