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PARK NEWS. 
The report of the committee named by 
the Commercial Club of Kansas City, Mo., 
to investigate and recommend a plan for 
park improvements near the new Union 
station recommends the taking of all the 
land included in the so-called Kessler plan, 
extending from Main street to Central, 
and from the station plaza to Penn Valley 
Park. In addition the committee recom- 
mends the acquiring of the two blocks of 
land lying between Twenty-fourth and 
Twenty-sixth streets and Central and Broad- 
way. 
William Pitkin, Jr., landscape architect, 
of Rochester, N. Y., is planning the im- 
provement of a public park in Toledo, O., 
to be located in beautiful Delaware Creek 
valley, opening on the River road just south 
of the city lines. “With its beautifully 
wooded slopes and ravines, lagoons and 
running streams, banked with wild flow- 
ers, it will be one of the most beautiful 
small parks in America,” says Mr. Pitkin. 
R. B. Wiltsie has presented the land to the 
city for this park. The donation comprises 
about thirty-seven acres. 
The Board of Water Supply of New 
York City wants 1,250,000 little evergreen 
trees to plant along the forty miles of 
shore on the Ashokan and Kensico reser- 
voirs in the new Catskill water system. It 
has asked contractors to bid on supplying 
the trees and setting them out within three 
years. They will be expected to replace 
trees that die. The trees are to protect the 
water along the thousand foot strip that 
the city owns on the shores of the reser- 
voirs. The board wants evergreens because 
leaves from deciduous trees are likely to 
turn the water brown in the fall. The 
board grew 1,000,000 little evergreens in its 
own nurseries and set them out last year, 
and 500,000 more which it bought from the 
State Conservation Commission. 
Governor Dunne has approved the report 
of the llinois Park Commission relative to 
the additional purchase of land for the 
Starved Rock State Park, and has also 
given his approval to recommendations 
made by the commission relative to the 
new improvements for which plans have 
been prepared. The work on the sewers 
and tile drainage has started. Bids have 
been invited on the construction of a new 
comfort station to cost in the neighborhood 
of $3,000; for an auditorium and dancing 
pavilion ; for the construction of a new 
garage; for the bathing privilege in an 
artificial lake, and for the construction of 
a pumping station and a water supply 
system. 
A petition, signed by a large number of 
residents of Oak Cliff, Dallas, Tex., asking 
that the City Park Eoard purchase a part 
of Lake Cliff Park, Oak Cliff, was pre- 
sented to the City Park Board. It has been 
offered to the city for $30,000. It com- 
prises nineteen and one-half acres, in which 
is located swimming pool and club build- 
ings. W. R. Tietze is park superintendent. 
A. U. Morrell, of the firm of Morrell & 
Nichols, the Minnesota landscape garden- 
ers, was in Council Bluffs, la., recently 
and started on the preliminary work of ar- 
ranging working plans for the develop- 
ment of the Nathan P. Dodge Memorial 
Park. 
The great Cincinnati 
Zoological Park has an 
unusually good repre- 
sentation of the family 
of zebras, of which we 
picture here a typical 
specimen. There are 
three species of this in- 
teresting mammal, and 
they are rapidly ap- 
proaching extinction. The 
true or mountain zebra 
has the body and legs 
striped but the belly 
plain. Burchell’s zebra 
has body and belly 
striped and legs plain, or 
nearly so. Grevy’s zebra, 
shown in our illustration, 
is the most numerous, 
and has body, belly and 
legs striped, and has 
long ears fringed with 
hair. The stripes are 
also narrower and more 
numerous on this species. 
From Annual Reports. 
The annual report of the Park Commis- 
sioners of Charleston, S. C., shows ex- 
tensive improvements to have been made 
at Hampton Park during the past year. A 
new greenhouse has been erected, a foun- 
tain has been placed in the Sunken Gar- 
den, a 100-candlepower ornamental electric 
light has been installed at the intersection 
of the Rose . Garden with the Sunken Gar- 
den, and galvanized iron trellises have 
been placed the entire length of the east 
and west sides of the East Rose Garden 
for the climbing roses. Three turnstile 
gates have been placed on the Moultrie 
side of the park. Reports are also made of 
the care of White Point Gardens, Wash- 
ington and Cannon parks, Hampsted and 
Wragg malls and the various shade trees 
and grass plots, throughout the city. The 
areas of the city parks are : Chicora Park, 
318 acres; Hampton Park, 317 acres; Co- 
lonial Commons, 9 acres ; White Point 
Gardens, 7 acres ; Marion Square, 6 acres ; 
Hampstead Mall, 4 acres ; Cannon Park, 3 
acres; Wragg Square, 1 acre; Wragg Mall, 
1 acre ; Washington Park, 1 acre ; Lucas 
Market and Keystone squares. 
The forty-second annual report of the 
Fairmount Park Art Association of Phila- 
delphia tells of much work of this useful 
organization. The Fairmount Parkway, on 
the successful completion of which so much 
depends, is progressing at a rate which, 
when due consideration is given to the ex- 
tremely conservative policy which the city 
has felt compelled to observe during the 
past year or two, may, on the whole, be 
regarded as fairly satisfactory. The open- 
ing of the parkway from Sixteenth street 
to Seventeenth street has been authorized 
and 222 buildings within its lines, west of 
Nineteenth street, have been razed. The 
growing appreciation of the need of ef- 
fective grouping in the location of monu- 
mental memorials is only one phase, though 
a most important one, of the progress of 
the city planning movement which is mak- 
ing such gratifying progress, to the pro- 
motion of which the energies of this asso- 
ciation have been largely devoted during 
recent years, and in connection with which 
it is fairly apparent that much, if not 
most, of its work is to be done in the fu- 
ture. In estimating the extent of the serv- 
ice that the association is rendering, there- 
fore, it must be remembered that the ob- 
jects which appeared to its founders to be 
of first importance, namely, the presenta- 
tion to the city of detached and individual 
works of art, to be placed wherever places 
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