PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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The superintendent of Crater Lake 
National Park, Oregon, in his report to 
the Secretary of the Interior, has asked 
that the area be enlarged. The deer, 
which are very numerous in the sum- 
mer time, are being decimated by the 
hunters as they leave the park for more 
favorable winter quarters, which do not 
happen to be under government own- 
ership. The present area is 12A miles 
east and west and 18^2 north and south, 
249 square miles. The superintendent 
proposes to have included in the reserve 
nine miles to the north of the park and 
24 miles to the west, which would in- 
crease the park to three times the pres- 
ent area and take in territory north of 
the Rogue river, the headwaters of the 
Umpqua and Elk creek. 
The Seventh Ward League of Port- 
land, Ore., has unanimously adopted a 
resolution favoring a bond issue for the 
purpose of acquiring real estate to be 
used for park and boulevard extensions 
and development in Portland. Park 
Superintendent Mische, 'the principal 
speaker at a recent meeting, referred 
to the immediate necessity for park de- 
velopment in Portland and reviewed 
the progress of this kind of work in 
other cities. A bond issue of $2,000,- 
000 is suggested. 
In connection with the recent strike 
of garbage collections in New York 
City, Mr. James H. Griffith sends the 
following; ‘‘Strange as it may seem. 
New York City is collecting its gar- 
bage and ashes in the old-fashioned 
metal carts, drawn by horses, steel shod, 
and driven by ‘white wings,’ who whis- 
tle, sing and talk to their horses in a 
variety of foreign languages. This con- 
dition would be bad enough if the work 
was done during the early morning or 
late evening, but it is done in the mid- 
dle of the night between 11 p. m. and 
3 a. m. In addition to the noises of the 
metal cans (required by law) as the 
contents are dumped in the carts, is the 
rattle and rumbling of the carts 
through the streets on their way to and 
from the dump. While smaller cities 
are doing the work quickly and with 
practically no noise, or annoyance, by 
the use of rubber-tired auto trucks with 
protected sides. New York City still 
adheres to the old noisy system. It is 
probably doing more to make the ad- 
ministration of Mayor Gaynor unpop- 
ular than any other one thing.” 
The city officials and the park board 
of Dallas, Tex., have been looking over 
a five-acre tract with a view to acquir- 
ing it for a negro park. 
Chairman Charles H. Wacker, of the 
Chicago Plan Commission, in advocat- 
ing more parks, says that, whereas an 
acre of park should be provided for 
every 100 inhabitants, there are about 
780 to the acre in Chicago, and that 
“innumerable statistics are on file to 
show that the city can create the finest 
park system in the world out of its 
waste material without costing the tax- 
payers anything to speak of.” 
Prof. L. R. Taft, of the Michigan 
Agricultural College, has been inspect- 
ing the city trees of Jackson, Mich., 
and has found them seriously affected 
with the San Jose scale, and he told 
the authorities that every tree should 
be inspected and that it would require 
three inspectors to cover the job. The 
only real remedy is spraying. This 
pest, destructive as it is, is most pro- 
lific and can reproduce a million of its 
kind in a year. This means early de- 
struction of city trees unless effectively 
and persistently fought. It was at first 
considered that this scale confined its 
ravages to fruit trees, but experience 
has disproved this at considerable cost. 
In “Daily Consular and Trade Re- 
ports,” Consul General W. H. Michael, 
Calcutta, India, says: “The tar-ma- 
cadam road has given the best satisfac- 
tion of any kind of street surfacing yet 
experimented with. On small stones, 
evenly spread, the tar is placed, then 
another layer of stones, and the whole 
rolled. It is finally covered with stone 
dust and rolled hard. It requires only 
a few months to become quite dur- 
able.” 
As a result of the retrenchment of 
the common council of La Crosse, 
Wis., in all departments of the city gov- 
ernment, in order to keep the tax rate 
down to 21 mills, the board of park 
commissioners finds it will be unable 
to complete the levee park, costing $75,- 
000, the coming year. The board asked 
for an appropriation of $17,000 for 
1912, and was granted only $10,000 in 
the budget. 
Legislation enacted in the last Gen- 
eral Assembly of Indiana, which be- 
comes operative on January 1 next, will 
open the way for the development of 
the Terre Haute park system. It will 
give the park board a freer hand and 
broader authority. 
The Cincinnati, O., park system has 
made a wonderful growth in the last 
five years, but the next may probably 
make even a better showing. Prior to 
1908 there were five parks, having an 
acreage of 395. November, 1911, finds 
52 parks in existence, covering 1,550 
acres, while in prospect the number may 
be increased to 150. Total cost of old 
and new parks to date, $3,833,000. 
Huron Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan., 
over which there has been so much 
trouble for a long time past, owing to 
the refusal of two Indian descendants 
to move off, is apparently now close to 
settlement, a committee of Wyandotte 
Indians from Oklahoma having come 
up to arrange for its purchase by the 
city. The bodies of the Indians buried 
there will be removed, but a granite 
monument will be erected as a historic 
memorial. 
An ordinance appropriating $250,000 
for the purchase of Old St. Paul's 
Cemetery, at Lombard street and Fre- 
mont avenue, Baltimore, Md., for use 
as a public park and playground, has 
been favorably reported to the First 
Branch of the City Council by the Com- 
mittee on Parks, and referred to the 
Board of Public Improvements. 
The special commission appointed by 
the last legislature of Massachusetts to 
examine into the proposed North Shore 
Marine Park, will report to the legisla- 
ture of 1912. The scheme proposes to 
construct a large dam at the outlet of 
Danvers river between Salem and Bev- 
erly, which will convert the six tidal 
streams located in Salem, Beverly, Pea- 
body and Danvers into a marine park of 
some 570 acres. Such a beauty spot 
will, in one of the greatest historic sec- 
tions of the country, add to the already 
intense interest in the locality. 
The Parks Commission of Galt, Ont„ 
has asked the Town Council to submit 
a by-law to the people to raise $10,000 
to be spent for park purposes. At the 
present time the commissioners receive 
half a mill on the assessment, but the 
commission has such a debenture debt 
now that it is a burden, as the commis- 
sion has not enough money after pay- 
ing the debenture, debt to do any per- 
manent work. 
It will cost the Fairmount Park Com- 
mission of Philadelphia, Pa., about $75,- 
000 for the ordinary maintenance sup- 
plies for 1912. Proposals for these were 
opened last month. 
The local regulations of Spokane, 
Wash., has had a very deterrent effect on 
bill board advertising in that city. An 
ordinance prohibits glass, cloth or wood 
signs or signboards near buildings and 
only steel signs are permitted. Another 
ordinance exists that regulates electric 
