PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
The City of Palo Alto, Cal., has 
been presented with a tract of land a 
mile and a half long, lying along the 
bank of the San Francisqiiito creek, 
to be used for park purposes. Tim- 
othy Hopkins is the donor. 
A recent estimate of Superintendent 
of Parks R. G Ran, of St. Joseph, 
Mo., gives the total value of the parks 
of that city at $203,955. 
The Board of Park Commissioners 
q(f Louisville, Ky., are considering 
plans to make Reservoir Park, a tract 
surrounding the waterworks at Cres- 
cent Hill, a part of the city’s park 
system. 
The Newton Center Improvement 
Association has undertaken the im- 
provement of Beacon Triangle, ac- 
cording to the plan illustrated on this 
page. The Triangle is now defaced 
with dilapidated wooden buildings 
which are to be removed to make 
way for the parking and planting of 
trees and shrubs. The Triangle is 
on the approach to the railroad sta- 
tion in a prominent location and its 
improvement is one of the most im- 
portant works of the association. 
The Village Improvement Associa- 
tion of Bartow, Fla., is raising a 
fund to buy land for a public park. 
An ordinance is before the city 
council of Duluth, Minn., providing 
for an issue of $50,000 of park bonds. 
.\t a recent meeting of the Public 
Park Association, Providence, R. I., 
a resolution was passed urging the 
city council to improve Promenade 
street and Kinsley avenue to make a 
parkway from Exchange Place to the 
new Public Gardens. The Executive 
Committee has prepared comparisons, 
of park areas in various cities, brought 
about the creation of the office of 
tree warden in Providence, and exer- 
cised a strong influence for tree plant- 
ing. Dr. F. H. Peckham was elected 
president, Martin W. Kern, secretary, 
and Henry A. Barker, treasurer. 
The District Commissioners of 
Washington, D. C., have voted to ap- 
propriate for the purchase of the 
old Presbyterian burial grounds at 
Thirty-third and Q streets and trans- 
form it into a public playground. 
Faurot Park, Lima, O., a 106 acre 
tract, was recently dedicated; $10,000 
has been spent in the past three years 
in preliminary improvements. 
Melville, La., has been presented 
with a five acre park b}' C. W. Krotz. 
The park, board of Green Lake, 
Wash., has purchased almost the en- 
time right-of-way around the lake for 
a boulevard. 
The city of Grand Rapids, Mich., 
has decided to purchase a twenty-five 
acre addition to John Ball Park be- 
longing to the McNamara estate as 
soon as litigation in progress among 
the heirs is settled. 
H. A. Alspach, superintendent of 
East Lawn Cemetery, Sacramento, 
Cal., is preparing plans for the im- 
provement of McKinley Park, a tract 
of thirty acres belong to that city. 
The tract ‘has been badly neglected 
and will need extensive repairs, which 
will include the making of two lakes, 
in order to get ground enough to 
raise some of the grade above the 
high water line. • 
Plans have been prepared for seven 
public comfort stations to be built in 
the parks at Tacoma, Wash., this 
summer. The structures will be of 
reinforced concrete and will contain 
all modern improvements. Flans 
were prepared by Geo. W. Bullard. 
Mayor W. V. Powell, of Dodgeville, 
Wis., has circulated a petition asking 
the Illinois Central Railroad to re- 
new its proposition to establish a city 
park on the grounds south of its 
tracks between the two depots. 
Geo. E. Kessler, engineer of the 
park commission of Syracuse-, N, Y., 
has completed the general plan for 
a complete park system for that city. 
The plan includes: a boulevard skirt- 
ing the city to be about twelve miles 
long: the extension of some of the 
present parks, and the improvement 
of their approaches which are to con-_ 
nect with the boulevard; a boulevard 
on both sides of Onondaga creek; 
a parkway skirting Onondaga lake; 
and the use of the Erie and Oswego 
canal beds when they are abandoned 
for great trans-urban boulevards. 
A mass meeting of citizens of Al- 
bany, Ga., has asked the city coun- 
cil to establish parks, and to appoint 
a park and tree commission, 
S. M. Ely, of Binghamton, N. Y., 
has presented to that town a tract 
of 1-40 acres, known as Mt. Prospect, 
for a public park. It is an area of 
great natural beauty overlooking the 
city and the country' for miles around. 
An addition of twenty-three acres 
has been purchased for the Minneopa 
State Park, near Mankato, Minn., and 
a number of substantial improvements 
are planned for the park. 
The park board of Minneapolis has 
decided on the purchase of six sites 
for new small parks. 
The State Purchasing Board for the 
Adirondack State Park, in New York, 
has purchased 15,000 acres of addi- 
tional forest land for $100,000, from 
the estate of Geo. R. Finch. 
An addition of five acres has just 
been opened in . Fairmount Park, 
Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
The Board of Estimate of Greater 
New York has appropriated $936,556 
for the construction and permanent 
improvement of parks, parkways and 
flrives. 
A bill has been passed by the Leg- 
islature of Wisconsin providing for a 
county park commission in counties 
of. 150,000 and over. 
The Auburndale Improvement So- 
ciety, Auburndale, Mass., has raised 
a fund of $3,000 toward the building 
of a public park. 
The city council of Green Baj', Wis., 
has let the contract for the erection 
of a pavilion in Union Park to cost 
$1,251. 
The Park Commission of Grecn- 
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PLAN FOR IMPROVING BEACON TRIANGLE, NEW'TON CENTER, MASS. 
H. . Kellaway, Landscape Architect. 
