PARK AND CEMETERY . 
200 
BALTIMORE SOLDIERS’ 
MONUMENT 
The soldiers’ and sailors’ memorial, 
illustrated on the cover of this issue, 
was recentl}' completed in Druid Hill 
Park, Baltimore, Md., and unveiled with 
elaborate exercises. 
The work was modeled by A. A. 
Weinman, of New York, and is one of 
the finest of our newer type of sculp- 
tured memorials. 
The comparatively low pedestal and 
the exedra seat back of it, shown in our 
illustration, were designed by Mr. Albert 
Randolph Ross, of New York, in col- 
laboration with Mr. Weinman. A winged 
goddess, suggestive of a Greek Victory, 
and called “Heroic Courage” urges on 
the soldier with voice and outstretched 
arm while at the same time she breaks 
a branch from a young oak, the symbol 
of military glory. The second figure, 
Maryland, more stately and matronly, 
with ample drapery and a shield, be- 
stows her blessing upon her son as he 
departs for battle. 
The pedestal is of Redstone, N. H., 
■granite, furnished by the Maine & New' 
Hampshire Granite Co., Portland, Me., 
and the bronze was cast in the cire per- 
due process by the Roman Bronze Works 
of Brooklyn. The total cost of the work 
was $25,000. 
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Mrs.. Russell Sage will add to her 
gift of the public park and children’s 
playground at Sag Harbor, L. I. This 
already consists of 40 acres ' and cost 
$200,000, but it is to be extended so as 
to secure a longer water front on Otter 
Pond. 
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E. P. Foster and wife, benevolent 
pioneer citizens of Ventura, Cal., have 
made another gift of park land to the 
county. The gift this time is 60 acres 
in extent. 
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The Canadian Government will estab- 
lish a beach park at Hamilton, Ont. It 
will have a frontage of 1400 feet on the 
bay. 
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A number of organizations in Penn- 
sylvania and New Jersey are agitating 
the question of creating an Interstate 
or National Park about Washington’s 
Crossing on the Delaware River. The 
historical interest centering about this 
locality ought to make the project both 
practical and popular. 
The Park Board of Reading, Pa., 
has commenced work on the large tract 
of land donated to the city by Mr. 
George E. Baer. 
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The Grand Concourse and Boulevard, 
a thoroughfare four ' and one-half 
miles long, connecting the parkway 
systems of the Bronx, New York, was 
dedicated last month. This was the 
link between the Bronx and Manhattan 
parkway, the whole forming a magnifi- 
cent chain of drives, beginning at Cen- 
tral Park and extending to the Yonkers 
line. It is the consummation of a 
scheme originating over 20 years ago 
under the first commissioner of street 
improvements, Mr. Louis J. Heintz. 
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A scheme to- connect the roadways 
of John Ball Park, Grand Rapids, 
Mich., with a traffic roadway which 
touched its boundary, resulted in a de- 
cided vote against any such project in 
relation to any of the parks of the city 
by the Board of Park and Cemetery 
Commissioners. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
The estimates for the parks of Allen- 
town, Pa., are as follows : West Park, 
$4,750; Allen Park, $1,800; Public Play- 
grounds, $1,250 ; general park purposes, 
$5,000 ; a total for all parks of $12,800. 
The Park Commission of Cincinnati, 
O., has adopted plans for beautifying 
Inwood Park, Vine and Hollister streets, 
and is beginning the actual work at once. 
One attractive feature will be the plant- 
ing of 100,000 daffodil and narcissus 
bulbs in the grass upon the hillside 
overlooking Vine street; and another 
will be to make the ravine and stream 
a copy of a celebrated English brook. 
The councils of Philadelphia have 
passed an ordinance authorizing the ex- 
penditure of $1,000,000 for the further 
purchase of property along the route of 
the Parkway. 
By the will of George Rhodius, of 
Indianapolis, Ind., that city is bequeathed 
the sum of $750, OdO for the improve- 
ment of its park system. There is likely 
to be legal complications due to claims. 
Winthrop, Mass., has taken title to a 
valuable property on Orleans avenue 
and Bartlett road, which will be im- 
proved for park purposes. 
Trenton Junction, N. J., is to have a 
pretty small park. This is assured by 
the purchase of a plot of ground from 
the Philadelphia & Reading Railway 
Company by John Kurtz, of the Tren- 
ton Junction Hotel. 
Harrisburg, Pa., is gradually acquir- 
ing river front property for park pur- 
poses. Mr. and Mrs. Hurlock have 
deeded the river frontage of their house 
property to the Park Commission. 
Small parks are to be made of the 
former Court House site and the old 
High School site in Paterson, N. J. 
The Park and Cemetery Commission- 
ers of Grand Rapids, Mich., are moving 
for a river front boulevard, and an ex- 
tension of the present park system. 
Oak Lawn Park, Dallas, Tex., for- 
merly the property of the street railway 
company, by the payment of $38,000 
now belongs to the city. 
It is intimated that the officials of 
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway 
will donate to the city of Rockford, 
111., the ground now occupied by the 
east side passenger station for park 
purposes, when the new station is com- 
pleted at Seventh street. The land was 
originally given to the company by the 
citizens of Rockford. 
The family of Joseph Bryan has pre- 
sented to the city of Richmond, Va., 
the tract of 262 acres known as “Rose- 
wood” or “Young’s Pond,” 
Molinte, 111, by ordinance secures an- 
other park site. A considerable por- 
tion of the Riverside Cemetery tract, 
which has never been used for burial 
purposes, will be relinquished to the 
city for improvement as a public park. 
The State House Commission, Tren- 
ton, N. J., has accepted the topograph- 
ical survey of the proposed State Capi- 
tol Park, and $60,000 will be asked of 
the legislature to complete the plans. It 
will occupy 12 acres of land in the rear 
of the State House, between the water 
power and the Delaware river. 
Improvement is to begin on the plot 
of ground adjoining Eden Park, Wil- 
mington, Del, donated by the Lobdell 
family to the city for park purposes. 
The Wisconsin Society of New York 
has decided to purchase the first Ameri- 
can home of Carl Schurz in Watertown, 
Wis., and make of it a public park. 
The heirs of the late Albert Chavan- 
nes have donated about three acres of 
land for a city park in Knoxville, Tenn. 
On the plot is the spring from which 
the city got its water supply 50 years 
ago. 
The work of converting the lowlands 
around Carter Lake, Omaha, Neb., into 
a park will cost upwards of $150,000, 
and the dredging of the lake an addi- 
tional $100,000 : Preparations for 
dredging have been completed and as 
soon as weather will permit active 
