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make the parks useful and agreealde to 
the great number of people who visit them. 
The park system consists of nine parks 
with a combined area of 221 acres, 8(1.46 
square rods, with cash value of $826, 42-5. 
In the superintendent's report a general 
statement of everything that has occurred 
in connection with the parks during the 
>ear is given, and the details of its ex- 
penditures together with an account of 
whatever work has been done. 
A brief report of the more important 
activities of the Department of Parks and 
Cemeteries of Saginaw, Mich., for the year 
ending December 31, 1016, has lieen sub- 
mitted, and reports of the superintendent 
of parks, and the sextons of the city's three 
cemeteries, and a brief report of the play- 
ground director for the summer, together 
with other reports and data, are included 
in it. The total expenditures of this de- 
partment for the year were as follows : 
Parks, $16,176.66; Forest Lawn Cemetery, 
$4,826.97; Brady Hill Cemetery, $1,178.35; 
Oakwood Cemetery, $1,848.82; total de- 
partmental expenditures for 1916, $24,- 
O30.80. Following is some of the work 
conducted by the park department during 
the year; The road into the low ground of 
Ezra Rust Park at Court street, the grade 
of which was raised last year, was com- 
pleted, covered with cinders and put into 
condition for use. Consideralile grading 
was done along the river and Grand Canal 
in the rear of the Saginaw Canoe Club 
building, also several thousand yards of fill 
were made at the junction of Fordney ave- 
nue with the Grand Canal. The material 
for this w'as obtained from the canal. The 
White Way lights along East Court street 
through this park were installed during the 
fall and placed in service just before the 
end of the year, adding a great deal to the 
appearance and safety of this vicinity. Bliss 
Park, especially the flower garden, was 
maintained in its usual good condition. The 
walls of the shelter house here were low- 
ered about one-half. At Eordney Park a 
number of improvements were made. A 
large bed of evergreens growing in the 
southwest corner of the park were moved 
to a new location around the lower end of 
the low’er pond. A narrow neck of water 
connecting two ponds was filled in and the 
upper pond dammed and its level raised so 
that there is now a living flowing stream 
connecting the two ponds, crossed by a 
couple of stepping stone crossings. Water 
lilies, plants and shrubs were planted in 
and about the ponds and a number of gold 
fish placed in the water. It is the intention 
to continue the improvements here from 
year to year, and lay out an Iris Garden. 
All the small parks were kept in good re- 
pair. Extensive repairs were made on the 
pumping machinery and fountain at Jef- 
fers Park. 
The usual maintenance work in Eorest 
Lawn Cemetery was carried on. Some 
grading was done on Section 9 and about 
750 feet of 6-inch tile in the southwest cor- 
ner of Section 5 was dug up and rehid 
deeper and on a more even grade. The 
trust fund was increased from $89,791.41 
to $93,759.57, and the perpetual care en- 
dowment fund was increased by the addi- 
tion of eight new endowments from $8,- 
200 to $11,400. All general maintenance 
work was taken care of as usual in Oak- 
wood Cemetery. A large number of cin- 
ders were placed on the roads and a few 
short stretches of small tile laid just under 
the surface of the ground to help in the 
drainage of a few low spots. The per- 
petual care endowment fund was increased 
during the year from $8,180 to $8,680 by 
the addition of one new endowment. Brady 
Hill Cemetery w’as maintained in the l^est 
condition it has lieen for several years. 
Recommendations that the site of Re- 
finery Park, Beaumont, Te.x., composed of 
The accompanying view in Calvary Cem- 
eter}'. Long Island City, shows an Austin 
seven-ton gasoline-kerosene motor roller 
operating on their beautiful driveways. 
Quite a number of Cemetery boards have 
adopted the gasoline rollers on account of 
their cleanliness in operation, their readi- 
ness to start on short notice, and their ab- 
sence of smoke and noise and other objec- 
tions in a place like a cemetery, where ol)- 
trusiveness in a roller is very undesirable. 
Some cemeteries using them are Oakwoods, 
Chicago ; St. Adelbert's, Chicago ; Union- 
dale, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Windemere, Detroit ; 
Chas. Evans, at Reading, Pa.; Crown Hill, 
at Indianapolis and others. 
Oak Ridge Cemetery, Chicago, has re- 
cently changed ownership, a new companj 
now being in charge, with the following 
officers; A. E. Anderson, president; E. L. 
Reynolds, vice-president ; Wm. E. Boeger, 
secretary-treasurer. Wm. Richter, former- 
ly assistant superintendent of Rose Hill, 
Chicago, is the new superintendent. 
Dr. Kesterson of Greenwood Cemetery, 
Knoxville, Tenn., w'rites that they have re- 
cently purchased fifteen more acres, which 
83.38 acres, he sold to the Magnolia Petro- 
leum Company were made recently in a 
report of the park board. The .Magnolia 
company offers $35,(100 for the land. The 
proceeds from the sale would be used in 
purchasing a park site in that section of 
the city. The company contemplates util- 
izing the land in making impro\ements to 
its plant. 
Eugene V. Goebel, superintendent of the 
parks and playgrounds of Grand Rapids, 
IMich., for a period of more than fifteen 
years, has resigned, and the Board of Park 
Commissioners recentl}- adopted a resolu- 
tion commending him for his efficient work 
in standardizing the parks and pla\-grounds 
and recommending that his plans be con- 
tinued. 
gives them the top of a ridge from one end 
to the other. They are going to make a 
wide drix'e along the entire top that will 
give one of the finest scenic views in the 
entire country. The drive will be almost 
one mile long and not over 4 or 5 per cent 
grade. There will be a view from the 
east end looking northeast up the valleys 
at House and Clinch mountains in the dis- 
tance. Then going west on the north are 
the valleys with the different ridges rising 
above each other and finally the Cumber- 
land range in the distance rising above all 
of them and meeting the sky. On the 
south are ridges and valleys, with the city 
of Knoxville resting between, and beyond 
are the Smokey and Chilhowee mountains 
with a dim outline of the Blue Ridge in 
Virginia. 
Hare & Hare, of Kansas City, klo., write 
that they have had a very busy year so far 
with still more work coming in. They 
have just finished plans for an extension 
of Laurel Oak Cemetery, Windsor, Mo., 
and also plans for East Lawn Cemetery, 
Springfield, Mo. They are now' finishing 
plans for Evergreen Cemetery, Roanoke, 
CmETERY NOTES 
VIEW IN CALVARY CEMETERY. LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y. 
