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PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
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be built and ten gasoline lights will be 
added to the park. New seats will be 
placed in Washington and Pembroke 
Parks. « 
A bill has been passed by the New 
Jersey Legislature allowing the free- 
holders of Essex County. N. J., to is- 
sue an additional $200,000 in bonds for 
the improvement of the Essex - County 
Park system. 
The W. C T. U. of Indianapolis has 
started agitation for appointment of 
matrons in the different parks to look 
after the welfare of unescorted girls. 
An ordinance has been introduced 
into the city council of Pittsburg to 
utilize one himdred acres of unimproved 
land adjoining Highland Park as a 
grazing place for sick and disabled 
horses belonging to the city. 
A petition has been presented to the 
city council of Superior, Wis., asking 
that the city purchase and make into a 
park the property on Ogden avenue, be- 
tween Belknap and Fourteenth street. 
The county commissioners, Asheville, 
N. C., have voted to improve the 
grounds back of the court house as a 
park and enclose it with a fence. 
Plans for the improvement of Tow- 
er Park. Peoria. 111., are being made by 
the park board. 
It has been proposed that a fund of 
$100,000 available from an old sinking 
fund in Cleveland, O., for park improve- 
ments be used in building a new aqua- 
rium in Gordon Park. 
'I'he Daughters of the Confederacy 
of Hattiesburg, Miss., are planning to 
raise a fund for the improvement of 
Kamper Park, a forty-acre tract which 
is in the custody of that organization. 
It is announced that John D. Rocke- 
feller will present Forest Hill, his coun- 
try home near Cleveland, O., to that city 
for a public park, together with an en- 
dowment fund of $2,000,000 for its im- 
provement and maintenance. The es- 
tate comprises about six hundred acres, 
most of it heavily wooded, with fine 
lawns and drives. 
George E. Kessler, of Kansas City, 
Mo., has been appointed landscape archi- 
tect to the park commission of Syra- 
cuse, N. Y., and recently visited that 
city to plan the improvements. He will 
give first attention to the development 
of playgrounds, for which there is a 
fund of $13,000 available. 
Extensive improvements are being 
planned for the parks of Council 
Bluffs, Iowa. The Horseshore driveway 
in Fairmount Park will be repaired and 
a new road built from the southwest 
corner of that park. The board also 
recommends that five boats be placed in 
Lakeview Park. 
The Park Board of Wilmington, Del., 
is making a heavy planting of trees and 
shrubbery to hide a railroad track which 
runs through one of the prettiest parts 
of Rockford Park. Footpaths and 
drives are also to be built along the 
Brandywine Creek. The board is buy- 
ing about 530 acres of additional park 
land along the Brandywine. 
The people of Ft. Collins, Colo., at a 
public election have authorized the park 
commission to purchase one hundred 
and seven acres of land immediately 
west of the city for park purposes, at 
cost of $50,000. The board is soon to 
employ a landscape architect to make 
improvements in the tract. A commit- 
tee has been appointed to appraise the 
value of land which it is proposed to 
take for a public park at the boulevard 
and Manhattan avenue, Jersey City, 
• N. J-. 
George Craig, of Omaha, Neb., has 
been engaged to make plans for the im- 
provement of a new thirty-two acre 
park at Sioux City, Iowa. 
The city of Ann Arbor, IMich., has 
finally secured title to the Henning 
property near the Michigan Central de- 
pot which it is required to convert into 
a park within two years. 
The park commission of Newport, R. 
L, has awarded the contract for taking 
care of the city parks to William Maher 
on a bid of $2,737. 
The superintendent of parks of Fall 
River. Mass., has been authorized to 
purchase trees for planting at the South 
Park and on Eastern avenue. 
The Ward Five Civic Club, of Haver- 
hill, Mass., has petitioned the county 
commissioners to make a park of a 
small tract in front of the new high- 
way bridge. 
The Santa Fe Railroad has offered to 
make a park of the square opposite its 
station at Holly, Colo., provided the 
town would put in a walk and drives 
and engage a landscape architect to do 
the planting. 
The Civic League of Terre Haute, 
Ind., will circulate a petition asking the 
city to purchase the Riverside Park site. 
A bill has been passed by the Texas 
legislature for the purpose of purchas- 
ing fourteen acres adjoining the San 
Jacinto battlefield and converting it in- 
to a state park. It carries an appropria- 
tion of $25,000 for the work, which 
is to be done by a" commission to be 
appointed by the governor. 
Improvements planned for the parks 
of Los Angeles, Cal., include the plac- 
ing of iron benches, the erection of a 
fountain in Prospect Park and a new 
boathouse at East Lake Park. 
A petition is being circulated at Wol- 
cott, N. Y., asking the village board to 
improve the park in the center of the 
town in anticipation of Old Home 
Week, which comes in August. 
A fund of $15,000 is available for the 
purchase of a new park at Cobleskill, N. 
Y., and several tracts are being con- 
sidered as sites. 
The park board of Milwaukee, Wis., 
is to spend $1,600 for apparatus for the 
children’s playground. An increased ap- 
propriation for band concerts will ena- 
ble the board to give a concert every 
Sunday in every park in the city. 
Col. Jas. Swords, superintendent of 
the Platte National Park, near Sulphur, 
Ind. Ter., has been notified by the gov- 
ernment that the work of beautifying 
the park will be begun at once. The 
first work will be building of a sewer 
and water system and bids are soon to 
be advertised for this work. 
The bill in the Pennsylvania legisla- 
ture allowing the city of Philadelphia to 
buy real estate within two hundred feet 
of the parkway on either side and re-sell 
it with restrictions concerning buildings 
to be erected 'on it has been passed by 
the lower house and is expected to suc- 
ceed in the senate. 
The floral display in Fairmount Park. 
Philadelphia, is said to be the largest 
in or near that city. Oglesby B. Paul, 
landscape gardener at the park, and 
Xavier E. Schmitt, manager of Horti- 
cultural hall, have fairly outdone them- 
selves in planning and executing the 
display. The entire parterre, or sunken 
garden, stretching from the hall west- 
ward to the Belmont drive, is planted 
with bulbs, chiefly tulips, each bed being 
devoted to a single variety, 300 or 400 
bulbs to a bed. The festoon beds on 
the sloping sides of the parterre are also 
filled with tulips, all single varieties. 
The circles from which the festoons are 
caught are filled with double daffodils 
and Narcissus Von Sion. The beds on 
the east or north side of the hall and 
in the John Welsh memorial, near Me- 
morial hall, are filled with tulips and 
pansies. Large beds of La Reine tulips 
and purple pansies are especially effec- 
tive. Some idea of the planting can be 
gathered from the estimated number of 
tulips in bloom, said to be 200,000. 
