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It is expected that all the land will 
be acquired for Wheelock Parkway, the 
boulevard between Lake Como, and 
Lake Phalen, St. Paul, this winter so 
that the work of improvement may be 
started next spring. 
Two Japanese landscape gardeners 
are completing the improvement of a 
Japanese garden in Fairmount Park,- 
Philadelphia, to surround the Japanese 
Temple brought from the St.. Louis 
World’s Fair which has been illustrat- 
ed in these pages. 
Mayor McConlogue, of Mason City, 
la , is planning to bring about the or- 
ganization of a park system and the 
appointment of a park commission. 
A stone wall is being erected along 
the zoo pond, in Brandywine Park, Wil- 
mington, Del. 
The lakes in Roger Williams Park, 
Providence, R. L, are being cleaned of 
the growth of grass and weeds that col- 
lects annually on the bottoms. 
Henry Parsons has offered a tract of 
land to Kennebunk, Me., for a public 
park. 
J. A. Rice, of New York, has offered 
to the city of Elkhart, Ind., a 40-acre 
tract for a park and an addition of 
fifty acres to the city cemetery on con- 
dition that the city pay him $600 a year 
during his life and spend $600 a year 
after his death on the improvement of 
the park. 
The mayor and controller of Indian- 
apolis have recommended tax levy for 
park purposes of 6 cents per $100. 
Superintendent Theodore Wirth, of 
the Minneapolis Park system has recom- 
mended the expenditure of $1,000 for 
the purchase of a well driving outfit 
to furnish drinking water in the city 
parks. The plan is to have hand 
pumps in the smaller parks and run- 
ning fountains in the larger ones. The 
turn in the Lake of the Isles Boule- 
vard at Franklin avenue is to be re- 
graded to make it less abrupt. 
The Park Board of Worcester, Mass., 
has purchased a triangular tract of land 
on the boulevard to Hadwen Park. 
September 12 was “kite day” at Belle 
isle Park, Detroit, and a large number 
of boys engaged in the kite contests. 
T’ark Superintendent Thos. W. Cook, 
of New Bedford, Mass., has made ex- 
tensive improvements in the deer park 
in Buttonwood Park. One thousand 
eight hundred loads of dirt have been 
dumped there to raise the grade of the 
land, and a new wire fence is to be 
placed around it. 
Rate payers of Revelstoke, B. C., 
have voted to raise $5,000 for the im- 
provement of the city parks. 
Park Superintendent Kelley, of Law- 
rence, Mass., has laid concrete walks 
in Storrow Park, and will build a ball 
field in that park. 
Baker City, Ore., has a fund of $1,- 
800 for the improvement of the new 
park recently donated to the city. 
The city council of Terre Haute has 
authorized the Board of Public Works 
to condemn three tracts for parks, and 
will ask the special session of the leg- 
islature to pass an act allowing the pur- 
chase of Parsons Field. 
The city council of Springfield, Mass., 
has appropriated $2,500 for the Emer- 
son W right playground, to be added to 
another $2,500 donated by Nathan D. 
Bill. 
Caldwell, Idaho, is to lay out a new 
park at Lake Howard. 
The city council of Pasadena, Cal, 
will include in the general bond elec- 
tion call an item of $50,000 for the im- 
provement of Tournament Park. 
Plans are being prepared for the de- 
velopment of Corgas Park, at Ridge 
avenue and Hermitage streets, Phila- 
delphia. 
Cyrus H. McCormick has donated to 
the city of Chicago a tract at Sawyer 
avenue and Twenty-eighth street for a 
playground. 
It is proposed to condemn for park 
purposes six acres on Queen Anne Hill, 
Seattle, Wash., overlooking the city, the 
sound and Mt. Rainier. 
Park Commissioner C. A. Genung, of 
Waterloo, N. Y., has completed the 
building of cement walks in the village 
park, and is now grading the ground 
preparatory to sowing grass seed. 
Bloody Pond, near Glen Falls, N. Y., 
has been purchased by the New York 
State Historical Society Association and 
is to be improved as a public park. 
Danville, Pa., has just finished the 
improvement of a new municipal park 
formerly a cemetery. 
Dr. Rutherford Morris, of New York 
City, has offered to the town of Oneonta, 
N. Y., a tract of land known as Morrell 
Flats for park purposes. 
Sioux Falls, S. D., recently dedicated 
McKennan Park, presented to the city 
by Mrs. Helen G. McKennan. 
There is a movement on foot to pur- 
chase by joint action of the state of 
Ohio and the nation historic sites at 
Put-in-Bay. 
Dolgeville, N. Y., is raising a fund 
of $1,500 to buy a park tract. 
Park Commissioner Quigley, of Meri- 
den, Conn., has macadamized the South- 
ington Road along Hubbard Park, and 
is proceeding with the improvement of 
Hemlock Grove. 
The park commission of Buffalo has 
voted to enlarge Bennett Park, and it 
l;as been proposed to move the botanic 
garden from South Park where the 
l.lant life is injured by the gases from 
neighboring factories to this tract. 
The city council of Beatrice, Neb., 
has appropriated $1,700 for the improve- 
ment of a park in West Beatrice. 
Appraisers appointed by the park 
board of Minneapolis to value the 
property in the old center block which 
it is proposed to take for a gateway 
park, report a total valuation of 
$472,906. 
The city of St. Louis has filed con- 
demnation proceedings for the ac- 
quiring of a tract of ground on Mul- 
lanphy St., between Tenth and Elev- 
enth. 
About 200 additional benches have 
been placed in West Park, Pittsburg. 
The Special Parks Commission of 
Chicago have acquired or fitted up 
sixteen new parks during the past 
year. The commission now has 
charge of 52 parks and twelve play- 
grounds. John Allgots is superintend- 
ent of small parks and Theodore A. 
Gross superintendent of playgrounds. 
A new park at Floyd and Oak Sts., 
riallas, Tex., has been purchased for 
$9,500. 
Cecil Fraser, landscape architect of 
Louisville, Ky., is in charge of the 
improvement of the grounds about 
the new public I'brary. 
John C. Olmsted of the firm of 
Olmsted Bros., Brookline, Mass., re- 
cently visited Richmond, Ky., in 
connection with plans for the beau- 
tifying of the campus of the Eastern 
Kentucky Normal School there. 
Philadelphia has added 34 acres to 
the tract to be made into Pennypack 
Creek Park. 
Lester P. Stearns has offered to 
Forestville, N. Y., a tract of land for 
park purposes. 
F. J. Kiesel of Ogden, Idaho, ha.s 
donated to Parma, Idaho, a ten-acre 
tract for a park. 
The Federated Women’s Clubs of 
Springfield, Mo., have appointed a 
committee to take steps to secure a 
park in the valley of the Jordan. 
George W. Elder, superintendent 
of city playgrounds of Cleveland, O., 
reports that the attendance this sea- 
son has been the largest in the his- 
tory of the playgrounds. 
Wittenburg, Wis., has purchased 
five acres of park land, and would 
like to receive suggestions for its 
treatment. R. B Gli'.dntz is the vil- 
l-'gc clerk. 
