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PARK 
AND CEMETERY. 
AN UNUSUAL PARK CONSTRUCTION PROBLEM 
PAVILION IN COLUMBUS PARK, YONKERS, N. Y. 
gentlemen will also, by request of the 
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, act as ad- 
judicators, and they will have as a col- 
league, Mr. Charles McCarthy, Fellow of 
the Royal Institute of the Architects of 
Ireland, City Architect of Dublin. It is 
evident that a good deal of public interest 
in the matter has been evoked, and appli- 
cations from intending competitors are 
already being received. 
This is one of the most attractive op- 
portunities that has been thrown open as 
a general competition. The city itself is 
extremely interesting, and yet it is con- 
fronted with the most serious town plan- 
ning problems, especially in the rehousing 
of the very poor. His Excellency, the Earl 
of Aberdeen, the Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 
land, has offered a prize of 500 pounds 
for the best plan. It is hoped that two 
other prizes will be offered, one of 200 
Columbus Park, Yonkers, N. Y., has 
lately been completed excepting the plant- 
ing from the designs of Harold A. Caparn, 
landscape architect. The treatment is un- 
usual and interesting, arising from the 
necessity of making a very steep and 
rough piece of ground serve the purposes 
of a large number of people. This can 
only be done by providing adequate level 
spaces, where people can walk and sit and 
children play. ‘How this is done will be 
clear from the plan and photographs. 
Under the central steps of the plaza is 
the tool house, and under the plaza are 
the comfort rooms, avoiding the need for 
separate structures, which would be ex- 
crescences in the park. The general form 
of the ground will be plain from the num- 
ber of steps required to reach the upper 
levels. These steps have 12-inch treads 
and 6-inch risers, a proportion that has 
been found workable and satisfactory for 
outdoor steps, where the horizontal dis- 
tance is relatively short. Where it is not, 
steps with shallower risers and deeper 
treads would be better. 
The surrounding population is largely 
Italian, whose social qualities and appre- 
ciation of outdoor life are usually well 
developed; and to provide them with a 
meeting place for themselves, their fam- 
ilies and societies, to serve as a concert 
room, a place for folk dances and many 
other purposes, the large pavilion, 96 feet 
long, was built, commanding a superb view 
of the Hudson river. The rectangular 
openings, 33 feet long, were made to give 
as many people as possible a sight of the 
scenery unbroken by piers or columns. 
The walls, or rather piers and girders, are 
of reinforced concrete covered with 
stucco, encrusted with white marble screen- 
ings. The roof is of green tiles and the 
whole structure is cheerful and striking 
in effect. The pergolas and balustrades are 
of a very fine white concrete and all the 
fences and lamp standards are painted 
light green, and green tiles are set into 
GENERAL FLAN OF COLUMBUS PARK, YONKERS, N. Y. 
the piers of the pergolas and fence. The 
walks are of brick, as being of a better 
color than asphalt and more durable. Gen- 
erous planting is plainly necessary to miti- 
gate all the massive masonry, but it is not 
yet set out, and will take several years 
growth to materially change the effect of 
the park ; and perhaps when that happens 
a new set of pictures, showing the park 
clothed and complete, may be an interest- 
ing contrast to those printed here. 
DUBLIN CITY PLAN 
COMPETITION. 
One of the most interesting city plan 1 
ning competitions ever offered to land- 
scape architects and city planners has just 
been announced. The conditions have been 
very carefully compiled by the technical 
and advisory committee of the Housing 
and Town Planning Association of Ire- 
land, with the expert advice of Professor 
Patrick Geddes, of Edinburgh,, and Mr. 
John Nolen, M. A., Sc. D., landscape 
architect, of Cambridge, Mass. These two 
pounds and one of 100 pounds, but these 
have not yet been secured. It is possible 
that one or both of these prizes may be 
offered in this country. 
Detailed information and copies of the 
conditions of competition may be had 
from Eric Kaye-Parry, Esq., Secretary, 
Town Planning Competition, Civic Exhibi- 
tion, Dublin. 
A. A. C. S. ST. LOUIS CONVENTION 
DATES. 
Editor Park and Cemetery : Please 
state in your next issue that the dates for 
the St. Louis convention of the Associa- 
tion of American Cemetery Superintend- 
ents will be October 6, 7 and 8 next. The 
convention committee has not arranged the 
details, but will hold a meeting next week 
for this purpose. 
One important feature of this convention 
will be a visit to the Missouri Botanical 
Garden. Papers are promised from the 
professors of this institution and the Wash- 
ington Lhiiversity. Bellett Lawson, Jr., 
River Grove, 111. Secretary. 
