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will give a general idea of the scope of the 
work : Civic art and the architectural art 
of the cit}'; influence of physical aspects of 
the city; the problem of the city: historic 
development of city life ; problem of the 
functioning of the modern city; conflicting 
proldems of ancient growth and modern 
necessities of city life; open spaces; civic 
centers ; rural and national aspects of civic 
art. Appendix: Civic development survey; 
bibliography of municipal and civic litera- 
ture. The book is for sale at $2 by Bren- 
tano's, Fifth a\enue and Twenty-seventh 
street. Xew York City. 
Lord & Burnham Co. issue a very useful 
“Handy Hand Book" of greenhouse infor- 
mation, embodying a most complete list of 
articles entering into greenhouse construc- 
tion. The different parts of greenhouse con- 
struction — wood and iron materials, fittings, 
A gift of $10,000 for constructing an 
electric fountain in Audubon Park, New 
Orleans, by Mrs. Eli Joseph and .Mrs. Cora 
G. Moses, daughters of Mrs. Samuel Gum- 
bel, as a memorial to their mother, has 
been accepted by the Board of Directors of 
.\udubon Park. Condition, of acceptance 
was that the fountain should meet the ap- 
proval of Olmsted Bros., Brookline, Mass. 
With the promise that Grays Harbor is 
to be advertised as an attraction for tour- 
ists, the Park Board of .\berdeen. Wash., 
recently talked over plans that will add to 
the attractiveness of the city and make it 
appeal to such visitors as may stop there 
on their way to the ocean beach. LTider 
tentative suggestions which will be consid- 
ered will be the improvement and upkeep 
of all the park places which the city now 
owns and the improvement of new tracts. 
Killal^’ Greene, secretary of the Park 
Board, presented a plan for the improve- 
ment of the park places in West Market 
street, which runs a distance of six blocks 
and which may eventually be extended to 
the Hoquiam line. Mr. Greene’s plans call 
for the planting of trees and shrubs in a 
uniform way, with pergolas, or rest places, 
at stipulated distances. To extend this sys- 
tem from the Jefferson avenue line to 
Broadway is among the possibilities. Plans 
were also made for the parking of some 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ventilating machinery, etc. — are all de- 
scrilied and listed. A discount sheet is at- 
tached to back of front cover page, by 
means of which the net price may be de- 
termined without trouble. A large amount 
of time, thought and money has been ex- 
pended in getting this book up. The book 
is much more than a catalog or mere ad- 
vertising; it is a mail-order book contain- 
ing a very complete list of materials and 
information concerning the fitness and 
adaptability of the various items in repair- 
ing greenhouses, whether built of their ma- 
terial or not, or in adding new fixtures. 
The object of issuing this Handy Hand 
Book is not only to giA e a complete list of 
construction materials and their cost, but 
to render immediate service. It will be 
found useful in determining the size and 
arrangement of future greenhouses. 
street intersections and other parking strips. 
President Wilson recently issued a proc- 
lamation doubling the area of the Gran 
Qui\era national monument, twenty-three 
miles south of Mountainair, N. M., in Tor- 
rance Count\', and one of the weirdest and 
most spectacular landmarks on the Gran 
Qui\ era-.M30 highway to Santa Fe and .Al- 
hiKiuerque. The President issued the proc- 
lamation upon recommendation of the Mu- 
seum of New Mexico, which owns one- 
half of the ruin, the School of American 
Research, and B. H. Gibbs, chief of the 
field division, who accompanied Director 
Edgar L. Hewett last fall on an inspection 
of the ruins with a ^dew of designating 
such portions of the public domain as 
should be added to the national monu- 
ment. The government will join with the 
iMuseum of New Mexico in fencing the 
national monument, excavating, restoring 
and preserving the ruins. 
Jens Jenson, landscape architect, of Chi- 
cago, engaged by the Woman’s League, of 
New York, for the protection of Riverside 
Park in that city, to study the plans for 
the west side improvements, made a re- 
port recently in which he says that the 
project now before the Board of Estimate 
for changes in the New York Central’s 
tracking along Riverside Park and the 
Hudson should not receive serious consid- 
eration, as it represents only the views of 
the railroad engineers and would result in 
“a conglomeration of vulgarity insulting to 
the finer feelings of America.” 
“New York has done well indeed for its 
commerce, almost giving up its entire wa- 
ter front for this purpose,” he states. 
"There can be no justifiable demands 
made by the railroads of business men of 
New York City for further encroachment 
upon the few miles of waterfront left, 
which has so wisely been set aside for a 
breathing space for the public. 
“The preservation of Riverside Park and 
its waterfront is not a matter of today only 
— it is as much, if not more, a matter of 
tomorrow. The railroad corporation has 
laid its plans for the distant future at a 
time when it may, through lack of public 
interest, lay its hands upon the valuable 
waterfront, the value of which no man can 
estimate at this time. The community 
should likewise base its plans upon the fu- 
ture, when the value of Riverside Park 
and its riparian rights will be a hundred- 
fold what it is today. 
"As far as Riverside Park is concerned, 
the plan shows an utter disregard for the 
park, and for the waterfront, wLich is an 
inseparable part of it. The plan contem- 
plates practically the complete obliteration 
of the present character of this park with 
its ancient liluffs. I am willing to attribute 
this to ignorance rather than to a deliberate 
disregard for the beauty and work of na- 
ture. The entire railroad right of way as 
it passes through the park will, in accord- 
ance with the present plan, be nothing but 
an ugly terrace, making one conscious of 
the fact that a railroad is below ; and 
wherever it reaches above the level of Riv- 
erside Drive, its ugliness will be still 
more in evidence and will shut out the 
view of the Hudson River from New 
York’s beautiful and famous drive. If land- 
scape designing is a recognized art, then 
the plan as proposed is either due to igno- 
rance or a contemptuous disregard . for 
those masterpieces of art in the possession 
of the city of Greater New York. 
"The city itself seems to have been the 
first aggressor on the rights of Riverside 
Park as such. To a visitor, the garbage 
dumps, yards and ugly buildings convey the 
idea that the parks of New York City are 
held in very little esteem. It w'ould seem 
that such transgression by city officers on 
park property offers great encouragement 
to the New York Central corporation in its 
demands for approval of the present plan. 
“The present suggestion of landscaping 
the park, after the proposed plan of the 
New York Central has been carried out, has 
no merit as a w'ork of landscape art,” Mr. 
Jenson states. 
The landscape architect states that a bet- 
ter plan would be to lower the present 
tracks to a depth of not less than fourteen 
feet, so that there could be a covering of 
from five to fifteen feet for proper grading 
and planting, and says that even if the 
city had to pay for part of this the money 
The Cover Illustration 
The special design for a cemetery en- 
trance, illustrated on the cover of this is- 
sue. is a carefully studied type of massive 
post gateway that combines dignity, sim- 
plicit\- and ornamental character. The posts 
are of good architectural form and adapted 
to construction in an}' material desired. 
The iron work, as will be noted, is an 
unusually attractive pattern, very orna- 
mental in effect, without sacrificing any- 
thing of massi\e dignity or strength of 
construction. The lines of the top as well 
as the characteristic scroll work have been 
\cry affectively carried through both main 
gates and side gates to produce a pleasing 
and harmonious whole. This design is one 
that may be adapted to a very wide range 
of use. It is an original design of the 
Stewart Iron Works Co., of Cincinnati, O., 
who will he glad to quote prices on this or 
on a large variety of similar entrance plans. 
PARK NEWS. 
