PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PARK NEWS 
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walk leading thereto has been provided. 
At Niagara Glen three new rustic shelt- 
ers have been constructed in order to 
provide rest and protection to visitors 
to this wildly beautiful spot. These have 
been placed at special points of interest.- 
At Fort Erie Park a large open shelter 
has also been built. 
The thirteenth annual report of the 
board of public works of Little Falls, 
N. Y., contains reports of park and cem- 
etery expenditures. The e.xpenditures 
for parks for 1907 amounted to $1,228 
and for cemeteries, $1,831. 
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Plans have been outlined by the Met- 
ropolitan Park Commission of Milwau- 
kee for the creation of a comprehensive 
system of breathing spots and parkways 
covering the city. A tentative map 
which has been outlined in color by the 
commission shows some radical ideas 
which have been considered. One is 
the vacation of the block west of the 
city hall, from Oneida to Biddle, includ- 
ing the Pabst theater and a number of 
stores and a portion of the red light 
district, for a public park. 
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The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 
has donated twenty-five carloads of dirt 
for surfacing the state park at Canon 
City, Colo., and the Civic Improvement 
League is having the soil spread prior 
to seeding. Last year 'the society set 
the ground to shade trees. 
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A generous portion of the John Henes 
Park, Menominee, Mich., lying along the 
shore where the bathing is the finest, 
is to be set apart for the unrestricted use 
of children and the commissioners are 
preparing to install swings, a merry-go- 
round and other play machinery. 
Julius P. Maine, the philanthropist of 
Framingham, Mass., who annually gives 
a marble scramble for the children of 
that village, has subscribed $1,000 for 
a public playground. 
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As a further incentive in promoting 
its work of yard beautifying the city 
improvement committee of Lexington, 
Ky., of which Mrs. J. R. Morton is 
chairman, has decided to offer a number 
of additional prizes for hardy plants 
and bulbs in certain districts. The city 
is divided into four districts in which 
first prizes of five dollars in gold and 
second and third prizes of hardy plants 
and bulbs will be given. 
PUBLISHER’S NOTES 
Herbert N. Casson’s agricultural story 
“The Romance of the Reaper,” issued 
serially in “Everybody’s Magazine,” has 
been published in book form. It is 
really a history of the development of 
agriculture during the last eighty years, 
and vividly portrays the results which 
have been accomplished by labor-saving 
agricultural machinery. It also shows 
how a great industry has grown up in 
the United States, and how, by concen- 
trating plants and resources and manu- 
facturing on a large scale, Americans 
are able to make the best machines at 
a low cost and sell them in every coun- 
try of the globe. It is published by 
Doubleday, Page & Co., and sells for 
$1.00 net. 
The program for the twenty-sixth an- 
nual convention of the American Seed 
Trade Association, to be held at the Ho- 
tel Pontchartrain, Detroit, June 23 to 
25, shows an interesting series of discus- 
sions and papers. 
The first annual report of the Mis- 
souri State Bohrd of Horticulture in- 
cludes the report of the annual meeting 
of the State Horticultural Society, and 
many valuable papers on horticultural 
matters ; 328 pages ; illustrated. Geo. 
T. Tippin, Springfield, Mo., secretary. 
Seven Entrance G-ates, as above illustrated, together with more than twelve thousand lineal feet 
of Ornamental Fence, manufactured and erected by us for Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
We make a specialty of designing and erecting Entrance Gates and Fence for Cemeteries, 
Parks and other Public Grounds. For full information, designs, prices, etc., address our 
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