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Superior, Wis., is to have a new park, 
to be known as Stockade Park. It will 
include the spot where the old stockade 
stood which was used at the time of the 
Indian disorders in 1862. 
A children’s playground will be estab- 
lished in Cotton Palace Park, Waco, Tex. 
A measure to permit the state of Iowa 
to deed to the city of Burlington Otter 
Island, an island in the Mississippi River 
lying about three miles north of the 
steamboat landing, has been introduced in 
the legislature. It is three miles long and 
in parts one mile wide, and will make a 
unique addition to Burlington’s park sys- 
tem. 
There is a strong prospect of a new 
park for Milwaukee, Wis. The Board of 
Estimates is looking into a proposition to 
purchase the Kneeland property on Grand 
avenue, between Tenth and Eleventh streets 
A park is to be established by the state 
of New Jersey at the spot where General 
Washington made his historic landing 
when he crossed Delaware River the night 
before the battle of Trenton. It will con- 
tain about 300 acres, and it is hoped to be 
able to enlist Congress in aid of the prop- 
osition. 
Nine acres of land, valued at $2,000 an 
acre, have been presented to the Board of 
Park Commissioners of Louisville, Ky., to 
be added to Cherokee Park. It is the gift 
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fehr, and the 
commissioners have formally accepted it. 
The Davenport, la., Park Commission 
has been considering the purchase of the 
Knostman-Petersen Furniture Co. projerty 
and the Davenport Woolen Mills Co. prop- 
erty in East Davenport for park purposes. 
Representative Henry O. Bernbrock, of 
Waterloo, la., has introduced in the house 
of the Iowa legislature a bill which would 
give every city the right to create a shade 
tree commission and compel uniformity in 
planting of trees and varieties along the 
various streets. 
Glens Falls, N. Y., is likely to have a 
children’s playground the coming summer. 
Canon City, Colo., is agitating the ques- 
tion of including the Royal Gorge in a 
mountain park of some 6,000 acres. It 
will make a most beautiful and elaborate 
addition to park propositions. 
Memphis, Tenn., parks and park equip- 
ments are valued at $6,302,183.32, with 
excess of assets over liabilities of $5,560,- 
152.62, according to a recent report. The 
value of buildings is given as $119,452.08, 
and equipment, including furniture, imple- 
ments, wagons, livestock and zoo, $39,- 
873.80. 
Pennsylvania is to follow in the foot- 
steps of New Jersey in establishing a pub- 
lic park or other memorial to mark the 
place where Washington crossed the Dela- 
ware river on that Christmas Eve in 1776 
and routed the British allies, the Hessians, 
in the battle of Trenton. The famous 
passage across the ice-clogged river was 
made at a point about six miles north of 
Trenton. The landing place on the Jer- 
sey side is known as “Washington’s Cross- 
ing,” while on the opposite side of the 
river, on Pennsylvania soil, is the town of 
Taylorsville. 
The tenth annual report of the Park 
Commissioners of Lowell, Mass., for 1912, 
gives a park area of just over 136 acres, 
comprising four parks of between 11.39 
and 56 acres, and 26 small plots. Their 
valuation is $658,976. The first Park Com- 
mission was appointed in 1903, and the av- 
erage annual appropriation for the care of 
the parks since that time has been $13,- 
054.40. Stress is laid on the need in Low-' 
ell of a City Improvement Commission to 
prepare a comprehensive plan of park de- 
velopment for the city on definite lines. 
The report contains very interesting mat- 
ter on the playgrounds, insect pests, bill- 
boards, etc., and is quite profusely illus- 
trated. 
An appropriation of $150,000 is to be 
asked of the Illinois State Legislature for 
the purchase of Monks Mound, an historic 
Indian mound between Collinsville and 
East St. Louis. The mound, if purchased, 
will be turned into a state park. 
There are ten playgrounds in the city of 
Boston, Mass., which the Park Department 
wants to place in readiness for use during 
the coming season, and for those improve- 
ments the Park Board asks an appropria- 
tion of $316,424.78. 
Six years ago Spokane, Wash., had only 
some 174 acres of park land. Now the 
city boasts of 1,960 acres — more than three 
square miles — one acre for every 55 people 
in the town. 
Kearney, Neb., is planning an extensive 
park system and is arranging for a bond 
issue of $40,000 for the purpose. 
Milwaukee, Wis., has about completed 
arrangements with the Northwestern Rail- 
way officials and will soon be at work on 
the proposed 174-acre lake front park and 
driveway. 
The Detroit, Mich., Common Council has 
instructed the Commissioner of Parks to 
ask the estimators for the sum of $100,000 
to provide playground for Detroit. This 
is the most decided step yet taken by this 
flourishing city for a playground system. 
The Park Commissioners of Buffalo, N. 
Y., have awarded to Townsend & Fleming, 
landscape architects, the contract for the 
preparation of the plans and specifications 
for the development of the property ac- 
quired recently by the city for park pur- 
poses. The parks to be embellished are 
Willert, Sperry, Polonia, Plennepin, Schil- 
ler, Lanigan and the Riverside park addi- 
tion. It is estimated that the work will 
cost at least $30,000. 
According to a statement made recently 
at Albany by Governor Sulzer, contribu- 
tions to increase by $2,500,000 the fund to 
acquire and establish Palisades Park, on 
the Pludson River, have been promised the 
Palisades Park Commission. 
A campaign in behalf of public play- 
grounds has begun in Dallas, Tex., by the 
Dallas Playgrounds Association. Dr. Henry 
S. Curtis, whose work two years ago was 
largely responsible for the Dallas Asso- 
ciation, will take a hand again in the in- 
terest of the proposed bond issue. 
It is highly to the interests of the state 
of Minnesota to gain complete control of all 
land within the Itasca Park boundaries, is 
the claim of State Forester Cox. Although 
the state already owns much of the more 
desirable timbered property, about 6,000 
acres, valued at about $300,000, is under 
private title, large tracts being owned by 
the Walker and Weyerhaeuser firms. 
In a lecture recently delivered at Sioux 
City, la., by O. C. Elslager, of Dayton, O., 
on the playground and landscape garden- 
ing movement, he suggested that a civic 
association for street urchins be formed, 
to be governed by the boys themselves, 
with their garden products from the use 
of vacant lots, etc., as a chief source of 
revenue. Where this has been properly or- 
ganized it has been a success. 
The Board of Park Trustees of Peoria, 
111., has been upheld, by a recent ruling of 
the Supreme Court of the state, in its 
contention that “it was not obliged to keep 
up a street at its own expense for the 
benefit of the property owners. It was 
sought to compel the Park Board to keep 
up the improvements of Columbia Terrace, 
owing to the fact that the street had been 
originally dedicated to the Park Board by 
Lydia Bradley as an entrance to Bradley 
Park. The board had relinquished its 
claims to Columbia Terrace in 1906. 
In the sixty-first annual report of 
Swampscott, Mass., one of the best ever 
presented, the Park Commission asks for 
$10,550 for park purposes; the tree war- 
den wants $1,700, most of which is re- 
quired for fighting the insect pests. 
Mr. James S. Graham, president of the 
Flatbush Pla}rgrounds Association, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., has aroused great interest in 
the Parents’ League' of Public School No. 
89, on the proposition to establish and 
