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IO     Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association
Menges' cottage on Farwell Drive.  The patching of the
rough places in Farwell Drive is now proceeding. It is be-
lieved by the board of directors that in addition to doing such
repairing on Lake Mendota and Farwell Drives as will be
necessary there can be built a piece of permanent roadway on
the Owen Parkway Drive from the end of the present macadem
to the Mineral Point road, a distance of a quarter of a mile,
thus completing the permanent hard surfaced improvement of
the drive throughout the extent of Owen Parkway from the
entrance of this parkway at the cemeteries to the Mineral
Point road, a distance of about one and one-half miles.
Your officers and employees are involved in constant strug-
gle to prevent vandalism on the drives and to a lesser extent
in the parks within the city. Following arrests of students
for cutting trees for prom decorations there was held a meet-
ing of the Interfraternity Council to which the president was
invited. There was a large attendance of fraternity men and
action was taken pledging the support of the fraternities to
the work of the association. Promises were given that the
fraternities would undertake to instill in their members loy-
alty to our work and financial and moral support. Subse-
quently each fraternity took action in harmony with the ac-
tion of the Interfraternity Council and many of the frater-
nities have made financial contribution to the work for this
year and no complaint of vandalism on the part of frater-
nities or fraternity men has come to the attention of your
board since that date. Our work of education of university
young people, however, is not yet complete. The matter has
not as yet been formally brought before the young women of
the university and numerous recent complaints have been
made of vandalism on the part of young women students.
The university authorities have proposed to grow suitable
shrubs, flowers and evergreens for decoration and to provide
for the student body of the university decorations for their
parties at nominal cost to assist constructively in correcting
such abuses of the plantings along the drives.
Reference should be made to the gift of Mrs. Mary C.
Stewart for a fountain to be erected in memory of her daugh-
ter, Annie C. Stewart. This fund has been kept at interest