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PARK AND 
CEME-TERY. 
Animal reports or extracts from them^ historical sketches, 
descriptive circulars, photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department. 
Robert E. Bolger, for five years Park Commissioner of 
Detroit, was removed from office by a two-thirds vote of the 
■City Council, April lo. Commissioner Bolger was impeached 
for gross negligence and unlawful conduct in office in con- 
nection with paving contracts ; for unfitness and incompetency 
in the discharge of his duties, and for maladministration. 
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The Public Park Association, of Providence, R. I., and the 
League of Rhode Island Improvement Societies are both ac- 
tively engaged in promoting the bill for the Metropolitan 
Park System for Providence whose general features have 
been noted in Park and Cemetery. A bill is now before the 
Legislature asking permission to allow the question of the 
bond issue for the Metropolitan Parks to be placed before 
the people of the state at the next election. The Public Park 
Association has presented a strong petition to the Legislature 
favoring the bill. 
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FROM THE ANNUAL REPORTS 
At the annual meeting of the Quincy Park and Boulevard 
Association, Quincy, 111 ., reports of officers showed the ex- 
penditure of $9,s8i for the year. President E. J. Parker’s 
report showed an active season’s work that was devoted 
chiefly to the maintainance of the system. The largest item 
of expenditure was $5,698 for labor. The planting included 
the setting out of about 65,000 pieces, chiefly native stock, 
which cost on an average of one and a half cents apiece. 
'I'he association is endeavoring to get control of one of the 
ancient Indian mounds near Indian Mounds Park. 
The annual report of the Park Commissioners of Wilming- 
ton, Delaware, is a very handsomely printed and illustrated 
book, telling in detail of the work of park maintenance. Sev- 
eral pieces of additional territory have been added during the 
year, and the total park area is now 291 acres. The ex- 
penditures for the year amounted to $22,985. 
The 13th annual report of the Park Commission of 
Cambridge, Mass., contains much interesting matter on 
the extermination of tree pests. The board expended 
$12,000 in this work during the year and a complete his- 
tory of the gypsy and brown tail moths, their distribution 
and damage to trees, and methods of extermination, are 
given, in addition to the state law relating to those insect 
pests. There were 529 trees planted during the year, of 
which a list showing the number of each variety is given. 
The report contains, also, a tabulated list of the school- 
yards of the city, noting their condition, the improve- 
ments needed and the probable cost of such work. 
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NEW PARKS. 
The Board of Estimate of Greater New York is consider- 
ing the establishment of a public park to include sixty acres 
of land surrounding Kissena Lake, in the third ward. Bor- 
ough of Queens. 
The City Council of Montreal, Canada, is considering the 
plan for converting the old cemetery on the Papineau Road 
into a public park. A part of the land belongs to the Mt. 
Royal Cemetery Co. 
Anderson Park, Rochester, N. Y., formerly known as Riley 
Triangle, is being improved according to plans by Olmsted 
Bros., Brookline, Mass. The city has been offered about 500 
acres of land, on the lake front, between Sea Breeze and 
Windsor Beach, for park purposes, by H. A. Durand and 
George Eastman. 
Plans have been made by leading citizens of Spokane, 
Washington, to secure a site for a Riverside Park, on the 
north bank of the Spokane river, west of Monroe street 
bridge. 
The Civic League of Reading, Pa., has bought a small tract 
of land at Center avenue and 5th street and presented it to 
the city for a public park. 
Nicholas Longworth has offered to the city of Cincinnati a 
tract of 50 acres for a public park. 
A design has been adopted for the improvement of Paul 
Revere Park, Revere, Mass. The land, which covers about 8 
acres in the center of the town, was purchased nearly two 
years ago. 
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IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. 
The City Council of Providence, R. I., has passed a resolu- ; 
tion requesting the Legislature to give the city the power i 
to issue bonds for the sum of $200,000 for park and play- 
ground purposes.’ i 
The Park Commission of Milwaukee has voted to expend I 
$50,000 for improving the parks this season. The improve- 
ments will include construction of playgrounds; of an $8,000 | 
bridge in Riverside Park; extensive additions and the con- j 
struction of new buildings for the Washington Park zoo; a f 
$5,000 greenhouse in Mitchell Park, and the improvement of old ^ 
and new grounds in Lake, Washington and Kosciuzko parks. 
The following appropriations for improvements in the various | 
parks have been authorized: Mitchell Park, $14,000; Wash- i 
ington Park, $14,000; Riverside Park, $10,000; Kosciuszko ' 
Park, $5,000; Lake Park, $4,500; Humboldt Park, $500. 
The following extensive improvements are planned for ^ 
Swope Park, Kansas City, Mo. : Zoological gardens at an im- ; 
mediate outlay of $10,000, to be doubled later. Ten or fifteen ] 
miles of new roadways. A lake with a boathouse, pavilion 1 
and swimming pool. Viaducts over the Blue river and the | 
railroad tracks. The Improvement of a 150-acre meadow i 
which can be used for public golf links or other athletic pur- 
poses. The park board will ask for an appropriation of 
$500,000, of which $150,000 will be spent on Swope Park. 
Pequot Park, Westfield, Mass., is to be improved by the 
construction of a new entrance and extensive planting of trees 
and shrubbery. Thomas R. McClunie, of Hartford, Conn., 
will have charge of the work. 
Superintendent Jens Jensen, of the West Side Park Sys- 
tem of Chicago, has started extensive improvements for that 
system, which will involve the expenditure of $3,000,000 — 
two million for improvements and extensions, and one million 
for playgrounds. The entire western portion of Humboldt 
park is to be completed, and new sewers, roadways, and walks 
to be built. About $300,000 will be expended on this park. 
A new refectory and a greenhouse are planned for Garfield 
park, in addition to much planting and road building. The 
old race and bicycle tracks will be removed and the southern 
portion made into lawns. The proposed total expenditure is 
about $350,000. A new refectory and a new music stand are | 
the principal improvements for Douglas Park in addition to II 
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