VIII 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
Surveys are being made on the new 
addition to Golden Gate Park, San 
Francisco, which will extend the park 
to the Presidio. The construction of 
the new concrete Stadium in this park 
to be the largest in the world, has 
been begun. It will contain a ^4 
mile running track and athletic 
grounds in proportion. 
Superintendent of Parks R. G. Ran, 
of St. Joseph, Mo., is preparing de- 
tailed plans for the development of 
Bartlett Park, the new tract recently 
accpiired. 
Addison Bain has been appointed 
superintendent of the new system of 
parks of Marion, O., and will make 
improvements as fast as funds will 
allow. 
The park commission of La Crosse, 
Wis., is planning to expend $100,000 
in park and boulevard improvements. 
John Nolen, landscape architect of 
the Madison Park and Pleasure 
Drive Association and also of the 
State Park Commission of Wisconsin, 
recently visited La Crosse with a 
view to suggesting plans for the park 
system. 
Dublin, Ga., has been presented 
with a ten-acre tract for a park. 
The State Board of Public Grounds 
and Buildings of Pennsylvania has 
appointed a committee to appraise 
the value of the land proposed for 
an addition to Capitol Park at Har- 
risburg. 
Park Superintendent Janies Under- 
wood, of Columbus, O., is to inau- 
gurate a chrysanthemum show this 
fall in Franklin Park. He has started 
2,000 plants comprising 150 varieties. 
Columbus is soon to vote on the 
question of establishing a park com- 
mission under the new state law. 
Ground has been broken for a new 
park at Westhope, N. D. 
The Park Board of St. Paul has 
abolished the amusement concessions 
at Phalen Park, and all the get-the- 
money devices must go by October 
15, when Superintendent Nussbaum- 
er will begin the preliminary work of 
landscape improvement to take the 
place of the concessions. 
Members of the State Park Com- 
mission of Wisconsin recently made 
an inspection of a tract in Door 
county for the proposed state park 
system. John Nolen, of Cambridge, 
Mass., landscape architect of the com- 
mission accompanied the party. 
The Civic Improvement League of 
Florence, Col., has acquired a block 
of land for a park. 
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