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'\Iuch improvement has been car- 
ried out in the Fall River, Mass., 
parks. Nearly $25,000 is to be spent 
yet on the Xorth and South parks, 
and the development of Lothrop 
park, on Stafford road is being car- 
ried out on a contract of .$30,000 or 
more entered into some months ago. 
A contract for the improvement of 
the grounds surrounding the new Salt 
Lake station at Pasadena, Calif., has 
been let and the work of fixing up 
the miniature park about the build- 
ing has begun. The park is to be 
semi-tropical in type, with paths, 
palms, flower beds, etc. It is planned 
to have the station grounds so .fixed 
up that those coming to Pasadena 
will get the best possible first impres- 
sion of the city. 
The board of supervisors has appor- 
tioned $6,000 to the new county board 
of forestry for the parking of the 
Mooney grove, now a county park, 
and situated about midway between 
Visali and Tulare, Calif. Avenues 
will be laid out, a portion of the 
grounds set to lawn and flowers, pic- 
nic grounds arranged, pumping plant 
installed and other improvements 
made. The Mooney grove contains 
100 acres, purchased by the super- 
visors over a year ago for $15,000 and 
is the most thickly wooded section 
of the valley portion of the county 
remaining untouched by the ax. The 
largest portion is covered with oak 
trees. A condition of the sale is 
that none of the trees shall be cut. 
The Attorney-General’s department 
of Oklahoma has approved a $50,- 
000 issue of Muskogee City Park im- 
provement bonds. The issue bears 
5 per cent. 
Improvements are to start for the 
entrance to Burnet woods, and also 
in Eden Park and Madison and Ob- 
servatory Avenues, Cincinnati, O. 
The Lincoln school grounds, Du- 
buque, la.-, are to be made over into 
a park and play center. 
Pensacola, Fla., is lagging behind 
in park maintenance and improve- 
ment, and the press is calling atten- 
tion to the fact. 
Lyons, Kansas, is about to move 
to improve its five acre tract in the 
center of the town, and a beauty 
spot is to be made of it. It is a well 
drained piece of land partly covered 
with trees. 
One of the greatest gifts ever made 
to any people by living private citizens 
took place at Newburgh, N. Y., when 
presentation of the Harriman gift of 10,- 
000 acres of land and a check for $1,000- 
000 was made by Averill W. Harriman, 
son of the late E. H. Harriman, to 
George W. Perkins, president of the 
Palisades Park Commission. As he 
handed the deeds and check to Mr. Per- 
kins the son of the late financier said : 
“In accordance with a long-cherished 
plan of my father to give to the state 
of New York, for the use of the people, 
a portion of the Arden estate, and act- 
ing in behalf of my mother, I now pre- 
sent to the commissioners of the Pali- 
sades Park the land comprising the gift. 
1 also hand you my mother’s contribu- 
tion to the expense of future develop- 
ment of the Harriman Park. It is her 
hope and mine that through ail the years 
to come the health and happiness of fi:- 
ture generations will be advanced by 
these gifts.’’ The presentation cere- 
monies took place on the top of Bear 
Mountain, and in the presence of about 
fifty prominent people. When the park 
is completed it will be the largest recre- 
ation ground in the world near a large 
city. Conditionally on the authorization 
of a New York state bond issue, John 
D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan both 
promise $500,000, and an appropriation 
of $500,000 has been authorized by the 
legislature of New Jersey, provided New 
York makes its grant.' 
Some 7,000 bulbs have been planted 
this fall in the city park of Streator, 111. 
The committee in charge of the Don- 
ald G. Mitchell (“Ik Marvel”) me- 
morial fund in Westville, Conn., has de- 
cided on a library and reading room to 
be located in the proposed Beecher 
Park. A considerable fund has already 
been accumulated. 
Bathing facilities in the parks of Mil- 
waukee, Wis., are being considered by 
the park board. 
Heroic measures are to be taken to 
preserve the m.agnificent oak trees 
which adorn the City Park of- New Or- 
leans, La. These trees are showing 
signs of poor health ; it is estimated 
that these famous trees must be 500 
years old, and their beauty, probably 
the best asset of the park, demands spe- 
cial and immediate care. 
According to preliminary plans out- 
lined by George E. Kessler, the land- 
scape architect, the projected park and 
boulevard system of St. Joseph, Mo., 
will be comprised of four districts. 
South St. Joseph, King Hill and Hyde 
Valley; and all of the territory extend- 
ing from the stockyards to the east city 
limits, and Florence addition to the 
south city limits, will be embraced in 
one district. The other three districts 
will radiate from the business district 
in every direction, embracing an equal 
portion of area of business property in 
order to equalize assessments for park 
work. The board of park and boule- 
vard commissioners have selected the 
70 acres on Prospect Hill for a start 
in the new system. 
Plans are on foot in Oregon to in- 
clude Mount Hood as a part of a na- 
tional park. Congress is to be asked to 
set aside the whole Cascade forest re- 
serve. 
Bluff City, Kan., a town in Harper 
county of about three hundred inhabi- 
tants, has a ten-acre park. Many years 
ago James Glover, a pioneer, induced 
the town company to donate this ground 
for a park, and in 1888 the land was so 
donated, and includes four city blocks 
and streets, and is called Glover Park. 
It was improved and is kept in compara- 
tively good shape by the citizens. Bluff 
City', Kan., appears to have more park 
area “per capita" than any other town 
in the world. 
At a special town meeting held at 
Milford, Mass., on October 3, it was 
voted to accept the offer of Mrs. Su- 
san Preston Draper to present Congre- 
gational Park and a statue of Gen. Wil- 
liam Draper to the town on condition 
that it remain forever without build- 
ings thereon and that the town shall 
forever maintain it as a park. 
Milwaukee, Wis., recently bought the 
first piece of property on the proposed 
site of the Fifth Ward Park, at a cost 
of $10,000. This park has been a project 
of some years’ standing. 
Lindner Park, Carlisle, Pa., the gift 
of John Lindner to Carlisle, was dedi- 
cated and transferred to the borough 
October 18. With it were given two 
seven-ton cannon captured from the 
Spanish by Dewey at Manila and pre- 
sented by the United States govern- 
ment. 
The board of park commissioners of 
Kansas City, Kan., adopted a resolution 
recently providing for the issuance of 
$95,000 of bonds to pay for lands re- 
cently condemned for the new Bethany.. 
St. Margaret’s and Clifton Hill parks. 
The board is empowered to issue $150. 
000 in bonds during each calendar year,, 
and so far this year only $51,000 worth, 
has been voted. 
