10 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
;PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
The War Dfepartment has leased to 
the c’ty of Pittsburg for park pur- 
poses for a nominal sum a twenty- 
three acre tract comprising the Alle- 
gheny arsenal property at Penn ave- 
nue and 39th street. 
The park board of Des Moines, la., 
has purchased the Sherman estate for 
a public park at a cost of $15,000. 
The park commissioners of Iowa 
Falls, Iowa, have asked the city coun- 
cil to construct a drive under the 
bluffs along the north side of the 
river front. 
A proposition is to be submitted to 
the voters of the South Park district 
of Chicago for the purchase of the 
'‘Wildwood” estate on the Calumet 
River for a public park. The prop- 
erty belongs to Mrs. Frank O. Low- 
den. 
The West Chicago Park Commis- 
sioners have made final arrangements 
for the purchase of the first of the 
sites for three small parks to be im- 
proved by the bond issue recently au- 
thorized for that purpose. 
A bill has been Introduced into the 
city council of Philadelphia appro- 
priating $100,000 for the purchase of 
an addition to the wharf at Penn 
Treaty Park. 
The finance committee of the city 
council of Milwaukee has recommend- 
ed the purchase of Reynolds Grove 
for a public park. It includes eighty- 
one acres southeast of the city. 
A bill is to be introduced in the leg- 
islature of Wisconsin providing for 
an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the 
purchase of six blocks for a park sur- 
rounding the new capitol. 
Improvements planned for this year 
in Pittsburg parks are as follows: Six 
sight-seeing automobiles, costing $5,- 
000 each; a new driving oval, $60,000; 
for providing outdoor games, $20,000, 
an amphitheater, $200,000. Two shel- 
ter houses will also be built and a 
speedway constructed in Highland 
Park. 
A proposition is to be submitted to 
the voters of Dayton, O., for a bond 
issue of $1,000,000 for park improve- 
ment. 
A tract of forty acres has been pur- 
chased at Ludington, Mich., for a pub- 
lic park. 
The Coit estate has offered a ten- 
acre tract in what is known as the 
Black Hills, Grand Rapids, Mich., for 
a public park, on condition that the 
city improve it in a manner satisfac- 
tory to the estate. 
Bids are soon to be opened for the 
new greenhouse to be erected in Gar- 
field Park, Chicago, which it is re- 
ported will be the finest in America. 
It is to be 230x302 feet and is esti- 
mated to cost $225,000. 
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Coggin, of 
Brownwood, Texas, have presented to 
that town a ten acre tract for a park. 
The park commissioners of Streat- 
or,'Ill., have engaged Howard Evarts 
Weed, of Chicago, to prepare a plan 
for their city park, which consists of 
eleven acres adjoining the business 
district of the city. 
The Board of Park Commissioners 
of Harrisburg has purchased from the 
Pennsylvania Railroad fourteen acres 
of land in the Wildwood Park district 
at $100 an acre. 
The new city park at Reno, Nev., 
for which a bond issue was author- 
ized during the winter, will be im- 
proved this spring. A landscape gar- 
dener is soon to be employed to fur- 
nish plans. 
The city council of Oakland, Cal., 
has authorized the expenditure of 
$11,000 for the purchase of a tract of 
land bordering on Lake Merritt for 
park purposes. 
1. P. Shepherd has announced that 
he will present the town of Waverly, 
N. Y., with a grove on the west side 
of Pine street if the town will open it 
as a public park. 
The South Park Commissioners of 
Chicago have advertised for bids for 
two new field houses in the small 
parks of that system. One will be 
located at 46th place and Princeton 
avenue and the other at 26th street 
and Wentworth avenue. 
The city of Abilene, Kan., is to im- 
prove a block in the center of the 
town for a park and site for a Car- 
negie library. 
Omaha, Neb., is considering a num- 
ber of sites for new parks for which 
bond issues have been voted. 
The park committee of the city 
council of Shreveport, La., has recom- 
mended the, purchase of the Foster- 
Levy tract of eighty-seven acres at 
$200 an acre for a public park. 
Citizens of Ft. Collins, Colo., will 
select one of two tracts for a sixty- 
four acre park at the spring election. 
Five and one-half acres of land have 
been donated to the city of Grand 
Rapids, Mich., for a public park by 
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley E. Waters. 
The city of Houston, Texas, has ap- 
propriated $50,000 for the purchase of 
a new park and $50,000 to be used m 
improving the bayou water front to 
complete the work inaugurated by the 
government. 
A new shelter house for children 
will be built at Kosciuszko Park, play- 
grounds improved in Washington 
Park and an athletic ground laid out 
in Lake Park, Milwaukee. 
A new park will be laid out in Co- 
lumbus, O., along Sandusky street, 
from the Scioto River bridge to Rich 
street. 
The park board of Los Angeles, 
Cal., will ask the city council to pur- 
chase about six acres as additions to 
several parks. 
The Laurel Hill Club of San Fran- 
cisco has asked the board of super- 
visors to purchase a block as a site 
for the North Beach children’s play- 
ground. 
Director of Public Work James W. 
Clark of Pittsburg has purchased thir- 
ty-six squirrels which will be turned 
loose in Shenley Park as soon as the 
weather permits. 
Atlantic City, N. J., has purchased 
from the state a mile of the beach 
front and will convert “The Strand” 
into a public park. 
The village trustees of Cobleskill. 
N. Y., are considering the purchase of 
an addition to the park. 
The city of Cleveland has purchased 
an addition to Woodland Hills Park 
for $10,500. 
The city council of Rochester, N. 
Y., has accepted the offer of 500 acres 
of land on the lake recently made by 
Dr. Henry S. Durand and George 
Eastman for a public park. 
The park commission of Houston, 
Texas, has purchased an addition of 
eight and a half acres to Vick’s Park, 
making the total area of that tract for- 
ty-five acres. 
The Snellwood Board of Trade, 
Snellwood, Ore., is endeavoring to se- 
cure the purchase of a ten acre tract 
overlooking the Willamette River for 
a public park. 
The park commissioners of Charles- 
ton, S. C., have purchased a tract of 
one acre on Lucas street for a public 
park. 
A bill will be introduced in the leg- 
islature of New York for the forma- 
tion of a public park district in South- 
old. The bill provides also for the 
issue of bonds for $3,500 for the pur- 
chase of the Southold dock property 
and its improvement. 
