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The city council of Crooksville, 
Ohio, has provided a site at the 
entrance of the new city park 
for the erection of a public library, 
and in a letter addressed to Mayor 
Brannon Andrew Carnegie agreed to 
donate $20,000 toward erecting the 
structure. 
The Syracuse Park Commission, 
Syracuse, N. Y., is asking $200,000 for 
its 1911 budget. The estimated cost 
of carrying out the plans for the de- 
velopment of the Kirk, Onondaga, 
Schiller, Burnet and Lincoln Park 
properties is estimated at $200,000. 
The mayor, it is said, is in favor of 
bonding, but believes $100,000 is suffi- 
cient for the present. 
To double the area of Bartlett Park, 
St. Joseph, Mo., and make provision 
for the construction of a chain of 
boulevards to extend from the en- 
trance to Prospect Park to Twenty- 
eighth street, thence south and east 
the length of the city, through South 
Park and Hyde Valley, connecting 
with driveways to Lake Contrary, are 
the next projects the board of park 
commissioners will take up in connec- 
tion with the city beautiful movement. 
City Engineer Weirbach, of Allen- 
town, Pa., has induced the park com- 
mission to ask the water department 
to convert a part' of its property at 
the foot of Ninth street into a public 
playground park and the old water 
works building into a public natatori- 
um. Plans have been laid out which, 
if executed will make the hill at the 
foot of Ninth street one of the pret- 
tiest places in the city. 
The vote to bond the state of New 
York in the sum of $2,500,000, for 
the purpose of maintaining and de- 
veloping Palisades Park was in favor 
of the proposition. 
Central Park, Los Angeles, Cal., 
which has been undergoing improve- 
ments for some time past, will be re- 
opened to the public on February 1. 
The cost of these improvements has 
amounted to $30,000, for which the 
council allowed $33,000, making the 
matter a creditable showing for the 
park commissioners. “The idea is to 
make the square a pleasing prome- 
nade for visitors and something 
w'orthy of a city of the size and 
beauty of Los Angeles,” says the sec- 
retary of the board. “There will be 
no signs, no selling and no congrega- 
tion of loafers, and every nuisance 
will be quickly suppressed. Seats 
will be stationed at convenient inter- 
vals for pedestrians, but the purpose 
of the park is to keep clear of con- 
gestion.” It will be brilliantly lighted 
at night and in the center a fine foun- 
tain will be located. Near by an up- 
to-date public comfort station is to 
be constructed at a cost of $8,000. 
The park will also be noted for its 
palms and other trees. 
The Santa 'Fe Railway Company 
has appropriated the sum of $1,800 
to be used in enlarging and improving 
the park adjoining the Fred Harvey 
Hotel in Temple, Teaxs, and the work 
will be done under the supervision of 
a landscape arcihtect. 
It will cost the Minneapolis, Minn., 
park board $193,897 to acquire the 
property that has been designated for 
the North Minneapolis boulevard ex- 
tension. The extension is to connect 
with the Glenwood boulevard at Six- 
teenth avenue north and etxend 
nearly in a straight line to Forty-fifth 
avenue north, thence along Forty- 
fifth to Camden Park, and it is pro- 
posed the strip taken will be 200 feet 
wide and will accommodate a boule- 
vard, a bridle path and a traffic road. 
The forty-first annual report of the 
Buffalo, N. Y., Park Commissioners, 
July, 1910, shows that resources 
amounted to $300,676.64 and expendi- 
tures to $290,339.59. Most of the work 
of the year was in routine detail and 
the construction of the very necessary 
small things of park maintenance. An 
important gift to the city was that 
of Seneca Indian Park, presented by 
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Larkin; it is only 
an acre and a half in extent, but ex- 
ceedingly valuable from its historical 
associations having been a part of 
the original burying ground of the 
Seneca Indians. It possesses some of 
the finest specimens of the black-wal- 
nut tree, a tree becoming almost price- 
less. Considerable work has been 
done by the city forester in the effort 
to exterminae the Tussock moth, 
which continues to do great damage. 
The report contains much valuable 
information on the varieties of street 
trees suitable for Buffalo, and by in- 
ference elsewhere. Buffalo has now 
six leading parks of an acreage of 
752, with approaches covering another 
224 acres. In minor parks and tri- 
angles has some 76 acres more. The 
report is a very interesting one. 
A resolution has been passed by the 
Common Council of Summit, N. J., 
providing for the purchase of lands 
on the south side of the Lackawanna 
R. R. station for park purposes. 
Recent action of the Boston city 
council in voting to appropriate $119,- 
000 of this year’s income from the 
Parkman fund for the purpose of 
providing a zoological garden at 
Franklin Park aaid for an aquarium 
at Marine Park, will result in the be- 
ginning of work on these two projects 
in the near future The plans for the 
zoological park contemplate an esti- 
mated expenditure of about $671,000, 
but of thia amount $200,000 is for the 
mall or “Greeting.” The cost of the 
aquarium is estimated at $100,000. 
The plans for both of these great 
municipal museums were completed 
a short time ago and were included 
with the estimated cost, in a prelimi- 
nary report made by a board of com- 
missioners of the department of 
parks. The commission employed 
Arthur A. Shurtleff, landscape archi- 
tect, and 'William D. Austin, archi- 
tect, and it also had the advice of 
William T. Hornaday, director of the 
New York zoological garden. 
Work of improvements and prepa- 
ration for the celebration to take 
place the week of July 2, 1911, in the 
Minneapolis, Minn.-, parks is being 
pushed. 
Plans for improvement of existing 
park and play ground property in Cin- 
cinnati, O., have been adopted by 
the park commissioners. The im- 
l^rovements will take the form of 
shelter houses, comfort stations and 
band stands, and will involve an ex- 
penditure of about $100,000. 
The deeds to the property donated 
for public use in Meshanticut Park, 
Providence, have been passed, record- 
and conveyed to the Metropolitan 
Park Commission. The long strip 
of land is to be utilized in the build- 
ing of a parkway leading from Crans- 
ton street, opposite Meshanticut Lake, 
over Sockanosset Hill to the land of 
the city of Providence surrounding 
the reservoir. 
• A west side pla.yground park, Mad- 
dox Park, has been assured by the 
passage of a city ordinance at Atlanta, 
Ga., setting aside a part of the west 
side dumping ground for park pur- 
poses. For the present the land will 
be used as a nursery in which to raise 
shrubs for the other city parks. 
North Waterloo, Ta., has a new 
park representing an investment of 
$45,000. Had this opportunity passed 
a much larger investment would have 
to be made a few years hence for 
available property. 
George E. Potts has conveyed to 
the city of Philadelphia a tract of 4p2 
acres on the south side of Frankford 
avenue southwest of Ashburner street, 
for a consideration of $175,000. The 
assessed valuation of the ground is 
$7,000. The tract was purchased by 
the city for Pennypack Creek Park. 
