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PARK AND CEMETERY 
The tree spraying committee of the City Beautiful com- 
mittee of the 150,000 Club of Spokane, Wash., reports that 
about 3,000 trees have been sprayed in the city within a 
month and that the cost of spraying has been from 12 cents 
to $i per tree. 
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The St. Charles Avenue Improvement Association, of New 
Orleans, has induced residents of that thoroughfare from 
Jackson Ave. to Audubon Park to subscribe 50 cents a year 
each for the purpose of cutting grass, trimming trees, etc. 
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The City Beautiful Committee of the Commercial Club of 
Louisville, Ky., has inaugurated an active spring campaign 
of home improvements in the form of planting of lawns, 
window boxes, etc. The committee has received 15,000 re- 
quests for seeds, and expects to distribute 100,000 packages. 
Negotiations are also in progress with several box manufac- 
turers for boxes to fit window sills. 
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Plans have been started by the Village Improvement So- 
ciety of West Haven, Conn., to obliterate from the village 
a swamp which has for years been an eyesore and a breed- 
ing place of disease. The society plans to dam up sections 
•of the swamp, allow all the water to accumulate in a small 
;area forming an artificial lake and then convert the rest into 
a public park. 
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The Outdoor Art and Junior Department of the Women’s 
Civic Improvement I.eague of Kalamazoo, Mich., have of- 
fered a long list of prizes for home improvements and plant- 
ing for this season. There are ten cash prizes for the best 
improved back yards, ten florists’ cash prizes for the best 
window boxes, ten prizes to school children for boxes of 
plants grown from seeds and slips, prizes for school exhibits 
at the flower show, and for school gardens. 
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The Civic and Outdoor Art Association of New Orleans, 
La., is pledged to the cleaning and adorning of the streets, 
the building of parks, the removal of disfiguring billboards 
with their frequently offensive pictures, and to everything 
that will help make this picturesque old town the city beauti- 
ful, and forms one of the most helpful forces that is working 
for the greater New Orleans. The association has forwarded 
a letter to representatives in Congress protesting against the 
vandalism of s.acrificing Niagara to commerce. 
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The Annual Report of the Massachusetts Civic League 
for the year ending Oct. 31, 1905, is of more than passing 
interest from the many lines of work discussed. The League 
has taken a prominent part in legislative activity, touching 
the welfare of the poor, the children, the drunkard and the 
tramp, as well as on school grounds, the billboard nuisance, 
and tenement houses. The report contains an extract from a 
supreme court decision on the billboard, which needs only 
to be read to be discredited. To many readers the argu- 
ment will appear puerile and unworthy of the source. The 
League is doing a good work for the juveniles, advancing 
the cause of reform in all that pertains to their welfare. 
Public playgrounds and sand gardens are given practical at- 
tention and care, and the village improvement associations 
of the state encouraged and helped. The treasurer’s report 
shows expenditures of $6,004.13, with balance on hand of 
$849.81, and on November 30 last there were 844 members. 
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The City Beautiful Committee of the Civic League of St. 
Louis has planned an elaborate inner and outer park system 
for that city. It is planned to connect the inner chain of 
parks with a great boulevard, having Kingshighway as the 
western border, extending from the Arsenal, in South St. 
Louis, which the committee proposes to acquire, running west 
and skirting the northern side of Carondelet Park, turning 
north into Kingshighway, touching the western edge of 
Tower Grove Park and Shaw’s Garden and the eastern edge 
of Forest Park. In North St. Louis the boulevard is to be 
given a curve that will carry it along the western side of 
O’Fallon Park and let it terminate on Kossuth avenue in the 
center of the old Fair Grounds, which the committee favors 
acquiring by purchase. In the outer park system it is pro- 
posed to buy Jefferson Barracks, south of the city limits, and 
let the boulevard connect the outer chain of parks at the 
northwestern corner of the reservation. This boulevard will 
practically follow the present city limits, crossing and recross- 
ing the River des Peres in the southwest, passing the western 
boundary of Forest Park on Skinker road, and Washington 
Universitv grounds on the west. 'The boulevard is to reach 
out in the country in the north- 
west and turn northeasterly 
and connect with the boule- 
vard for the inner park sys- 
tem on the Columbia Bottoms 
road and extend north to the 
Chain of Rocks. 
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The accompanying cut shows 
a design for a post which it is 
proposed to place at each one 
of the streets leading to Pros- 
pect Park South, a new resi- 
dence district of Brooklyn, N. 
Y. It has been approved by 
the directors of the Associa- 
tion controlling this property, 
which is laid out on modern 
lines, and in which current 
ideas of civic improvement are 
to control. The design was 
submitted by Walker & Mor- 
ris, architects. 
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The striking growth of For- 
estry in the country during the 
last seven years is interestingly set forth in the last report 
of the Secretary of Agriculture, recently issued. Practical 
work in the introduction of Forestry began in i8g8, but the 
care of the national reserves was not transferred to the De- 
partment of Agriculture until Feb. i, 1905, when it became 
an administrative organization. On July i, 1898 the divis- 
ion of Forestry employed ii persons — 6 clerks, 3 on the 
scientific staff and 2 professional foresters. At the opening 
of the present year the service numbered 821 of whom 153 
were trained foresters. Field work was in progress in 27 
states and territories. Over 900,000 acres of private forests 
were under management recommended by the service and 
applications from owners covered 2,000,000 acres more. Seven 
years ago in the whole United States, there were less than 
ten professional foresters. There was little or nothing in the 
way of literature, nor could an education for the work be 
obtained in the country, and while public sentiment and 
sympathy had been quite widely worked up in its favor, 
there was • a whirlpool of misinformation prevalent. The 
offer of practical assistance by the government rapidly 
changed conditions and it is now very generally recognized 
that Forestry is a matter of immediate interest to every house- 
hold in the land. Forest destruction is no imaginary danger 
of a distant future. If it is not speedily checked its effects 
will sooner or later be felt in every industry and every home. 
DESIGN FOR STREET 
CORNER POST. 
