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Spokane, Wash., recently voted to 
spend $1,500,000 for parks and boule- 
vards. The proposed “Apple Way” 
boulevard, to be planted with apple 
trees, runs from Spokane to Coeur 
d’Alene, Idaho, a distance of 35 miles. 
Houston, Texas, is to spend $10,000 
to continue the campaign of civic im- 
provement. 
Kingman, Kan., is to acquire the 
park and grounds now owned by the 
Cattlemen’s Association. The city vot- 
ed $2,500 bonds for the purchase of the 
land. 
Packard Park, the new park of 
Warren, O., the gift of W. D. Pack- 
ard, a successful manufacturer of that 
city, is an ideal spot for a park, lo- 
cated not far from the business cen- 
ter and on the banks of the Mahoning 
river. It comprises some 43 acres, 
and Mr. Packard has agreed to give 
$4,000 toward the improvements of 
the property. 
The Borough Council of Garwood, 
N. J., has accepted the gift of a plot 
of land for park purposes. 
The business men of Albany, Ore., 
have offered a tract of 14 acres to the 
city on condition that the city spend 
$1,000 a year for five years in im- 
provements. 
A new north side park of about 40 
acres has been decided upon by the 
park commission of Cincinnati, O. 
A state park and game preserve will 
in all probability be added to the park 
areas of Missouri. It is located in 
the Hahatonka valley It has great 
scenic attractions. 
Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, 
Wash., will be developed on natural 
lines, the recommendations of Mr. Sid 
J. Hare having been practically ac- 
cepted. 
West Side Park will be a new park 
in Richmond, Ind., an appropriation 
by the city council having recently 
been made for the purchase of four 
acres in that district. 
The Redlands Park Commission, 
Redlands, Cal., have begun the work 
of improving the new $80,000 park re- 
cently purchased by the city. A five- 
acre playground, also a recent acqui- 
sition, will be the first to be taken 
care of to completion. 
Jackson, Ga., will soon have a park, 
the well-known local spring, “Chilly 
Rock,” being on the tract. 
Presque Isle, Pennsylvania’s only 
harbor on the Great Lakes, is to be 
converted into a park, according to 
plans formulated by the State Depart- 
ment of Fisheries, indorsed by the 
Legislature and approved by the Unit- 
ed States engineers. A bill was intro- 
duced into the Legislature in March 
providing for an appropriation of $50,- 
000 to carry out the preliminary work 
the first year. 
At a recent village election in 
Newago, Mich., a proposition to bor- 
row $1,000 for the purpose of buying 
the old court house square for park 
purposes was carried. 
Park Superintendent McCollom of 
Paterson, N. J., recently submitted to 
the mayor plans for the making of six 
street parks out of little plots of land 
in different parts of the city, which 
have been or will be acquired. The 
plans call for an expenditure of about 
$3,700 and were approved. 
The Punxsutawney, Pa., Land and 
Improvement Association deeded to 
the Playground Association about 
three acres of land to which is to be 
added another acre or so by purchase, 
for the purpose of creating a com- 
plete children’s playground, which it 
is designed shall be the best equipped 
and most up-to-date in that part of 
the state. A clause in the deed of 
transfer includes this dedication: “To 
the children of Punxsutawney in per- 
petuity.” 
Charles T. Ballard, S. Thruston Bal- 
lard and R. C. Ballard Thruston have 
donated to the Board of Park Com- 
missioners, Louisville, Ky., for use as 
a public park and playground, thir- 
teen and a half acres of land. Twelve 
and a half acres of the ground, known 
as the old Almstead Churchill farm, 
was granted in 1784 to Col. Churchill, 
who served as colonel of militia of 
Fauquier county, Virginia, during the 
Revolutionary War. One acre of 
ground, known as the Churchill fam- 
ily burying-ground, has been in the 
-possession of the Ballard family for 
more than a century. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
A section of the river front of Ash- 
land, Ky., is being parked and much 
gratification is expressed at the im- 
provement. 
In reply to popular demand of the 
Oak Lawn residents. South Pasadena, 
Cal., the trustees have planned to im- 
prove the park property on the east- 
ern boundary of that section. It has 
been an eyesore and dumping ground 
hitherto. 
The trustees of Dorris, Siskiyou 
county. Cal., are improving the town 
park. 
The work of improving the city 
park of Azusa, Cal., is progressing rap- 
idly. 
Perkins Park, the only public breath- 
ing spot of Brockton, Mass., and which 
was bequeathed to that city 50 years 
ago, is at last to receive some specific 
attention. For some reason or other 
the authorities have neglected it, al- 
though it has for a long time been a 
popular resort. 
Rawlings Park, Wymore, Neb., is 
being improved under the care of Ed- 
ward J. Koenig, of Beatrice. 
The Ann Arbor Railroad has offered 
to the city of Cadillac, Mich., a strip 
of land along the lake shore for use 
as a public park. The strip is about 
800 feet long and varies in width from 
200 to 300 feet. It is at present used 
as an alley and is covered with an un- 
sightly line of boathouses. The mayor 
will take up with the city council the 
plan of beautifying the prospective 
park ground. 
Mr. Howard Evarts Weed, landscape 
architect, Chicago, has furnished plans 
for improving Court Square, Tyler, 
Texas. 
John T. Withers, Inc., landscape ar- 
chitects and foresters, of Jersey City, 
N. J., have been successful in the ac- 
ceptance of their designs for a new 
city park for Huntington, W. Va., as 
well as for a boulevard and addition 
to the present city cemetery, work on 
which will soon begin. The firm has re- 
cently completed designs for Montgom- 
ery Park, Jersey City, for which a bond 
issue of $300,000 was made. 
PERSONAL 
Mr. George H. Hazzard, of St. Paul, 
Minn., who for a number of years was 
superintendent of the Interstate Park 
at Taylor’s Falls, and who took a 
prominent part in developing it, has 
again, after an interim of four or five 
years, been appointed superintendent 
of the park. 
Mr. Myron H. West, landscape ar- 
chitect, has resigned his position as su- 
perintendent of Lincoln Park, Chicago, 
to take up independent professional 
work again. He is located at 815 Stein- 
way Hall, Chicago. Mr. West has re- 
cently designed and patented a con- 
crete electrolier, suitable for civic 
lighting and street naming. The globe 
holders and street sign letters are of 
bronze. On boulevards the posts may 
be made especially attractive with 
climbing vines. 
As an addition to the article on 
“City Planning” in the April issue, 
there may be added that the plans for 
Baltimore, Md., were made by the late 
John M. Carrere, Frederick Law Olm- 
sted and Arnold W. Brunner. The 
plans for Grand Rapids, Mich., were 
designed by Messrs. Carrere and Brun- 
ner, and a set of plans for the im- 
provement of Rochester, N. Y., by Ar- 
nold W. Brunner and Frederick Law 
Olmsted. 
