PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW PARKS, IMPROVEMENTS and ADDITIONS 
More has been accomplished toward 
building up a park system in Seattle 
during the four years the park board 
has been in existence than during the 
vious 50 years when the city parks were 
under the board of public works, writes 
Assistant City Engineer C. J. Moore of 
Seattle, Wash., to A. L. White, presi- 
dent of the Spokane park board. This 
progress has been largely the result of 
public support, says Mr. Moore, espe- 
cially in the voting of $600,000 in bonds 
for park uses. Much also was accom- 
plished by employing a landscape gar- 
dener of national reputation, a nonresi- 
dent of Seattle, who could not be charged 
with favoritism in laying out a park sys- 
tem for the city. When one section of 
the city claimed that another was being 
favored it was shown that a general 
scheme as outlined by a disinterested 
expert was being followed and this has 
thus far been sufficient to settle contro- 
versies. 
The Quincy Boulevard and Park 
Association, Quincy, III, is taking the 
very intelligent method of having the 
sculptor of the monument and the land- 
scape architect of the park system confer 
on the location of the George Rogers 
Clarke statue to be erected in that city 
with a state appropriation of $6,000. 
Charles J. Mulligan of Chicago is the 
sculptor and O. C. Simonds the land- 
scape architect. 
By agreement with the property own- 
ers the city of San Diego, Cal., comes 
into possession of a new park tract 
which is . soon to be improved. 
J. E. Freudenberger, of Dayton, O., 
has been engaged to prepare plans for 
the Improvement of a levee park along 
the banks of the Maumee river at Ham- 
ilton, O. 
W. C. Burkhart, of Albany, Ore., has 
offered to improve at his own expense a 
park near First Lake on condition that 
the street car line be extended to the 
tract. 
The Park Board of Tacoma, Wash., 
has asked for a levy of 1^4 mills for 
park purposes the coming year. 
The Park Commission of Buffalo have 
let the contract for the erection of a 
conservatory in Humboldt Park to cost 
$4,392 and is considering the advisa- 
bility of turning the quarry in Delaware 
Park into a sunken garden. 
Councilman E. A. Sweeney of Pitts- 
burg will introduce an ordinance into 
the council to appropriate $150,000 to be 
expended in improving the parks by giv- 
ing work to the unemployed this winter. 
The Park Board of Council Bluffs, 
la., will erect a new concrete house 1 
the winter quarters of the park animals. 
New concrete walks to cost $2,000 are 
to be built in Franklin Park, Blooming- 
ton, 111. 
Three hundred and ten acres have 
been added to the Itasca State Park in 
Minnesota. The state now owns about 
10,000 acres. 
The city of Everett, Ore., is consider- 
ing the purchase of 95 acres of land 
overlooking the bay for park purposes. 
Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, O., has 
donated a five-acre tract to the city for 
park purposes. 
The Campau estate will present to the 
city of Saginaw, Mich., a row of elm 
trees to be planted in front of Bliss 
Park on North Michigan avenue. 
The Park Commission of Superior; 
Wis., has prepared planting plans for 
Union Park. An artificial lake and 
bridge are among the plans. 
One of the most complete athletic 
fields in the country will be laid out by 
Oakland, Cal., in the new park to be 
constructed on the shores of Lake Mer- 
ritt, 
The Park District of Fernwood, a 
suburb of Chicago, has bought a twelve- 
acre tract for a public park. 
Axel C. Pharo-Gagge has been em- 
ployed to do some extensive tree surgery 
and forestry work on the storage dam 
tract at Columbus, O. 
Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, Mass., 
have been employed to plan the improve- 
ments of the grounds for the Country 
Club at Montgomery, Ala. 
The late George W. Parkman, of Bos- 
ton, left $4,000,000 for the improve- 
ment and maintenance of the Boston 
parks. 
The Park Board of Denver will sub- 
mit to the taxpayers the proposition of 
creating an elaborate civic center, and 
making extensive improvements in the 
East Denver Park District. 
Application for an appropriation of 
$35,000 has been made to the Board of 
Estimate by the Bronx River Parkway 
Commission of New York, appointed by 
Governor Hughes to preserve the waters 
of the Bronx River from pollution and 
to create a reservation of the lands on 
either side of the river. It is estimated 
that the present cost of taking the lands 
needed would be about $1,700,000, where- 
as in a few years the cost would prob- 
ably be several times as much. 
The Borough Council of Rutherford, 
arN. J., has authorized the purchase of 
the Rutherford, N. J., Field Club 
grounds for a public park. 
Milwaukee has completed arrange- 
ments for the purchase of 59 acres on 
the lake front to be improved as Bay 
View Park. The tract will have 1,900 
feet of sliore line. 
A new locker building and shelter 
house for tennis players is to be erected 
in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. It is 
to cost $69,000. It was designed by 
Helmle & Huberty, the architects of sev- 
eral of the other handsome structures in 
that park which have been illustrated in 
these pages. 
The Park Board of St. Paul, Minn., 
has appropriated $7,000 for the purchase 
of the last piece of property necessary 
to complete Wheelock Parkway to ex- 
tend from Lake Phalen to Lake Como. 
The Park Board of Evansville, Ind., 
recently sent Superintendent Philo Clark 
to Memphis to study park improve- 
ments being made there under the super- 
vision of George E. Kessler & Co. 
The twentieth annual report of the 
City Parks Association of Philadelphia 
recommends the appointment of an ex- 
pert commission to study and report on 
a general plan for the beautifying of 
the city to include a broad study of 
parks, waterways, transportation, street 
plan, civic centers, public schools, etc. 
The Board of Aldermen of Newton 
Center, Mass., have appropriated $3,500 
toward the destruction of the old Cous- 
ens Block where Cousens Park is to be 
established. 
The Metropolitan Park Board of Ta- 
coma, Wash., is considering the advisa- 
bility of establishing an aquarium in 
Point Defiance Park. 
The Town Council of Rock Rapids, 
la., has passed an ordinance appointing 
a park commissioner to have charge of 
what is known as the Island, a tract in 
the Rock River which the Commercial 
Club has agreed to purchase. 
The e.xtensive dredging and filling 
work in progress at Washington, D. C., 
in filling in the Potomac River flats to 
make Potomac Park, has been nearly 
completed on the west side of the rail- 
road tracks and the work of road build- 
ing and grading has begun there under 
the direction of Col. Chas. S. Bromwell. 
Potomac Park will consist of about 700 
acres of land reclaimed from a marsh. 
Whitehall, N. Y., recently held a “Tag 
Day" for the benefit of the village park 
:in(l i -iised $408. 
