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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Annual reports or extracts from theynt historical sketches^ 
descriptive circulars^ photps^raphs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department-- 
At a meeting of the Park Commissioners of Los Angeles, 
Cal., Park Superintendent Morley was given power to pur- 
chase from Howard and Smith, nurser3'men, 3,000 drooping 
pines, which are to be planted in Elysian and Griffith Parks. 
The trees are now in England, where they were shipped 
from India. 
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Brooklyn, N. Y., and the borough of Queens, which comes 
under the same management, has a total park area of 1,663^2 
acres. One of the largest and finest of these is Prospect Park, 
the second in point of size in the city. The construction 
of this park began in June, 1866. The land (Si 6 l 4 acres) 
cost $3,919,370.70. Construction cost about $6,000,000. 
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A recent special issue of the Winnipeg Telegram, Winni- 
peg, Can., shows a number of views of the parks in that 
city and gives much praise to the park board for park de- 
velopment and the beautifying of residence streets. Winni- 
peg has a park area of 417 acres included in twelve tracts. 
The largest of these is Assiniboine Park, a 282 acre area 
recently acquired on the banks of the Assiniboine River. 
The chief credit for the development of the system is given 
to D. D. England, superintendent of parks and cemeteries. 
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Bluff City, Kan., a town of three hundred, has a little 
ten acre park that is the result of the efforts of one man. 
Mayor James Glover. The park has been developed along 
modern and intelligent lines, and is a very creditable effort 
for a town of that size. There are more than a dozen 
varieties of deciduous trees growing in Glover Park, and 
all but one, the white ash, are doing well. The Catalpa 
speciosa does remarkably well. Specimens planted sixteen 
years ago measure nineteen inches in diameter a foot above 
the ground. There are a hundred and fifty evergreens, in 
four varieties, the most numerous being the red cedar and 
the arbor vitae. A great deal of shrubbery has also been 
successfully used. 
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According to figures submitted to the South Park com- 
missioners of Chicago by Superintendent J. F., Foster, the 
small parks of Chicago have proved successful beyond all 
expectation. Mr. Foster’s tables show that in the nine months 
from December, 1905, to August, 1906, the total attendance 
at these playgrounds has been 4,442,768. These records in- 
dicate only the number of people who made actual use of 
the various facilities. Casual visitors and those who merely 
came to look on at the games and sports were not enumer- 
ated. Twelve small parks are included in the report. Of 
these, Davis Square showed the largest attendance — 616,518. 
The reading-room was used by 110,256 persons, the outdoor 
gymnasium by 234,770, while 111,761 shower baths were taken. 
In the twelve parks 650,810 shower baths were taken. 
The Metropolitan Park Commission of Providence, R. L, 
has made plans for a systematic campaign for the education 
of the voters on the subject of the $250,000 park bond issue 
which will be voted upon throughout the State at the com- 
ing election. The various candidates for office and the cam- 
paign speakers will be interested in the matter, and efforts 
made to have them clearly place the issue before the public. 
The commission also took an important step toward reviv- 
ing the old question of a public right of way along the water 
front by making arrangements to secure from the Attorney 
General an opinion upon that matter. 
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The little park shown in the illustration surrounds the 
Royal Palace at Belgrade, Servia. After the eventful night 
when a king and queen, ministers and servants were put 
out of the way for all time, that another dynasty might be 
returned to the throne, it was not deemed meet that the 
home of the late departed should survive them. So it Was 
A ROYAL PARK IN BELGRADE 
razed and the site converted into a park, with heavy iron 
gratings along the street to keep out the curious. A series 
of terraces with shrubbery and flower beds were added and 
today from his palace window, in the moonlight. King Peter 
may look out on the home of the royalty that came and went 
before. 
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The Public Park Association of Providence has offered a 
series of prizes ranging in value from $i to $10 to students 
of schools and colleges in that state for essays to arouse 
interest in park matters on the following subjects: 
What is the most important reason for the establishment 
of park systems? 
Why has the park question grown so rapidly in importance 
and public interest in all the large cities of America? 
What would be the effect upon the people if there were 
no parks or open recreation places, and are public reserva- 
tions vital to the public welfare? 
Why cannot parks be provided at one time as well as an- 
other? 
What was the special reason for creating the Metropolitan 
Park District of Providence Plantations, and why should the 
State of Rhode Island issue bonds for its parks? 
Why does the present generation need park lands more than 
the last one did. and why will the next generation need them 
more than the present one? Why is the need rapidly increas- 
ing in Rhode Island? ■ 
Would a proper and comprehensive park system be ex- . 
pected to add to the taxes or to diminish them? Would it > 
add to the cost of living or diminish it? i 
What is the moral effect of parks in large cities? 
What classes of people would be most benefited by a Met-i 
ropolitan Park System? f 
Why are parks especially advocated by business organiza-J 
tions and Boards of Trade? ! 
