PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
Women of Prescott, Ark., are raising 
funds for the establishment of an eight- 
acre park. 
Plans have been prepared by City En- 
gineer Clark Anderson, of Moline. 111., 
for the improvement of Sylvan Park' 
along the river front. The improve- 
ments will include the erection of - a 
fountain and band stand, the building of 
drives, etc. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Angell Gould, of Prov- 
idence, R. I., has announced her inten- 
tion of bequeathing a part of the Ad- 
miral Hopkins estate to the city for 
park purposes, and the board of aider- 
men has voted to accept the gift. 
The city council of Moncton, N. B., 
has decided to purchase a tract in the 
east end of the city fronting the river 
to be known as Bore Park. The city is 
also to purchase the Spurr property in 
the center of town for a public park. 
Ten thousand dollars is to be paid for 
each tract. 
Among the improvements planned by 
Commissioner Breitmeyer, of Detroit, 
is the construction of a new pavilicJi 
at the foot of Western Boulevard. A 
new casino is under construction in 
Belle Isle Park. 
Henry J. Kinzel, of Knoxville. Tenn., 
has offered to that city a tract of seven 
acres on condition that the city main- 
tain it as a park, and that a car line 
be constructed to it. 
Gen. Wm. J. Palmer, of Colorado 
Springs, has notified that city that he 
is ready to deed to it Monument Val- 
ley and Palmer Parks. The property 
comprises 1,500 acres, and is valued at 
over $1,000,000. Gen. Palmer has been 
improving Monument Valley Park for 
the past four years at an expense of 
$450,000. He also offers $45,000 for 
the maintenance of these parks to be 
paid in annual installments. 
Frank Hamilton, landscape architect, 
of New York, has been employed to 
lay out and improve a new addition to 
Wilco.x Park, Westerly, R. I. 
'I'he Pennsylvania Legislature has 
authorized the Board of Public Grounds 
and Buildings to estimate the cost of 
the extension of Capitol Park which 
was proposed in a hill presented to the 
last Legislature. 
Thomas W. Lawson is building a pub- 
lic park for the town of Scituate, Mass. 
The Right Rev. Bishop P. Allen, of 
Mobile, Ala., has offered to donate to 
that city a tract of land in Oakdale, 
known as Garrity Point. 
The city of Allentown, Pa., has de- 
cided to make a public park of a tract 
bought for a new waterworks site. A 
fund of $17,000 is available for its im- 
provement. The city council has also 
provided for q loan of $25,000 to pur- 
chase the grounds of the old Muhlen- 
berg College for a park. 
A tract of ten acres has been of- 
fered to the park board of Spokane as 
an addition to Lidgerwood Park on 
condition that the city spend not less 
than $10,000 in improving it. 
The Board of Public Improvements 
of St. Louis has authorized condemna- 
tion proceedings to acquire sites for 
small parks for which the last Muni- 
cipal Assembly appropriated $760,000. 
The park department recently adver- 
tised for bids for these parks, but as 
they were all too high condemnation 
will be resorted to. 
H. J. Kellaway, of Boston, has pre- 
pared plans for the improvement of the 
Lowe playgrounds at Fitchburg, Mass. 
The improvements will include a large 
playfield, a running track and all ap- 
paratus necessary to make a model out- 
door playground. The entire grounds 
are to be re-graded and especial care 
taken to save all the trees. 
The Nociksack Board of Trade, Nook- 
sack, Wash., has bought a five-acre 
tract which is to be developed as a 
park. 
E. L. Baird, landscape architect, of 
Boston, has prepared plans for the de- 
velopment of the new City Park at 
Belfast, Me. 
The grounds about the new Carnegie 
Library at Abilene, Kan., are to be im- 
proved as a city park. 
The park commissioners at Malden, 
Mass., have asked the city for an ap- 
propriation of $8,500 for additional land 
for Bell Rock Park, and $12,000 for a 
new park on Highland avenue. 
A new public playground is to be 
established in Penn Common, the city 
park in Reading, Pa. 
The estate of the late Ralph Waldo 
Emerson has been purchased by the 
town of Brookline, Mass., and is to be 
developed as a public park. 
Olmsted Bros.. Brookline, Mass., are 
to prepare plans for the development 
of the Little River and Butman’s Mills 
playgrounds and High Rock Park at 
Lynn, Mass. 
The city of Denver is soon to make 
a payment on a tract of 135 acres ad- 
joining City Park which it intends ulti- 
mately for an addition to that park. 
The land is owned by the state land 
board and the park commission has 
asked that body not to lease any more 
of the land for private use. 
The city council of Cadillac, Mich., 
is to convert a tract of land of five 
acres on the lake shore into a public 
park. 
Park improvements on the river front 
at Albany, N. Y., are to begin tins 
summer. Last winter the state trans- 
ferred its title to the land to the city. 
Superintendent Theodore Wirth, of 
the Minneapolis parks, has completed 
plans for dredging the Lake of the 
Isles. A great portion of the shore 
lines will be changed and lietween 31)1),- 
000 and 400,000 cuhic j'ards of earth 
removed from the lake. 
A new shelterhouse is to be erected 
in Slater Memorial Park, Pawtucket, R. 
I., and City Engineer Carpenter has ad- 
vertised for bids for its construction. 
The structure is to be in bungalow st\le 
and w'ill be on a knoli in the midst of 
a grove of pines. 
The park board of Lowell, Mass., is 
to improve for public park purposes 
stretches of wooded land along the 
banks of the Merrimac River and the 
canals which cross the city. The land 
is to be leased by the Locks and Canals 
Co. 
The park board of Fall River, Mass., 
will erect three more public fountains, 
one in each of the three parks. 
Very satisfactory progress is being 
made in raising a fund by public sub- 
scription for a park system in Racine, 
Wis. 
F. E. Pease, of Des Moines, la., has 
made plans for a seventy-three acre 
park at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and is also 
doing park work for Cedar Rapids, la., 
and making plans for the development 
of a twenty-five acre lawm cemetery for 
Denison, Iowa. 
Two very fine displays of formal bed- 
ding are seen in Washington and Lin- 
coln Parks, Chicago. In Lincoln Park 
about 60,000 bulbs were used and 
at Washington Park about 30,000. 
A bill has Ijeen passed by the New 
York Legislature creating a park board 
for Utica, N. Y. The bill becomes op- 
erative January 1, 1908, and provides 
for the appointment by the mayor of 
three commissioners who shall serve 
without pay. 
An ordinance has been favorably re- 
ported in the city council of Philadel- 
phia providing for the condemnation of 
44 acres of ground on Cobbs Creek as 
an addition to the city park system. 
The board of aldermen of Wilming- 
ton, N. C., have appropriated $1().0))0 
for the establishment of a public park. 
New York is to spend $100. ooo for 
free concerts on the recreation piers 
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