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whitewash injures trees and destroys 
their beauty as well, and that it was 
authorized to prevent such treatment of 
public trees, notified the commissioners 
of North Rampart street and of Ursu- 
line street, to discontinue the white- 
washing of trees along those thorough- 
fares. The commission intends to have 
the use of whitewash on the trees of 
the city entirely discontinued. 
The city attorney of McAlester, 
Okla., filed a petition in the superior 
court asking for the condemnation of 
879 acres of land adjoining the city of 
McAlester to be used for city parks 
and county fair grounds. 
One would think that any bank man- 
agement would include enough of that 
higher intelligence which is so stren- 
uously condemning billboard depreda- 
tions of our public places ; but it is not 
so. The First National Bank of Nor- 
folk, W. Va., sets a very bad example 
in this direction, anil the “Bankers 
Publicity” says quite a number of banks 
are unfortunately using this form of 
advertisement. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
Work upon the proposed new band- 
stand to be erected on Boston Com- 
mon, the design for which has just 
been selected, will begin in the imme- 
diate future. It will cost about $20,000. 
The proposed stand, which will be 
erected as a memorial to the late 
George F. Parkman, the donor of the 
$6,000,000 Parkman fund, will be the 
first structure to be built from this 
fund. It was designed by Richard B. 
Derby. 
The city jail chain gang has been 
turned loose on the $750,000 block of 
City Hall land, in Seattle, Wash., to 
make of it some use in the way of a 
park until it is needed for City Hall 
purposes. 
Hollenbeck Park, Los Angeles, Calif., 
is to have an attractive boat house, with 
pergola and refectory building as at- 
tachments. 
Macon, Ga., has appropriated $3,000 
for commencing work on the play- 
grounds and park at Tattnall Square. 
A large amount of money will be ex- 
pended and much work done on the 
Essex County, N. J., park system this 
season. 
The grounds about the Talladega 
public library, Talladega, Ala., are to be 
improved substantially. 
Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, 
Ontario, is to undergo a transforma- 
tion this season, a large amount of 
general improvement having been 
planned. 
With the joint approval of the 
Board of Park Commissioners and 
the Sixth District Agricultural Asso- 
ciation of California, the plans for 
Exposition Park, north of the race 
track or speedway, at Los Angeles, as 
prepared by Wilbur David Cook, Jr., 
will, in all probability, be carried out 
on a comprehensive and uniform 
scheme within a year. The first cost 
will be approximately $100,000, and 
thereafter the city must spend at least 
$10,000 annually in further improve- 
ments. 
Fairmount Park, Riverside, Cal., is 
to be improved by Wilbur Cook, land- 
scape architect, of Los Angeles, un- 
der the recent bond issue of $30,000. 
The park board is arranging to have 
the famous collection of cacti in 
White park classified and labeled by 
government experts. The work will 
be done under the supervision of Di- 
rector Thompson of the St. Louis 
botanical gardens. 
Construction of the extension of the 
Lynn-Fells parkway in Melrose, 
Mass,, has commenced and will be 
rushed to completion. The stretch 
extending across the city land at Ell 
pond and from Green street to Belle- 
vue avenue will be of great benefit 
to the city. This roadway, together 
with a new strip to Bellevue avenue, 
the state will pay for the work, and 
it will open up for development by 
the city the Ell pond area, which has 
been held by Melrose for several 
years. This area is to be turned into 
a large park, with playgrounds, boat- 
ing and bathing facilities, athletic 
field, etc., and the city government 
has been asked to appropriate $25,000 
to start the improvement, which will 
be in charge of the park commission. 
Chico, Butte Co., Cal., will have, in 
the generous donation of land by Mrs 
Bidwell, said to be of the value of 
$100,000, an opportunity to possess 
one of the finest parks in the state. 
Mrs. Bidwell makes a number of 
stipulations which will undoubtedly 
be agreed to, one of which, the ex- 
clusion of automobiles from the park, 
being clearly for the protection of 
the children, for whom the gift was 
made more than for any one else, 
says the donor. 
Where the round house stood in 
West Kalamazoo, Mich., the Michi- 
gan Central R. R. proposes to make 
the spot a park. 
The city council of Atlantic City, 
N. J., last month passed the bill, 
which creates the Inlet Park and 
Children’s Playground, the first to 
be established at a cost of $210,000. 
Yachtsmen hope that when the city 
improves the water front of 1,500 feet. 
it will provide a proper public landing 
place. 
The new park at 20th street and 
Hammond avenue, Duluth, Minn., is 
being improved, and it is not yet de- 
cided whether the John H. Hammond 
memorial, to be located therein, will 
take the form of a memorial fountain 
or statue. The place will be made 
one of the beauty spots of the city. 
The calcium chloride treatment for 
the surface of the boulevard which 
was tried with success last year will 
be used again this season and it is 
promised that there will be seven and 
one-half miles of dustless road on 
this popular drive, from Fifteenth ave- 
nue east to Sixty-seventh avenue west. 
The western extension will also be 
treated for the elimination of dust. 
The directors of the Galveston, 
Texas, Garten Verein, at a meeting 
held Sunday morning at the garden, 
adopted plans for the memorial to the 
late Albert Kuhn, a former director 
of the association, and for the rear- 
rangement of the tennis courts. 
The work of parking the grounds 
of the University of Redlands, Cal., 
is being pushed, under the direction 
of Isaac Ford, a member of the board 
of trustees of the university and the 
landscape gardener. 
The offer of 22 acres for the cre- 
ation of Nelson Park, made by the 
Nelson heirs, to Columbus, O., but 
which contained conditions unaccept- 
able to the city, has been modified, 
and in all probability an arrangement 
will be concluded. 
An exposition park on 15 acres of 
the old State Industrial School site, 
Rochester, N. Y., is now under way, 
and is expected to be ready for vis- 
itors by midsummer. The whole site 
comprises some 40 acres, and for the 
improvement of the above 15 acres 
the council has voted $180,000. 
George A. and James L. Rumsey 
and the Michigan Chair Co., Grand 
Rapids, Mich., have very generously 
aided the city in acquiring a site for 
a park in the 12th ward. It will be 
an attractive addition to the park 
properties. 
The park commissioners of Sarato- 
ga, N. Y., will take over Congress 
Spring Park and Mineral Spring on 
May 1, and they will be made free to 
the public. The purchase of the prop- 
erty is a part of the state reserva- 
tion of mineral springs, the taxpay- 
ers having voted $250,000 to create 
a public park in conjunction with the 
reservation. The village paid $100,000 
for the property, which is one of the 
most attractive places in Saratoga 
Springs. 
