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Bath-houses accommodating several hundred persons have 
been erected to the east of the pool, and are fitted up 
with electric lights so the place can be used on hot sum- 
mer nights. It is planned to divide the week between the 
men and women, boys and girls, and to give all an equal 
chance to utilize it. Mothers and little children will be 
taken care of in the recreation center, and accommodations 
have been arranged for them outside the range of baseballs 
and away from the strenuous sports of the men. A wad- 
ing pool and a sandpile will provide seashore delights for 
the water babies, and though the pool is only a foot deep, 
the youngsters will be safeguarded by their parents, who 
will sit under a protected shed and watch them while they 
cavort around in the water. A sewing arbor and outdoor 
reading spot has also been provided for the women, which 
commands a view of the ball park and of the little one’s 
swings and recreation spot. At the entrance to the plot, 
which occupies a square of ground, a splendid gymnasium 
and indoor recreation hall has been built with accommo- 
dations for several hundred persons. Upstairs the lecture 
room has been equipped with a stage for amateur theatri- 
cals and moving pictures. It is well lighted and venti- 
lated by day and will be flooded with electric light at 
night. While the seriously inclined of the neighborhood 
are listening to a lecture or devoting their time to encour- 
aging the study of the drama among the younger mem- 
bers, those who are more strenuous will have the use of 
the indoor gymnasium, the ball park and the swimming 
pool at their disposal. It is a veritable people’s palace. 
A new city park was opened in Upland, Neb., on June 
25. It was named Iverson Park in honor of J. H. Iverson, 
to whose efforts the excellent condition of the park is due. 
Another small park has been added to the number of 
such parks owned by Hartford, Conn. It is laid out oppo- 
site St. Augustine’s Church. 
Four small park sites have recently been secured in the 
west division of Chicago, at a total consideration of 
$433,970. The areas are: two of ten acres, one of eight 
and one of five. About $300,000 is to be expended from 
the general fund for improvements in connection with 
these four parks by the West Park board. A new field 
house, costing $60,000, has recently been dedicated at Hol- 
stein park. 
The city council of Sheboygan, Wis., recently took 
action to appropriate $6,000 to purchase the ten-acre park 
of the Sheboygan Gun and Rod Club for a public park. 
The Twelfth street park, Albany, N. Y., was recently 
turned over to the children for a playground by the Troy 
common council. 
Work is being pushed on the Glen Oak playground, 
Peoria, 111., and it is expected to dedicate it very shortly. 
The Beaumont, Tex., city council has authorized the 
mayor to purchase the island formed by Brakes bayou 
and the Neches river from the Kirby Lumber Company 
at $100 per acre. The city will fill in the land and con- 
vert the island into a park. It was also decided that the 
park commissioners take the necessary steps for the im- 
provement of Cartwright park as a public park. 
The transfer of the Wright property, comprising about 
four acres, at Houston, Tex., to the city, has been effected. 
The consideration was $18,500. The site will be improved 
and made into a municipal park 
The proposition to purchase the property bounded by 
the river, Front and Second streets, and Kelsey avenue, 
Toledo, O., for park purposes, has been approved by the 
public improvements committee of council. It is estimat- 
ed the land will cost between $75,000 and $100,000. 
Ramsey State park, Redwood Falls, Minn., recently ded- 
icated, is located at the junction of the Ramsey valley 
with the Redwood and has massive granite cliffs and 
wooded hills, tortuous streams with continuous succes- 
sions of rapids and waterfalls, beautiful glens, rugged 
gulches and extended valley views, and winding drive- 
ways extending from its highest to its lowest levels. It 
is continuous with the Redwod City park, the two contain- 
ing over one hundred acres. 
The township of Kingston, 111., has instituted condem- 
nation proceedings to obtain possession of a small tract of 
pretty woodland for a public park. The land sought is 
ten acres north of and just across the river on the west 
side of the highway from the village. Kingston issued 
bonds to the amount of $2,000 for this purchase. 
Dallas, Tex., is proposing to establish a park for negroes 
in East Dallas. 
Another beauty spot is under preparation for Toronto, 
Ont. The “Toronto Telegram” says: “‘Old Fort York,’ 
so long practically deserted, may in a year or two be as 
popular and even as thickly populated as it was in those 
old days when Canada’s best threw up a rampart and built 
a fort to keep out the southern enemy. It will be made 
into a park.” 
The city authorities of Cleveland, O., have completed 
arrangements tor the purchase of the Sperry and Willert 
sites for small parks on the east side. The Sperry site is 
bounded by Peckham, Sherman, Lovejoy and Krettner 
streets, and is offered to the city for $188,000, and the 
Willert site, bounded by Hollister, Mortimer, Peckham 
and Spring streets, is offered at a cost of $133,000. 
Hammond Memorial park, in the heart of the residence 
district of Superior, Wis., the central feature of which is 
a concrete and stone fountain, given by the heirs of the 
late Gen. John H. Hammond, founder of the west end 
of this city, has been dedicated. 
The first steps toward creating in Saratoga, N. Y., a 
beautiful park has been taken through the circulation of 
petitions requesting Park Commissioner Allerdice to issue 
the $50,000 in park bonds already authorized; and to use 
the proceeds for the purchase of Congress Hall. There 
is on exhibition in one of the show windows of the town 
a sketch in color showing just what it is planned to do if 
the Congress Hall is torn down and the park plan is car- 
ried out. The plan means the combination of the Canfield 
and Congress parks with the Congress Hall site, and the 
three united into a park such as perhaps no place in this 
country now possesses. 
At a meeting held on June 12, the Park Board ot Spring- 
field, 111., appropriated $105,000 to provide for salaries, main- 
tenance and building of Springfield parks, pleasure driveways 
and boulevards. 
Jas. B. Shea, assistant superintendent, has just been ap- 
pointed to succeed the late J. A. Pettigrew, of the Boston 
parks. He probably, more than any other person, knew Mr. 
Pettigrew’s methods and purposes and can be relied on to fol- 
low along on consistent lines, governed by the same wise 
policies which made Mr. Pettigrew’s work so notable. Mr. 
Shea was born in West Roxbury in 1863. Graduating from 
the high school in 1880, he pursued his studies in Boston 
College and Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. He has 
been employed in the Boston Park Department for 22 years. 
In 1903 he was appointed general foreman by Superintendent 
Pettigrew and in 1907 became assistant superintendent. He is 
at present vice-president of the American Association of Park 
Superintendents. 
