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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
propriation of $33.0fi.j for park pur- 
poses, half of which is to be expended 
in permanent improvements. The im- 
provement of Central Park is to be 
prosecuted with vigor and besides 
Avork on the planting and beautifica- 
tion generally the plans call for foun- 
tains, comfort buildings and other 
substantial necessities. For Eastlake 
Park $30,000 is asked for a new con- 
sevatory. 
Hartford, Conn., parks number 21 
with a total acreage of 1,336. Keney 
Park has 681; Goodwin, 200; Colt, 
106; Elizabeth, 100; Pope, 89; River- 
side, 80; Bushnell, 41; and Rocky 
Ridge, 28 acres. 
Cincinnati is to vote in November 
next on the subject of bonds for park 
purposes. 
Retrenchment is in order in Wil- 
mington, Del., owing to a tangle in 
affairs and the impossibility of bor- 
rowing money on bonds under pres- 
ent conditions. It is said this order 
Avill hit the Board of Park Commis- 
sioners harder than any other depart- 
ment. 
An effort is to be made next fall 
in Kansas tO' secure legislation author- 
izing cities of the first class to levy 
a one-mill ta.x for the maintenance of 
parks and another mill for the ac- 
quisition of park grounds. 
The park commissioners of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., propose to beautify cer- 
tain sections of Prospect Park Avith 
an abundance of flowering bulbs. 
Tenders Avere recently iiiA'ited for 
their supply. 
ilr. H. P. Paris, candidate for gov- 
ernor of Missouri on the Prohibition 
ticket two years ago, has made a re- 
markable offer to Clinton, Mo. On 
condition that a Avreath of flowers be 
laid annually on the grave of his Avife 
for 99 years, Mr. Paris proposes to 
donate to the city a plat of 70 acres 
for a park and also a hotel, Avorth 
now $75,000. The further stipula- 
tions are that the park shall be named 
the Addah Paris Park, and that if the 
hotel is turned into a hospital by the 
city it shall be named the Addah 
Paris hospital. It is not compulsory 
that the hotel shall be made a hospi- 
tal. 
According to a report of Super- 
A’isor Ziegler, of the Cincinnati school 
playgrounds, it cost a fraction under 
3 cents a child to run these children’s 
parks for the four Aveeks ending July 
16. The total cost was $1,154.75 
and the attendance was 40,679. The 
park commissions haA'e been peti- 
tioned to provide four more play- 
ground parks. 
Colorado Springs is agitating for a 
central park. 
While of frequent occurrence in 
Europe, the idea of decorating lamp- 
posts with growing flowering plants 
is a decided innovation in this coun- 
try. However, in Kansas City, Mo., 
the ornamental lamp posts in front 
of the Fidelity Trust Building have 
properly designed urnlike receptacles 
near their tops, wherein are placed 
and changed as often as may be nec- 
essary, growing plants, such as ger- 
aniums, lantanas, vincas and the like, 
and they form very attractive embel- 
lishments. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
Mayor Miner, of Granby, Quebec, 
has presented that town with a tract 
of land for a city park. It Avill be 
named Miner Park. 
A new park at Silvis, la., was for- 
mally opened to the public on July 
19. To the Woman’s Club is due 
this addition to the progress of the 
village. 
The conA^erting of the Brier Hill 
farm — Governor David Tod’s home- 
stead — into a park will be a fitting 
memorial to the Ohio war governor 
and will give the people of the west 
end of Youngstown, O., a very beauti- 
ful park. The farm was left by the 
late George Tod to the city for a 
cemetery, but the greater part of it 
will be devoted to park purposes. 
Governor Hughes, of Nbav York 
State, has signed the Palisades Park 
bill, and this assures a magnificent 
reserA^ation of picturesque country for 
the people. What, A\dth purchases 
and donations by the states and 
wealthy people, including the $1,000,- 
000 and 10,000 acres of park land by 
Mrs. Harriman, if the plans are car- 
ried out, the people Avill have a park 
18 miles long, by 14 miles wide, 253 
square miles, covering 161,280 acres. 
By the will of Charles T. How, 
How’s Park, a handsome tract of 
land in the heart of the fashionable 
cottage section of Bar Harbor, Me., 
has been presented to the Bar Harbor 
Village Improvement Association. 
Bozeman, Mont., is to have a new 
city park. Money has been provided 
for and site selected. 
The council of Lowell, Mass., con- 
curred A\:ith the board of aldermen 
in the acceptance of the 50 acres of 
land offered by Freeman B. Shedd for 
park and playground purposes. A 
rising vote and appropriate resolu- 
tions of thanks Avere accorded the 
donor. Mr. Shedd is a native of 
LoAvell. 
Paragould, Ark., has just received a 
donation of 13 acres of land located 
in its eastern suburbs. A realty and 
development company were the don- 
ors and the stipulations are that the 
city spend $1,000 on improvements at 
once and $500 a year for maintenance 
and improA^ement for a period of 30 
years. 
At a joint meeting of the interest- 
ed city boards of Hamilton, Ont., 
a short time since, it was agreed to 
take up the options on certain prop- 
erties and to requisition the city coun- 
cil to issue debentures for payment 
for the same. The property covers 
22 acres and will cost $42,000. 
Idaho Falls, Idaho, has formally 
dedicated Tautphaus Park, embracing 
160 acres adjoining the city limits on 
the south. It has a lake ten acres in 
extent. 
A scheme is pending looking to the 
establishment of a second park on 
the Sioux River, at Sioux Falls, S. D. 
Jonesboro, Ark., is about to pur- 
chase 20 acres of land for park pur- 
poses. 
The old Fair grounds at Ann Ar- 
bor, Mich., is to be purchased by the 
city and conA^erted into a city park, 
part of which will be used as a public 
children’s playgrounds. Work Avill 
begin in September. 
Cincinnati has acquired another 
park, which is expected to prove one 
of the most popular in Hamilton 
county: primarily it is for the chil- 
dren and the purchase money Avas 
$27,500, and by next summer it is 
promised to be ready for use. It i.s 
located at Burnel avenue and Read- 
ing road. 
The committee appointed to con- 
sider the question of a playground in 
Central Park, New York City, has 
recommended to the Board of Esti- 
mates the construction of a swim- 
ming pool for children, the erection 
of a modern pavilion by the tennis 
court, and a house for the accom- 
modation of mothers and children 
near the wading pool. The proposed 
site is north of the reserA^oir above 
the Ninety-seventh street cross road. 
The plans were prepared by Charles- 
W. Leavitt, Jr., landscape architect. 
The pavilion Avill be 160 ft. by 80 ft., 
with the especial feature of a porch 
20 feet deep along the entire front as- 
a shelter from rain. The amount ap- 
propriated Avas $100,000, but as the 
proposed additions will cost far more 
it is expected that the pavilion Avill 
be undertaken later. 
A new entrance to Greenwood 
Park, Des Moines, la., is being con- 
structed on West Grand avenue. 
