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will be mainly devoted to the improve- 
ment of parks and boulevards. 
The proposed appropriation of $50,000 
by the Board of Aldermen of Perth Am- 
boy, N. J., which was passed early last 
fall, was amended to appropriate $35,000, 
and became a law without the signature of 
the mayor. The money is to be devoted 
to the general improvement of Silver Lake 
Park, including the erection of a shelter 
house. 
Park Commissioner Dwight F. Davis, 
St. Louis, Mo., is planning a series of 
lakes to enhance the beauty of Forest 
Park, while the City Plan Commission 
proposes a boulevard. The latter would 
seriously interfere with the lake propo- 
sition. 
A request for a special appropriation 
of $12,000 has been made by the Park 
Commissioners of Pawtucket, R. I., to 
provide for the building of a barn, tool- 
house, toilet room and repair shops in 
Slater Memorial Park. The commission- 
ers emphasize the need of radical im- 
provements in relation to these require- 
ments at the park, and intimate that it 
would be good policy to discontinue im- 
provements along other lines until the 
buildings appealed for are erected. 
One of the important park develop- 
ments of Spokane, Wash., for 1913 will 
be the improvement of Sinto Park and 
playground by the City Park Commis- 
sion ; and others will be the establish- 
ment of Spokane’s first swimming pool, 
and the erection of the first shelter house 
in the city, a place where civic societies 
and community clubs may meet to hold 
discussions and entertainments, and where 
equipment will be installed for a winter 
gymnasium. The shelter house will be 
built of concrete and in style to harmonize 
-with the bath house. Plans have been 
prepared under the direction of Mr. John 
W. Duncan, superintendent. It is ex- 
pected that in the not distant future four 
such structures will be established in the 
city. 
Contracts have been awarded for the 
construction of the new pavilion in, South 
Park, Peoria, 111. The total cost, includ- 
ing building, heating, plumbing and elec- 
tric wiring, will be $25,790. 
The Park Board of Springfield, 111., ex- 
perimented last year with the dust-laying 
proposition, and were quite impressed with 
the value of ananhydrous salt for the 
purpose. They propose to try it again 
this year and have seventy-five tons of 
the material on hand. The park authori- 
ties this year intend to make additions to 
the playground apparatus as well as to 
the tennis courts. 
A modern animal house, constructed on 
the latest plan for such structures, is 
proposed for Miller Park, Bloomington, 
111., at an estimated cost of $20,000. In 
design it will harmonize, with the pavilion. 
The building proper will be 150 feet Ion; 
by 48 feet wide. 
It is proposed to erect the monument 
to Gunnav Wannerberg, the famous 
Swedish poet and composer, in Elliott 
Park, Minneapolis, Minn. This park is 
located in one of the Swedish residence 
sections of Minneapolis, in the midst of 
many Swedish churches. 
A bond issue of $15,000 was authorized 
by the City Council of Zanesville, O., for 
park purposes on Monday, January 27, 
with more promised if the Council be- 
lieves the money is being spent to good 
advantage. Zanesville is forging ahead 
in the matter of her park system, and a 
landscape architect is to be engaged to 
prepare a definite plan of park develop- 
ment and improvement. Col. T. F. Spang- 
ler, president of the Board of Park Com- 
missioners, and an interested subscriber 
to this journal for many years, has re- 
cently given an interesting illustrated ar- 
ticle in the Zanesville News on the parks 
of Zanesville, their location, size, and 
their benefits to the city. Zanesville is 
ideally located for high-class park work, 
its large share of river banks affording 
splendid opportunities for this most at- 
tractive phase of landscape art. Mr 
Spangler’s effort to induce the co-opera- 
tion of the city’s residents with the efforts 
of the Park Commission should meet with 
earnest consideration, and the way is open 
to make Zanesville, O., one of the most 
charming cities of the country. 
The preliminary plans for the proposed 
Arroyo Seco Parkway, Los Angeles, Cal., 
to cost about $1,100,000 for land pur- 
chases, have been completed. 
Governor Sulzer, New York, recently 
stated that persons who have already con- 
tributed $3,500,000 toward establishing 
Palisades Park, including Mrs. Russell 
Sage and Mrs. E. H. Harriman, are will- 
ing to contribute $2,500,000 additional, 
“provided the state agrees to do its part.’’ 
A favorable report has been made to 
Secretary Fisher concerning the proposed 
Rocky Mountain National Park, com- 
prising the Estes Park tract. This is 
Denver’s new mountain park system. 
Two bills are before the Wisconsin 
legislature providing for the enlargement 
of Camp Randall Memorial Park, near 
Madison, Wis. 
The big tract of land at the southwest 
corner of Broad and Arch streets, Phila- 
delphia, Pa, is in course of conversion 
into a modern children’s playground, to 
be ready the coming summer. 
The Ladies’ Progressive League, of 
Niles, Mich., has purchased Castor’s 
Island, a spot well adapted for park im- 
provement, and on which a children’s play- 
ground will be established. 
The Danville, Ind., Commercial Club is 
backing a movement to secure twenty-four 
acres of land on the eastern edge of the 
town for a public park and playground. 
Macqmb, 111., has formally taken posses- 
sion of Maguire Park, the ninety acres of 
land located about three miles northeast of 
the city and willed to the city of Macomb 
by the late David R. Maguire to be used 
for park purposes. 
The Park Commission of Klamath Falls, 
Ore , has secured a large piece of ground 
in the city proper for a city park. 
A bill has been introduced in the New 
York State Senate to provide for the pur- 
chase of the block to the west of the cap- 
itol, and that to the east of the Education 
building to be improved and maintained as 
a “State Capitol Park.” 
Four years ago Evansville, Ind., had no 
playgrounds for the children ; now it has 
provision for some 1,500; and the idea has 
taken strong hold on the citizens, so that 
further developments are certain. 
The report of the Board of Commission- 
ers, Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, to the 
Municipal Assembly of that city discusses 
and explains conditions not commonly met 
with in public parks. The receipts for 
care and maintenance for the year 1912 
amounted in all to $30,522.02 and the dis- 
bursements to $26,894.57, of which labor 
consumed $16,693.91. The great outdoor 
movement is gradually leading to changes 
in the park to meet the desire for sports 
and games, as well as ordinary outdoor 
recreation ; and in addition, the increase of 
population surrounding the park, with the 
natural tendency of people traversing it 
to cut out paths for themselves, has led 
to the construction of the necessary paths 
to meet the demand, and so to keep up the 
appearance of the tract. Much difficulty 
is experienced in the St. Louis region in 
maintaining the trees and shrubs in a 
sightly condition, but last year the weather 
conditions materially aided in the work. 
The Sunday concerts, giving good music, 
proved very satisfactory. 
Mr. Myron H. West, landscape architect, 
Chicago, recently gave a public talk in 
Hutchinson, Kan., on park matters. 
Mr. J. S. Butterfield, landscape gardener 
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, has been 
in Little Rock, Ark., to advise on the sub- 
ject of the improvement of the railroad 
grounds in connection with the park de- 
velopment of the city. 
Mr. Sid J. ITare, of Hare & Hare, land- 
scape architects, Kansas City, Mo., has 
completed and presented to the Park Com- 
mission of Joplin, Mo., their plans for a 
system of parks and boulevards for that 
city. 
Mr. Thomas Mawson, ‘London, England, 
an expert on the “City Beautiful,” has 
been commissioned to devise a comprehen- 
sive plan for a civic center and system of 
parks for Calgary, Alberta. Mr. Mawson 
was the successful competitor from among 
forty. His compensation is reported to be 
$25,000. 
