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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
the basin at the southeast corner and is 
to be diverted to supply the swimming 
pool and the wading pool. 
Just where this little stream crosses 
North Lafayette street it drops sharply 
something like four inches. This is the 
point at which Mr. Cukerski has de- 
cided to divert it for the purposes of 
the park. A pool will be formed from 
which streams will lead northwest to 
the wading pool and almost directly 
west to the swimming pool. From the 
wading pool the stream will continue 
northwest to meet the outlet from the 
swimming pool ; thence it will turn 
southward to once more join with Cold- 
brook creek after having performed its 
functions in the park. At the union of 
the streams from the wading pool and 
the swimming pool a gate will be placed 
so that in winter the water may be cut 
.off from the pools and turned north 
and west toward the baseball field, mak- 
NEW PARKS and 
The New York legislature has 
passed a bill authorizing the city of 
Buffalo to issue $2,000,000 in bonds 
for park improvements. 
Philadelphia is planning to build a 
temporary macadam drive 40 feet 
wide on the route of the great boule- 
vard projected from Fairmount Park 
to City Hall. 
Superintendent of Parks J. H. 
Hemingway, of Worcester, Mass., 
recommends that directors of child 
play be employed at the two city 
park playgrounds. 
John A. Coring, the New York ani- 
mal expert, has made a report for 
the Denver park board on the en- 
largement of the Zoo, and it is 
planned to move it to a 160-acre tract 
north of the race course. 
The park board of Rochester, N. 
Y., is considering the erection of a 
new entrance to Maplewood Park, 
and the establishment of a rose gar- 
den there. Eight sw^ans have been 
purchased for the Genesee River near 
Genesee Valley Park. 
The New Jersey legislature has 
passed a bill allowing cities to rent 
playgrounds to individuals or organ- 
izations for exhibitions of games and 
sports. 
Cincinnati, O., has advertised for 
bids for purchasing or condemning 
for park purposes 40 acres of land on 
Mt. Echo. 
Muncie, Ind., has contracted with 
J. Clyde Power, of Indianapolis, to 
make plans for a park system. 
The Massachusetts legislature is 
considering an appropriation of $1,- 
ing it possible to flood this tract for 
skating purposes. In the summer time 
an arrangement of gates will cut the 
water off from the ball, field and turn 
it toward Coldbrook creek after it has 
passed through the pools. 
An excellent system of drainage will 
carry the impure water from the wad- 
ing and swimming pools off to Cold- 
brook creek. These two pools are also 
so arranged as to make possible the 
flushing of these two pools so they can 
be kept clean and sanitary. 
The wading pool is intended for the 
very small children only and will be 90 
by 1,20 feet in dimensions. 
The swimming pool, which is to be 
constructed of cement concrete, will be 
90 by 160 feet with well-fitted dressing 
rooms and lockers. 
A ball-field 250x30 feet, and a sand 
pile near the wading pool are other fea- 
tures shown on the plan. 
IMPROVEMENTS 
500,000 for completing parkways and 
boulevards in the Metropolitan Park 
District. 
The park board of Buffalo is con- 
sidering the appointment of a city 
forester. 
C. W. Campbell has been employed 
to make plans for the improvement 
of the new park donated to St. 
Joseph, Mo., by Bartlett Bros. 
A. E. Carlson, appointed to report 
on plans for a park system for Boise, 
Idaho, has recommended a popular 
vote on a bond issue of $100,000 to 
establish a chain of parks. 
The Milwaukee Construction and • 
Sidewalk Co. has been awarded the 
contract for the construction of an 
elaborate system of stairways and 
terraces on the lake front in Lake 
Park, to cost $14,938. Bids are to be 
advertised for the placing of cribs or 
a sea wall along the beach drive. 
A new park of four acres is to be 
developed at Carey, O. 
A bill is before the New York leg- 
islature to give the park commission 
of Syracuse control of all park im- 
provements and the power to appoint 
a superintendent of parks. 
The Special Parks Commission of 
Chicago has an appropriation of $180,- 
000 for this year’s work and will con- 
struct two new bathing beaches and 
two playgrounds in different sections 
of the city. 
John R. Brinley has prepared plans 
for the improvement of the park in 
the center of Morristown, N. J., with 
a fund of $5,000 donated by Mrs. D. 
W. Jame.s. 
School children of Walla Walla, 
Wash., are selling “park buttons” at 
one dollar each to raise a fund of 
$10,000 for park improvement. 
School gardens are to be estab- 
lished in Roger Williams Park and 
on Broad street, Providence, R. I. 
Allentown, Pa., has purchased the 
old site of Muhlenberg College for 
$40,000 to be developed as a public park. 
Chehalis, Wash., has been present- 
ed with fifteen acres of land for a 
park. 
An artificial lake is to be construct- 
ed in Gienwood Park, Erie, Pa. 
Mrs. Mary E. Allen has donated a 
five-acre tract at Humboldt and N. 
69th avenue, Chicago, for a small 
park. 
Park Superintendent Robert Tietze 
of Dallas, Tex., has been authorized 
to park the grounds about the city 
hospital. 
The Chamber of Commerce of 
Chattanooga, Tenn., has asked the 
city council to employ a landscape 
architect to plan a system of parks. 
Architect W. E. Russ, of Dayton, 
O., has prepared plans for the im- 
provement of the Bomberger Play- 
grounds, which is intended to be a 
model playground and athletic field. 
Another link in the chain of parks, 
which .is to belt Baltimore has been 
added in the purchase of 152 acres on 
the Hartford Road. 'This makes 
seven park tracts aggregating 950 
acres that the board has acquired on 
plans by Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, 
Mass. 
Arbuckle, Cal., has been offered a 
five-acre tract on condition that the 
town improve and maintain it as a 
public park. 
The Fairmount Park Commission 
of Philadelphia, is considering the ad- 
visability of forbidding the use of 
chains on automobile tires in the 
parks. 
Samuel Vogelson has been appoint- 
ed park superintendent of South Om- 
aha, Neb. 
Concrete piling is being employed 
by the park commissioner of Detroit in 
the construction of a steamboat dock 
at Belle Isle Park. 
South Park, Peoria, HI., is to be 
equipped with an up-to-date outdoor 
gymnasium, playground and swim- 
ming pool. 
The first park commission of Bay 
City, Mich., is soon to begin the work 
of park development on a nine acre 
tract on the water front. The com- 
mission, which is composed of A.. E. 
Bousfield, W. L. Clements, and Louis 
Hine, has a fund of $200,000 for the 
work. 
