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PARK AND CEMETERY 
uAnntial reports or extracts from thetn^historical sketches^ 
descripth'C circulars^ photographs of improvements or d/s- 
tinctii'c features are requested for use in this depai’tment* 
The Committee on City Plan of the Municipal Art Society 
of New York has sent a protest to the Board of Estimate and 
Apportionment against the extension of any part of the 
Brooklyn Bridge structure, even temporarily, into City Hall 
Park, as proposed by the Bridge Commissioner. The opposi- 
tion of the Park department to this action is sustained and 
a similar trespass noted in the case of the elevated railroad in 
Battery Park. The cost of the structure, estimated at approxi- 
mately $300,000, does not indicate that it will be of a tem- 
porary character. * * * 
The battleship Minnesota, recently launched, was presented 
with four beautiful reproductions of scenes famous for their 
beauty in picturesque Minnesota. They are photographs of 
four of the most striking views in the Interstate Park at the 
Dalles of the St. Croix. One of them shows a birdseye view 
looking up the St. Croix and pictures some of the most beau- 
tiful scenes in the Dalles. Another gives a view look- 
ing down the Dalles from Echo Rock. The other pictures 
show “The Devil’s Chair,’’ a perpendicular mass of rock 150 
feet high, and “The Sentinel,” a wonderful image of a human 
face wrought in solid rock by the hand of nature. 
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George E. Kessler, landscape architect and engineer for 
the park board of Kansas City, Mo., recently delivered an 
address before the Commercial club on the park and boule- 
vard system of Kansas City. The lecture was illustrated by 
a number of stereopticon views. Mr. Kessler reviewed the 
history of park and boulevard making in Kansas City from 
1892, when Mayor Holmes appointed the first board of park 
commissioners. At that time there was no money to build 
parks and the debt-making power of the city had been ex- 
hausted. Finally the charter amendments of 1895 remedied 
this condition and since then eighteen million dollars has 
been expended in developing a system of parks and boule- 
vards. Mr. Kessler outlined the history of the park move- 
ment, described the present park districts, the various parks, 
concluding with a description of Swope park. He urged that 
a suitable memorial be erected to Mr. Swope for his gift of 
the park to the city. He showed several views of the drives 
about Swope park, of the shelter house there, of the nursery 
where trees and shrubbery for the various parks are grown. 
He said that 50,000 trees and shrubs had been taken from 
this nursery to the various parks. 
iVew Parks and Improvements. 
The Board of Aldermen of St. Paul has passed an order 
directing the board of public works to begin condemnation 
proceedings for acquiring the balance of the triangular block 
west of the new capitol. One half of the block was se- 
cured last year and money was provided in the budget for 
securing the rest. The block will be cleared and turned 
into a small park. 
St. Paul is taking steps to secure a parkway along the 
banks of the Mississippi. The plans have been delayed some- 
what by a defect in the city charter preventing the park 
board from condemning land for park purposes, but this was 
remedied at the last session of the Legislature. The boule- 
vard or parkway has already been graded from Marshall 
avenue to Randolph street. The city engineer has been di- 
rected to make surveys and plans for an extension of the 
boulevard from Randolph street to the Fort Snelling bridge, 
and when this is completed, eondemnation proceedings will 
be started. 
An addition of sixty-seven acres to Wyman park, Balti- 
more, Md., has been purchased for $99,250. The board will 
ask the city council for an additional appropriation of $10,000 
or $12,000, for the purpose of purchasing two very desirable 
approaches or entrances to the park. 
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Condemnation proceedings have been begun by the park 
board of Minneapolis to obtain title to one lot included within 
the proposed Camden Place park. The tract is in North 
Minneapolis and includes about twenty-three acres. It is a I 
site of considerable natural beauty, having a large number of j 
beautiful trees and a flowing stream. j 
Ethan ADen Park I 
REGULATIONS I 
GUARDIANS. 
You are a share holder in this park and you are therefore 
made a gfuardian to protect and care for it. During" your 
stay upon it, do not permit yourself or any other person to do 
anything to damage or destroy anything on the property, or 
to scatter waste of any sort. 
SPARE THE FLOWERS AND 
FERNS. 
They are more beautiful here, growing wild, than any 
where else. Take only specimens; do not gather quantities. 
Leave plenty to bear seeds for another crop. Do not pull 
any up by the roots. Do not cut or break limbs on any tres 
or shrub. 
BEWARE OF FIRE! 
Do not set fires for any purpose. Be very careful about 
lighting matches or throwing down lighted cigars or 
cigarettes. 
PICNIC PARTIES WELCOME 
Provided they will take away with them all remains of 
their feasts and all paper boxes, bags, eta 
Observe the above regulations and help make this jMtrk 
in every way what such a resort should be. 
CLOTH SIGNS PLACED IN ETHAN ALLEN PARK, 
BURLINGTON, VT. 
Kansas City is to. build in one of the parks of that city a 
replica of the Kansas City Casino on the Model Street of the 
World’s Fair. The building is to be an exact duplicate of 
the Casino, and will cost $50,000. The West Bluffs of the 
Penn Valley Park has been suggested as the most favorable 
location. * * * 
Woodland Park, Lexington, Ky., is being improved ac- 
cording to plans prepared by Olmsted Brothers, of Boston. 
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R. L. Gregory of the Park Board of Kansas City, has pre- 
sented to the commissioners five gray wolves from Okla- 
homa, which are to be installed in Budd Park as the nucleus 
of a zoological collection. Plans have also been prepared for 
an additional pond in Penn Valley Park. 
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