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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
The park and boulevard committee 
of the City Council of Oakland, Cal., 
has recommended an appropriation of 
$10,000 for the improvement of West 
Oakland park. The Merchants Ex- 
change of Oakland has appointed a 
special committee to urge a tax levy 
of $50,000 for a new park at Lake 
Merritt. 
The town of Hinckley, Minn., has 
bought a tract of land along the 
Grindstone River to. be used as a 
public park. 
John Henes of Menominee, Mich., 
has offered to that city a tract of 
land known as Poplar Point for a 
park. It is valued at $50,000. 
The Veterans Association of North- 
ern California is to incorporate and 
raise a fund of $5,000 for the purchase 
of a park site for Santa Rosa. 
Government officials are consider- 
ing the advisability of establishing a 
national park at the mouth of the 
Wisconsin river in Wisconsin, on the 
spot where Father Marquette planted 
a wooden cross when he discovered 
the Mississippi. 
The park commissioners of Mem- 
phis, Tenn., are considering the erec- 
tion of a novel pavilion in Riverside 
park. It is to be of octagon shape, 
each side 100 feet long, and will have 
a floor space of about 8,000 feet. It will 
be 53 feet high and will have an ob- 
servatory in the second story which 
will be 32 feet high. The structure 
will cost about $4,000, and has been 
designed by Le Vasseur & De 
Beughem. 
The park commissioners of Hous- 
ton, Tex., have begun the work of 
converting the old 10th street ceme- 
tery into a children’s playground. 
Park Superintendent Rodgers of 
Cincinnati estimates that his depart- 
ment will need $140,000 for 1908. The 
plans provide for a large public bath 
house, a municipal laundry, neighbor- 
hood laundries for the poor, a gym- 
nasium and two public bathing 
beaches. 
Daniel H. Ellis, of Bridgeport, Mich., 
has been appointed superintendent of 
parks Saginaw, Mich. Mr. Ellis is a 
graduate of the Michigan Agriculture 
College. 
The newly appointed Metropolitan 
Park Commission of Milwaukee is 
composed of Captain I. M. Bean, 
Wm. Lindsay, Chas. Quarles, Chas, 
Neiss, Jr., John Reichert, Alfred C, 
Clas, C. B. Whitnall, Jos. M. Bell, 
Adam Meisenheimer, Chas. J. Poetsch 
and Peter Brust. 
The park board of Kansas City, 
Mo., is to erect a series of public 
comfort stations, along the boule- 
vards and parkways. They are to be 
of the design shown in the accom- 
panying picture and bids have been 
advertised for the erection of one at 
Gillham Roadway and 37th St. The 
exterior will be of rubble stone, filled 
with spalls imbedded in mortar. The 
inner walls will be of brick and the 
facings and window sills of cut stone. 
The Horticultural Commissioner of 
Los Angeles, Calif., Mr. Irwin Din- 
gle is considering a proposal to trans- 
form a five-acre abandoned cemetery 
near the High School into a public 
park. 
Sheldon, N. D., has bought 160 
acres for a park. 
The park board of Danville, 111., has 
bought a half-dozen steel swings 
which are to be installed in the parks. 
The board of supervisors of Den- 
ver, Colo., have voted to accept the 
gift of $100,000 for the improvement 
of Congress Park recently offered by 
the Cheesman estate on condition 
that the name be changed to “The 
Walter S. Cheesman Park.” The 
name has been formally changed and 
the city building inspector is prepar- 
ing plans for a new pavilion to cost 
$50,000, to be erected from this fund. 
The work has also begun on a tract 
of 160 acres at Berkeley Lake in 
North Denver, and it is expected that 
this park will be opened next season. 
Fifty boats have been ordered for 
the lake, which covers 47 acres. 
The Municipal Assembly of St. 
Louis has appropriated $9,000 for the 
construction of a floating natatorium 
in the Mississippi river. It will be in 
the form of a barge about 40 by lOP 
feet and Park Commissioner Phillip 
Scanlan will make an effort to have it 
completed this year. He also plans 
to have swimming pools in several of 
the city parks. 
Montclair, Colo., is to establish two 
new parks including about 20 acres. 
The Metropolitan Park Commis- 
sion of Massachusetts has undertak- 
en the construction of re-enforced 
concrete park benches which have 
been tried in Fellsmere Park in Mal- 
den with very satisfactory results. 
The seats were made under the direc- 
tion of Supt. Price of the Middlesex 
Fells division and cost $2.50 each. 
THE LEGISLATURE HAS GIVEN P-IRK 
COMMISSIONER PHILIP BREIT- 
MEYER. OP DETROIT. Al^THORITY 
TO PERSONALLY STOP SCORCHING 
AUTOS. THE CARTOONIST OF THE 
DETROIT NEWS PICTURES MR. 
BREITMEYER AS ABOVE USING HIS 
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