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good will. The deed to the park will pass to the people 
of Denmark, with the proviso that on each 4th of July 
the park will be given over to the Americans. 
The commission of Los Angeles, Calif., has been con- 
sidering two different plans prepared by Landscape Ar- 
chitect Cox, for remodeling a portion of Hollenbeck park, 
one providing for elimination of the lake and the estab- 
lishment of a playground, bathing pool, tennis courts and 
a music stand, and the other plan providing for the re- 
tention of the lake with slight modifications for the beauty 
of the park. The commission will investigate before 
adopting a plan. 
The park system of Wakefield, Mass., has benefited 
recently by gifts arounting to nearly $5,000 and by many 
acres of land. The latest gift is $1,000, given anony- 
mously by a citizen for a retaining wall and other im- 
provements along the Main-street front of the Hart’s 
Hill Metropolitan Reservation at Wakefield Junction. In 
the same neighborhood there has been given, also anony- 
mously, a tract of 13,000 feet for a park and $400 to im- 
prove it; also $300 for trees and shrubs. The will of Mary 
E. Aborn of Wakefield, bequeaths $2,000 for park pur- 
poses and a tract of many acres in the easterly section 
of the town, near Saugus, including Castle Hill. 
A contract for rebuilding one and one-eighth miles of 
the outer line driveway of Valley Forge Park with 
bitumen for a binder has been awarded by the Valley 
Forge Park Commission to Contractor Wm. H. Doyle, 
of Berwyn. Every year more improvements are being 
made to this historic park, which lies just over the Chester 
county line in Montgomery county, Pa., but which is also 
a part of historic territory just as well. In a few years 
every one of the old colonial sites at Valley Forge will 
have creditable memorials and the place not only be one 
of interest, but beauty as well. 
Davenport, la., has a big levee improvement scheme 
at last under way, under the directions of the Davenport 
Levee Improvement Commission. When the project is 
completed it will not only have greatly enlarged the har- 
bor and dock facilities of Davenport, but will have added 
a large acreage, in the shape of levee parks, to her park 
system. 
Considerable park and cemetery improvement work is 
under way at Hibbing, Minn., under Mr. Conrad Wolf, 
the park superintendent who has just completed pre- 
liminary work at the Hibbing cemetery, where 500 shade 
trees have been planted and flower beds arranged. Shade 
trees are now being planted along the boulevards in the 
residence section and within a short time the grounds 
will be laid out for new parks at the north and south 
ends of the city. The care of the public library grounds 
has been turned over to the park board. 
George Washburn, architect, Davenport, la., has com- 
pleted the plans for a pavilion for Crapo park, to be in 
the form of a quarter of a circle, 18x80 feet, built of steel 
and concrete, and will be placed within the loop on South 
Main street. The work of construction is expected to be- 
gin in the near future. It is an improvement that was 
promised some time ago and that will prove a great con- 
venience to the public. 
Krug Park, St. Joseph, Mo., is to undergo considerable 
change and improvement this year. The zoological at- 
tractions are to receive special attention. 
Electric Park, Barnesboro, Pa., is to undergo many 
changes this year according to an announcement, made 
by the park commission. _ ^ ‘ £ 
Warner Park, will be the central playground of Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. With the aid of the $250,000 bond issue 
which has recently been made, a large amount of con- 
struction work in the way of park buildings, animal 
houses and other park facilities will be carried out, as 
well as general improvement. Park Commissioner War- 
ner proposes to provide park rest-houses, where appropri- 
ate and necessary. 
Success has crowned the efforts of some 50 schoolboys 
of Wakefield, Mass., to open a bath house and swimming 
school at Lake Quannapowitt. The first skating rink in the 
town has also been provided for in the anonymous gift 
of $1,000 from a citizen for park and other improvements. 
The park commissioners are carrying out a little park- 
ing scheme about the Washington monument at Williams- 
burg, L. I., in connection with some important road and 
boulevard improvements in that section. The “Weary 
Willies” have for some time been making the monument 
a rendezvous. This impressive statue surmounts a gran- 
ite pedestal, which sets upon a concrete base having a 
width of four feet all around the monument. This leaves 
a width of twenty-five feet for the little park which is now 
being laid out. Around its edge there will be a walk of 
trap-rock screenings, and upon this a number of benches 
will be placed for the convenience of women and children. 
When the little park is completed, an attendant will be 
appointed to protect it and the monument during the day 
time and the police will look after it during the night. 
The monument to Washington on the bridge plaza, which 
was modeled by Henry Merwin Shrady, cost $50,000, and 
was a gift to the city by Hon. James R. Howe, ex-Con- 
gressman and ex-Register. It represents the father of 
his country, not in the glory of the surrender at York- 
town and the end of the eight years’ war, but rather dur- 
ing the rigors of that terrible winter at Valley Forge when 
the fortunes of the Continental army were at the lowest 
ebb. It was originally intended to place the monument 
at the head of Bedford avenue, where the fountain stands, 
but some residents objected to the removal of the fountain. 
It was finally decided to place it where it now stands. 
The members of the Glen Echo Association have do- 
nated to Columbus, O., their beautiful park in North Co- 
lumbus. It consists of six acres of beautiful property, with 
little rustic bridges over the streams that run through it. 
The park has been beautified by the property owners who 
expected to donate it to the city when their work was 
completed. 
John E. Parsons of New York, who owns “Stoneover” 
on Yokun avenue, Lenox, Mass., has advised that he will 
provide the expense of making a park of the Servin prop- 
erty at the corner of Main and Sunset street, which the 
town owns, providing the town will grant the property for 
park purposes and the village association will maintain 
the park. The suggestion was very cordially received. 
There is between iy 2 and 2 acres in the plot. Mr. Parsons 
in his letter to the association said the place was an eye- 
sore, instead of an ornament to the village, as it easily 
might be. 
Sherwood Park, the new and model recreation park and 
center of Philadelphia, Pa., which is about to be opened, 
is claimed to be as complete as any in the country, if it 
does not stand at the head of such public park centers. It 
is intended not only for the children of the neighborhood, 
but also for the men and women, and every provision has 
been made for their accommodation. The Sherwood cen- 
ter will be open every night. All its activities will be in 
full swing. Arc lights have been placed on the ball park. 
The open-air swimming pool is the first of its kind in the 
city and the most hygienically constructed in the country. 
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