PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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of the Park Board not only to buy 
for future generations, but to pro- 
vide pleasure and recreation for the 
present. With this in mind, 1910 
was the banner year in development 
work. Modern play features have 
been installed, apparatus, swimming- 
pools, comfort stations and play- 
grounds have been provided. It is 
a recognized fact in all park work 
that supervision of the play of children 
is as essential as the supervision of 
school work. Therefore, seven directors 
have made the health and pleasure of 
children their business during the sum- 
mer months. 
One of the most complete play- 
grounds may be found in the newly 
acquired Sellwood Park. It is furn- 
ished with the most approved and 
up-to-date gymnasium apparatus, a 
magnificent dry land swimming pool 
with necessary dressing-rooms, wad- 
ing pools, sand piles, play features 
for both large and small children, 
baseball field and an athletic track. 
One of the great advantages of these 
neighborhood parks is that the anx- 
ious parent knows where to find the 
boy or girl, full of life and ambition, 
and knows that they are under prop- 
er supervision. 
In another section of the city may 
be found Peninsula Park, equally well 
equipped and supervised. Still far- 
ther away on the East Side is Co- 
lumbia Park, one of Portland's small 
gems. Crossing the river to the 
West Side we find the North Park- 
way playgrounds teeming with hap- 
py children. 
A trip to City Park finds still an- 
other center of child life develop- 
ment. These playgrounds are but 
forerunners of what is to come. It 
is the purpose of the Park Board to 
provide playgrounds with swimming 
pools in South Portland and Albina 
during the coming season. These dis- 
tricts are in great need of adequate 
play facilities, with proper provision 
for supervision. 
A large amount of development 
work has been done in City Park, at 
the head of Washington street, in 
the Peninsula Park, Columbia Park 
and in Sellwood Park during the last 
year. Nineteen hundred and eleven 
has seen development work started in 
Ladd and Mount Tabor Parks. While 
it is impossible to carry on develop- 
ment work as fast as we would like, 
yet the work that is being done is a 
part of a definite plan for each sec- 
tion, and as years go by and the work 
continues our citizens can see the 
hand of the designer in this work. 
Probably the greatest need at pres- 
SOME OF THE VIRGIN FOREST IN MACLEAY PARK, PORTLAND, ORE. 
ent is the securing of a large acreage 
for a zoological park. The animals 
are now being tortured by close quar- 
ters in City Park. They should have 
large areas conducted so that they 
■will be placed as near as possible in 
their natural habitat. The education- 
al features of a “zoo” must not lie 
overlooked and Portland should make 
ample provision for the animals. 
The crowning glory of Portland's 
park system will be a magnificent 
system of connecting boulevards, both 
hillside and on the level. The beau- 
ties of our hills are the talk of all 
tourists and the vistas to be opened 
up by hillside development are be- 
yond the possibilities of imagination 
No other city is so favorably situa- 
ted or can lend itself so easily to 
beautification. Contracts have been 
let for the Terwilliger boulevard in 
South Portland. It was hoped that 
a portion of this would be completed 
during 1910, but on account of un- 
avoidable delay, due to the inability 
of the Park Board to acquire certain 
railroad land, is at present held in 
abeyance till this matter can be ad- 
justed, 
A drive along a well-finished boule- 
vard 1,000 feet above the city, with 
snow-capped mountains in the distant 
view and magnificent rivers at one’s 
feet, with the mild climate and balmy 
air of the City of Roses, would make 
Portland famous the world over as 
one of nature’s beauty spots, and it 
would in truth become the summer 
capital of America. 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 
OF GARDENERS 
The annual meeting of the Nation- 
al Association of Gardeners was held 
at Morristown, N. J., Oct. 37, with 
about 100 gardeners and florists, rep- 
resenting all parts of the country, in 
attendance. Addresses were made by 
J. K. M. L. Farquhar, of Boston, 
Mass., on "Gardeners’ Opportunities”; 
and J. Otto Thilow, of Philadelphia, 
Pa., who spoke on raising the standard 
of gardeners and placing them on a 
higher plane in life. W. J, Stewart, 
of Boston, Mass., spoke on horticul- 
tural lines, and Charles H. Totty 
dwelt upon the national show of 1913. 
The election of officers resulted as 
follows: 
T. W. Logan, president. 
M. L. Tilliston, New York, first 
vice-president. 
W. H. Rennie, Pasadena, Cal., sec- 
ond vice-president. 
M. C. Evel, IMadison, N. J., secre- 
tary. 
F. Calvary, Mass., treasurer. 
The report of the financial condi- 
tion of the association was read and 
many new members were admitted to 
the organization. 
