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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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the lake, over 200,000 yards of fill being 
transported at a contract price of 38 cents 
per cubic yard, the maximum haul being 
a mile and a half.' 
Following up the diking contract, the 
park department, forces took up the work 1 
of the adjustment and filling of the new 
area between the dike and the shore line. 
A suction dredger with a capacity of 
1.000 yards per day (two nine-hour shifts) 
was installed a year ago and has been 
working steadily ever since pumping mud 
from the bed of the lake and depositing j 
same over the dike at a cost of about eight ! 
cents per cubic yard. As this back filling . 
will require about 800,000 yards of earth, 
some idea of the magnitude of the project 
can be obtained. 
Approximately $300,000 has been expend- 
ed up to this time and the completion of 
the plan will require the expenditure of 
probably $200,000 more. The lowering of ! 
the lake and the diking and filling process 
has resulted in the making of over a hun- 
dred acres of new land, and Green Lake is 
now a lake within a park. The plan calls 
for a circuit drive around the lake, a 
series of small parks projecting into the 
lake, boathouses, bathhouses and extensive 
plantation effects, the whole forming a 
park feature which wall be a credit to Se- 
attle and its famous park and boulevard 
system, 
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS 
H. S. RICHARDS, Chicago, President 
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AND CONTRIBUTIONS 
J. J. LEVISON, Brooklyn, N.Y., Sec.-Treas. 
RECENT WORK IN ASSOCIATION PARKS. 
( Continued . ) 
As an item for the next Park and Cem- 
etery, would say that the Utica Park Board 
has installed twelve tennis courts on the 
new 36-acre addition to Roscoe Conkling 
Park, donated by T. R. Proctor last year, 
and these are a sight and in continual use 
from 5:30 a. m. to 8:15 p. m. at the pres- 
ent time. We need fifty courts, but it is 
probable we cannot add more this year. 
There has also been started a new play- 
field on the new addition. We have in- 
stalled sand boxes, steel swings and teeters 
and expect to erect slides soon. 
There has been passed by the Council a 
new bond issue for playground sanitaries 
and for the Roscoe Conkling Park addition 
playground improvement. 
The Child Welfare Bureau is using the 
modern municipal bath for certairl hours 
each week as milk depot and for holding 
baby clinics. I believe our park system is 
getting the utility idea pretty well intro- 
duced, in Utica at least. We are grading 
and graveling an additional half mile of 
boulevard, making a total, across city, con- 
tinuously of three and one-half miles. 
E. M. Swiggett, 
Utica, N. Y. Supt. of Parks. 
In answer to your inquiry of March 25 
I inclose a rough outline plan of the im- 
provement of Beaver Park, just started, 
and a newspaper clipping describing the 
plan as outlined by Arnold W. Brunner, 
the city planner. The rough grading and 
filling to prepare the athletic field site will 
be done this season, the structural work 
next year. Several smaller parks are to 
be extensively improved later on, and the 
city of Albany and the railroads entering 
the city are now justly engaged in improv- 
ing the Hudson River front at an estimated 
cost of $8,000,000. Surveys of the Hudson 
River, extending from Troy to several 
miles below the town of Hudson, have been 
authorized by the government, with the 
deepening of the river to twenty-seven feet 
in view, to permit ocean going vessels to J 
dock at Albany and Troy. 
We have filtered water, and an intercept- 
ing sewer, with antiseptic terminal tanks, j 
is under contract, to prevent river pollu- 
tion. 
A system of boulevards is now being out- i 
lined to connect and bring into a homoge- 
neous plan and circulation the several parks ; 
and outlying suburban districts. 
The city of Albany seems to have 
awakened from comparative lethargy in the 
past few years to civic activity and to a 
realizing sense of her opportunities and re- 
sponsibilities. This improvement has been 
occasioned by civic improvement societies, 
boosting clubs, and to some extent by the 
Chamber of Commerce. City officials are j 
generally content to draw their pay during 
their term of office and wait for the next 
man to do the work of boosting and think- 
ing for future betterments. 
I am no longer connected with the Bu- 
reau of Parks, but have the satisfaction of 
walking under the shade of miles of city 
streets and boulevards planted by myself, 
