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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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WINTER SNOW DAMAGES EVERGREENS 
The soft adhesive snow that sticks on 
evergreen trees in winter often cause 
much damage. The weight of the snow 
strains the limbs, often causing them to 
split, break and bend down so much 
as to mar their beauty. Such subjects 
as Hemlock and Retinosporas, are liable 
to be destroyed, or disfigured for years. 
Arborvitse is another. Last year we had 
several snow storms of such character, 
that a large number of Hemlock, 15-18 
feet high, growing on a side hill upon 
a loose, stony soil, were pulled up com- 
pletely by the roots, from the heavy 
weight of the snow that adhered upon 
the tops. Other fine trees were bent to 
the ground; they are still in this condi- 
tion. To avoid this the snow should be 
knocked off the branches with a long 
pole, particularly on such trees as noted 
above. This will be time well spent by 
any one having fine trees of this char- 
acter, who wishes to preserve their natu- 
ral beauty and shape in spite of the 
effects of snow falls. 
Oakson Edwards. 
in Cleveland, O., and San Francisco, 
and Rochester, N. Y., has one under 
way. The one in Milwaukee has been 
given a much more elaborate pedes- 
tal and setting than either of the 
others. The Milwaukee memorial 
stands on a slight rise of ground with 
a fine background of trees and shrub- 
bery, and embodies a handsomely 
proportioned exedra of medium Barre 
granite that sets off the statues to 
good advantage. 
The Jos. Shaver Granite & Marble 
Co. were the local contractors and the 
granite work was furnished by Chas. 
H. More & Co., of Barre, Vt. The 
W'ork cost $10,000. 
boulevard around Reed’s Lake. TRe 
Grand Rapids Boulevard Association 
now owns nearly all of the right of 
way along the Grand River to Grand- 
ville, a distance of six miles. It is 
now passable for carriages, and it is 
expected that a suitable roadway will 
soon be built. A ferry has recently 
been built across the river at Jenni- 
scn and the highway across the river, 
already a beautiful drive, may be used 
as a part of the boulevard system. 
The Board of Trade of Pierre, S. 
D., has asked the city council to ap- 
point a committee to investigate the 
matter of acquiring land for the pro- 
posed boulevard around the lake. 
The town trustees of Mill Valley, 
Cal., have decided on a tract to be 
purchased for the new city park. 
Citizens of Auburndale, Mass., have 
contributed $3,300 for the purchase of 
the Nye tract for a public park. 
The Board of Control of Norfolk, 
Va., is considering the establishment 
of a playground on the site of the 
high school in Brambleton. 
The Park Board of Minneapolis has 
formally voted to condemn the old 
Center Block property for a “Gate- 
way Park,” and the cost of the build- 
ings and land is estimated at $640,000. 
The commission on the extension 
of the capitol grounds at Harrisburg, 
Pa., places the value of the property 
to be acquired at $1,801,450. City 
Engineer M. B. Cowden is a member 
of the commission. 
Oakland, Cal., will expend about 
$30,000 in improvements about Lake 
Merritt by next July. 
The park commission of Evansville, 
Ind., will purchase the E. Q. Smith 
chair factory for a' public park for 
$ 20 , 000 . 
The landscape department of 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Mt. Airy, 
Philadelphia, Pa., has been awarded 
the contract for the improvement of 
the Valley Forge Military Park. The 
work will include all road building, 
grading, demolishing of buildings and 
other landscape improvements. This 
w'ork will cost $7,000. This firm has 
also been awarded the contract for 
$200,000 worth of work in building 
state roads in different parts of Penn- 
sylvania for the State Highway Com- 
mission. 
The park commission of Cambridge, 
Mass., has asked the mayor to peti- 
tion the state legislature for the right 
to raise $200,000 for the completion 
of the park system by a bond issue 
which shall be outside the debt limit. 
• Park Commissioner R. A. Harris, 
of El Paso, Tex., is planning to im- 
prove three new park tracts that have 
been donated to the city. 
J. H. Moores, one of the leading citi- 
zens of Lansing, Mich., has presented 
to that city eighteen acres of valu- 
able land in Moores Park Addition 
for a city park. The city has ac- 
cepted the gift and passed special 
resolutions of thanks to the donor.. 
The Wisconsin State Park Commis- 
sion has taken an option on 2,700 
acres of land at the mouth of the 
Wisconsin river, to preserve for park 
uses a tract of extraordinary scenic 
beauty and historic interest. T. E. 
Brittingham, of Madison, is chairman 
of the state board, and John Nolen, 
Cambridge, Mass., landscape architect. 
The Metropolitan Park Board of 
Tacoma, Wash., is planning to submit 
to the people a proposal to issue 
$500,000 in bonds for park purposes. 
Should the measure be carried the 
commission will probably employ a 
GOETHE-SCHILLER MONUMENT IN MILWAUKEE 
The handsome Goethe-Schiller mon- 
ument shown on the cover of this is- 
sue was erected by German citizens 
of Milwaukee in honor of the two 
great German poets and stands in 
Wonderland Park in that city. The 
bronze surmounting group is a replica 
of the famous group modeled by 
Ernest Reitschel and erected many 
years ago in Weimar. It was cast 
in Germany from the original models. 
Goethe is represented as holding in 
his hand a large wreath and Schiller 
a roll of manuscript. This is the 
most popular representation of the 
great poets that has been made and 
other replicas of it have been erected 
NEW PARKS, IMPROVEMENTS and ADDITIONS 
President Paul Capdevielle, of the 
park commissioners of the City Park 
at New Orleans, has been authorized 
to purchase an addition to this park 
near the entrance. 
The board of estimate of Rochester, 
N. Y., has appropriated for the pur- 
chase of land between Carter and 
North streets for a playground and also 
for the equipment of the playground 
at the No, 14 school. 
J. Pomeroy Munson, landscape 
gardener, of Grand Rapids, Mich., has 
prepared plans for the improvement 
of the Chas. Reitz City Park in Man- 
istee, Mich., donated by the late 
Charles Reitz, and work is now under 
way. Mr. Munson has also prepared 
plans for a triangular tract in Grand 
Haven, Mich., known as Howard 
Street Park. Mr. Munson writes us 
that the committee on a more beauti- 
ful city of Grand Rapids is investi- 
gating the possibilities of making a 
