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PARK AND CEM ET ERY. 
by the aid of a competent landscape 
architect is to become a high-class resi- 
dence district. The publication gives 
a finely illustrated idea of the thrifty 
and prosperous city, and with text to 
further describe what has already been 
accomplished in building up and what 
may be expected in the near future. 
The idea of developing real estate 
projects on lines of civic progress must 
now be followed in all progressive 
localities. 
NEW PARKS 
Miss Helen E. Chase has given to 
Waterbury, Conn., the old Waterbury 
hospital property comprising seven acres 
of land and the old hospital buildings 
as a memorial to her mother, Martha 
Starkweather Chase. The property ad- 
joins A. L. Chase park and is valued 
at $100,000. Miss Chase requests that 
the buildings be preserved as a place 
of rest and recreation for the people. 
The Hudson County, N. J., Park 
Commission is laying plans to acquire 
the Suckley estate for a county park. 
The property lies on the boundary line 
between Jersey City and West Hoboken. 
It is located on the crest of the Pali- 
sades, overlooking the Hudson River. 
A deed has been passed transferring to 
New Brunswick, N. J., for a city park 
eighty-eight acres of land owned by An- 
thony Dey, a New York business man, 
whose home is in New Brunswick. The 
property is located between College ave- 
nue and the landing bridge and is valued 
at $150,000. Mr. Dey who inherited the 
land from Judge Charles Scott, his 
uncle, is about eighty years old 
and has no direct heirs. He pre- 
ferred giving the land to the city 
rather than have it cut up and its his- 
toric value destroyed. The house upon 
the property was constructed nearly a 
century and a half ago and was named 
Buccleuch, after the Duke of Buccleuch. 
There is sufficient ground for a base- 
ball diamond, tennis courts and a fine 
lot of woodland for a park. 
Mr. A. B. Farquhar has donated to 
York, Pa., some seven acres of land of 
the Jordan farm for a recreation park. 
A wading pool, skating pond and other 
desirable features will be made. There 
is a prospect of the gift of an ad- 
joining acre to the above by Miss Anna 
L. Gardner, which will improve the 
boundaries of the Farquhar gift. 
Some twenty acres of a tract owned 
by the Ensley Land Company, of Bir- 
mingham, Ala., lias been selected as a 
site for a park for the Ensley resi- 
dents. 
A twenty-acre tract of land in the 
very heart of Laurel, Miss., which has 
been donated by the Eastman, Gardiner 
& Co. lumber concern, is to be con- 
verted into a public park. The land is 
valued at $100,000 and it is specially 
stipulated that it must be used exclu- 
sively as a public park. 
A new west side park is assured for 
Detroit, Mich., the council having au- 
thorized the issue of bonds to purchase 
the site. 
The Ladies’ Civic Improvement Club 
in co-operation with the city council of 
Lebanon, Ore., concluded a deal for a 
35-acre park tract. The site includes a 
butte across the Santiam river, which 
will afford fine views. 
In a recent election at Deadwood, 
S. D., it was voted to buy a site for a 
public park on which an auditorium 
will at once be erected. The principal 
pledged contributor to the auditorium 
is Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, of New 
York. The park and auditorium will 
cost over $50,000. 
Announcement is made that Walling- 
ford, Conn., is soon to be the recipient 
of a two-acre park tract in the town, 
the gift of the Robert Wallace estate. 
It was mentioned at a banquet by Mr. 
Frank A. Wallace, president of the R. 
Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. 
The new lake shore park of Milwau- 
kee, Wis., to be created on made land, 
will not only be a l^eautiful shore park, 
but will be completed sooner than ex- 
pected, more funds being available. 
The city council of Upper San- 
dusky, O., has decided to preserve a 
historic spot that for over fifty years 
has been totally neglected. It is on 
a bluff of the Sandusky valley and 
was once dotted with tombstones of 
Indian warriors, all of which have 
disappeared. The ground will be 
converted into a park with a me- 
morial building in the center. 
Hurd Park, the gift of Mr. John 
W. Hurd to Dover, N. J., was cere- 
moniously dedicated on October 13. 
Plans have been made for Improving 
the tract, which comprises six acres, 
located opposite to Mr. Hurd’s home 
in the town. The only restrictions 
were that certain bubbling springs 
must not be destroyed and the site 
must be used for park purposes only, 
and to be known as Hurd Park. 
One of the most desirable blocks 
of land in the town of Shiner, Te.x., 
known jus the Patton block, has been 
donated to that town by Captain 
Charles Welhausen for a public park. 
It will be named after the donor. 
FROM PARK REPORTS 
The annual report of the South 
Park Commissioners of the city of 
Chicago for the fiscal year ended 
February 38, 1911, is a record, as 
usual, of a large amount of detail 
work executed in the way of improve- 
ments made and money expended, in. 
the large interests taken care of bjr 
the South Park Commissioners. The 
peculiar season made the task of pre- 
serving the ordinarily natural beauty 
of the parks an onerous one. The 
South Park Commissioners are work- 
ing rapidly towards eliminating the 
“middle man” in its park service. The 
refectories and lunch counters in the 
main and small parks are maintained 
and. operated by the commissioners,, 
and the ice cream is manufactured in 
the park’s factory. Considerable 
economy is resulting in this branch- 
ing out in park management. Among 
some of the details are: Nineteen 
skating ponds, aggregating acres 
of ice, were maintained during the 
season; tennis courts to the number 
of 168 were taken care of and nets 
provided by the parks, while 64 
courts were marked out for parties 
bringing their own nets; 51 baseball 
diamonds are regularly laid out and 
kept in condition. There are 133,961 
trees and shrubs in the nursery. The 
statistical tables, which comprise a 
large part of the report contain 
an immense amount of valuable in- 
formation, and in the matter of the 
value of small parks in the com- 
munity, the figures representing the 
use of their facilities and the attend- 
ance, are truly astounding. 
Some interesting figures are given 
in the eighteenth annual report of the 
Board of Park Commissioners of the 
city of Cambridge, Mass. Work on 
the Esplanade, which was begun in 
1893, drags slowly along, on account 
of inadequate appropriations, yet 
there has been expended on this de- 
sirable improvement since the above 
date $1,382,151.99. There is quite a 
demand for this thoroughfare. Paltry 
appropriations appear to be affecting 
the shade trees of Cambridge, too, 
and there is no question but that the 
financing of civic work and improve- 
ment should be placed on a more elas- 
tic basis so as to maintain adequate 
funds to meet all emergencies. The 
experience of Cambridge with its 
shade trees suggests that a compre- 
hensive study of the street tree ques- 
tion for every city might be an eco- 
nomic matter. In spite of all that this 
city has done, something is killing off 
the elms and that quite rapidly, but 
the elm leaf beetle is about extermi- 
nated, due to the persistent efforts to 
conquer it. Some interesting views 
of the progress of the work on the 
Esplanade are given in the report. 
