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jf^ FARK NEWS. 
President L. A. Ault, of the Cincin- 
nati Park Commission, donated to that 
city a tract of land in the East End 
comprising about 134 acres, a long-con- 
templated gift on the part of that gen- 
tleman, yet a surprise to the board. 
The land is perhaps the most beautiful 
of any in the vicinity of the city for 
the purpose intended. It lies on both 
sides of the “hog back” drive of Ob- 
servatory road, and is so high that it 
commands a view of both the Ohio and 
Miami rivers. It is north of Linwood, 
and on the tract was formerly the Lin- 
wood water tower. It runs almost as 
far east as Red Bank road. Mrs. Ault 
was first attracted to the beauty of the 
proposed park site. 
The Second Reformed Church of To- 
towa, located at Temple and Water 
streets, Paterson, N. J., has offered to 
that city the Reformed church ceme- 
tery at Totowa avenue and Liberty 
street, for park purposes. The ground 
will not cost the city anything, but the 
e.xpense of reinterring the remains and 
providing for a suitable burying plot 
must be borne by the city. 
A survey of lands in Logan canyon, 
LTah, has been authorized. The lands 
are wanted by the city of Logan as a 
site for a park and waterworks reser- 
voir. 
Two additional parks for New York’s 
greater city’s park system have been 
donated by private benefactors. A new 
seaside park at Rockaway Beach, Queens 
borough ; the property ceded is valued 
at $344,000. Mrs. Julia Isham Taylor, 
daughter of the late William B. Isham, 
presented to the city the Isharrf home- 
stead, between Isham and 214th streets, 
west of Broadway, for use as a public 
park, to be known as Isham park. The 
property consists of six acres. It covers 
the crest of the hill between the two 
streets. Mrs. Taylor intends the gift 
as a memorial for her father. It com- 
mands beautiful views of the Hudson 
and the valley of the Harlem. 
Last month Dr. George N. Bauer, 
who has recently been in Europe study- 
ing the park problem, presented the 
committee’s report to the Minneapolis 
Joint Improvement Association, of Min- 
neapolis, Minn. His report recommend- 
ed the setting aside of two parks, one 
in North and the other in South Min- 
neapolis, for the trial of such projects 
as he suggested. For the two experi- 
mental parks he suggested play appa- 
ratus for the children, band concerts by 
night, and two stereopticon shows each 
week for the grown folks, all to be 
given entirely free of cost. This plan, 
he said, would keep young men and 
women from the saloons and evil re- 
sorts and would prove so successful that 
it would be extended next year if adopt- 
ed this summer. 
The city of Salem, Mass., has passed 
an ordinance establishing a Board of 
City Plans Commission for that city. 
The members are : Mayor Rufus D. 
Adams, President William H. Colbert 
of the Board of Aldermen, President 
Frederick W. Broadhead of the Com- 
mon Council, Harlan P. Kelsey, five 
years ; Francis A. Seamans, four years ; 
Alfred Audet, three years; Lewis F. 
Cass, two years ; Prof. J. Asbury Pit- 
man, one year. Mr. Harlan P. Kelsey 
has also been active in arranging a 
“Children’s Crusade” in Salem in reply 
to the offer of the fly-fighting commit- 
tee of the American Civic Association, 
which has offered to give cash prizes 
to the school children of Salem for the 
best essays on “The house-fly as a car- 
rier of disease.” This campaign has 
been taken up vigorously throughout 
the country. 
The proposed park and boulevard sys- 
tem for Bloomington and Normal, 111., 
to cost $750,000 was defeated May 15 
by a plurality of 2,470. 
The Board of Finance of Jersey City, 
N. J., has completed arrangements for 
the enlargement of Bayside Park, in the 
Greenville section. A tract 385 by 100 
feet will be deeded to the city as a gift, 
with the understanding that the city, for 
$10,000, will buy a tract alongside of 
about the same size. The enlargement 
of Bayside Park will greatly improve 
that section of Greenville. 
The Board of Park Commissioners of 
Indianapolis, Inch, have added to a pur- 
chase recently made seven and a half 
acres of ground fronting on White river, 
between Tenth and Michigan streets. 
The “plowing up and holding fallow” 
of Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo., to save 
the forest trees, which are dying be- 
cause of the cutting out of the under- 
growth is recommended by Mr. George 
E. Kessler, landscape architect, in his 
report transmitted by Park Commission- 
er Scanlan to the Board of Public Im- 
provements. He also suggests that spe- 
cial care be devoted to the southwest 
section of Forest Park, which now is 
most heavily covered with forest trees. 
He states that if the ground is plowed 
up and freed from grass and preserved 
from being tramped down by visitors 
the trees will become rejuvenated. 
The Pennsylvania Legislature has 
passed the bill for the extension of the 
Capitol Park at Harrisburg. 
On May 19, with appropriate cere- 
monies, Raton, N. M., dedicated three 
new parks to be known as Central Park, 
Ripley Park and Gat Hill Park. The 
dedication took place after a program 
at Central Park. 
The city ordinance for beginning 
work on the Exposition Park at Roches- 
ter, N. Y., and which also includes an 
expenditure of over a quarter of a mil- 
lion dollars provides for the construc- 
tion of shops for the Waterworks De- 
partment, stables for city horses, the 
remodeling of the building in Backus 
avenue formerly used as stables, the re- 
modeling of the building known as the 
girls’ dormitory, the preparation of a 
portion of the new site for use as city 
storage grounds and the construction of 
roadways and walks within the exposi- 
tion grounds as well as all other work 
which is planned for this summer at the 
park. 
Discussions pro and con in connec- 
tion with the preparations for the Pan- 
ama Canal exposition in San Francisco 
are becoming frequent. Nothing has -as 
yet taken on enough of an official char- 
acter to warrant particular notice. 
The Wisconsin State Park Commis- 
sion have not as yet made any large 
purchases of land for the Devil’s Lake 
Park, but within a couple of years it is 
confidently expected that the state will 
have large public parks both at St. 
Croix Falls and Devil’s Lake. Another 
state park will be provided in Door 
County. 
The City Council of Grand Rapids, 
Mich., has wiped off from the assess- 
ment rolls the property bought from 
time to time recently for parks. 
The amounts asked by department 
heads of the New York City Govern- 
ment for parks for the year beginning 
July 1, 1911, are as follows; Parks, 
Manhattan and Richmond, $3,588,000 ; 
Brooklyn and Queens, $1,410,160 ; Bronx, 
$990,000. 
Ware, Mass., uses a small poster 5l4 
inches by 5J4 inches, freely displayed 
about its park to advise visitors of their 
duty. It reads; “Protect your park. 
Greenville Park, the property of the 
people. Do not endanger your park 
through careless use of match, pipe or 
cigar. See that no blossom, tree or 
bush is plucked or injured. Any flow- 
er or plant individually appropriated 
