PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW PARKS, IMPROVEMENTS and EXTENSIONS 
Col. T. F. Spangler has been ap- 
pointed superintendent of parks at 
Zanesville, O., and is to begin at once 
an extensive system of improvements. 
The city council of Beatrice, Neb., 
has selected a site for the city park to 
be improved with funds bequeathed by 
the late James Charles. 
The House Committee on appropria- 
tions favorably reported an appro- 
priation of $423,000 to secure additional 
lands for Rock Creek Park, Washing- 
ton, D. C., but the measure failed to 
pass. 
Wellesley, Mass., has voted an ap- 
propriation of $10,000 to be used with 
private subscriptions of $10,000 to pur- 
chase the Elm Park property for a city 
park. 
The New York legislature has passed 
a bill making a state park of Fire 
Island, the quarantine station at New 
York City. 
Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, Mass., 
recently submitted a revised model for 
the improvement of Grant Park, Chi- 
cago, which was on public view for four 
weeks, after an explanatory demonstra- 
tion by Frederick Law Olmsted. The 
plan provides sites for the Field Colum- 
bian Museum, the John Crerar Library, 
and elaborate boating and bathing fa- 
cilities, playgrounds, etc. 
Competitive examinations were re- 
cently held for six playground instruc- 
tors for the parks of Minneapolis. 
Mr. Charles M. Loring has returned 
from his winter sojourn at Riverside, 
Cal., to Minneapolis. Mr. Loring has 
been actively engaged in the work of 
improving Huntington Park at River- 
side, the unique mountain park recent- 
ly illustrated in these pages, and has 
planted over 20,000 trees, shrubs and 
plants there this season. A magnificent 
mountain drive has also been built at 
a cost of $50,000. Fifty acres have also 
been added to Fairmount Park, and 
Tree Warden J. H. Reed has planted 
5,000 trees on the city streets. Under 
his intelligent management of the street 
trees Riverside is rapidly becoming one 
of the most beautiful cities in southern 
California. 
A large area of the lawns of the city 
park at Denver is being plowed up to 
be reseeded and sodded. 
The park board of Trenton, N. J., is 
to receive competitive designs for a 
fountain to be erected in Cadwalader 
Park at a cost of $1,500. 
A zoological garden, a lagoon or 
great artificial lake, a new golf course, 
lockers and shower baths for the use of 
baseball and golf players, and new roads 
are the improvements that the park 
board of Kansas City, Mo., is -planning 
for Swope Park this summer. 
The city council of Dubuque, la., has 
voted to appropriate $2,500 a year for 
four years to develop a city park at 
Eagle Point. 
A lavatory and drinking fountain will 
be erected in Shattuck Park, Greenfield, 
Mass. 
James Wilson, the new park commis- 
sioner of Toronto, Can., has been given 
authority to employ a general superin- 
tendent at a salary of $35 a week. Rod- 
erick Cameron, Mr. Wilson’s former as-* 
sistant at Niagara Falls, is mentioned 
as the probable appointee to the new 
position. 
The Board of Estimate of New York 
City has authorized the expenditure of 
$7,560,000 for the construction of a new 
park on Riverside Drive between 155th 
and Dyckman streets. 
M. E. Ingalls has offered to equip a 
100-acre tract at Cincinnati, O., as a 
public park. The city council lias rec- 
ommended that the Evans Wood be re- 
served as a “bird park.’’ 
Charles L. Denison, of New York, 
has given $10,000 toward the completion 
of the new park at Corning, N. Y., 
which has been partially developed on 
plans by Harold A. Caparn, the New 
York landscape architect. Mr. Caparn 
is also in charge of the development of 
two small yarks at Newark, N. J., for 
the Shade Tree Commission of that 
city. 
The park board of Rochester, N. Y., 
will erect a new iron fence around 
Maplewood Park. The board will lease 
four acres of ground near Highland 
Park for a park nursery. 
The park board of Salt Lake City, 
Utah, has decided to abandon the new 
band stand erected at a cost of $3,500 
and erect a new one in a more conveni- 
ent location. 
J. W. Hollenback, of Wilkes-Barre, 
Pa., has donated 27 acres of land to 
that city for a public park, making a 
total of 100 acres he has given to the 
city. 
The park commission of Buffalo, N. 
Y., are looking for a man to fill the of- 
fice of city forester, a position created 
by a recent act of the legislature. 
The old Colgrove cemetery. Spring- 
field, Mass., is being improved as a pub- 
lic park. 
Thomas R. Proctor has added 130 
acres to Roscoe Conkling Park, and 
w’ill deed the entire tract of 380 acres 
to the city of Utica, N. Y., for a pub- 
lic park. Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, 
Mass., will prepare plans for the de- 
velopment of the tract. 
The park board of Louisville, Ky., 
has purchased land for two new en- 
trances to Shelby Park. 
E. A. Carman, chairman of the Chick- 
amauga National Park Commission, 
has asked the Secretary of War for an 
appropriation of $26,000 to repair the 
damage by storm to the battlefield park 
at Chattanooga, Tenn. 
The State Forestry Commission of 
Michigan has presented to the town of 
Grand Haven 20,000 trees to be planted 
in Dewey Hill Park. 
Fifteen citizens of Bellingham, Wash., 
have subscribed $12,000 to purchase a 
forty-acre tract at Whatcom Falls for 
a public park. 
McKinney, Tex., has voted $10,000 in 
bonds to purchase the Rambo tract for 
a public park. 
The finance committee of the city 
council of Norfolk, Va., has recom- 
mended the appropriation of $27,000 to 
improve Jackson Park, the tract of re- 
claimed land near the depot. 
The New York legislature has ap- 
propriated $104,500 for the improve- 
ment of the state reservation at Niag- 
ara Falls. 
An elaborate new entrance to North 
Brandywine Park, Wilmington, Del., is 
to be built this season. 
The Special Parks Commission of 
Chicago is to construct a new public 
comfort station in Schoenhofen Park. 
The city council of Jamestown, N. D., 
has voted 'to appropriate $1,759 to im- 
prove Klaus Park, on the James river. 
Hon. W. L. Curtis has presented to. 
Petoskey, Mich., a tract of eight acres 
for a park. 
Sites for two new parks and one play- 
ground have recently been added to the 
park system of Quincy, 111 . Gardner 
Park, a 25-acre tract, is to be improved 
with a bequest of the late R. W. Gard- 
ner. The other park is to be Cedar 
Creek, an 11-acre tract purchased some 
years ago by the city. 1 he playground 
is to be established with a bequest of 
$3,960 left by the late John H. Tenk 
for that purpose. 
The Committee on the Library of 
Congress has favorably reported the 
bill for the extension of the capitol 
grounds, at a cost of $3,250,000 for the 
purchase of the ground, grading, etc. 
John Widdicomb has given twelve 
acres to Grand Rapids, Mich., . for a 
public park on the river front. 
