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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
NEW PARKS, IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS 
The city of Canton, O., is taking by 
condemnation proceedings a tract of 11 
acres at Linden avenue and Lake street 
for park purposes. 
The Small Parks Commission of Chi- 
cago has appropriated $100,000 for a 
park in the Ghetto near the . Hull 
House. 
Terre Haute, Ind., has recently ac- 
quired two new parks which are to be 
laid out and improved this spring. 
Mrs. A. P. Lovejoy, of Janesville, 
Wis., has donated $5,000 to the Janes- 
ville Park and Pleasure Drive Associa- 
tion, making a total of $10,000 pledged 
to the association for park purposes. 
Dr. Cordyon C. Dwight is president of 
the association. 
An electric fountain is one of the im- 
provements planned for City Park at 
Denver. 
The City Council of Philadelphia has 
appropriated $498,875.75 for Fairmount 
Park this year. 
A landscape gardener has been em- 
ployed to lay out the new park at Nota- 
sulga, Ala. 
Ferdinand Schmitz, of Seattle, Wash., 
has donated to that city 35 acres of land 
in West Seattle for a public park. 
The city council of Wilmington, Del., 
has authorized the issue and sale of 
$35,000 in bonds for the park fund. Of 
this, $20,000 will be used to acquire ad- 
ditional land and build a public swim- 
ming pool. 
N. Byhower, the new park superin- 
tendent of Salt Lake City, Utah, is pre- 
paring plans for the improvement of 
Parking District No. 1. 
Birmingham, Ala., has just opened its 
first public playground. 
The mayor of Haverhill, Mass., has 
recommended that children’s play- 
grounds be laid out in Kenoza Lake and 
Riverside Parks. 
Governor General Earl Grey of Cana- 
da, has invited every club in Canada to 
co-operate in raising $1,000,000 for con- 
verting the plains of Abraham and Stey- 
foe at Quebec into a great National 
Park. 
Marquis Martin Maloney has present- 
ed Scranton, Pa., with 35 acres for a 
public park. Landscape Architect N. F. 
Barrett of New York, has prepared 
plans for the improvement of the tract. 
T. A. McClelland, of Kansas City, 
Mo., has donated a tract of land to Jop- 
lin, Mo., for a public park. 
Cincinnati, O., is to utilize the services 
of the unemployed in the work of clear- 
ing up the parks for which there is a 
fund of $20,000 on hand. The park 
board of Dayton, O., has also planned 
to give day labor in the parks to the 
unemployed. The Associated Charities 
of Portland, Ore., has arranged to pay 
the wages of unemployed for four 
hours’ work a day in the city park. 
The Park Commission of Charleston, 
S. C., has bought the land for the ex- 
tension of Hampton Park to the Ash- 
ley River. 
George E. Kessler, of Kansas City, 
Mo., has been employed by the park 
board of Indianapolis, Ind., as consult- 
ing engineer. The local superintendent 
has not yet been selected. 
Kokomo, Ind., will spend $2,000 in 
dredging the creek in the city , park and 
making other improvements there. 
A movement has been started in New 
York for the creation of a National 
park on the Highlands of the Hudson, 
from Cornwall to Jones’ Point on the 
west bank of the river and from Fish- 
kill to Peekskill on the east side. 
Jacksonville, 111., has appropriated 
$5,000 for the improvement of Nichols 
Park. 
An artificial lake has been completed 
in Edgewood Park, New Haven, Conn., 
at a cost of $7,400. It is a gift of Com- 
missioner English, 
The officers of Locust Hill Cemetery, 
Trenton, N. J., have offered to sell the 
cemetery to the city for park purposes 
on condition that the city remove bodies 
and make other improvements. The 
price asked is $4,000. 
Mrs. D. Willis James, of Madison, N. 
J., has offered to donate $5,000 to Mor- 
ristown, N. J., for beautifying Morris- 
town Park on condition that the city 
expend $2,000 additional. 
The Buckley & Douglas Lumber Co. 
has presented the village of Buckley, 
Mich., with a public park. 
Yonkers, N. Y., will purchase five par- 
cels of land as an addition to Grant 
Park. 
A new greenhouse is being erected in 
the City Park in Dallas, Tex. It is 
40x60 feet with concrete benches and 
foundation. 
FROM ANNUAL REPORTS 
Expenditures by the South Park 
commissioners of Chicago for the year 
amounted to $1,859,543. Of this amount 
$751,830 represents improvements, and 
$1,107,713 the cost of maintenance. 
During the year the South Park com- 
missioners acquired for park purposes 
a totai area of 28.14 acres. 
The annual appropriation for the past 
year’s work in the parks of New Ha- 
ven, Conn., was $23,000. The city also 
made special appropriations amounting 
to $10,398.23. The greatest amou'nt ex- 
pended on any park was $10,300.15 on 
Edgewood Park. One hundred and 
sixteen acres of land were bought for 
an addition to Beaver Ponds Park. 
The total expenditures for the year 
were $42,561.88. 
Minneapolis expended $298,209.66 for 
park purposes in 1907, according to the 
report of Secretary J. A. Ridgway. 
The largest items of disbursement were ; 
land purchases, $57,456 ; improvements, 
$65,258 ; tree planting on city streets, 
$4,735 ; new tools arid equipment, $12,- 
304 ; trees and shrubs, $913 ; main- 
tenance of parks and parkways, $65,- 
208 ; miscellaneous items of mainte- 
nance, $40,348 ; interest on $818,000 of 
park bonds, $34,985 ; certificates of in- 
debtedness, $13,514. Among the notable 
acquisitions of the year was the new 
Kenwood Park, north of Lake of the 
Isles, and North Commons, the old 
McNair farm. 
The annual report of the board of 
park commissioners of Seattle, Wash., 
for the fiscal year ending August 1, 
1907, in addition to showing receipts 
and disbursements gives a review in a 
general way of the work accomplished. 
Receipts for the year amounted to 
$152,100.92, including $108,970.27 from 
taxes, $42,405.63 from fines, fees and 
licenses, and $725 from miscellaneous 
sources. Disbursements for the year 
amounted to $113,964.47, increasing the 
balance on hand August 1, 1906, from 
$15,423.16 to $53,559.61. 
The Park Commission of Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa., in its annual report asks for 
a one mill tax this year instead of one 
half mill on the assessed valuation. 
During the year the commission had 
$21,549.61 to expend. The expenditures 
amounted to $19,933 74. The estimated 
value of park area acquired by the 
commission amounts to $76,250. 
According to the annual report of the 
Park Board of Rochester, N. Y., the 
commissioners will need $185,401 to 
carry on their work this year. That 
amount is divided into $91,981 for 
maintenance, $56,420 for general bet- 
terments, $17,000 for the purchase of 
new land, and $20,000 for boulevard 
improvements. Some of the money is 
proposed to be spent in the improve- 
ment of the Durand-Eastman Park on 
the shore of Lake Ontario. 
The Forestry Department of the 
Commissioners of Cemeteries and Pub- 
lic Grounds of Portland, Me., reports 
that many of the trees are dying from 
old age, some from disease, some from 
