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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Farther east is a pool, which with the low land 
south of it towards Wawarnte Avenue, can be trans- 
formed into a five-acre skating pond, as shown on 
tract No. 5. The north end of this pond can be sep- 
arated by a dam and kept supplied with water during 
the summer as a wading pond, while the rest of the 
pond could be drawn oflf and the sunken ground used 
as croquet or cricket grounds. The skating pond 
would accommodate 1,500 children at a time. 
East of this is tract No. 6, which speaks for itself. 
It shows a large open field of over 30 acres, and all it 
needs is a good plowing, leveling off and seeding 
down to make it a fine football and baseball field. 
Here is the opportunity for the High School boys 
whose yearly request for daily privileges of exercise 
the Park Board had to refuse in the past, because the 
grounds at Pope Park were in daily demand by so 
many players. 
Another feature which is bound to appeal to the 
young men of the upper grades of the school is the 
one-quarter and one-half mile running courses shown 
on tract No. 7. 
At Hendricxsen Avenue and Curcomb Street is a 
corner lot which can be made a cozy corner for the 
little “tots’’ and their mothers of the south end fac- 
tory district. This is tract No. 8. The dusty high- 
ways are to be planted with inexpensive trees and 
shrubs, and the little ones invited to leave the noise 
and dangers of the highways and the nearby railroad 
for the happy game in the sand boxes, swings and 
hammocks. 
Crossing Hendricxsen Avenue to tract No. 9 is the 
Masseek Street local playgrounds, so needed for that 
south end factory district. On this five-acre lot a gym- 
nasium outfit similar to the one on Pope Park is rec- 
ommended ; plain but useful and strong. 
Tract No. 10 is at present partly occupied bv an 
asphalt plant and a wood yard, from which concerns 
a yearly revenue of $400 is obtained. The unoccu- 
pied part is already useful for a boys’ baseball field. 
Tract No. ii is the river grove, bordering for 
1,100 feet on the beautiful Connecticut River. The 
grove contains but few good trees, but with proper 
care can be made attractive and useful. It is sug- 
gested to make boat landings and erect a boat house 
and lease it to an individual or a rowing club, and the 
revenue will help to maintain the grounds. 
Another tract of six acres, shown on plan as num- , 
ber 12, is some 10 to 15 feet below the grade of the 
avenue it fronts and by its present low level useless 
for almost any purpose. It can be made the public 
dumping ground for the next ten years. The present 
grounds for that purpose are three-quarters of a mile 
further to the east, and this place will be much nearer 
and more ap]3roachable. After the land is filled up it 
will offer an additional field for useful purposes. 
The ParKs of Southern Europe— II. 
By Felix J. Koch. 
Rouirania, which is so largely French in the life of 
its upper classes, has, of course, a chaussee at the capi- 
tal, — Bucharest, — which is simply a miniature Parisian 
Bois-de-Boulogne, with the asphalt roads, the landaus 
dashing by, the groves and the lanes and the plants. 
In the smaller Rpumanian towns we find the old New 
England “center” idea, — usually a circular park from 
which the few main streets diverge, as spokes of a 
wheel from the axle. At Giurgevo and other places 
the town-church, with the clock-tower, overlooks this 
park, and the peddlers gather here, of a noon-hour ; so, 
that, aside from the tables of the cafes, set out in the 
surrounding street itself, the parallel with old Lex- 
ington (Mass.) is striking. Many of the larger Bul- 
garian towns keep to the same plan, but at Rustchuk, 
the metropolis of Bulgaria, a park is built above and 
along the Danube, reminding an American of the 
promenade at Kelley’s Island, O. 
Probably the prettiest park, in the strict sense of the 
word, in the Balkans is that laid out by the occupying 
Austro-Hungarians at Ilidje, the summer resort of 
Bosnia. Twenty-five years ago Ilidje was a field with 
a thermal spring. When the Austrians came in, thev 
recognized the curative powers of the spring, and, set- 
ting to work, laid out the park. This was in 1882. In 
1896 additions were made, with the result that today 
Ilidje is a garden-spot. Not less than six thousand 
firs and cedars have been planted by the soldiers. 
These were brought from the neighboring mountain 
forests at practically no cost, — army transports being 
utilized throughout, — and as an unusually large amount 
of soil was allowed to accompany each tree, over 98 
per cent of the number grew. The purpose of Ilidje 
is not a money-making one, but rather to afford the 
people of Bosnia a pleasure resort to which they may 
come, both for rest and, if desired, to drink the waters, 
at a minimum of cost. The government exercises 
rigid control over everything, — owning the two large 
hotels, and the connecting belt of restaurants, souve- 
nier-stands, music pavilions, etc., which, with the wind- 
ing verandas, make it possible to traverse all Ilidje un- 
der cover ; it sets the price at which every room mav 
be rented, every article on the bill-of-fare be sold, and 
it sees to it that these prices reach the ears of the pay- 
ers. Magnificent beds of the zinnia, the cox-comb and 
the geranium occupy the sunnier portions of the park. 
