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Show PARK BOARD -MGIdlZES yl U ' The members of the city park coni- j( mission have reorganized for the sea-ij sea-ij Bon's work and haye decided to ask ; ij r the new city commissioners lor a ' I J ' sufllclent appropriation to Improve all , ' of the present parks of the city and - a also establish another public play-J play-J I ground In the southern part of tho zXf c'tv Tne Dark commission feels that jftit an' additional playground is needed so 5lSt badly that it would be advisable to jjjj n, purchase ground if necessarj In ordor lllffi1' -that the playground be made possible, r Me 1 "The board hopes to improve the park psvl at Monroe avenue and Twenty-ninth ild f and establish a baseball grounds gpj' there tflW Bernard Van der Schult, tho super- jnj t intendent of publlo parks, has Just fji ' returned from an European trip ami 1 ' states that while away ho observed ; ! a great many things wnlch will prove I , of value to him in his work In this 'ml Among other things he claims that 5R : there are very few varieties of shade jrV trees planted in the public parks of lartr Europoan countries. The plan theie gk is to find a few kinds of trees which Slv aro best Buited to that especial clir Jft I matlc condition and plant only these ?&J trees. He states that In this country SJfl the park superintendents confine their 'J3? planting to no particular tree and Bfi have little knowledge bf those which I'aL'T? they do plant. S2? Superintendent Van der Schult fa- byJxf vors tho sycamore tree for this particular parti-cular locality, claiming that it Is well adapted to this climate, is very hardy and is seldom troubled with "the insect in-sect posts. The sycamore Is less suj- J9J ceptible to injury by storms, while Vm, tQe boxelder Is easily damaged' by tyifi wind, drops its sap and Is often in- oGJ ; fe6ted with insects. In addition to .SJR ' this the park superintendent states CWfh ' that the boxelder is not particularly o2i successful in this locality. 9j It has been decided to remove about ajErtji half of the trees in the Carnegie 11- toa hrary park. The trees are soft maples s about eight or nine years old and If ifK? permitted to do so by the park com- lwjci mlssioners, Superintendent Van der iMfl Schult will remove the trees In such ffiMf a manner that they can be trans- nt planted in the new park at Monroe and Rf Twenty-ninth. He considers that this .ABjU would be much more satisfactory jflni than waiting for new trees to attain 'IJsw tno aEe of eight or nine years Tho tjirj expense of removing the trees will not UJJ&I bo great vedJG The park supervisor has a plan for wajA; i e&tabliahing a boulevard along the Og- grii, den river from Washington avenue to iven the mouth of the canyon. He consld- doffi ers that a more beautiful drive could hltj not be laid out in the city but the cost ngjEJ of such an Improvement Is such as to faB relegate tho proposition to the dim 3 and distant future. |