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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
Contracts have been let for a new 
pond for the sea lions in Washington 
Park and a new pavilion for Kosciusz- 
ko Park in Milwaukee. The pond will 
be of cement construction and will cost 
$975. 
A. L. Smith, of Helena. Mont., has 
donated to that city a tract of twenty- 
nine acres to be used for a public park. 
The Amesbury Park Association, 
.\mesbury. Mass., has been incorporat- 
ed to establish a public park. Dr. H. 
G. Leslie is president, and Geo. E. 
Hodge is clerk. 
The supreme court has decided that 
the city of Milwaukee is the owner of 
a strip of land at the foot of Terrace 
avenue, formed by accretions from the 
lake. The city is to make a twenty 
acre park out of this land and some 
adjoining property. 
The Chicago Commercial Club has 
donated to that city eight lots at West 
Chicago avenue and Lincoln street and 
provided funds for their improvement 
as a public playground. 
Extensive improvements are now in 
progress in Audubon Park, New Or- 
leans. New planting has been done at 
the lower end of the park, the fences 
removed and some grading done there. 
The park board is to ship an exhibit of 
native plants and shrubs to the James- 
town Exposition to be placed in the 
Louisiana building. 
The legislature of Delaware has au- 
thorized a bond issue of $20,000 for the 
purchase of parks in the first and third 
wards of Wilmington. 
Twelve African squirrels are to be 
placed in Mineral Palace Park and 
City Park at Pueblo, Colo. 
Contributions are being raised 
among the school children at Cleve- 
land, O., to purchase an elephant which 
they are to present to the park board 
on condition that the board “maintain” 
the animal in the zoo. 
Improvements are in progress in 
South Side Park secured by the South 
Side Improvement Club, Sacramento, 
Cal., on plans prepared by Supt. Mc- 
Laren of “Golden Gate,” San Francis- 
co. Provision is made for a large lake, 
children’s playground, outdoor gjmma- 
sium and other interesting features. 
A bill has been passed by the Indi- 
ana legislature fixing the minimum tax 
levy for the Indianapolis park depart- 
ment at four cents on each one hun- 
dred dollars and the maximum at eight 
cents. At present the city council 
fixes the tax levy which has resulted 
in some conflict of authority. The bill 
also provides that the , annual payment 
of $30,000 from the street car company 
shall go to the park department. In 
the past this fund has sometimes been 
diverted to other uses. 
The Franklin Park Association, 
Franklin Falls, N. H., has offered to 
sell the island known as Odell Park 
to the city for $6,000. 
A bill has been introduced into the 
Texas legislature authorizing the cre- 
ation of a memorial park on the Colo- 
rado river near Austin, in memory of 
the late Gov. Hogg. 
Voters of Babylon Township, L. L, 
will have three propositions for park 
improvements to vote on at the com- 
ing election. One is for $30,000 for a 
park at Unqua Point, another for $30,- 
000 at Lindenhurst, and another for 
$18,000 at Babylon. 
A bill is to be introduced into the 
Texas legislature to amend the charter 
of Beaumont to permit the issuing of 
$50,000 in bonds for park purposes. 
Olmsted Bros., Brookline, Mass., have 
prepared plans for the improvement of 
Shelby Park, an eighteen acre tract in' 
I.ouisville, Ky., which was recently 
purchased by Mayor Barth and held 
for the city, which has now taken pos- 
session of it. 
The city council of South Omaha, 
Neb., has voted to purchase sites for 
four new parks at an expenditure of 
$34,400. 
There is a movement on foot at Des 
Moines, la., to purchase a block in the 
heart of the city for a down town park. 
Plans are being made at Chattanoo- 
ga, Tenn., for the expenditure of a 
bond issue of $50,000 for park im- 
provements approved at a recet elec- 
tion. 
The city of St. Louis has advertised 
for bids for the sale of five city squares 
in the congested district for small 
parks. 
Options have been secured on a tract 
of land for a public playground at Flint, 
Mich. 
The park board of Cincinnati is mak- 
ing plans for the beautifying of -Park 
Place, between Scott and Greenup 
streets. 
Northampton, Mass., is considering 
competitive landscape plans for the im- 
provement of the Main Street Park in 
that town. 
The city council of Peoria, 111., has 
appropriated $300 for the improvement 
of a small triangle in the seventh ward. 
An effort is being made in Syracuse, 
N. Y., to raise a fund of $100,000 for 
beautifying the campus of Syracuse 
University as a public park. 
Nearly a million dollars has been 
voted for park improvements at Oak- 
land, Cal., and a complete system of 
parks is to be purchased and improved. 
One tract that has been selected for a 
park is at Adams Point on the north 
shore of Lake Merritt. 
A five acre tract has been donated 
to the town of Bakersfield, Cal., for a 
public park by Truxton Beale, a wealthy 
clubman of San Francisco. The donor 
has also provided for the improvement 
of the tract. Mr. Beale also contem- 
plates presenting that town with a 
Greek amphitheatre and an observa- 
tory. 
The town of Sheffield, Mass., is to 
vote on the establishment of a new 
public park. 
A proposition to issue $300,000 in 
bonds for a river front park is to be 
submitted to popular vote at Bay City, 
Mich. 
Dr. P. L. Hilsman, of Albany, Ga., 
has offered that town a six acre tract 
for a public park. 
The city council of Canon City, Col., 
is having a survey made of the Royal 
Gorge Park recently conveyed to that 
city by the United States government. 
The park board of Minneapolis has 
purchased a tract of six acres for a 
park in the North Side. The roadway 
in from Minnehaha Park is to be im- 
proved at an expenditure of about $14,- 
000, and other extensive improvements 
planned by Mr. Wirth are under way. 
C. A. Bossen, Mr. Wirth’s assistant, 
was recently officially appointed assist- 
ant superintendent. 
The survey committee of the city 
council of Philadelphia has approved 
ordinances for the acquisition of 275 
acres of park land on Tacony creek, 
and 150 acres of the old Fox estate. 
Geo. E. Kessler, of Kansas City, Mo., 
recently visited Denver, Colo., to pre- 
pare a report for an elaborate system 
of parks and boulevards planned by 
that city. 
A plot of ground recently deeded to 
the city of Racine, Wis., by John Ward- 
man, will be improved as a public park. 
The city council of Jersey City, N. J., 
has voted a bond issue of $24,500 to 
purchase an addition to the city park. 
Greenville, Miss., is receiving bids for 
a site for a city park. 
Propositions for the issuing of bonds 
for park purposes were approved at the 
recent election in Chicago on both the 
North and the South Side systems. 
The North town issue is for $500,000 
and the South Park issue for $3,000,- 
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