PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Park Notes. 
(Continued from p. 97.) 
southern part of the city for a public park. It is estimated 
that the land will cost about $200,000. 
Citizens of Salem, Ohio, have presented to that town a 
twenty-five acre tract known as Evans’ Grove which is to be 
improved and known as Centennial Park. 
The construction work on Washington Park, a new 130- 
acre tract at Denver, Colo., has been completed. 
The house of delegates of St. Louis has voted to buy the 
the old fair ground for a public park. The bill provides 
that the city shall pay $100,000 a year for thirteen years, and 
then shall have the privilege of purchase for $460,000. 
Public contributions amounting to $279,000 have been 
raised by citizens of Northampton, Mass., for the purchase 
of a public park. 
The parl<: commissioners at Waterloo, Iowa, has purchased 
an eighty-acre tract for $24,000 to be improved as a public 
park. 
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IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. 
The city of Cleveland, Ohio, has a bond issue of $50,000 
with which to erect a new zoo, and is now considering the 
question of its location. 
The park commission of Philadelphia will build a sea wall 
and raise the driveway along a portion of Wissahickon Drive 
to prevent the overflow of Wissahickon Creek. The work 
will cost $66,700. 
The park board of Providence, R. I., will construct a new 
entrance to Roger Williams Park. 
A committee of the city council of Norfolk, Va., is making 
investigations with a view to purchasing an addition to 
Lafayette Park. 
The park board of Buffalo has voted to issue $50,000 worth 
of bonds for completing the improvements in Niagara Square 
where the new McKinley monument is being erected. 
Plans have been prepared by the Board of Education of 
Greater New York for the establishment of school gardens 
in McCarren Park, Brooklyn. The tract will be large enough 
to accommodate five hundred individual gardens. The work 
of improvement is to be carried on by the park board and 
it is expected will be finished this fall. 
Improvements v.dll be made to the Magazine street en- 
trance to Audubon Park, New Orleans, and the shell road 
will be re-surfaced. The drainage canal at the St. Charles 
street entrance will also be filled in and improvements made 
there. 
Park Commissioner W. A. Joyce, of Buffalo, in a recent 
newspaper interview suggests the establishment of a dove- 
cote in a public park. He thinks this will prove interesting 
to the children, and also suggests flights of homing pigeons 
between nearby cities. 
A music stand in Centennial Park and a fountain in 
Lincoln Park are two improvements planned by the park 
board of Holland, Mich. 
The public square opposite the union depot at Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa, one of the beauty spots of the town that is 
much admired by visitors, has been renamed Greene Park, 
in honor of Judge Greene, one of the founders of that city 
who was chiefly responsible for the laying out of the wide 
avenues of Cedar Rapids. 
The South Park Commissioners of Chicago expect to com- 
plete the filling in of Grant Park, the new lake front tract, in 
another year. Plans for the erection of the Eield Museum, 
and the Crerar Library to be located there, are being made 
despite legal opposition from an adjacent property owner. 
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