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The purchase of Governors Island 
from the government for use as a 
public park by New York City is rec- 
ommended by Chairman Fitzgerald of 
the House Committee on Appropria- 
tions. 
The Parks and Playgrounds Com- 
mittee and the City Property Com- 
mittee of Rochester, N. Y., has been 
presented through a citizens committee 
with a subscription of $30,000 as a 
payment towards a proposed addition 
of 37 acres to Cobb’s Hill Park. The 
subscription is conditional that the 
city contribute the balance of the 
amount required, guarantee to pre- 
serve forever the property for park 
purposes and that no part of the 
grove of trees, which constitutes the 
proposed addition, shall ever be de- 
stroyed. 
Mr. John Nolen, landscape archi- 
tect, of Cambridge, Mass., was recent- 
ly in Wilmington, Del., advising with 
the authorities on a new park and 
boulevard scheme. 
A very desirable ten-acre tract has 
been purchased by the Board of Park 
Commissioners, Davenport, la., for 
park purposes. It lies in East Daven- 
port south of Eddy street and east of 
Mound street, extending to the edge 
of McClellan Heights. It cost $50,- 
000 and will be named East River 
Park. 
Stephen Child, Boston, Mass., and 
Santa Barbara, Calif., Landscape 
Architect and Consulting Engineer, 
has been retained by the Park Com- 
missioners of San Jose, Calif., to 
prepare General Plans for the best 
ultimate development of the famous 
Alum Rock Park, a wonderfully 
beautiful mountain canyon reserva- 
tion of some 700 acres, which the 
city has owned for a number of 
years. There are a variety of very 
remarkable springs in the lower por- 
tion of this canyon and provision 
will be made here for street rail- 
road facilities, for baths, refresh- 
ments and playgrounds. Elsewhere 
in the reservation every effort will 
be made to conserve all the rarely 
beautiful natural attractions, among 
which are waterfalls, rare forest 
growths, picturesque cliffs and par- 
ticularly distinctive California can- 
yon scenery. Mr. Child has been 
given other commissions for con- 
siderable landscape work in Califor- 
nia; he has recently been elected to 
the grade of Fellow in the American 
Society of Landscape Architects. 
Beaumont, Ore., a residential sub- 
urb of Portland, has recently been 
beautified by planting 10,000 roses 
and 1,500 trees on the streets and 
parkways. The planting was done 
under the direction of Howard 
Everts Weed, who is now permanent- 
ly located in Portland. The plant- 
ing plan included roses in great 
variety, with but one variety to a 
square, and each square properly la- 
belled for the benefit of the public. 
Mr. Weed proposes to establish a 
botanical garden at Beaumont, and is 
now proprietor or the Beaverton 
Nurseries. 
The Jewel Nursery Co., Lake City, 
Minn., was awarded the contract by 
the School Board of Virginia, Minn., 
for beautifying the grounds of the 
Technical High and the Roosevelt 
buildings. The grounds will be plant- 
ed with trees and shrubbery to harm- 
onize with the local scheme planned 
to make Central avenue one of the 
most beautiful thoroughfares in the 
state. 
A Shelter House, built by the Ver- 
mont Marble Company, is soon to 
be erected on the Thompson estate 
at Canandaigua, N. Y. This struc- 
ture is dark green Rutland marble. 
A strong movement lias been inau- 
gurated in Salt Lake City, Utah, to 
remedy the billboard nuisance and 
the matter has been brought to the 
attention of the City Commission. 
The project to purchase Mount 
Hope has received prompt considera- 
tion by the Rhode Island legislature. 
The Senate committee on finance re- 
ported favorably a resolution appoint- 
ing a special committee of the Assem- 
bly to determine the advisability of 
purchasing those lands for park pur- 
poses. This land was recently sold, 
and the new owner plotted it and 
has been offering it for sale as house 
lots. The public reason behind the 
proposal is that the land is historical 
and should be preserved. 
The park board of Cincinnati is 
beginning improvement work and us- 
ing its own labor. The new play- 
grounds at McMicken avenue and 
Walnut street is the first the park 
board is endeavoring to build in this 
way. The preparing of the grounds 
and the grading has been awaiting 
good weather. 
Hutchinson, Kas., is to vote on a 
$50,000 bond issue for park purposes. 
The Commercial Club, which stren- 
uously interested itself in the park 
movement, is inclined toward estab- 
lishing more than one park. 
The directors of the Board of Trade 
of Lowell, Mass., have endorsed the 
proposed entry of the Grand Trunk 
Railroad into the city, on its way to 
Boston, and it is expected that great 
benefit will accrue to the city. 
The Pennsylvania railroad officials 
are dealing directly with the Pitts- 
burgh city council in the matter of 
eliminating the grade crossings in 
the eastern part of the city. The 
plan of the Homewood board con- 
templates a park effect on all the 
property bounded by Homewood and 
Lang avenues and Susquehanna and 
McPherson streets. The Homewood 
Board of Trade expects finally to ac- 
complish its plan for a civic play- 
ground. 
Paterson, N. J., is beginning at last 
to realize that it has been woefully 
remiss in not acquiring land contigu- 
ous to the falls of the Passaic to cre- 
ate a park worthy of the beauty spot. 
This has possibly been Paterson’s 
greatest opportunity for a park of 
national reputation, and it has been 
neglected. 
Improvement work in Minneapolis, 
Minn., parks the coming season will 
involve the expenditure of between 
$160,000 and $170,000. 
Agitation for new parks and more 
adaptable methods of management 
and improvement is being felt in New 
Britain, Conn. It is strongly advo- 
cated that the city needs three 
more parks. 
David N. Foster, head of the Fos- 
ter Furniture company, Ft. Wayne 
and Lafayette, and Samuel M. Fos- 
ter, president of a Fort Wayne bank, 
on March 17 announced the gift to 
the city of Ft. Wayne of deeds to 
a tract of land four miles in length 
along the bank of the St. Marys 
river. The park site contains about 
155 acres and represents a cash out- 
lay on the part of the donors of 
$35,000. 
The park and boulevard system of 
St. Joseph, Mo., has received an im- 
petus in three ordinances recently 
passed by city council. The meas- 
ures contemplate the extension of 
Noyes boulevard from Twenty-eighth 
and Messanie streets southeast to 
