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The Canadian Park at Banff is to be stocked with mountain 
sheep, goats, moose, antelope, deer, and other animals. 
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The Bureau of Cit}' Property, Philadelphia, has voted $5000 
to restore the old Bartrain House, in Bartram Park, and other 
relics of the period of the old quaker botanist. 
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A drinking fountain will be erected in Cairo, 111 ., to co.st 
$ 10,000 as a memorial to the late Capt. W. P. Hallidav. It will 
be presented to the citj’ b}’ his heirs. 
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The Kansas Municipal League will present a bill at the next 
legislature to empower cities to plant shade trees along streets 
and cut weeds on vacant property when owner fails to do so. 
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The New York state forest pre.serve board has recently pur- 
chased about 40,000 acres of land in the Catskills. This purchase 
brings the holdings of the state in the Catskills to more than 
300,000 acres. Further purchases are promi.sed. 
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The work of Savannah’s, Ga., Park and Tree Commission 
is attracting considerable attention out.side local limits. Both 
Richmond and New’ Orleans have recently called upon the com- 
mission for advice and information upon the .subject of tree 
planting and park work in general. 
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A public fountain is to be erected in the near future in 
Kenosha, Wis., the gift of a wealth }• citizen whose name is not 
divulged. It is to adorn Market Square and will be one of the 
hand.soinest public memorials in Wisconsin. Kenosha has been 
a most fortunate cit}’ in respect to gifts from her citizens. 
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The whole cit}’ front of Atlantic City, N. J., is included in 
the Ocean Front Park .scheme, the deeds of which have been 
approved by the city council. In the agreement betw’een the 
property owners and the City fathers, it is stipulated that the 
city shall keep the laud forever open and unob.structed and main- 
tain the same for public recreation and no other use whatsoever. 
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Among recent gifts of land for park purposes are the fol- 
lowing: Reading, Pa., a tract of 12 }( acres adjoining City 
Park, by George F. Baer, president board of park commis- 
sioners. Hon. Hugh McCurdy, a leading citizen of Corunna, 
Mich., has presented that tow’ii with a park containing 34 acres. 
It is in the heart of the city and w’ill be know’ll as the Hugh 
McCurdy park. 
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One of the great difficulties attending some of the con- 
structive features of the Paris Exposition to be opened this year, 
was the preservation of the large trees, the people being strongly 
opposed to their destruction. Where underground w’ork jeopar- 
dized their existence, the engineers devised a scheme of sus- 
pending them, practically over their places, while the under- 
ground work was prosecuted beneath and about them. Trees, ' 
earth and roots w’ere lifted bodily and when the digging and 
other w’ork was completed they w'ere low’ered in their places, 
and reinstated almost in their primal conditions. Herein is a 
suggestion ethical and practical; public opinion evidently con- 
trols the French authorities and the work itself is a lesson. 
The propo.sed plan for the iinprovement of Audubon Park, 
New Orleans, La., under the designs of Messrs. Olmsted, Boston, 
w’ould involve an expenditure of .some $ 100 , 000 . There is great 
enthu.sia.sm over the jiroject but this expense is somewhat of a 
.stumbling block. To overcome this it has been proposed by 
Mr. Lew’is Johnson, a park commissioner, that 40 New’ Orleans 
citizens .should subscribe $ 2^00 each, and he opens the list by 
putting his name down first. His generous incentive is greatly 
ap]5reciated. 
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The .special agent of the government land office who w’as 
.sent to the petrified forest of .\rizona to investigate the advis- 
ability of forming a national park of the region, will report fav- 
orably on the project and will advise that territory iS miles by 
nine miles be included in the park. In this area lie four differ- 
ent groups, or fore.sts, of fallen trees, although it does not include 
all of the groups of petrifactions in the valley. There are mil- 
lions of tons of the agatized wood in the proposed park terri- 
tory. Many tree trunks were measured 165 feet long and as 
large as four feet in diameter. One group of petrifactions, 
locally know’n as Rainbow’ park, is the most remarkable spec- 
tacle of color even seen, and the effect of the .sun.shine on the 
brilliant confusion of stone fragments was dazzling. 
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At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the .'Am- 
erican Society of Landscape Architects, held in New’ York, 
resolutions were adopted oppo.sing the location of the Soldiers’ 
and vSailors’ monument, as at present propo.sed in Riverside 
Park, near Sgth .street, on the following grounds: “That a 
monument of such importance in that locality should be placed 
on the axis of Ei.ghty-ninth street, as well as of Riverside Drive. 
That the monument as at pre.sent designed cannot be placed at 
the intersection of the axis of Flighty-ninth street and Riverside 
Drive w’ithout blocking the promenade of River.side Drive. The 
monument placed as proposed will involve the destruction of a 
considerable area of primeval forest. The character of the de- 
sign contemplated obviou.sly requires a much larger area of land 
about it treated in architectural harmony w’ith it.’’ 
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The magnitude of the requirements for planting pur- 
poses in the Chicago park system may in a measure be judged 
by the follow’ing. During the past four months there have’been 
planted out in the parks and boulevards of the South park sys- 
tem 209,092 trees and shrubs, divided thus: Jack.son park 94,440; 
Washington park, 65,880; Drexel BoulevanI, 19,550; the Midway, 
15,130; Drexel square, 10,930; Garfield boulevard, 2,778. Of the 
above only 500 were purchased, the remainder coming from the 
Jack.son park nursery, which is estimated to have saved the 
board $ 20,000 during its three years existence. There are at 
present some 60,000 trees and shrubs in the nunserv, which will 
be increa.sed in due course to fill requirements. This seems a 
strong argument in favor of establishing nurseries for park 
sy. stems. 
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In the recent annual report of Supt. Wilcox of the Yoseniite, 
Calif. , National Park, he recommends the government to buy out 
the ow’irers of patented lands w'ithin the park limits and so re- 
move one great source of trouble and destruction. Among other 
recommendations are fixing of penalties for violation of the 
park regulations; obtaining authority from the state of California 
to establi.sh a camp for troops within the Yoseniite valley for 
patrol purposes, a permanent camp to be constructed at Waw’ona I 
a systematic burning of fallen and dead timber, to prevent forest 
fires; and .some decisive action to prevent diverting the W’aters 
flow’ing into the park. The report .says the deer within this 
government preserve are fairly plentiful and tame, bear, quail, 
squirrels and trout are numerous, are mountain lions and Ivnx 
are in evidence. 
