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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Annual reports or extracts front them, historical sketches, 
descriptive circulars, photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department. 
At a meeting of the park commission of Syracuse, N. Y., 
it was determined to engage at once a landscape architect 
to map out a scheme of park and boulevard development 
for Syracuse. The intention of the commission is first to 
get expert advice on what the city ought to do, and then 
proceed about it in a systematic manner. 
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It has been found necessary to close Lincoln Park, Chi- 
cago, from II o’clock at night to 4 in the morning. All 
loungers found in the park between these hours will be ar- 
rested, but carriages and automobiles are not included in 
this order. This action was taken because of the number 
of young toughs who frequent the park at night. 
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The following are some figures from the detailed esti- 
mates of the Park department of Greater New York for 
1907, The commissioners want $3,989,559.26 for the year 
1907. The board itself estimates its expenses at $27,800; for 
Manhattan and Richmond, $1.933.771.01 ; the Bronx, $934,- 
987; for Brooklyn and Queens, $1,093,101.25. 
The subdivided estimates for Manhattan and Richmond 
are : Salaries of commissioners, secretary, and employees, 
$27,800; administration, $36,670; labor, maintenance and sup- 
plies, $874,333.01; Zoological department, $33,520; mainte- 
nance of museums, $448,368.99; aquarium, $45,000; music, 
$49,275 ; playgrounds, kindergartens, baths and comfort sta- 
tions, $125,960; care of street trees and Broadway park 
spaces, $144,050; Harlem River Driveway, $32,175; care of 
Grant’s tomb, $5,000; ambulance service in Central Park, 
$2,500; children’s school farm, $5,000; Riverside slope re- 
pairs, $18,000; Riverside retaining wall, $17,000; repairs to 
park walks, $20,000; distribution stations for pasteurized 
milk, $20,000; Jumel mansion,, maintenance, etc., $10,000. 
Some subdivision estimates for the Bronx are; Adminis- 
tration, $11,400; music, $11,000; maintenance of Zoological 
park, $154,572; maintenance of botanical garden, $97,160; 
maintenance and construction, $572,445. 
For Brooklyn and Queens salaries and administration will 
cost $55,950; labor, maintenance, supplies, and care of trees, 
$919,611; maintenance of museums, $95,000; music, $22,540. 
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Trueman Lanham, superintendent of Parking, Washington, 
D. C., has the following to say of the shade trees of that 
city in his annual report : 
“In the matter of shade trees, writers have repeatedly re- 
ferred to Washington as ‘the Paris of America.’ While this 
may be a just comparison from a beauty standpoint, Wash- 
ington can hardly be said to approach Paris in a comparison 
of the respective appropriations for tree culture. I am ad- 
vised that the 90,000 trees in that city receive an annual al- 
lowance of about $60,000, this fund not being drawn upon 
for extension of the service, but only for the care of existing 
trees. Last year Washington had for its general care of 
trees, also about 90,000 in number, the sum of $24,000. After 
deducting from that amount about $12,000 for labor and ma- 
terials incidental to planting, but 50 per cent, or $12,000, re- 
mains for the work of trimming, removing, wiring, care of 
street parkings, nurseries, etc. Such a sum is ridiculously 
small, yet there are some who complain of the management 
when each tree is not kept in a perfect state. Although the 
office would like to bring about such a condition’ it simply 
cannot do it with the funds allotted. It seems to me that 
the shade-tree question is one of the most important of mu- 
nicipal subjects and in line with the ‘city beautiful’ idea. It 
is not clear why the trees, so important to that end, receive 
such scant consideration in the way appropriations.” 
The report shows that 3,232 trees were set out on the va- 
rious streets and avenues of the city, which is an increase of 
477 over last year. The report says ; 
“The trees planted consisted of nine varieties, each of 
which has an established reputation as a street tree — Ameri- 
can elm, ginkgo, American linden, Norway maple, soft ma- 
ple, sugar maple, European sycamore, pin oak and red oak. 
A careful estimate places the losses at approximately thirty 
trees, and I am of the opinion that less than ten of those 
owed their death to transplanting.” 
New Parks. 
The Park board of Denver, Colo., is considering the pur- 
chase of a five-acre tract at West Thirteenth Avenue and 
Platte River for a public park. 
Mayor Whitlock and other leading citizens of Toledo, 
Ohio, have set on foot a movement to establish a large park 
at Michigan and Erie Streets, with a view of locating all 
the municipal buildings about it. 
Dr. W. H. Nichols has presented a thirty-two acre tract 
to the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, to be used as 
a botanical garden and public park. The park board of Ann 
Arbor has purchased twenty-three acres of land adjoining 
this tract and the entire fifty-five acres are to be improved 
on a uniform plan, which is now being prepared by O. C. 
Simonds & Co., of Chicago. 
After a year’s delay an agreement has been made by 
which the State will acquire the land for the Minneopa State 
Park at Minneopa Falls, near Mankato, Minn. The last 
legislature made an appropriation for the purchase of land 
there. 
Land has been purchased for a new city park at Oelwein, 
Iowa. A fifty-acre lake will be one of the features of the 
Options have been secured on a thirty-acre tract in the 
Sippo Creek valley, which it is planned to purchase for a 
public park for Massillon, Ohio. 
The Allied Organization of Philadelphia comprising fifty- 
five associations which are working for better conditions 
throughout the city and especially for a comprehensive sys- 
tem have petitioned the city cuncil to submit to the people 
a proposition for raising a $4,800,000 loan for improving and 
extending parks, planting street trees, and providing a central 
free library. 
Hon. Arthur H. Lowe has presented to the town of Pitts- 
field, Mass., a tract of land valued at $12,000 for a public 
playground. 
The park commission of Sioux City, Iowa, has purchased 
a block and a half of land in the packinghouse districts for'- 
a new public park. 
A special committee of the city council of Chicopee, Mass.,) 
is CQnsidering the establishment of a new park and public J 
playground on the site of the poor farm. 
A tract of lake and shore area known as Salisbuiw Lake 
has been purchased as a pubic park at Brockton, Mass. 
The city council of Northampton, Mass., has decided to 
take by condemnation proceedings two tracts of land known 
as the Holley and Prindle properties for a public park. 
