"Yorktown Park"

A National Park vacation, comparatively easy for Westerners, is somewhat of a luxury in the East--because the East has no National Parks. So the Secretary of War appointed a special committee to seek out a proper spot for a National Park, somewhere in the southeastern portion of the United

States. The committee reported and Mr. Weeks transmitted the recommendation to Congress.

The spot suggested is the battlefield of Yorktown. There the Government already owns ten acres and a monument. It is proposed to buy 1,100 acres more, and as much additional as Congress will provide funds for. Within the limits of the park would be the old American and British breastworks, still largely intact.