PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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The Eastern Branch of the Ameri- 
can Association of Park Superintend- 
ents held its quarterly session in Bos- 
ton, October 8,' with headquarters at 
tile Quincy House. President J. A. 
I’ettigrew, Superintendent of the Bos- 
ton parks, took the party in three big 
autos for a tour through the parks 
and parkways, finally bringing up at 
-Mr. Pettigrew's home in I'ranklin 
Park, u-here lunch was served and 
the routine meeting of the Branch 
took place. The ride of inspection 
and pleasure was resumed from there 
and covered many places of interest. 
The next meeting will be held in New 
A’ork. 
'Mrs. William F. Draper, widow of 
the late General Draper, proposes to give 
to Milford, Mass., a public park and an 
equestrian statue of General Draper. 
The park is a triangular space of about 
two-thirds of an acre located in the 
heart of the town, and was the scene 
of the assembling of the colonial sol- 
diers in the French and Indian war and 
of the minute men at the Le.xington 
call and other war gatherings. 
It has been reported that Mr J. Pier- 
pout Alorgan intends placing his mag- 
nificent properties at Cragston, one of 
the finest of private grounds on the 
Hudson River, under the charge of the 
Palisades Park Commission for state 
park purposes. 
Ventnor City, N. J., ^'oted on -‘\ugust 
11 to purchase four squares of beach 
front for park and bathing purposes. 
Sixty-one women who own Ventnor 
property voted for the first time in -^t- 
lantic County. 
Jersey City, N. J., has secured for 
$1:1,000 a new park for the Fifth Ward. 
It is intended to make this a beauty 
spot. 
The Cit\- Council of Ottumwa, la., 
has accepted a tract of land contain- 
ing 37 acres from Messrs. Manning 
& AVellman for park purposes, which 
will be an important addition to 
Ottumwa's park system. 
.■\ proposition to issue $7,50,000 of 
bonds for park and boulevard purposes 
in Toledo, O., was submitted to the 
City Council recentl)'. 
The new park, Bingham Park, Mon- 
roe, Wis,, containing 211 acres, the gift 
of Mrs. Bingham to the cit}', is pro- 
nounced a beautiful tract by Mr. Robert 
Tinker, landscape architect, who has 
submitted plans for its development. 
.A.S is usual, and as is always to be 
expected, the politician knows no law 
when his interests sway him. An in- 
teresting example of this is presented 
at the present time in iMinneapolis. 
that citer that has been so active in 
i.)ark and improvement work through 
its up-to-date organizations, and 
whose city ordinance so carefully pre- 
scribes against the placing of politi- 
cal advertising on telephone and tele- 
graph poles within the city limits. It 
appears that certain cajididates in 
this present campaign are using the 
poles quite liberally Just now, in con- 
sequence of which the improvement 
organizations are taking the matter 
up and promising prosecution unless 
it is immediately stopped. Now Mr. C. 
M. Loring declares that “any candidate 
who will so violate the law is not 
entitled to the nomination for any of- 
fice.” A very w'arlike feeling his been 
aroused over the action of these 
candidates who are running for law- 
making offices while at the same time 
\ iolating existing laws. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
The refusal of the Park Commission 
of La Crosse, Wis., to accept a $10, 000 
memorial fountain from J. Ole Storey, 
of Portland, Ore,, a former resident of 
La Crosse, to be located in Copeland 
Park, the site of his old home, has 
aroused the members of the Progressive 
League to make a public demand upon 
the commission to give its reason for 
the refusal. Mr. Storey intended the 
fountain as a memorial to his mother. 
Preparations are beiqg made for the 
parking of the Monongahela wharf, 
Pittsburg, Pa,, between Smithfield Street 
and Wabash bridges. 
Plans for the projected park system 
for St. Joseph, Mo., are about ready, 
and a report from the engineers pre- 
])aring them was expected by the middle 
of September. 
Park improvements in Atlantic City, 
N. J., to the amount of $400,000 are be- 
ing put under way. .‘V large share will 
go into the making of good automobile 
roads. 
Isle Royale, Lake Superior, is to be 
made a large game preserve and a num- 
ber of deer have already been turned 
loose upon it. It is a large bleak island 
inhabited only during the summer, and 
then only sparsely, while in winter it is 
almost inaccessible. 
Contracts have been awarded to 
Richard Blackburne for the construc- 
tion of the three architectural features 
of the Rhodes Memorial Park, Birming- 
ham, Ala. J'he park plans were pre- 
])ared by George H. Hiller, landscape 
architect, Boston, Mass., and the build- 
ing designs by William Leslie Welton, 
a local architect. The park is located 
at Highland .Avenue and Twenty-eighth 
Street. There will be two elaborate en- 
trances and a center structure, with a 
memorial to the late General Rufus N. 
Rhodes. 
The women of Wichita Falls, Te.xas, 
members of the Civic League, have un- 
dertaken to improve the parks of the 
city. 
The contract for constructing the 
Barrington Parkway project of the Met- 
ropolitan Park Commission, Provi- 
dence, R. L, has been let to A. G. Tom- 
asello, of Boston, the lowest of six bid- 
ders. It is to be completed by May 15, 
next, the grass to be growing on the 
slopes. The contract price was $53,357 ; 
the highest bid was $108,961. The prices 
for the work varied between the high- 
est and lowest as follows : Earthwork 
grading, 37 to 60 cents per cubic yard ; 
loam surfacing, from 36 cents to $1.50 
per square yard, and roading surface, 
from 15 cents to 50 cents. 
.Superintendent Wirth, of the Minne- . 
apolis park system, recommended that 
public baths he located at Lake Harriet, 
but the park board committee's eye was 
single to the project of locating bath- 
ing beaches on Lake Calhoun. Both 
lakes have beautiful bathing conditions 
and unless the tide of popular prejudice 
favors the Mississippi River, it is prob- 
able that bathing accommodations will 
he demanded at both lakes before many 
years pass. 
Some $40,000 has been expended so 
far this year in improvements in the 
park system of Montreal, Canada. It 
is a beautiful city and improving year 
by year. 
-According to a street tree census tak- 
en in Manhattan, New York, streets, the 
trees below One Hundred and Eighty- 
second Street number 1],2;25, a consid- 
erable falling off in the last three years. 
It is attributed to the inability of the 
park department to make the necessary 
expenditures to replace dead trees or 
those removed for cause. Commissioner 
Stover intends to include a sum for tree 
planting in his estimates for next year. 
Joseph Hicks Park. Plainwell, Mich., 
is to be great I}' improved as the result 
of a purchase of the Dr. Woolsej" resi- 
dence by Mrs. Helen D. Hicks, who 
• originalh- gave the park to the city as a 
memorial to her husband. The park is 
right in the business district. 
