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PA.RK AND CEME.TE-R.Y 
AN OUTDOOR GYMNASU'M FOR GIRI.S. 
slides, one curling' shed, two ice and one road 
speeding courses, 1,740 booths at the bathing pools, 
seventeen wading pools, thirteen sand courts, two 
boat houses, one electric launch station, two bicycle 
racks, thirteen music stands, one conservatory, two 
rose gardens, seven shelters, fourteen refectories, 
eleven running tracks, eighty-eight men’s and seventy- 
seven women's shower baths and eighteen plunge 
baths. The board has 282 row boats and added 3.300 
benches to its equipment last year. 
One unfinished work which will l:e taken in hand 
this year is the reclaiming of ( Irant Park. Alreadx 
180 acres have been made into land at a cost of $453,- 
721. A good deal of this has been filled in by free 
dumping, and tbe board estimates that 170 acres could 
be reclaimed in ten years, twenty feet in depth, at no 
cost if the citv were to dump at swampy spots. 
Twenty-one acres have still to be filled in. 
The report of the landsca])e gardener, Frederick 
Kanst, records the jtlanting of 135,282 trees and 
shrubs in the parks, of which 87,445 were from the 
park nursery. About 75 per cent of the planting in 
the new small parks and squares of the system has 
been comnleted. 
WorK of an Active ParK Association in Madison, Wis. 
The report of the Madison Park and Pleasure 
Drive Association, IMadison, Wis., for the year end- 
ing April 16, 1906, gives evidence of the continued 
and increasing activity of this associaton whose 
remarkable park work has prevously been noted in 
these pages. 
The association in carrying on a systematic and 
intelligent scheme of park development for seven 
years solely by means of voluntary contributions 
of its public-spirited members may well feel proud 
of its work. Up to 1899 the city of Madison had 
not expended a dollar to secure lands for parks or 
plaA'grounds, and its sole assets were comprised in 
Orton Park, a neglected 3}^ acre tract for- 
merly a cemetery. When the present plans 
are completed the city will own. 
land and cash about $169,000. The total con- 
tributions for the fiscal year 1906 amounted to 
$18,817.50. 
The most important work of the year has been 
largely 
through the efforts of this association 
acres of parks and playgrounds well located 
to serve all parts of the city. 
ToAvard the securing of these 
results the city has contrib- 
uted a total of about $60,- 
000, and the association in 
150 
PI.AN OF HENRY AURAS P.ARK, MADISON, AAUS. 
