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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PLANS for a BUSY SEASON of PARK WORK 
DESIGN FOR PAVILION, KOSCIUSZKO PARK MILWAUKEE. 
Many Improvements in Milwaukee Parks 
Contracts for nearly $20,000 in im- 
provements in the Milwaukee parks 
have been let. The largest item will be 
the building of wide concrete stairs and 
terraces from the beach to the pavil- 
ion in Lake Park. It will then no 
longer be necessary to descend and 
climb the perpendicular banks of the 
lake. The contract for the steps and 
terraces has been awarded to the Mil- 
waukee Construction and Sidewalk 
company for $14,938. 
The plan was originally conceived by 
the late Christian Wahl, a former mem- 
ber of the board, and will be carried 
out on plajis prepared by A. C. Clas, 
architect. 
The board has also let contracts for 
other work as follows : ■ Sewers and 
drain tiling in Washington park, $1.06.5; 
cement wading pool in Kosciusko park, 
$516: combination brick and cement 
EXTENSION OF WESTCHESTER AV. 
New York Park System. 
walks in the pagoda in Washington 
park, $495 ; iron railing around animal 
house in Washington park, $398; and 
sewers in Mitchell park. Bids have 
also been received for the erection of 
a pheasant house in Washington park; 
an open pavilion in Reynolds grove ; for 
the installation of a fountain in • the 
Windlake avenue triangle, and for two 
methods for driving cribbing for the 
lake shore drive, for which there is a 
special appropriation of $21,000. A sur- 
vey has been ordered of a tract pro- 
posed for an addition to Juneau Park. 
The new pavilion to be erected this 
season in Kosciuszko Park, the design 
for which is shown in one of the illus- 
trations, will include three buildings. 
The side structures will contain tables 
for the use of picnic parties. The cen- 
tral building, with which the two wings 
will be connected by covered passage- 
ways, will be occupied by a caterer. It 
will be of wood construction. 
Milwaukee now has 974 acres of 
parks, lying in fifteen of the cit 3 '’s twen- 
ty-three wards. The principal tracts 
are Lake Park, 124 acres, Riv'erside. 24 
acres ; Mitchell, 58 acres ; Kosciuszko. 
37 acres; Humboldt Park, 46 acres. 
The annual report of the board re- 
cently issued records the acquiring of 
275 acres of park land the past year. 
The total expenditures were $152,449. 
Boulevard Extension in New York 
Condemnation proceedings are being 
conducted in New York City for the ex- 
tension of Westchester avenue to Pel- 
TO PELHAM BAY PARK. 
ham Bay Park in the extreme north 
east corner of the city, as shown in the 
accompanying diagram. Pelham Bay 
Park covers 1,756 acres and has, with 
its group of islands, about nine miles 
of water front. A plaza will be con- 
structed at the entrance to the park, 
which it is expected will be much used 
when a proposed elevated extension is 
'built on Westchester avenue. 
Two Small Parks in Newark, N. J. 
The Shade Tree Commission of 
Newark, N. J., has begun the work of 
remodeling a triangular tract at Fifth 
and Warren streets into a small park 
on plans prepared by Harold A. Ca- 
parn, the New York landscape archi- 
tect. 
The plan illustrated herewith calls 
■for a broad open, lawn in the center, 
surrounded by a system of walks and 
bordered by shrubbery, which will be 
placed in groups of varying outline in- 
cluding dogwood, barberry, aurelia, 
scarlet thorn, spirea, deutzia, and oth- 
ers. There will be two flower beds at 
the entrances. 
The walk, which is on the outside of 
the park at present, will be brought 
within the area and will be eight feet 
wide. 
There will be a shelter of some sort 
containing a sand pit at the entrance. 
Mr. Caparn is a member of the Mu- 
nicipal Art Society of New York, and 
serves that organization as chairman 
of the committee on playgrounds and 
school gardens. He is also a member 
of the American Society of Landscape 
Architects and of the American Civic 
Association. 
The triangular plot of ground at Mt. 
Prospect avenue and Mt. Prospect place 
DESIGN FOR LAKE FRONT TERRACES, LAKE PARK, MILWAUKjiE. 
