PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW PARKS, IMPROVEMENTS and EXTENSIONS 
The Civic League and public spirited 
citizens of St. Louis have started a 
movement to park the water front there 
that has aroused much local interest. 
The contract has been let to the Ladd- 
Sanger Co. for the building of the elab- 
orate Italian garden and buildings in. 
Cheesman Park, Denver, from designs 
by George E. Kessler of Kansas City, 
Mo. 
The Outdoor Art League has secured 
the consent of the government to the 
parking of the grounds about the post 
office at Louisville, Ky. 
The South Park Commission of Chi- 
cago has purchased two sites for small 
parks, one at Hegewisch and one at 
Irondale. 
Park Superintendent Morley of Los 
Angeles, Cal., has estimated that $500,- 
000 will be required for the parks of 
that city next year. 
The Park Commission of Alton, 111., 
will lease the tract known as peniten- 
tiary plat and improve it as a play- 
ground. 
The Board of Supervisors of San 
Francisco has passed a resolution dedi- 
cating thirty acres of the jail grounds 
for a public park. 
The West Park Commission of Chi- 
cago has purchased a block of ground 
at Fourteenth and Jefferson streets for 
a small park. 
City Engineer Hughes of Tulsa, Okla., 
has prepared plans for the development 
of a system of parks for that city, to 
include two tracts of 53 and 193 acres 
respectively and a river drive connecting 
them. 
Hon. J. W. Kitchell of Pana, 111., has 
presented that town with a fortj^ acre 
tract to be improved as a park, and 
Mayor H. N. Schuyler of that town 
would like to secure the services of a 
landscape architect to lay out and im- 
prove it. 
A voluntary park association of Du- 
buque, la., has raised $20,000 for the 
purchase of a picturesque tract of land 
known as Eagle Point for a public park, 
according to the recommendation of 
Charles Mulford Robinson of Rochester, 
N. Y., who made a report for that city 
on park and civic improvement last year. 
Matthew H. Burns of Millville, Mass., 
will present to that town on acre of 
land and improve it as a playground. 
The Greeley Farm, Nashua, N. H., 
is to be made into a public park. 
Warren H. Manning of Boston, who 
designed the system of parks for Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa., has been employed by the 
county to .improve the court house 
grounds in that town. 
Smith Oakley has been appointed su- 
perintendent of the new .Fire Island 
State Park at the quarantine station of 
New York City, which was noted in 
this department last month. Charles 
N. Lowrie, the landscape architect, has 
prepared plans for the improvement of 
the tract to include walks, pavilions, 
public baths, etc. 
Several plans are being considered in 
Chicago for the building of an elevated 
boulevard to connect the North and 
South Park systems over the Chicago 
river. 
A new park will soon be opened op- 
posite the Pawtucket School, Lowell, 
Mass. 
The park board of Seattle, Wash., 
has asked the city to purchase from the 
Seattle Electric Co. all of Madrona 
Park and a part of Leschi Park, in- 
cluding .about eleven acres in both 
tracts, to be added to the city’s park 
system. 
W. A. Finkelnburg of Winona, Minn., 
is in charge of the improving of the city 
park at Red Wing, Minn. 
Thos. B. McClelland of Kansas City, 
Mo., has offered to Joplin, Mo., a 160 
acre tract for a park. The city officials 
are in doubt as to whether they have 
the authority to improve it, as it lies 
outside the city limits. 
Appraisers have been appointed to de- 
termine the value of the old center 
block and city hall site in Minneapolis, 
which it is proposed to convert into a 
gateway park in front of the station. 
The Metropolitan Park Association 
of Rhode Island will purchase the 
woodland tract known as Quinsnicket 
at Lincoln as a part of the Metropoli- 
tan holdings. 
A sixteen acre addition to East Rock 
Park, New Haven, Conn., has been pur- 
chased. 
Olmsted Bros., Brookline, Mass., have 
prepared a report on park improvements 
for Holyoke, Mass., that includes ex- 
tensive plans for the beautifying of the 
Connecticut river. 
Deadwood, S. D., has voted $25,000 
for a public park and several sites are 
under consideration. 
Michael Burke of Boston will present 
to the town of Marlboro, Mass., a five 
acre tract and will improve it as a model 
playground. 
The Allis- Chalmers Co., of Milwau- 
kee, has bought a tract adjoining its 
club house and will improve it as a 
park. 
The City Park of 20 acres at Teague, 
Tex., is being improved. 
I'he House of Delegates of St. Louis 
has voted a bond issue of $100,000 to 
purchase a park site at Pendleton and 
Cottage avenues. 
The city of Chicago has purchased a 
tract of six acres at 79th and the lake 
for a playground. 
Ely, Minn., has purchased a plot of 
ground adjoining the school house for 
a city park. 
Mrs. Fannie Shriver of Harper, Kan., 
has donated to that town land for a 
public park. 
Mrs. S. Griswold has. donated to 
Whitehall, 111., land for a public park. 
Houston, Tex., has recently opened a 
new tract, San Jacinto Park. 
Seven public playgrounds have been 
opened in Indianapolis. Dr. Chas. J. 
Bushnell is director in charge. 
President George F. Baer of the 
Reading Railway has presented to Read- 
ing, Pa., a 32 acre tract for a public 
park. 
A bowling green, on which the an- 
cient game of bowling is to be played, 
is being improved in Colt Park, Hart- 
ford, Conn. 
Some of the parks of Cincinnati are 
open to the public for sleeping purposes 
during the hot weather. 
The park board of Buffalo has au- 
thorized the expenditure of $20,000 for 
new park barns, to be paicl out of the 
$2,000,000 which the city is empowered 
to raise for park and water-front im- 
provements. 
Public spirited citizens of Waverly, 
W’ash., have donated si.x acres of bot- 
tom land in the center of town for a 
park. 
Dr. Francis P. Casey has offered to 
Auburn, N. Y., seventeen acres of 
woodland for a park. 
The Improvement Club of Sunnyside, 
Wash., has arranged for the purchase 
of one acre on the main street for a 
park. 
The Highland Park Society, Jamaica, 
L. I., N. Y., which has improved High- 
land Park, in that town, has donated 
the tract to the city. 
Myers Memorial Park, donated to 
Gloversville, N. Y., by Max Myers of 
Albany, is to be improved by Town- 
send & Fleming, landscape architects, of 
Buffalo. 
The city council of Des Moines, la., 
has authorized the legal department to 
secure possession of the river banks 
preparatory to parking them. 
The park hoard of Pensacola, Fla., 
will erect an electric fountain to be fur- 
nished by the J. L. Mott Iron Works 
of New York, in the Plaza. 
