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PARK AND CEMETERY . 
A movement has been started in Red- 
lands, Cal., to purchase ground for a 
municipal park and playground. 
One of the most desirable gifts made 
to the city of Wausau, Wis., in years 
was recently received, when the pro- 
prietors of Spring Hill addition, owned 
by Brown, Gilbert & Winton, donated 
to the city sufficient area, contained in 
the addition, for two large parks, hav'- 
ing a natural growth of forest. 
Maisonneuve, at the east end of Mon- 
treal, Quebec, is to have a new park 
The council recently decided to pur- 
chase a plot of land of 1,480,000 square 
feet at a price of 15 cents a foot. 
The park board of Virginia, Minn., 
has purchased, for $6,000, a block in the 
southern part of the city, which in the 
coming year will be converted into a 
park. 
Jackson Park, Chattanooga, Tenn., a 
beautiful park near the National Ceme- 
tery, was dedicated and opened to the 
public on October 3. 
John W. McDaniels, of Bonner 
Springs, Kan., has presented that town 
with a block of land, centrally located, 
for park purposes. Improvement will 
begin at once. 
Work has begun at De Witt, Ark., 
in clearing off the school house plot in 
the middle of the town for the pur- 
pose of making a small park and a play- 
ground for the children. 
Amsterdam, N. Y., is to have a pub- 
lic park if the terms of the bequest in 
the will of the late Dr. J. F. Phillips, 
who died in New Haven, Conn., can be 
carried out. He has bequeathed to the 
town a farm of over 100 acres, in which 
is the family burying ground, located 
about two miles and a half from town, 
on condition that the town will provide 
perpetual care for the burial lot, and 
live up to the following clause: “No 
dogs or cats shall be allowed in the 
park and measures shall be enforced 
against the molestation in any way of 
any birds living in said park, excepting 
crows.” The farm is well located. 
Mr. John C. Olmsted, landscape ar- 
chitect of Boston, has been looking 
over the ground at Dayton, O., as a -pre- 
liminary to preparing a park scheme for 
that city. 
A new park for the north side at the 
corner of Mill and Island streets, La 
Crosse, Wis., has been donated by 
Schmohl-Pfiffer Co. and the Milwaukee 
railroad to the city. The park will be 
a triangular piece of land, each side 
being about 80 feet. 
Lyons, la., is to have a new park. It 
embraces nearly a third of a mile of 
r'ver front, and also two or three blocks 
west of the railway tracks, the whole 
lying between Fourth street and the 
river. 
The Rider Construction Co. of Mon- 
ticello, N. Y., has been awarded the 
contract for improving the Monticello 
Park at a contract price of $3,494. 
The Park Board of Baltimore, Md., 
will have some $603,390 to expend in 
1911, and the following will show the 
proposed expenditures : Office salaries, 
$5,000; office expenses, $2,000; park sal- 
aries, $218,000; park expenses, $143,000; 
new improvements, $110,000. Of this 
last-named amount $41,000 is for com- 
pleting the bridge and boulevard con- 
necting Druid Hill and Wyman parks. 
This is perhaps the most important im- 
provement to be undertaken next year. 
Many improvements are being made 
in Shelby Park, East Nashville, Tenn., 
and when the park commission finishes 
its work it will be the largest recrea- 
tion place in the city, covering, as it 
does, 61 acres. It is a natural park, and 
with the various improvements contem- 
plated it will be one of the most beau- 
tiful parks in the South. It will be 
some years, however, before it is com- 
pleted. 
The Essex County Park Commis- 
sion, New Jersey, has completed its 
plan of improvement for the Maple ave- 
nue tract, Montclair, which comprises 
21 acres between Bloomfield, Maple and 
Woodland avenues and the Glen Ridge 
borough line. The plans will require an 
outlay of $60,000. The type of park to 
be created of the tract is the neigh 
borhood park.” It will have wading 
pool, open air gymnasium, running track, 
large baseball field, a field house, tennis 
courts, wide graveled walks and bioad 
lawns. The tract also admits of consid- 
erable picturesque treatment. 
Plans are under consideration by 
Park Commissioner Storer and Dock 
Commissioner Tomkins of New York 
City for the development of Riverside 
Park for recreation purposes and the 
utilization of the waterfront for wharf- 
age and as a freight terminal. The de- 
tailed plans so far prepared have de- 
veloped considerable difficulties from an 
engineering point of view, and it is un- 
likely that any definite comprehensive 
plan will be submitted before the Sink- 
ing Fund Commission immediately. The 
general scheme proposed is to enlarge 
the Riverside Park by as much as fifty- 
eight acres, extending from 72d to 131st 
street, by filling in the waterfront after 
building a bulkhead wall. The scheme 
will involve great expense, but its 
benefits admit of its immediate consid- 
eration. 
Plans are pending in Congress for a 
thorough improvement of the river front 
in Washington, D. C. They provide for 
a park system along the picturesque 
Potomac and the beautification of both 
sides that will be a credit to the nation. 
Improvement work in Rolding Park, 
Fresno, Cal., is to begin soon. A con- 
tract has been signed for the building 
of a bungalow for Park Superintendent 
Harrah to cost $1,150, and arrangements 
are to be made for the construction of 
the 5,000-gallon tank and pumping sta- 
tion to handle the new well-water sup- 
ply. 
The Cambridge, Mass., Board of 
Aldermen have appropriated $13,000 
for park purposes. 
The old bandstand on Boston Com- 
mon is to give place to a marble and 
granite music pavilion to cost $25,000. 
A number of prominent architects will 
be called upon to compete. The plans 
will be turned over to a commission 
headed by Prof. F. W. Chandler, of 
the Institute of Technology. 
Columbus, O., has 183 acres of pub- 
lic parks and nearly 13 acres in its 
14 street parks or grass plots in street 
centers. The public parks are Frank- 
lin, Goodale, Schiller and Livingston. 
Franklin, covering 100 acres, is the 
largest, and historically, the most in- 
teresting. Goodale, containing 50 
acres, was the beginning of the city’s 
park system. Schiller Park, of be- 
tween 23 and 24 acres, became a pub- 
lic park in 1867. Livingston Park is 
9 acres in area. This was once part 
of the old East graveyard. 
There has been placed at the dis- 
posal of the state of Vermont, free of 
all cost and unhampered by any oner- 
ous restrictions, one of the most pic- 
turesque tracts of land in the state, 
to be converted into a state park. The 
offer has been made by Mr. Joseph 
Battell for a state park. The property 
is known as the Camel’s Hump, and 
comprises over 1,000 acres. Among 
the simple conditions are: that it is 
to be for the whole population of 
Vermont; that the name is to be 
changed to “Mount Ethan Allen,” to 
whose “courage and ability” Vermont 
is largely indebted for her independ- 
ent existence; and that automobiles 
are to be e.xcluded from its limits. 
Mr. Battell is a member of the pres- 
ent legislature, representing the town 
of Middlebury. 
The fight for an outer park system 
for St. Louis, Mo., recently defeated 
at the November election, is to be re- 
newed, and an issue made of it next 
spring. 
Politics has seriously infected the 
numerous aspirants for office in con- 
nection with the Outer Park system 
of Chicago, authorized at the recent 
