PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
Vol. XVI, Chicago, August, 1906. No. 6 
Park Names, 
Denver is making an effort to change the name of 
its principal park, which has hitherto borne the mean- 
ingless appellation of “City Park,” and The Post of 
that city is inviting suggestions from its readers. Ap- 
propriate park names fall naturally into three classes : 
personal, historical, and descriptive. The latter class 
when really suggestive of some characteristic feature 
of the topography, site or locality is generally to be 
preferred. Personal names except in the case of a 
generous donor, or a particularly prominent figure in 
local history, have not the definite significance of an 
aptly descriptive name. “Belle Isle,” for Detroit’s 
beautiful island park, is a happy thought in contrast 
to the oft-repeated titles of “Washington,” “Central,” 
and “City,” which lack originality and local applica- 
tion. With its vivid local history and grand natural 
scenery, Denver should not find it hard to improve on 
“City Park.” The tract is to have an elaborate espla- 
nade entrance, and some of the names offered are: 
“Esplanade,” “Mountain View,” “Altitude,” and 
“Rocky Mountain.” The idea of inviting many sug- 
gestions is a good one, and will doubtless result in 
something original and characteristic. 
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Tivo Ways of Banishing the Devil. 
Now that the associated bill-posters, in convention 
assembled, have voted to post no more pictures of the 
devil in any form, the ministers and otliers engaged 
in the work of moral uplift may take a vacation, and 
leave the Evil One to the righteous wrath of the pos- 
ter artists. Some little improvement in the artistic 
quality of the posters might reasonably have been ex- 
pected of the billboard men, but that a great moral 
wave like this should overwhelm them was scarce to be 
hoped. Forbidden to advertise, his Satanic Majesty 
must now go the lonely way of other unadvertised 
articles, or take himself into a disguise, and our pos- 
ters will now rank with the Sunday School book as 
studies for youth of the rising generation. In the 
meanwhile, Building Commissioner Bartzen, of Chi- 
cago, a strenuous and busy official, with no high moral 
purpose in view, has seen another way of banishing 
the devil on the billboard. The boards in question 
were placed, on the roofs of three theater buildings 
facing the City Hall. Mr. Bartzen sent word to two 
of the offenders that he would give them one hour to 
remove the boards. In ten minutes there were signs 
of activity on the roofs, and in an hour, an unob- 
structed view. The other tier of signs extended be- 
yond the building line, so the aid of the Commissioner 
of Public Works, and several brawny firemen, was en- 
listed with a similar result. The commissioner’s 
method, while somewhat rude, has the advantage of 
reaching the devil in whatever disguise he may 
assume. 
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Encroachments on Park Space. 
The people of Quincy, 111., are to be congratulated 
upon the action of its city council in refusing permis- 
sion to the street railway company to build a loop in 
the South Park in consideration of the extension of 
its lines to the park. Strong influence was brought to 
bear to push the measure through, and it was chiefly 
due to the vigilance of the Park and Boulevard Asso- 
ciation that it. was defeated. Park space should be 
jealously guarded against such encroachments. It is 
an established principle of park building that only the 
necessary minimum space be allowed even toi pleasure 
drives, and is entirely against precedent both in this 
country and Europe to allow street railroads to enter. 
Parks are largely frequented by children, and the 
danger to them is a sufficient argument to keep such 
traffic out. Another encouraging resistance of en- 
croachment on parks for private gain is in the recent 
refusal of the city council of Providence, R. I., to 
allow the establishment of a theater in Roger Williams 
Park. The idea of keeping close to nature in our park 
making is growing and tends to strictly limit the erec- 
tion of artificial structures. 
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Fighting the Gypsy Moth. 
An editorial in a recent issue of the Lynn, Mass., 
Evening News gave a stinging rebuke to the mayor 
of the town for what it termed criminal negligence in 
failing to take action to protect the Lynn woods from 
the ravages of the Gypsy moth. In these woods acres 
of trees have been defoliated and possibly destroyed, 
and they have become, from the swarms of moths 
therein domiciled, a menace to the entire locality. In 
the same article the work of Superintendent Stone of 
Pine Grove Cemetery, which joins the woods at one 
point, is highly commended and is held up as an ex- 
ample to the mayor. In a letter from Mr. Stone he 
says that he had a strip of burlap fastened around the 
trunk of each tree in the part of the cemetery adjoin- 
ing the woods, under which the moths seek refuge to 
hide, and his men have also collected and destroyed 
some 35 bushels of the caterpillars from an inch to 
two inches in length. His trees show no signs of in- 
jury. This will suggest that heroic measures -only 
will save the trees when the Gypsy moth puts in an 
appearance, and that it is sheer criminal neglect of any 
community to fail to take recognized available precau- 
tions to prevent such a calamity. The persistent and 
timely work of Mr. Stone shows what can be done in 
such an exposed situation. 
