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PARK AND CEMETERY 
SCENE IN GENESEE VALLEY PARK, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company has decided 
to withdraw the proposed ordinance providing for the restora- 
tion of Forest Park by the city, which was presented by the 
exposition company, as reported in these columns last month. 
The park will be restored by the exposition company. 
The work of removing the buildings is progressing slowly, 
the cause of the delay being attributed by officers of the 
wrecking company to the hot weather. The bill was with- 
drawn because it was not broad enough in scope, and the 
assembly committees would not have time properly to amend 
it this session. Of the three important points to be settled, 
the amount the city was to receive, the future of the Art 
Building, and the date for the finish of the wrecking work, 
only the first was settled by the bill. Under these circum- 
stances the world’s fair company preferred to withdraw the 
bill and let the matter rest until next fall. 
For the purpose of keeping a systematic watch over the 
administration of the public parks, and to secure more parks 
and playgrounds, especially in the congested sections, the 
Metropolitan Parks Association has been organized by a 
number of public-spirited men and women of New York City. 
The association intends to formulate a systematic plan for the 
establishment of parks throughout the entire city, so that 
eventually all five boroughs will have sufficient breathing 
places and recreation grounds. In laying out parks the asso- 
ciation considers that there has been a want of system. It 
points out that in thirty-two separate plans submitted to the 
Board of Estimate last year not one was suggested for the 
district below Fourteenth street, in the overcrowded sections 
of the city. Eugene A. Philbin, a former district attorney, 
has been elected president of the association ; Frederick S. 
Lamb, vice-president; Lillian D. Wald, head worker of the 
Henry Street Nurses’ Settlement, vice-president; Frank Til- 
ford, treasurer ; and Archibald A. Hill, secretary. 
James MacPherson, Trenton, N. J., writes as follows con- 
cerning economical planting in parks: “Under ‘Park Notes,’ 
p. 284 of the last issue of Park and Cemetery, there is de- 
scribed a style of cornmon sense planting by H. D. White, 
park commissioner of Enid, Okla., that I have long been 
watching for. It agrees substantially with the procedure out- 
lined in the plans given in the July and October numbers for 
1898. except that those plans indicated finished roads where 
