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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
tary of the Interior and the Forestry 
Service to secure an appropriation 
for the improvement of the Crater 
Lake National Park, was adopted re- 
cently by the Commercial Club of 
Medford, Ore. 
Central Park, Davenport, la., is 
now Vander Veer Park, the name 
having been changed by the Board 
of Park Commissioners as a mark of 
respect and recognition of the un- 
tiring efforts of the late A. W. Vander 
Veer, member of the Board, in the 
cause of Davenport’s parks. 
The Park Board of Omaha, Neb., 
has received the annual donation of 
$10,000 from Mrs. Salina Cornish for 
use in Carter Park, but as Mrs. Cor- 
nish's suggestions are for improving 
the Iowa side of that park, the Board 
may have to return the donation. 
Ta.xpayers of the town of Oyster 
Bay, Long Island, N. Y., were to 
have voted on Nov. 7 on a bond issue 
of $100,000 to establish a public park 
and playground in the village of Oys- 
ter Bay. The proposed park will 
comprise 25 acres of land adjoining 
the railroad station at Oyster Bay 
village, and it has a fine water front- 
age. 
Officers of the State Conservation 
Association of Pennsylvania have re- 
cently inspected a large tract of land 
in Clarion, Ells, Jefferson and adjoin- 
ing counties, which it is planned to 
secure for a state park. The next 
legislature will be urged to pass the 
necessary legislation to carry out the 
project. 
Provided the city will make certain 
stipulated improvements the Girard 
Trust Co., trustees for the heirs of 
the late Wister Morris, has offered 
twenty acres of land, known as Mor- 
ris Park, in the Overbrook section, 
to the city of Philadelphia. An or- 
dinance has been presented in Select 
Council calling upon the city to ac- 
cept the gift. 
The Japanese are preparing to cre- 
ate their first national park, after the 
idea of the American reserves, around 
their sacred mountain, Fuji Yama. It 
is the Mecca of the Japanese and its 
sides are dotted with rest houses, 
where the pilgrims may find shelter 
and food. 
Richmond, Va., is being aroused to 
the construction of a park-to-park 
boulevard, from the William Byrd 
Park to the Joseph Bryan Park. 
Former Gov. Henry A. Buchtel, 
chancellor of Denver University, pro- 
poses to give that city ten acres of 
land in University Park on condition 
that the plot be made into a park 
and be maintained by the city. 
The commissioners of the Palisades 
Interstate Park announce the follow- 
ing gifts of land for park purposes: 
From Dr. James Douglas, of New 
York City, the site of the historic 
Fort Lee, situated on the top of the 
cliffs at Fort Lee, and immediately 
adjoining the Interstate Park lands 
under the Palisades. From Stephen 
Rowe Bradley, Mary T. Bradley, Au- 
gusta B. Chapman and William C. 
Bradley, all of Nyack, N. Y., the 
heirs of the late Stephen Rowe Brad- 
ley, a tract of 212 acres of land in 
Rockland county. New York, to be 
held by the commissioners for the 
purposes of a natural park and to be 
known as Rockland Park. This land 
is situated on the easterly side of 
South Mountain and commands a 
magnificent view of the Hudson river. 
With the $200,000 of bonds recently 
voted by the people of Pittsburgh, 
Pa., the Works department proposes 
to erect a number of shelter houses 
in the parks, to construct Lake Eliza- 
beth in West Park, and to carry out 
some other permanent improvements. 
NEW PARKS 
E. F. A. Reinisch has completed 
plans which he has placed in the 
hands of the park committee of the 
Commercial Club of Topeka, Kan., 
for the beautifying of Lakewood 
Park, the gift of W. J. Rickenbacher 
to the city. 
The West Chicago Park Commis- 
sioners are .providing for more small 
parks in their district. Among the 
latest additions is a four-acre tract 
at Good, South Aberdeen and South 
May streets. 
Bonaparte, la., has recently dedi- 
cated a new public park. 
Mr. A. D. DeLand has offered to 
give the city of Sheboygan, Wis., a 
plat of land of over five acres, on 
condition that the city improve it for 
a public park. It is a most desirable 
block bordering on Lake Michigan. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., seems assured that 
it will secure the proposed public 
playground and Memorial Park on 
the site of the Battle of Long Island. 
The site is the two city blocks, now 
chiefly vacant land, bounded by Third 
and Fifth streets and Fourth .and 
Fifth avenues. Suggestion has been 
made that part of the tract be used 
for a public playground and the rest 
as a monumenatl reservation or me- 
morial park to commemorate the Bat- 
tle of Long Island, fought on August 
27, ]77(J. 
Another public playgrounds site has- 
been selected in Haverhill, iMass., by 
the Park Commission, and it has the 
approval of the Playgrounds Associa- 
tion. It is located on Primrose Street- 
Mayor Thompson of Detroit, Mich., 
recently executed a good piece of 
business when he purchased a site 
for a new ten-acre park for that city,, 
without taking chances on losing the 
opportunity through official red tape. 
The new property has a frontage of 
600 feet on Jefferson avenue and a 
similar frontage on the water. De- 
troit is short on park lands- 
City Marshal Wells of Plains. 
Mont., proposes to donate four acres- 
of land to that town for park pur- 
poses. The Commercial Club has 
been looking for a site for a park and 
plaj^grounds for some time. The tract 
adjoins the town limits on the north. 
PUBLISHER’S NOTES 
Dust laying and mud-killing, peren- 
nial problems with park and cemetery 
superintendents, would hardly appear 
a seasonable topic at this time of the 
year, yet Mr. S. G. Howe, inventor of 
scientific methods for constructing, 
treating and repairing roads, whose 
years of experience qualify him ta 
speak authoritatively on the subject, 
states that winter is the most desir- 
able season for putting roads in per- 
fect condition by the use of chlor- 
ides in combination with other ma- 
terial. Some very convincing argu- 
ments in favor of these methods of 
treating roadways have been pub- 
lished by the Howe Chemical Road 
Co., 519 Moffett Building, Detroit, 
Mich., and may be had on request. 
The application of deliquescent chlor- 
ides, a by-product in the making of 
salt, has been found very effective, 
both as a dust layer and a mud killer 
on public and private roads in De- 
troit, Mich., as well as in other cities. 
In an address before the Philadelphia 
convention of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents 
Mr. Howe favored the application of 
these materials in liquid, in prefer- 
ence to the granulated form, by rea- 
son of its being more readily ab- 
sorbed and preserved. In the gran- 
ulated or dry form, it is claimed that 
unless there is moisture in the air, 
or it is applied artificial!}", the ma- 
terial will dry out and lose its value 
as a dust-layer or road binder. 
Every user of lawn mowers will 
be interested in reading the hand- 
somely illustrated forty-third annual 
catalogue of The Philadelphia Lawn 
Mower Co., 3101-3109 Chestnut St., 
Philadelphia, Pa. Various styles of 
hand and horse lawn mowers, lawn 
trimmers, grass collectors and sweep- 
ers are illustrated and described. The 
cover is printed in two colors, yellow 
and blue, the colors of the city of 
Philadelphia, and the embossed dates 
1869-1912 brings out in bold relief 
the number of years “Philadelphia” 
lawn mowers have been on the mar- 
ket. 
