PARK AND CEMETERY 
XV 
PARK NOTES. 
(Continued from 50.) 
hundreds of new trees and shrubs. These will cost not over 
$135,000. 
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, is to have an additional 
tract of 15 acres, which has been presented to the Commission 
by Mrs. Sallie Houston Henry. 
The work of improving the river front park at Joliet, 111 ., 
has begun. 
Park Commissioner Kennedy of the Boroughs of Brooklyn 
and Queens, New York, reports improvement work is much 
farther advanced this spring than usual owing to the open 
winter. New soil and fertilizer has been placed in Prospect 
Park, around the trees on Ocean Parkway, and in Bushwick, 
Winthrop, Cooper and Carroll parks. Dead trees and under- 
brush have been removed from Prospect and Forest parks, 
and the roadways have been put in good condition. The new 
athletic house at the Parade Grounds and the new boat house 
in Prospect Park are nearly completed. 
Citizens of Manchester, Conn., are to improve the depot 
park, by public subscription, and then ask the town to take 
charge of it. 
A committee of the park board of Hartford, Conn., has 
been investigating the subject of playgrounds in city parks, 
and have recommended that a standing committee on p|ub'.ic 
amusements and recreations be appointed. A number of sub-, 
stantial improvements are planned for the Colt Playgrounds 
in that city, and the question of erecting a permanent build- 
ing for the school garden work in Riverside Park is being 
considered. 
The City Council of St. Louis has passed a bill creating 
the office of City Forester. 
Two large additions have been made to the parks of South 
Bend, Ind., during the year and many betterments are planned 
for this season. The improvement of the Fair Grounds, a 
forty-acre tract, recently acquired, will include an ornamental 
hedge, the extensions of the water mains, and the laying out 
of a golf course. A new electric fountain, a gift of John M. 
Studebaker, Sr., will be one of the improvements at Howard 
Park. 
R. R. McCormick, retiring alderman from the 2ist ward, 
Chicago, has donated $600, the salary due him from the city 
for the period in which he has been president of the Sanitary 
Board, for the erection of a fountain in Washington Square. 
The Park Board of Joplin, Mo., is planning to improve 
and open to the public Cunningham’s Park, which has been 
neglected since it was presented to the city. The Board has 
also decided to accept for a public park, a tract known as 
Lovers’ Retreat, which has been offered by the East Joplin 
Club. 
The Erie St. Improvement Association, formed in Cleve- 
land, O., for the improvement of that street, is devoting its 
special attention to making a park of the old Erie St. 
Cemetery. 
The Mayor and Park Commissioners of Providence, R. L, 
are making plans to convert the city land at Pawtuxet Falls 
into a public park. 
The Bowling Green Local Improvement Association, of 
New York City, is endeavoring to arouse public sentiment to 
tear down the old structures in Chinatown and to convert 
the district into a park. 
The Park Commissioners of Brantford, Ont., have leased 
a tract of acres at Eagle Place for five years, at a 
nominal rental with the option of purchasing for a public 
park. 
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