PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PARK NEWS. 
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The new Park Board of Fort Worth, 
Texas, met and organized on April 15 
and found some $16,000 of available 
cash on hand. The inventory showed 
a total of 215.8 acres of park property 
acquired at a cost of $97,743, with an 
estimated present value of $420,500 
Park buildings and equipment are val- 
ued at $3,500. The inventory does not 
include the new Daggett Park site, nor 
that in the Ninth Ward, the formal ap- 
proval of deeds and title not having yet 
been made. 
The Board of Control of Montreal, 
Canada, has recommended to the coun- 
cil that the Molson property on Pine 
avenue be purchased and added to 
Mount Royal Park. The purchase price 
is $1 a foot, which will make the total 
cost $1,070,000. If the purchase be not 
made the property will be sold for 
building lots, and a small colony of 
houses planned right in the center of the 
park. The property will probably dou- 
ble in value upon the acquisition by the 
city. 
Prof. L. R. Taft, of the Michigan 
Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich., 
has again found it necessary to warn 
fruit growers against fraudulent spray- 
ing materials now on the market. 
“A whole mountain range in minia- 
ture” is the way that one member of 
the joint foothills committee of Denver, 
Colo., describes the scenery visited re- 
cently, and it is believed that Denver 
will have at its doors a natural park 
embracing every variety of scenery fur- 
nished in the Rocky Mountains. Rug- 
ged grandeur, inspiring views, limpid 
mountain streams and splendid pine for- 
ests ; all these are to be found in the 
neighborhood of Eden Park, Bear Creek 
and Turkey Creek canons. When the 
site is selected transportation facilities 
will be immediately studied. 
James Cummings, landscape gar- 
dener, who was in immediate charge 
of the work at Balboa Park, San Diego, 
Cal., for Olmsted Brothers, of Boston, 
resigned April 1. He was accused of 
employing non-residents through an em- 
ployment agency in preference to resi- 
dent workingmen. Mr. Cummings came 
to San Diego from Colorado Springs 
and has been employed for several 
years by the Boston firm. 
The favorable vote on the bond issue 
for Lincoln Park, Chicago, at the re- 
cent election, will soon add 240 acres 
to this favorite park. The method of 
the Park Board for providing proper 
soil for the park area may be interest- 
ing as well as instructive. The Park- 
Board some time since purchased a 100 
acre farm on the drainage canal north 
of Lemont. This farm is covered with 
the richest of soil and this is scraped 
off the surface and transported by 
means of scows down the canal and 
river and finally dumped on to new clay 
sub-soil of the new section. To buy 
this soil anywhere the cost would have 
been prohibitive. A certain section of 
this farm is reserved for nursery pur- 
poses. 
The proposition put up to the voters 
of Hagerstown, Md., to bond the city 
in the amount of $50,000 to establish 
a park received a large majority of fa- 
vorable votes. 
Mr. W. M. Krebs, formerly a park 
commissioner of Cedar Rapids, la., and 
who has been visiting on the Pacific 
coast, has some good things to say of 
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. He 
says : 
“I was wonderfully impressed with 
Golden Gate Park. It is very large 
in area and the treatment, I should 
say, is excellent from a landscape 
point of view. At one time it was a 
desert of sand dunes, but now the 
great variety of trees and shrubbery^ 
its beautiful drives, magnificent palms, 
its fine statuary, its wonderful mu- 
seum, its playgrounds, its zoo, and spe- 
cial bridle paths are all past descrip- 
tion and must be seen to be appre- 
ciated. When one remembers that San 
Francisco was in ruins four years ago. 
one can hardly understand the tower- 
ing office buildings and stores that 
might grace Chicago or New York. 
On my way south T visited Del Monte 
gardens, 110 acres in extent, containing 
every known shrub, flower, vine and 
tree that will thrive in that locality. 
The scene is a dream of loveliness and 
is well worth a visit. The Hotel Del 
Monte is one of the finest on the coast. 
“On the 22d of February we visited 
East Lake Park, Los Angeles, on Iowa 
picnic day, when they say 30,000 peo- 
ple were present here ; it is a very 
beautiful park. But in Southern Cali- 
fornia they have the climate to grow 
palms and most other trees as well as 
flowers and vines. Every blooming 
thing blooms. But how I longed for a 
glance at a sturdy oak, a majestically 
graceful elm or the symmetrical hard 
maple of our own East and Middle 
West ! Californians cannot duplicate 
these. We also did some mountain 
climbing that was really exhilarating. 
One view of the Pacific ocean, 40 
miles away, and the lovely valley, in- 
cluding Sierra Madre, Monrovia, Pasa- 
dena and other smaller towns, was 
magnificent. This view of the valley 
embraces the ranch once owned by 
‘Lucky’ Baldwin, comprising 67,000 
acres. Whatever may have been his 
peculiarities, he had his strong points. 
The streets, laid out in the towns in 
this valley, are lined with trees in a 
very uniform manner, which is his best 
monument. The heirs are now at law 
over the estate.” 
At the annual meeting of the Park 
and Boulevard Association of Quin- 
cy., Ilk, held in March, a board of di- 
rectors was elected and Mr. E. J. 
Parker was unanimously chosen as 
president, this being his twenty-third 
election to that office. Mr. Parker 
has been one of the most energetic 
and progressive men in the country in 
the work of outdoor improvement and 
park development, and his experience 
in such work gives to his opinions and 
advice much importance. The Park 
and Boulevard Association of Quincy, 
Ilk, and its methods and success, 
should be studied by all interested. 
The firm of Hare & Hare, land- 
scape architects of Kansas City, Mo., 
has been employed by the commis- 
sioners of that city, who have charge 
of the parks, to succeed Mr. Geo. E. 
Kessler in carrying out a park sys- 
tem. Mr. Sid J. Hare has just re- 
turned from Tacoma, Wash., where he 
has been studying Point Defiance 
Park, a beautiful tract of high land 
of 640 acres, bounded on three sides 
by water. It is a natural tract and 
possesses a number of very fine trees. 
Mr. Hare proposes to retain all the 
practicable natural features and be- 
lieves he is developing one of the fin- 
est and most beautiful natural parks 
in America. 
Sunday music in the parks of Quincy, 
Ilk, proved such a success last year 
that it will be resumed this j^ear. A 
modification is being considered to in- 
clude an out-of-door chorus of voices 
in connection with the band, which, 
where it has been tried, has had great 
attractions for park lovers on Sundays. 
Quincy has been in the lead in park- 
matters, and this comparatively new in- 
novation in Sunday park music will un- 
doubtedly be given serious considera- 
tion in this progressive Illinois city. 
In speaking of the location of works 
of art in the parks, Mr. C. D. C. Jew- 
ett, Board of Park Commissioners, 
