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twenty-eight acres, at an expenditure of 
$465,000, which is now Patterson Park. 
Today Baltimore has fifty parks, squares 
and triangles, with an area of twenty-three 
hundred acres, costing in purchase price 
nearly $4,000,000. Agitation for more park 
area is rapidly developing. 
Park Improvements. 
Jackson Park, Chicago, now has a bath- 
ing beach large enough to accommodate 
four or five thousand bathers. The South 
Side Commissioners have also authorized 
the placing of shelters at the beaches un- 
der their control. The Small Park Com- 
mission is planning to establish a chain of 
beaches throughout the city. 
The town council of Plainfield, N. J., 
has been asked by the Playground Com- 
mission to appropriate $600 for the pur- 
pose of equipping a playground in the 
Washington School park. 
The Park Board of Freeport, 111., has 
provided a large number of benches for 
Taylor Park, and arrangements have been 
made for providing playgrounds appar- 
atus for the same park. 
Detailed plans of the N. P. Dodge Park 
boulevard along the river front, Council 
Bluffs, la., have been practically completed. 
The boulevard is to take the form of a 
levee for the protection of the park from 
the river and is . being constructed high 
enough above the river to keep out all but 
an extraordinary flood. 
A summer garden is in course of con- 
struction in Riverview Park, Alton, 111. 
Beautifying the surroundings of the new 
Great Northern depot will be one of the 
biggest improvements made in Bemidji, 
Minn., this summer. 
Officials of the R. T. Crane Co., of 
Chicago, have been looking over the com- 
pany’s holdings on Buffalo Rock, La Salle 
county, 111. It is the company’s intention 
to park the place and to girdle the rock 
with a new road and to do considerable 
landscape work. 
Work has already begun on the further 
improvement of the Palisades Interstate 
Park, extending from Fort Lee north along 
the Hudson river above and under the 
Palisades. It was hoped last year to com- 
plete the widening and leveling of the 
road for many years known as Under- 
cliffe avenue, but difficulties intervened 
and only a preliminary survey was under- 
taken. This, together with the erection 
of a few comfort stations, constituted the 
entire improvement made during the year 
1912. The Interstate Park is a favorite 
spot for campers' during the summer. 
Early last season the City Council of 
Milwaukee, Wis., turned over to the Park 
Board thirteen small parks that had been 
under the charge of the Board of Public 
Works. This was made too late for the 
usual spring care, but all possible atten- 
tion was given to them and they were pop- 
ular with the children. This year they 
will have all the work necessary for their 
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best development and will be a great boon 
to the coming citizens. 
For the development of that portion of 
the Parkway, Philadelphia, Pa., bounded by 
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Callowhill 
and Carlton streets, the Bureau of City 
Property has awarded the contract for the 
razing of the dwellings thereon to the 
Stier-March Company, which is to pay 
the city $1,050 and keep the material of 
200 houses to be demolished west of Logan 
Square. The work has started. 
The Park Commissioners of Pittsburgh, 
Pa., have introduced the bird protection 
feature into their management and have 
already secured much interesting informa- 
tion concerning the species making use of 
the parks. Several hundred bird houses 
have been erected in Schenley and High- 
land Parks, and a special employee was 
designated for the care of the birds and for 
compiling statistics concerning them. 
Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, of Bos- 
ton, has been in Niagara Falls for the pur- 
pose of advising* on a park system. 
Bids' were received and opened recently 
by the Park Board of Springfield, O., on 
the field house to be erected at Snyder 
Park. J. A. Poss was the lowest bidder; 
his tender was $3,768 for the complete 
work. 
There being no place in the thickly set- 
tled residence part of Davenport, la., for 
the children, the Park Commissioners have 
been considering the use of the western 
end of the new East River Park for the 
purpose of a playground park. 
New Parks. 
The Iowa State Executive Council has 
approved in full and authorized the city of 
Waterloo to take possession of a part of 
the Cedar river for the purpose of creat- 
ing a river park and boulevard in the heart 
of the city. The state has control of the 
river bed,, but permission was readily 
granted for Waterloo to make the im- 
provement. 
The proposed South Shore Park, Mil- 
waukee, Wis., which is to be constructed 
of filled-in land from Russell avenue south 
of the city limits and extend 1,000 feet 
out into the lake, is assured. Twenty quit- 
claim deeds from property owners along 
the south shore have been received by the 
common council for approval. 
In connection with the proposed city 
park in Pine Bluff, Ark., Mr. J. J. Haverty, 
of Little Rock, formerly of Pine Bluff, 
has offered to donate to the city from 80 
to 100 acres of land at Smart’s Crossing 
under certain conditions. 
A children’s playground has been opened 
by the Board of Park Commissioners of 
St. Louis, Mo., by the aid of the Wo- 
man’s Civic Federation, at Eighth street 
and Exchange avenue. A woman instruc- 
tor is to be employed at the federation’s 
expense for three months. This is only 
a start, and several more are promised in 
the near future. 
The East St. Louis, 111., Park Board 
has had a large force at work paving 
Forest boulevard and rushing the comple- 
tion of Washington Park, which, when 
completed, will be the largest city park in 
East St. Louis. The park will be three- 
fourths of a mile long and 400 feet wide. 
Galesburg, 111., is to have a new recrea- 
tion park in the addition to the City Park, 
north of Galesburg, of a park pavilion. 
Messrs. J. Grant Beadle and N. K. Aid- 
rich, architects, have been instructed to 
draw up separate sets of plans for a mod- 
ern park structure to cost in the neighbor- 
hood of $8,000. 
The City Council of Atlanta, Ga., is 
being urged to purchase the old Moseley 
estate, comprising 38 acres, in the Battle 
Hill section, for park purposes. The place 
is admirably adapted for a park. 
Citizens of East Dallas, Texas, are mak- 
ing great efforts to induce the Park Board 
to investigate property well suited for a 
park for their district. 
The officers of the Burlington railroad 
have decided to donate to the city of Fair- 
field, la., the Franklin school grounds for 
park purposes. 
Action leading to the purchase of the 
land needed for the establishment of a 
county park at Caldwell, N. J., has been 
taken by the Essex County Park Commis- 
sion. It was made possible through the 
clearing of a misunderstanding relative to 
the availability of the necessary funds, 
amounting to $100,000. 
The two adjacent municipalities of Gary, 
of steel fame, and Miller, towns a few 
miles south of Chicago, are jointly prom- 
ising to create a lake front park and a con- 
necting boulevard on the shore of Lake 
Michigan, just north of Miller. 
Camden, N. J., is at work to secure 
further tracts of land for park purposes. 
Fourteen acres has been added to the 
Zoo in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. The 
land lies just outside the east fence of the 
Zoo grounds, and extends from the car- 
riage sheds to the south gate of the gar- 
dens. The fence of the Zoo will be moved 
to the western curb of the west river 
drive. The land will be fenced in and used 
as a park for deer and elk. 
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, 
Etc., on April 1, 1913, 
OF PARK AND CEMETERY AND 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING, 
published at 440 South Dearborn street, 
Chicago, Illinois, as required by the Act of 
August 24, 1912 : 
Editor — John W. Weston. 
Managing Editor — O. H. Sample. 
Publisher and Owner — R. J. Haight. 
R. J. Haight. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 
27th day of June. 1912. 
Chas. H. Robinson, 
Notary Public. 
