PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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As the result of a recent conference 
between the members of the Brandon, 
Manitoba, Parks Board and J. H. Gris- 
dale, director of the experimental farms 
of Canada, it is likely that the long 
mooted plan to have a portion of the ex- 
perimental farm and of the industrial 
school to be used as a pleasure park for 
Brandon will soon be realized. 
Steps have been taken for the estab- 
lishment of two additional playgrounds in 
Lynn, Mass., one in extreme East Lynn 
and the other in extreme West Lynn. 
The first public playground located on 
private property and thoroughly equipped 
by private capital was opened a few weeks 
ago in San Francisco. This new recrea- 
tion center is situated on the west side of 
Valencia street, between Thirteenth and 
Fourteenth, and will be known as the 
“Koverall’s Playground.” The lot is 160 
feet long and 80 feet wide. 
Wahpeton, N. D., is to have a new small 
park, occupying a block west of the High 
School. A landscape gardener has the 
contract to improve it. 
Danvers, 111., is the recipient of land 
for a small park, the gift of Mr. and 1 Mrs. 
L. R. Stephenson. It is a much needed 
addition to the town. 
The committee on appraisal has reported 
a price of $32,666 for a piece of property 
to be added to Seneca Park, Rochester, 
N. Y. It fronts on St. Paul street and 
has a frontage of 565 feet by a depth of 
150 feet. 
Davenport, la., is putting some $300,000 
into levee improvements, under a special 
act of legislature, and expects that even- 
tually the improvements will pay for 
themselves and yield a large revenue to 
the city. After the work is completed 
some think that Davenport will have the 
handsomest and most up-to-date river 
front on the whole stretch of the Missis- 
sippi river front from St. Anthony’s Falls 
to the Gulf of Mexico. 
From Park Reports. 
Tn the Pueblo, Colo., city controllers’ 
annual statement for the year ending De- 
cember 31, 1912, Mr. G. Hennenhofer, su- 
perintendent of parks, makes his first an- 
nual report under the new charter. The 
parks suffered more or less from unusual 
weather conditions the first part of the 
year, and a climax came when on July 1 
a heavy hail storm on the north side of 
the river damaged all plants and destroyed 
some 75 per cent of the greenhouse glass. 
The floral display was ruined and never 
came up to the standard during the rest of 
the year. The total appropriation allowed 
for the maintenance of all parks was 
$25,000 and the expenditures were $23,- 
117.54. The work done during the year 
was largely that of maintenance and im- 
provements in planting and bringing the 
parks up in condition. 
The fourteenth annual report of the 
park commissioners of the town of Llope- 
dale, Mass., for 1912 contains a few in- 
teresting illustrations of wild park scenery. 
Its small system offers some lovely views 
and has upwards of six miles of roads 
and paths. An interesting note in the re- 
port is that ‘‘food and shelter are fur- 
nished for the birds inhabiting our terri- 
tory.” The commissioners say that no 
section under their jurisdiction affords 
greater pleasure or enjoyment than the 
playground. 
The Board of Park Commissioners of 
Wilmington, Del., have issued a very at- 
tractively illustrated report for the year 
1912. The commission has five main parks 
of a combined area of 405.62 acres, and 
eighteen small parks and open spaces of 
a total area of practically 52 acres, under 
its control. Like many another city, the 
Park Board has been hampered by in- 
adequate funds, with the result that no 
great work could be completed nor the 
work of maintenance conducted as it 
should have been. Five playgrounds un- 
der careful supervision were maintained 
for two months, in addition to such other 
work not being actually under the care of 
the Park Board, and in this playground 
experience it was clearly demonstrated 
that each playground should be in charge 
of a man and woman of equal training and 
experience. 
The report of the Park Board of Utica, 
N. Y., an illustrated pamphlet, gives its 
affairs for the year 1912 in considerable 
detail. Much construction work was car- 
ried out, more park facilities provided and 
practical attention devoted to the develop- 
ment of the system. The board recom- 
mends a bond issue for further necessary 
work in construction and improvement. 
The total receipts were $119,052.85 and 
expenditures $44,913.39. These playgrounds 
were maintained for nine weeks, with a 
director for each. To popularize the parks 
many special events were arranged which 
served to impress upon the people the 
value and beauty of their park system. 
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL 
The Boston Society of Landscape Archi- 
tects was organized in Boston last month, 
and it will become a chapter of the Ameri- 
can Society of Landscape Architects. The 
society has arranged for an associate mem- 
bership of persons distinguished in the 
architectural or closely allied professions. 
The officers are : Warren H. Manning, 
president; James Sturgis Pray, vice-presi- 
dent, and Arthur A. Shurtleff, secretary- 
treasurer. 
Mrs. A. F. McCrea, landscape gar- 
dener, recently spoke before the Spring- 
field, 111., High School on the leading 
principles of beauty in landscape archi- 
tecture, etc. 
On the occasion of his recent visit to 
Champaign and Urbana, to work for a 
week or more with the students in the 
landscape gardening and horticulture de- 
partments of the University of Illinois, a 
farewell dinner was given to Prof. Charles 
Mulford Robinson, of Rochester, N. Y., by 
Prof. J. C. Blair, of the university. At 
this dinner plans of improvement for the 
two cities were outlined to about fifty res- 
idents, including both park commissioners, 
and some drastic suggestions attracted 
pointed interest. 
At the annual meeting of the Boulevard 
and Park Association of Quincy, 111., all 
the old officers were re-elected. At the 
head is Mrs. E. J. Parker, widow of the 
late Edward J. Parker, whose name so 
often appeared in these columns in con- 
nection with park and landscape improve- 
ment, and who was justly termed the 
father of the Quincy park and boulevard 
system. Mrs. Parker made a comprehen- 
sive and valuable report, which was later 
voted to be made part of the permanent 
records of the association. A vote of 
thanks was also accorded to her “for the 
able, efficient and faithful manner in 
which she had discharged the duties of the 
office during the past year.” Quincy, 111., 
continues to set a great example in park 
matters. 
Mr. Edward J. Canning, for nineteen 
years past superintendent of grounds and 
head of the Botanic Garden of Smith Col- 
lege, Northampton, Mass., has resigned 
that position in order to devote his whole 
time to landscape gardening. During the 
past few years Mr. Canning has drawn 
plans for and planted a great number of 
public and private grounds, and the in- 
creasing volume of work has rendered it 
necessary to give up his college duties. 
He is at present engaged in laying out a 
public park in Eastbampton and some 
twelve or fifteen private grounds in 
Northampton and adjacent cities and 
towns. He will continue to reside in 
Northampton. His office address will be 
361 Prospect street. 
Mr. Myron H. West, president of the 
American Park Builders of Chicago, has 
been commissioned to prepare a compre- 
hensive city plan for San Antonio, Tex. 
At a luncheon last month in that city Mr. 
West presented a preliminary report he 
was engaged to prepare several weeks ago. 
Mr. Addison Bain, well known in con- 
nection with his work as suoerintendent 
of the Marion, O., parks two or three 
years ago, has again been appointed su- 
perintendent, to serve without pay, until 
there may be funds for the purpose appro- 
priated. Mr. Bain has always been inter- 
ested in the parks and was particularly 
popular with the children, their care and 
amusement. 
