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ing has been drawn by Superinten- 
dent of Parks Nussbaumer. The pro- 
ject is intended to be a part of St. 
Paul’s parkway scheme, though the 
matter is not yet in the hands of the 
park board. It is suggested that 
Cleveland avenue be converted into 
a tree and shrub lined avenue as a 
continuation of the present river 
boulevard. Small parks every half 
mile are designed tq add to the at- 
traction of the driveway. 
In addition to the improvement 
plans for the projected Observation 
Park on France Hill, St. Joseph, Mo., 
the park commissioners are now con- 
sidering tentative plans for a boule- 
vard to extend from Bartlett Park 
to Burnes Park. George E. Kessler, 
the landscape architect, who has been 
re-engaged to supervise the park and 
boulevard will be called upon to map 
out the most desirable route for the 
•driveway. 
The Cleveland, O., park department 
is planning extensive improvements 
for next year, and has asked in all 
for $1,229,430. Some of the projects 
are: City ownership and operation 
of refreshment stands, purchase of 
Forest City park, purchase of land 
for playgrounds in the Italian dis- 
trict on Mayfieldroad, bath house and 
gymnasium at Sterling playground, 
and at the playground at Broadway 
and Gallup Av. ; shelter houses for 
16 other playgrounds; halls at Wash- 
ington, Gordon, Brookside and Edge- 
water parks; completion of East 
boulevard, a city aquarium, 40 new 
tennis courts, and general park equip- 
ment. 
A new playground has been opened 
at the Thomas Wright School at Bel- 
oit, Wis. The Grounds are well 
equipped. 
The entire south end of Southside 
Park, Sacramento, Calif., is being 
transformed into a public playground, 
and the whole idea is a combination 
park and playground and will be im- 
proved to that end. A $2,000 play- 
ground equipment is a gift of Wein- 
stock, Lubin & Co. 
The Minneapolis, Minn., park board 
proposes to set out 2,000 trees on 
the city streets next spring. 
Work is being pushed in Crandall 
Park, on the north side of Youngs- 
town, O., with a view to opening it 
to the public next spring. 
The park board of Spokane, Wash., 
has appropriated some $7,000 for im- 
mediate work on the improvement of 
various city parks. 
Sioux Falls. S. D. proposes to ex- 
pend $7,000 next year for improve- 
ments in Sherman Park. 
A large force of men has been em- 
ployed along the Georgetown channel 
side of the part of Potomac Park 
Washington, D. C., to the eastward 
of the railroad tracks, grading and 
preparing for the new roadway that 
will be extended along the water 
sides of this part of the reclaimed 
area. 
Frederick Winthrop of Boston, 
Mass., has made a tentative proposi- 
tion to Mayor Fitzgerald to contrib- 
ute in a substantial way toward the 
expense of carrying out the plans of 
Frank A. Bourne for beautifying 
Copley square The plans submitted 
by Mr. Bourne some time ago, and 
which the mayor rejected on account 
of the cost, provided for a total ex- 
penditure of about $500,000, of which 
some $275,000 was to be expended for 
monumental features. It is under- 
stood that the proposition to be made 
by the Winthrop family contemplates 
providing for some of these monu- 
mental plans. 
A drinking fountain to cost $1,000 
is to be erected on the grounds of the 
new County Court House, at Kanka- 
kee, 111., under the direction of the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance 
Union. This Court House was erect- 
ed at a cost of $250,000. 
Engineers for the Springfield, 111., 
Pleasure Driveway and Park Dis- 
trict have been surveying for a boule- 
vard to Mildred park and the new 
east end park site purchased at a 
recent meeting of the board. 
It is never too late to express grati- 
fication for a pleasurable event, so we 
join with the many in congratulating 
Mr. Theodore Wirth, superintendent 
of the Minneapolis park system, on 
his election to the vice-presidency 
of the “Society of American Florists 
and Ornamental Horticulturists” for 
the year 1913. Mr. Wirth is one of 
the most efficient of American park 
superintendents whose name and 
reputation as an authority are well 
known in these columns as elsewhere. 
The association meets in Minneapolis 
next year, and it goes without saying 
that Mr. Wirth will leave no stone 
unturned to make the convention a 
success. 
The florists, gardeners and nursery- 
men of Portland, Oregon, have a 
well organized society under the 
name of “The Portland Floral So- 
ciety.” Monthly meetings are held at 
which items of trade interest are dis- 
cussed, with some special speaker as- 
signed for each meeting. The So- 
ciety is to have its first annual flower 
show at the Armory on November 
21, 22 and 23. Great preparations are 
being made for this event and a won- 
derful display of flowers and nursery 
stock is expected to be on display. 
New Parks. 
The city authorities of New Britain, 
Conn., are considering the purchase 
of a 40 acre tract of land in the north 
section of the city for the purposes 
of a public park. 
At a recent meeting of the city 
council of Clinton, 111., a tract of 
land in the southwestern part of the 
city, owned by Mrs. Elvira Downey, 
president of the Equal Suffrage Asso- 
ciation, was donated to the city un- 
der the conditions that it be convert- 
ed into a city park and kept in good 
condition by the city. The gift was 
accepted by the council. 
The park commissioners of Mil- 
waukee, Wis., voted last month to 
favor the proposition for the pur- 
chase of 1,080 feet of lake frontage 
adjoining the present south shore 
park and which is especially desirable 
for bathing purposes in connection 
with the new bathhouse in the park. 
At the September monthly meet- 
ing of the Recreation League in the 
Hotel Sutter, San Francisco, Calif., 
it was decided to request the Board 
of Supervisors to have the question of 
a bond election of $1,000,000 for the 
purchase of property surrounding 
Black Point Cove for an aquatic park, 
placed on the ballots at the Novem- 
ber election, and to indorse the Sutro 
Heights Park proposition. 
William S. Mason, a nephew of 
the late “Silent” Smith, from whom 
he inherited several million dollars, 
has given a playground to the chil- 
dren of Evanston, 111. He had already 
presented two small parks to the 
city, and the one which he is donat- 
ing now covers an entire square 
block. It is said that with his pres- 
ent gift Mr. Mason has expended 
more than $60,000 on small parks and 
playgrounds for Evanston. 
The Mattoon, 111., Park Commis- 
sion will buy this fall a tract of 15 
acres for conversion into a park next 
season. The work of improving the 
two city parks already acquired is 
under way. 
A bill has become a law authoriz- 
ing the sale to the town of Okanogan, 
Wash., of forty-seven acres of land 
on the Colville reservation for park 
purposes. The land lies just across 
the river from Okanogan. 
At a special election recently held 
at Taylorville, 111., it was voted to 
issue bonds in the sum of $30,000 for 
the purchase of a new city park. 
