PARK AND CEMETERY. 
VIII 
(New Parks — Continued from page 171.) 
The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad has offered to pre- 
sent to the city of Milwaukee a strip of land formed by 
lake front accretions on condition that other property own- 
ers, claiming adjoining territory, will give it to the city. 
Allentown, Pa., has just completed plans for Improving its 
first municipal park. 
The Allen estate has presented to Jamestown, N. Y., a 
tract of fifteen acres to be known as Allen Park, in memory 
of the late congressman, A. F. Allen. 
Huntington, N. Y., has voted to issue $12,500 in bonds to 
purchase a tract for park uses. 
The government has created a new national park at Sul- 
phur, Ind. Ter. It comprises 900 acres and contains six- 
teen springs, including five kinds of mineral water. 
J. J. Wise, of Massillon, Ohio, has options on a tract of 
land, and expects to secure its purchase as a park. 
Hazelton, Pa., has been presented with a new park by the 
Diamond Land & Coal Company. 
An ordinance creating a department of public parks has 
been passed by the city council of Wilkes Barre, Pa. The 
board is to consist of five members to be elected by the com- 
mon council to serve for five years. 
Prof. Henry S. Curtis, superintendent of playgrounds, 
Washington, D. C., has recommended an appropriation of 
$170,000 for improvement and maintenance for the next year. 
Congress has presented the city of Chattanooga, Tenn., a 
strip of ground surrounding the National Cemetery, which 
is to be improved by the city park commission. 
The city attorney at Duluth, Minn., has been instructed to 
begin condemnation proceedings to secure for a public park 
a stretch of land along Tischei;’s Creek. A part of this tract 
of land, which is about a mile and a half long, has been pre- 
sented to the city by C. A. Congdon, and the rest will be 
condemned. 
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Concrete Walls 
An Ideal Concrete Machine should be 
part of the equipment of every park and 
cemetery, for making concrete blocks from 
sand, gravel and cement. With it can be 
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columns, corner stones, buildings, etc. Sup- 
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Two (2) lbs. of best selected Anclote Sponges. 
Six (6) of the finest Tampico Scrub Brushes made. 
Two (2) extra fine quality Steel Wire Brushes. 
Five (S) Purified Pumice Bricks. 
Ten (10) lbs. selected Oxalic Acid- 
Five (5) lbs. imported selected Lump Pumice Stone, 
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Ten (10) lbs. of extra fine Blue Grit. 
Ten (10) lbs. of Superior Brown Grit. 
Ten (10) lbs. of the finest quality Red Grit. 
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