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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Annual 7'eports Of’ extracts from them^ historical sketches., 
descriptive circularsy photographs of improTC7nents or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department* 
A committee composed of Park Commissioner Anil and the 
Public Baths Commission has recommended sites for five 
new public parks in the congested district of St. Louis to be 
purchased for $670,000, under the recent bond issue. 
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The park board of Rochester, N. Y., will ask for $150,000 
for park maintenance and improvements during the coming 
year, which will be divided equally between the two items. 
More than four hundred tax-payers have made application to 
have their trees trimmed and an appropriation of $13,000 will 
be needed for this purpose alone. 
* * * 
Syracuse, N. Y., which is just beginning the work of park 
development has engaged George E. Kessler, of Kansas City, 
Mo., for a term of three years to prepare comprehensive 
plans for an entire park system, and the Board of Estimate 
is to be asked for an appropriation of $25,000 to inaugurate 
the work. 
* * * 
Mr. Frederick G. Todd, landscape architect of Montreal, 
Canada, has been commissioned to prepare a general plan 
for the park system for Edmonton, Can., which will also in- 
clude the town of Strathcona, which is just across the river 
from Edmonton. Mr. Todd will also prepare a comprehen- 
sive plan for Calgary, Alberta. 
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The park board of Denver, Colo., will expend $igo,ooo for 
the maintenance and improvement of the park system the 
coming year, which is $20,000 more than it had to expend 
this year. Aside from the usual improvements at the City 
Park, which makes that the most expensive tract, the new 
North Denver parks will receive the largest share of the 
appropriation. 
The West Park Board of Chicago has received good legal 
opinion that the law does not allow it to expend money to 
erect a building for a collection of Civil War relics, which it 
was proposed to place in Garfield Park. The park act, it is 
said, allows only the erection of museums of natural history 
or the arts of sciences. 
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The recent gift of a fine tract of land on the shore of Lake 
Ontario to the city of Rochester, N. Y., has suggested to that 
town the idea of establishing a chain of parks for a county 
park system similar to that inaugurated in Essex county, 
N. J. Hudson county, N. J., has also adopted the Essex 
county park plan and has now under vvay an expenditure of 
nearly $2,000,000 on a county park system. This was the 
first of the larger counties in the United States to follow the 
example of Essex County. 
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New York’s playgrounds are probably the costliest in the 
world. The two and a half acres of Seward Park, for ex- 
ample, with equipm.ent, cost $2,500,000, and the eleven play- 
grounds now finished have probably cost $15,000,000. The 
latest is Thomas Jefferson Park, 15.4 acres in area, which 
has cost about $3,500,000. Most of these parks have been 
made on the site of demolished tenements, the purchase of 
which formed a considerable item in the total cost. Sites 
for eleven new playgrounds have been selected during the 
past year. Unfortunately, few if any of New York’s play- 
grounds are as well equipped as they should be; none with 
anything like the completeness of Chicago’s. 
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The monument shown in the illustration in memory of the 
late President McKinley, unveiled at Columbus, Ohio, in 
September, leaves but three important memorials to his mem- 
ory to be completed. They are: The New York State Monu- 
ment, at Buffalo; the National Memorial at Canton, Ohio; 
and the Memorial at Philadelphia, for which the contract 
was awarded to the late Chas. A. Lopez, and since his death, 
given to Isadore Konti. The monument was modeled by 
Hermon A. McNeil, who has produced a portrait of unusual 
distinction and charm that takes high rank in sculptural art. 
The central portrait statue is flanked by a well proportioned 
exedra of New Jersey granite at the ends of which are 
symbolic groups representing respectively “Peace,” and "Pros- 
perity.” The monument occupies an imposing site in front 
of the state capital, and costs $50,000, of which $25,000 was 
contributed by the state, and $25,000 by public contributions. 
THE McKINLEY MONUMENT COLUMBUS, O. 
Hermon A. MacNeil, Sc. 
