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Annual reports or extracts from them , historical sketches , 
descriptive circulars, photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features arc requested for use in this department . 
Drs. William and Charles Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., have 
presented that city with $5,000 for park purposes, which to- 
gether with $ 1 ,oco donated by John R. Cook, will be used to 
purchase a fine natural park on the banks of the Zumbro 
river. The site is one of natural beauty, and will need few 
artificial embellishments. It includes an island in the river 
and picturesque forest and farm land on both sides of the 
stream. The work is the result of an organized, public-spirited 
effort toward park improvement by the Commercial Club and 
Merchant’s Association, and the influence of the lecture work 
of Mr. Charles M. Loring of Minneapolis. 
Mary J. B. Chew has presented to the city of Philadelphia 
a portion of the historic Chew estate in Germantown for a 
public park to be know as Cliveden Park. The deed of gift 
provides that no statues, monuments, or buildings are to be 
erected in the park. 
City Engineer Philip H. Combs, of Bangor, Me., is pre- 
paring plans for the development of a new park on Thomas’ 
Hill in that city. 
The town of Greenfield, Mass., is considering the purchase 
of a twelve-acre tract belonging to the Shattuck estate for a 
public park. The price asked for the property is $10,000. 
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Dr. Justus Ohage became, a few years ago, health officer 
of St. Paul. He noticed a bit of shoal in the Mississippi, 
visible only when the river was low, but accessible within 
ten minutes’ ride from the City Hall. Securing possession, 
by gift, of as much as he could, and by purchase of what 
he could not beg, he had the city’s clean waste dumped upon 
this little island, thus rapidly bringing it above high-water 
mark. On the four and one-half acres thus ingeniously wrested 
from the “Father of Waters,” the city of St. Paul now 
maintains, within easy reach of a majority of its population, 
a children’s playground, a small "Zoo,” a vegetable garden 
(to support the forty uniformed attendants), public baths, 
with modern sterilizing plants for the bathing suits, a day 
nursery, a boy's gymnasium, and a girl’s gymnasium — and 
all united by a small but satisfactory park . — The World’s 
Work. 
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Dr. Harry L. Tevis, of San Francisco, is to present an 
aquarium to Golden Gate Park in that city as a memorial to 
his father, the late Lloyd Tevis, a San Francisco millionaire. 
The plans are being prepared by John Galen Howard, super- 
vising architect of the University of California, and it is the 
intention to make it one of the finest structures of the kind 
in the world. The elaborate system of pools and tanks will 
be artificially heated to provide the normal temperature for 
the animal life of the waters of every part of the globe, and 
every facility will be provided for the study of the habits and 
customs of the various specimens that will be collected for the 
aquarium. Agents will be engaged in all parts of the world 
to collect rare fish and sea animals. 
The annual report of the park department of Rochester, 
•N. Y., is devoted largely to a historical sketch of park work 
and park affairs since the organization of the board in 1888, 
and contains many interesting facts about the development of 
Rochester’s fine park system. The city with a population of 
162,608 according to the census of 1900, now has a park area 
of 865.41 acres, or one acre to every 187 people. The four 
large parks and their areas are as follows : Genesee Valley, 
435.08 acres; Seneca, 211.06 acres; Maplewood, 141.95 acres; 
Highland, 54.69 acres. In addition to there there are 14 small 
parks and squares with a total area of 22.63 acres. A summary 
of the work done on each tract for each year since 1888 is 
given, and the report of the treasurer and of Superintendent 
and Engineer C. C. Laney for the year ending December 31,. 
1903. The total receipts for the year were $82,445.02 and the 
expenditures $56,345.24. An addition to Seneca Park was pur- 
chased for $50,000, and other improvements made in that tract. 
In Highland Park, 40 trees along Reservoir avenue were cut 
down, including half of the Norway maples, which were grow- 
ing too closely, and in the grove west of the children’s pavilion 
to open up some views recommended by the landscape archi- 
tect. The pinetum now contains 23 genera, and about 160 
species and varieties ; the shrub collection, including 98 varie- 
ties of roses and the Crataegus, contains 57 families, 200 genera,, 
and 1,414 species and varieties. Mention is also made of 
Dr. Sargent's visit to Rochester, when he made a study of the 
Crataegus in that vicinity, describing 10 groups and 41 species, 
38 of which were new. 
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The Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association, of 
Madison, Wis., issues a beautifully illustrated report showing 
the remarkable results accomplished by that association. Its 
work is supplementary to that of the city park department, and 
the funds are raised solejy by voluntary contributions from 
public-spirited citizens. It is now in its twelfth year and was 
organized primarily, not to do work within the city limits, but 
rather to secure, improve and maintain the beautiful natural 
drives and park tracts outside the city for which a general 
tax could not very well be imposed. It has, however, been of 
good service within the city limits by directing and influencing 
public sentiment and in co-operating with the municipal 
officials. President Charles M. Olin, in speaking of the rela- 
tion of the association and the city, says in this report : “If 
our work is to create the idea in the public mind that the city 
in its corporate capacity is not to do its full share in this line 
of work, then it would be better had this association never 
been organized. For permanent results in any large way, we 
must look to the city in its corporate capacity.” That the 
association has, however, accomplished results both large and 
permanent is evident from the facts given in this report. 
Since its organization it has expended $116,022, and the con- 
tributions for 1903 amounted to $23,715.52. The work of the 
last year included the raising of a fund of $17,998.24 for the 
improvement of the Yahara river and its banks, thus secur- 
ing a waterway connecting lakes Mendota and Monona and a 
fine parkway which when complete will include ten acres of 
land. Another important recent work was the securing of 
Henry Vilas Park, a beautiful tract of 25 acres purchased 
with a gift of $18,000 from Senator Vilas, the Association 
raising an additional sum of $10,000 for its improvement. In 
the spring of 1903, there were planted by the association along 
the drives on Governor’s Island and -in Tenney Park, 4,996 
deciduous trees, 502 evergreens, 4,862 shrubs, 75 vines and 
3,205 wild flowers. Of the deciduous trees 3,588 were ob- 
tained in the vicinity of Madison and most of the others came 
from the nursery of the association. The report is illustrated 
with half-tones printed in sepia showing views of some of the 
magnificent scenery of these parks and drives. 
