PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
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Among the park improvements made 
in Wymore, Neb., this spring, was the 
planting of 342 trees. 
The park commissioners of Provi- 
dence, R. I., have decided to expend 
$15,000 in building a speedway in Roger 
Williams Park. 
The park board of Denver. Colo., 
will buy a tract of fifteen and a half 
acres on Cherry Creek, from West 
Eighth to West Eleventh avenue, for a 
public park. The estimated cost of the 
land is $35,000, and the board expects 
to expend $30,000 in improvements. 
Improvements are under way in the 
East Side Park at Corning, N. Y., un- 
der the direction of Landscape Archi- 
tect PI. A. Caparn, of New York City. 
Park Commissioner Porter Beards- 
le}^, of Auburn, N. Y., has secured an 
option on a tract of 150 acres known 
as Spring-side and Galpin Hill. The 
tract is held at $15,000, is well wooded 
and has fine natural scenery. 
John Nolen, landscape architect, of 
New York, recently visited Charlotte, 
N. C., preparing plans for beautifying 
that city, under the direction of the 
park and tree commission. 
The park commissioners of Topeka, 
Kas., will expend $2,500 in improving 
Garfield Park. 
Riverside, Cal., has instituted con- 
demnation proceedings to acquire an 
additional tract of about three acres 
adjoining Fairmount Park. 
IMrs. Reynolds has offered to pre- 
sent to the city of Dillon, Mont., ten 
acres of land for a park on condition 
that the city improve it. 
The Progressive Association of Mil- 
ton, Ore., is raising funds for a park 
and has selected Nichols Grove as a 
site. 
The city council of Elizabeth, N J., 
has voted $5,000 for improvements to 
be made by the committee on parks and 
shade trees. 
Last spring a thousand yellow pine 
trees from four to six inches tall were 
planted in the Wichita Forest Reserve 
in southwest Oklahoma, and from 
eighty to eighty-five per cent of the 
trees have survived. Two thousand 
more are to be planted this year, and 
if these are successful larger plantations 
are to be tried. 
The city of Moberly, Mo., at a pub- 
lic election has authorized the issue of 
$15,000 of city bonds to purchase a 
hundred and fifty acres of land for a 
park. 
St. Paul, Minn., has four public play- 
grounds and is considering the estab- 
lishment of a fifth. The park board 
has decided to employ a regular force 
of playground directors and appropriate 
money for the purchase of apparatus. 
Daniel M. Page, of Joplin, Mo., has 
offered a tract of ground to that city 
for a public park, the city to buy the 
land at a price to be determined by a 
disinterested committee of three. 
The park board of Minneapolis has 
appropriated $3,000 for the purchase of 
apparatus for playgrounds in the fol- 
lowing parks : Loring, Powderhorn, 
Fairview, Van Cleve, and Murphy 
Square. 
A fund of $3,000 has been raised by 
popular subscription to purchase a tract 
of land for a public park in Huron, 
S. D. The ground is to be surveyed 
and improved. 
Citizens of Spokane, Wash., have of- 
fered a tract of thirty-nine acres along 
Summit Boulevard to the city for park 
purposes. 
Irving Elting has presented Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y., with a tract of land 
which is to be improved as a public 
park. 
The park commission of Bayonne, N. 
J., has purchased a small addition to 
the Bayonne City Park. 
Improvements to cost $4,000 are un- 
der way in Stiles Park and Wheeler 
Park, in Oklahoma City, Okla. A con- 
servatory is being built in Wheeler 
Park, and the other improvements in- 
clude the placing of settees, building 
new walks and enclosing a new deer 
park. 
Plans are being made to purchase an 
addition of about two blocks to Fort 
Defiance Park, at Defiance, O. 
The new city charter proposed for 
Spokane, Wash., provides for the ap- 
pointment of a park board of ten men 
by the mayor, who is an ex-officio 
member. This proposition is to be voted 
on at the coming election and both can- 
didates for mayor have approved it. 
The city improvement committee and 
the tree plantirig committee of the In- 
dustrial Club have begun extensive park 
improvements in Cheyenne, Wyo. The 
work is to include the planting of '20,- 
000 trees around the chain of four lakes 
north of the city and the construction of 
eight miles of boulevard from tbe city 
to the lakes. 
The park board of Grand Rapids, 
Mich., has asked for an appropriation 
of $54,067 for park improvements this 
year. The park area is about fifty acres 
greater than last year. 
The i)ark commission of Northamp- 
ton, Mass., has accepted plans by Jo- 
seph Gatringer. New York, for the im- 
provement of the Main Street Park. 
The cost of the improvements will be 
about $42,0000. 
The commissioners of Slater Memo- 
rial Park at Pawtucket, R. I., are plan- 
ning to spend $10,000 in improvements 
this year. Much planting wall be done, 
new -w'alks and drives built, and a shel- 
ter house erected. George A. Saunders 
was recently appointed superintendent 
of this park. 
^Villiam Pease, of Des Moines, Iowa, 
has been employed to plan park im- 
provements for Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
A new park board composed of J. W. 
Breidenthal, J. P. Angle, and James 
Sullivan has recently been appointed by 
the mayor of Kansas City, Kan., and 
will begin extensive improvements in 
the parks in that city. The board has 
power to issue $75,000 in bonds sub- 
ject to a two-thirds vote of the council. 
A number of gifts for the zoo have 
been received for tbe City Park in Den- 
ver and the park board is considering 
the plan of placing the donor’s names 
on the cages, 
Samuel Parsons, landscape architect 
of the New York Park Commission, 
recently visited Tuskaloosa, Ala., to 
prepare plans for beautifying the cam- 
pus of the University of Alabama. 
The town of San Pedro, Cal., has 
been offered a tract of twenty acres be- 
longing to the Dodson estate for a 
public park on condition that the city 
spend $5,000 a year for two years for 
its improvement and $2,000 a year 
thereafter for maintenance. 
At a recent election at Loveland, 
Colo., it w'as voted to buy two new 
parks and to issue bonds for park im- 
provements. 
Olmsted Bros., Brookline, Mass., have 
been employed to make plans for a 
park system for York, Pa. 
Enid, Okla., is to expend $25,000 in 
improving a ten-acre tract recently pur- 
chased for a public park. A boat house, 
natatorium and summer theater are 
among the improvements to be made. 
A bill recently passed by the Minne- 
sota legislature allows cities of the first 
class to issue bonds for park purposes 
to the amount of $300,000. 
Park commissioners of Kansas City, 
Mo., have selected sites for two play- 
grounds in the north end. 
Extensive improvements are planned 
for Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Conn. A 
new bathing pn\'ilion for women will 
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