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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PARK WORK FOR 1907 
The Nortli Side Improvement Club, of Grand Island, 
Neb., is to buy four blocks of land for a public park . 
A new public park of thirty-three acres on the banks of 
Stony creek has been secured by Norristown, Pa. 
N. C. Bacheller has presented to the city of La Crosse, 
Wis., twenty-three acres of land along the Mississippi 
river for park purposes. 
The new park commission of Wilkes Barre, Pa., has 
appointed Warren H. Manning, of Boston, to make plans 
for an entire park system for that city. 
The trustees of the Nichols estate in . Peterboro, N. H., 
have donated $20,000 from the estate to that town for 
park purposes. This is in addition to $60,000 left the city 
by Mrs. Nichols for the purchase of parks. 
Everett H. Barney, of Springfield, Mass., has announced 
his intention of willing his entire estate estimated at over 
$1,000,000 to that city for a river front park and boule- 
vard. 
Through the efforts of the Englewood Civic Club, of 
Englewood, N. J., Mayor Donald Mackay has presented 
seven acres of land to that city for a public park. The 
tract is valued at $20,000. 
Two bills for park improvements in Washington, D. C., 
have passed the Senate and are now up to the House. 
One provides for an addition of one hundred acres to 
Rock Creek Park, and the other for parking a tract at the 
head of Sixteenth street overlooking Florida avenue. 
The Essex County (N. J.), Park Commission is investi- 
gating three sites with a view of establishing a new park 
at Irvington. The Hudson County Board has asked the 
park commission to acquire the Suckley estate in West 
Hoboken for a park site. 
The Bronx Valley Park Commission appointed by the 
governor of New York to investigate the advisability of 
establishing a public park on either side of the Bronx 
river and the Botanical Gardens to Kensico in West- 
chester county has recommended the purchase of prop- 
erty for that purpose. 
The convention, framing a new charter for Chicago, 
which is to be presented to the coming legislature, has 
recommended the consolidation of the park systems of 
the three divisions of the city, the commissioners to be 
appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of two- 
thirds of the city council. 
A franchise fee of $60,000 paid to the city of Denver by 
the Tramway Company will form the nucleus for a fund 
for a system of boulevards extending about the city and 
connecting the different parks. The most important 
park improvement in Denver for 1907 will be the con- 
struction of an elaborate esplanade entrance to City Park. 
A proposition is to be submitted to popular vote at 
Portland, Ore., for the issuing of $500,000 of bonds for ex- 
tensive additions to the present park system. It is in- 
tended that the additions shall be along the lines advo- 
cated by Olmsted Bros, three years ago. The plans will 
include several large suburban parks connected by boule- 
vards and many small squares in the city limits. 
Extensive improvements are to be made at Audubon 
Park, New Orleans, during the coming year. They will 
include the construction of roads and drives, planting of 
trees and shrubs and the beautifying of the river front by 
the removal of the old levee and the filling in of all un- 
sightly pits and depressions. The lake where the life 
saving demonstrations were given during the exposition 
of 1884 will be re-excavated. 
The old Colgrove Cemetery in North Adams, Mass., 
will be converted into a city park. 
Allegheny, Pa., will lay out a twenty-acre park on the 
top of Green Tree Hill. 
Birmingham, Ala., has bought a tract of one hundred 
acres which is to be developed into a city park. 
A movement has been started in Meridian, Miss., to acquire 
the old Fair Grounds, a thirty-acre area, for a city park. 
The Knoxville Park Association, Knoxville, Tenn., has pur- 
chased the site for that city’s first public park. 
The park commissioners of Winona, Minn., have re- 
ceived a gift of $7,500 for park improvement during the 
year. 
Ezra Rust has presented to Saginaw, Mich., a park 
tract of 125 acres with a two-mile water front which is to 
be improved this spring. 
A movement supported by the Civic League, city offi- 
cials and public organizations is on foot at Terre Haute, 
Ind., for the establishment of a riverside park. 
The park commissioners of Providence, R. I., have pur- 
chased two tracts of land adjoining Roger Williams Park 
for $6,214. 
J. M. Frink, of Seattle, Wash., has presented the city of 
Seattle a tract of twenty acres for a public park. Chas. 
Cowen has also given to that city twelve acres for a park. 
The park board of Bridgeport, Conn., have asked for an 
appropriation of $34,150 for 1907. The public bath house 
at Seaside Park will be enlarged and more seats placed 
in Washington Park. 
The Board of Public Works of Vincennes, Ind., have 
authorized the planting of several specimens of every known 
native species of tree in Harrison Park. The trees will be 
properly labeled with scientific and common names. 
State Senator John E. Fox will introduce a bill into the 
Pennsylvania Legislature providing for an appropriation of 
$1,000,000 for the enlargement of Capitol Park around the 
new State Capitol at Harrisburg. 
Hon. T." G. Hendricks, president of the First National 
Bank, of Eugene, Ore., has donated to that town forty- 
seven acres adjoining thirty-one acres purchased by the city, 
the entire tract to be known as Hendricks Park. 
The park commissioners of Springfield, Mass., will be- 
gin the improvement of the Holly and Prihdle park prop- 
erties, recently purchased, in the spring. Preliminary 
plans for their development will be called for from sev- 
eral landscape architects. 
Of the park loan recently levied in Baltimore, $250,000 
is available for the southeastern part of the city, and it is 
planned to improve the square known as Canton Park, 
and add it with some adjacent land to Patterson Park, 
making an addition of nearly fifty acres to the latter 
tract. 
Frederick G. Todd, of Montreal, has been engaged by 
the provincial government to lay out the grounds for the 
projected government building at Regina, Sask., where 
a tract of 180 acres is to be improved. Mr. Todd is also 
making plans for the government tract at Edmonton and 
for other park work at Calgary and Strathcona. 
The park board of Harrisburg, Pa., has asked the city 
council for a levy of one mill on the assessed valuation 
of city property for park purposes. The expenditure of 
$15,000 last year it was believed would not be sufficient 
for the coming season. The city now has a hundred and 
ninety acres of parks. Warren H. Manning, of Boston, 
