PARK AND CEMETERY. 
VII 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
(.Continued from page 95) 
public park purposes, and that the 
city make an annual appropriation 
for its maintenance and improvement. 
The Ludington, Mich., common 
council has authorized a special elec- 
tion for a vote on the proposition for 
bondin,e the city for $50,000 for a 
park fund. According to the present 
plans the city will purchase a large 
tract of land along the lake shore, 
extending from the harbor to the Ep- 
worth league camp grounds, for a 
public park and boulevard. 
The San Jacinto battle ground has 
been purchased by the State of Texas 
and is to be converted into a 
memorial park. The property con- 
sists of 340 acres of good land, situ- 
ated 30 miles east and a little south 
of Houston, on Buffalo Bayou, near 
where it empties into San Jacinto 
Bay, which is part of Galveston Bay. 
It is to be named San Jacinto State 
Park, and plans are made for its de- 
velopment into a fitting memorial 
park. It abounds in natural beauty 
and will be a great acquisition. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Roe Burgess of Mil- 
waukee, and William J. Roe, a 
wealthy resident of Oshkosh, Wis., 
have presented to the latter city the 
old homestead of Gilbert Wheeler 
Roe to be used as a park to be 
known as the Gilbert Wheeler Roe 
Park, in honor of the donor’s father, 
who was a prominent banker in Osh- 
kosh. 
The old City Cemetery of San 
Francisco, Calif., will soon be trans- 
formed into a city park. It comprises 
some 300 acres of land and is beau- 
tifully located, looking directly down 
upon the Golden Gate. It will form 
a notable addition to San Francisco’s 
park system. 
The Wisconsin legislature has 
passed an appropriation of $20,000 for 
the purchase of land for an addition 
to State Fair Park in Milwaukee. 
A committee of ten, headed by S. 
L. Benham has been formed at Wa- 
co, Tex., to park a strip of land on 
both sides of Waco creek. 
C. W. Shepard has prepared plans 
for the development of a river bank 
park in Joliet, 111. 
The park board of Sagina\v, Mich., 
has established a nursery in Rust 
Park, and has about 3,000 plants in it. 
Kansas City, Kan., is condemning a 
12-acre tract on Quindaro boulevard 
for a park in the North End. 
The park board of Muskogee, Okla., 
has bought a 20-acre tract for a park. 
Cottage Grove, Ore., has bought a 
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