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Island property, which will soon become 
city property. 
The Daytona, Fla., Library and Park 
Association has voted to accept the plans 
submitted by Charles F. Warner, landscape 
gardener of Jacksonville, for the Island 
Park. The plans provide for a pavilion 
and comfort station, fountains, vine-covered 
pergola, bandstand, library as it exists, pa- 
vilion or look-out, bridge across channel, 
and appropriate planting. 
In Richmond, Va., it is proposed to ex- 
pend $7, SCO on the extension of the city’s 
playgrounds. 
The Chicago Lawn, Chicago, Woman’s 
Club has succeeded in inducing the South 
Park Commissioners 1 to expend $1,000 on 
the temporary improvement of the Field 
House in Marquette Park. The board also 
voted to make other improvements during 
the year. 
The Park Commission of Los Angeles 
has requested the City Council to provide 
money to allow it to remove the earth 
from Lakeshore avenue and fill Echo Park 
lake and extend Bellevue avenue, which 
will require $20,000. 
Plans have been drawn by Wallace Cass, 
architect, New York, for a quadrangle 
park in the university grounds', Austin, 
Tex., extending from Twenty-first street 
to the administration building, a distance 
of one block and a half. The park prob- 
ably will be about 300 feet wide. 
According to a comparative report com- 
piled by Superintendent of Parks Nicholas 
Bvhower, of Salt Lake City, Utah, a 
greater area of land included in the city’s 
public parks, playgrounds and boulevards 
has been improved by landscape gardening 
and cultivation during 1912 than in any 
previous year in the history of the city. 
A total of more than forty acres has beer- 
redeemed and placed under cultivation dur- 
ing the past year. 
A. large concrete arch has been placed 
at the entrance of the city park of Rich- 
land, Wash. In the center of the arch the 
name “Amon Park” has been placed, in 
honor of Howard S. Amon, of Seattle, 
giver of the park and founder of the town. 
The park comprises five acres on the banks 
of the Columbia River. 
New Parks. 
An ordinance providing that the city ap- 
propriate property near the new East Side 
high school, Toledo, O., for playground 
purposes is in the hands of the City 
Council. 
The Dixon, 111., City Council has de- 
cided to proceed with the plan to purchase 
a part of the Dixon College campus for a 
public park. 
The City Playground Commission of 
Chicopee, Mass., is considering the needs 
of the playgrounds of the city and also the 
necessity of providing playgrounds for 
the mill hands’ children at Millimansett. 
Minden, Neb., will have a small city 
park, land having been purchased by the 
City Council. 
The Countess of Aberdeen, who recently 
arrived on a visit in the East, is quoted as 
saying : ‘‘I am interested in the betterment 
of conditions for children. In your public 
playgrounds, I think, you have done won- 
ders in America, especially in Chicago and 
New York. While we have a few in Eng- 
land, there are none that can in the least 
compare with those in your two great 
cities.” 
The special commission named by the 
Camden, N. J., City Council to consider 
MODEL FOR HAWTHORNE MEMORIAE 
AT SALEM, MASS. 
Bela L. Pratt. Sc. 
the purchase of land for public parks and 
squares is considering the advisability of 
procuring Pyne Poynt Park, Cooper Point, 
Camden. The park has been offered to the 
city for $125,000 by the Pyne Poyne Li- 
brary Association. The plot contains 25 
acres of ground, including valuable im- 
provements. 
The construction of an immense munici- 
pal playground at Chesley Island for the 
children of St. Louis, Mo., is being con- 
sidered by Park Commissioner Davis and 
other city officials. Twenty acres of the 
island will be used next year as picnic 
ground for tenement children as an ex- 
periment by the Public Recreation Com- 
mission. If this proves a success the 
proposition of taking over the entire island 
for a municipal outing park will be given 
consideration for the following year. 
William F. Buder, G. A. Buder, Leo R. 
Buder and Oscar E. Buder, the four sur- 
viving sons of the late Mrs. Susan R. Bu- 
der, of St. Louis, Mo., to perpetuate the 
memory of their mother have deeded to 
the city for park, recreation and play- 
ground purposes, a block of ground on 
the south side of the city, to be known as 
"The Susan R. Buder Memorial Square.” 
Mrs. Buder was known as “The Little 
Mother of the South Side.” There is a 
fine suggestion for others in the sons’ re- 
marks : “Mother’s great love for children 
and her charity towards indigent large 
families suggested to us a memoriai square 
rather than a mere tombstone in her mem- 
ory. The later years of her life were vir- 
tually given over to doing good and char- 
itable deeds in an unostentatious manner, 
and we think the giving of a block where 
the children of the South Side can continue 
to enjoy her love of them is the most fit- 
ting way in which we can show our great 
love for her.” 
The Hawthorne Memorial Association 
has become incorporated for the pur- 
pose, in the words of its charter, “of 
the erection or establishment and main- 
tenance of a memorial to Nathaniel 
Hawthorne in the city of Salem, Massa- 
chusetts.”. 
The association has selected to design 
the memorial Bela L. Pratt, sculptor, 
and R. Clipston Sturgis, architect, both 
of Boston. In designing the portrait 
figure of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr. 
Pratt has kept in mind the great genius 
isolated by conditions and his own 
brooding spirit from those about him. 
It was his habit when in Salem to walk 
alone by the sea and to sit for hours 
looking across the water. It is thus that 
the sculptor chose to portray him, sitting 
on the rocks by the sea, as shown in 
the accompanying illustration. The ar- 
chitectural surroundings will be in har- 
mony with this idea, which Mr. Pratt is 
to develop further in making the full- 
size statue. Mr. Pratt has recently pro- 
duced in the clay a full-sized model of 
his idea. The work is of heroic size, 
full of dignity and of a quiet but in- 
tense personality, absorbing in interest 
and satisfying. The location of the 
completed memorial has not yet been 
determined. The site most favored, if 
necessary assent can be obtained, is 
upon the westerly edge of Salem Com- 
mon, facing the Brown street approach, 
not far from the Mall street house in 
which Plawthorne wrote “The Scarlet 
Letter.” The estimated expense will 
not exceed $50,000. 
The active directors and officers of 
the association are: Alden P. White, 
president; Frank W. Benson, vice-presi- 
dent; Harlan P. Kelsey, secretary; J. 
Foster Smith, treasurer; John Robinson, 
Richard Wheatland, George F. Dow, 
Francis H. Lee, Alfred W. Putnam, 
Henry P. Benson, Rev. Theodore D. 
Bacon, Rev. James P. Franks, Dr. Frank 
A. Gardner, Prof. Edward S. Morse and 
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