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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The Council Committee on Cemeter- 
ies of Richmond, Va., has recommend- 
ed to the Council a resolution instruct- 
ing • the city attorney to proceed by 
purchase or condemnation to secure 
four adjoining tracts, aggregating near- 
ly 30 acres, to form an annex to Oak- 
wood Cemetery. The superintendent of 
Mt. Olivet Cemetery was authorized to 
secure bids for the construction of a 
concrete bridge at the entrance of that 
cemetery. 
The Cemetery Board of Red Wing, 
Minn., has decided to improve Oakwood 
-Cemetery and plans will be secured for 
the parking of the grounds. 
The trustees of the Brokensword 
Cemetery .Association, Bucyrus, O., have 
recently raised a fund of over $3,000 for 
the purpose of improving the grounds 
and keeping them in an attractive con- 
dition. 
The contract for the further devel- 
-opment of the eastern section of the 
North Park burial ground. Fall River, 
Mass., was awarded to Alton A. Allen, 
of that city, in the sum of $15,392.40. 
PARK NEWS 
Continued jrom page i 26 . 
At a recent meeting of the Grosse 
Pointe, Detroit, Mich., council, the 
purchase of a large tract of land which 
will be converted into a public park 
was announced. The tract is on Jef- 
ferson avenue, east of Lakeland ave- 
nue, has 166 feet frontage and extends 
1,000 feet to the lake. The price paid 
was .‘S37,000. The council voted to 
spend $5,000 for improvements, which 
will be begun at once. 
Kalamazoo, Mich., which has been 
planning for some time for a system 
•of parks and boulevards, made an- 
other move in this direction, through 
the City Council, to purchase a tract 
of 66 acres for park purposes. 
The work preliminary to the trans- 
fer of the Devon Park property, in 
Covington, Ky., to the city has been 
■completed and the deed has been 
placed in the hands of the Devou 
brothers. As soon as they sign it the 
beautiful new park site will be the 
property of the city of Covington, and 
with the recent $100,000 bond issue it 
will be transformed into a beautiful 
park. This magnificent gift has cost 
the Devous $175,000. 
Grand Rapids, Mich., is making 
■great strides in her park extension 
and development. The latest addi- 
tion is to be a River boulevard and 
seven acre park in the northwestern 
part of the city, in close proximity to 
the celebrated State Fish Hatchery 
and the old mill pond. It would be 
an inexpensive but exceedingly at- 
tractive addition to the park system. 
Des Mdnes, la., park territory is 
to be increased by gifts of from 
thirty to forty acres of land. The 
land has been given by private citi- 
zens and is located in various sections 
of the city. 
Lancaster, Wis., has acquired pos- 
session of the residence property of 
the late George W. Ryland, who be- 
queathed it to the city for park pur- 
poses. 
Great progress has been made in 
improving the river front of Bridge- 
ton, N. J., on the site of the old nail 
mill. It will provide a recreation 
spot, some 300 feet in length, with 
proper parapet walls to insure the 
safety of children using it. 
A new main entrance is to be con- 
structed in the center of Shrewsbury 
street of East Park, Worcester, Mass. 
The main features will be a stone 
archway, flanked by the two stone 
Hons which formerly adorned the 
train shed of the old Union station, 
and which were presented to the city. 
The park board of Omaha, Neb., re- 
cently received a check from Mrs. E. 
J. Cornish for $10,000. The money 
will be used in carrying on the im- 
provement of Levi Carter park, also 
a gift of Mrs. Cornish. This check 
makes a total of $20,000 in cash which 
Mrs. Cornish has contributed to the 
park funds for the development of 
Omaha’s newest recreation spot. 
The Lima, O., State Hospital As- 
sociation, having charge of the erec- 
tion of the $2,000,000 institution, also 
propose to park the grounds and pre- 
serve the old trees. 
A new esplanade is planned for 
City Park, Denver, Colo., which will 
provide for a fine setting for the Colo- 
rado Museum of Natural History, and 
serve to reclaim a considerable area 
of now unreclaimed lancj in the east- 
ern end of the park. Preliminary 
work will begin next spring. 
At a recent meeting the townsmen 
of Wellesley, Mass., voted $8,000 to 
purchase land for the parkway to be 
located in Wellesley Hills, between 
Abbott road and Maple place and be- 
tween Maple place and Maugus ave- 
nue and Washington street. 
The Lincoln Park Farm Associa- 
tion has engaged Leopold Oscarter 
to complete the landscape gardening 
at Lincoln’s birthplace, Hodgenville, 
Ky. The Memorial Building will be 
dedicated in all probability next 
spring. 
At the unveiling ceremonies of the 
Brownson monument in Riverside 
Park, New York City, on November 
24, Park Commissioner Stover an- 
nounced that plans were on foot to 
convert Riverside Park, from Seven- 
ty-second to 129th Street, into an out- 
door gallery for commemorating no- 
table Americans by statues and busts 
of marble and bronze. He said that 
the adornment of the strip of park 
which skirts the east bank of the 
Hudson is only in its infancy, and 
predicted that before long it would 
be one of the greatest outdoor gal- 
leries in the world, more majestic 
even than those' of Greece and Rome. 
The Commissioner also said he had 
been authorized by the Sinking Fund 
Commission to take steps looking to 
the abolition or covering of the New 
York Central tracks along the west- 
ern shore line of Manhattan, and that 
soon Riverside Park will stretch un- 
broken from the street level to the 
water’s edge. 
Mr. Fred Nussbaumer, superintend^ 
ent of parks, St. Paul, Minn., for the 
past three years has been studying a 
scheme of city development involving 
the new State House as a center, and 
the St. Paul “Pioneer Press” has made 
nis plans public. All plans so far 
submitted have necessarily been 
drawn with the new statehouse as the 
central idea. Mr. Nussbaumer has 
gone farther than the others in mak- 
ing the Capitol the hub of a huge 
wheel, within the circumference of 
which every civic, political, literary, 
artistic, historical, musical and aca- 
demic body can find a permanent 
home. 
The sum of $131,528.40 has been 
asked for the park department of At- 
lanta, Ga., for 1911. 
A large proportion of the work on 
the park improvements which the city 
of Cleveland, O., is now in a position 
to carry out with the funds derived 
•from the recent sale of $50,000 park 
bonds, will be done by city labor di- 
rect instead of by contract. 
Winfield, Kan., is planning a park 
and boulevard system. 
Plans for buildings to be erected in 
public parks in Worcester, Mass., are 
being drawn by the Fuller & Delano 
Co., architects. The proposed struc- 
tures include a gym.nasium and field- 
house for Crompton park, -wLich will 
be of brick, one story high, with a 
basement; a shelterhouse and restau- 
rant building for Lake park and shel- 
terhouses at the Vernon-hill and 
Kendrick’s play-grounds, each to be 
of -wood one story high. 
