PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PARK WORK PROPOSED AND UNDER WAY 
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The Essex County Park Commission has decided to es- 
tablish a new public park. 
Improvement work has begun on Prospect Park, a twelve 
acre tract near the Central depot in Americus, Ga. 
The J. M. Evans estate of Salem, Ohio, has presented to 
the city twenty-eight acres known as Centennial Park. 
William Jennings Bryan has presented to the park board 
of Lincoln, Neb., a ten-acre tract of land at Thirteenth and 
A streets. 
The mayor of Pittsfield, Mass., has recommended that 
$5,000 be appropriated for the development of the “Burbank 
Park” property. 
The highway committee of the city council of Norwalk, 
Conn., is considering plans for a tract of land known as 
Klondike Park. 
The city of South Bend, Ind., has voted to expend $10,000 
for the purchase of the Beyer tract of fifteen acres as an 
addition to the park system. 
The board of park commissioners of Binghamton, N. Y., 
recommend an appropriation of $10,000 for a general im- 
provement and beautifying of the parks. 
A plan for the landscape development of the new five-acre 
park at Monrovia, Calif., has been adopted and bids will 
soon be advertised for grading and construction work. 
State Senator Griggs has introduced in the state legisla- 
ture of Texas a bill providing for an appropriation of $25,- 
900 for the purchase by the state of a part of the San Jacinto 
battle ground for a state park. 
The city council of St. Louis has authorized the expendi- 
ture of $670,000 for the purchase of several small parks in 
accordance with the recommendations of the public baths 
commission and the park commissioner. 
The Board of Local Improvements of Greater New York 
is considering the establishing of a small park between East 
Houston, Orchard, Stanton and Allen streets. This block 
is in the center of a tract of 211 acres, where the average 
population is 690 per acre. 
R. A. Harris has been appointed park commissioner of El 
Paso, Tex., and is planning many improvements for the com- 
ing season. It has been proposed to turn Washington Park 
over to the city as a public ground and to set aside part of 
it for a park nursery. 
The improvements in Monument Valley Park, Colorado 
Springs, Colo., an immense tract donated to that city by 
Gen. W. A. Palmer, are nearly completed. The total im- 
provements will cost about $1,000,000, and have employed 
500 men and teams for the past two years. 
The Park Board of Milwaukee has recommended to the 
council the purchase of 13J4 acres for park purposes. The 
land is the property of Mrs. George Gordon and her daugh- 
ter, Mrs. C. B. Whitnall, and lies between the St. Paul tracks 
and the Milwaukee river. The price of the tract is $45,000. 
The contract has been let for the construction of a new 
entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y., to cost $18,400. 
The main features will be a plaza and a driveway flanked 
by two granite columns thirty-four feet high surmounted by 
bronze urns. It was designed by McKim, Mead and White. 
The new entrance will be at Ninth avenue and Fifteenth 
street. 
The Quincy Park and Boulevard Association, Quincy, 111., 
is preparing to add to the park system of that city a tract 
known as Sunset Heights, an area of great natural beauty, 
containing three large mounds with ravines and valleys, of- 
fering opportunity for beautiful landscape development. The 
land lies near Riverview Park and it is planned to connect 
them by a concrete viaduct. O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, 
who laid out the other parks of Quincy, is making the plans 
for the development of the new tract. 
Joplin, Mo., has begun agitation in the direction of provid- 
ing park areas, a matter hitherto much neglected. 
The Board of Aldermen of Denver, Colo., has made ap- 
propriations for a_ series of small parks in that city. 
The question of establishing a riverside park near the sed- 
imentation basin is being considered at Columbia, S. C. 
The park board of Winona, Minn., has received a dona- 
tion of $75,000 for_ improvements to Lake Park and Bluffside 
Park. 
At a recent meeting of the Knoxville Park Association, 
Knoxville, Tenn., it was decided to take steps at once to pur- 
chase a site for a park. 
The citizens of Glen Ridge, N. J., voted in favor of issu-' 
ing $15,000 bonds for the purchase of land adjoining the Glen 
Ridge schools for playgrounds. 
Des Moines, Iowa, is planning for a system of boulevards 
to connect the different parks and the city engineer has been 
asked to estimate on the cost of the system. 
Among the improvements planned for Belle Isle Park, 
Detroit, the coming season are a shelter house to cost $18,- 
000 and an addition to the bath house to cost $3,500. 
Steps are being taken to beautify a grove which was pre- 
sented to the people of Gray, S. D., some time ago by the 
Chicago & Northwestern railroad company for park purposes. 
The Board of City Surveyors of Philadelphia have decided 
to place Cobb’s Creek parkway on the city plan. The ground 
extends for six miles along the creek to Baltimore avenue. 
The Daughters of the American Revolution of Cincinnati 
have asked the park board of that city to appropriate funds 
for the establishment of neighborhood centers in the down- 
town district. 
Senator Franchot has introduced in the New York legis- 
lature a bill providing for $12,000 for the better lighting of 
Niagara Falls Park, and $25,000 for the reconstruction of 
the inclined railway. 
Plans are being made for the improvement of the area 
formerly occupied by the old pest house in Racine, Wis., 
ivhich is to be made into a park according to plans of Super- 
intendent H. Thompson. 
A bill has been passed by the New York legislature ac- 
cepting a gift of Wm. P. Letchworth of 1,000 acres situated 
in the towns of Genesee Falls and Portage, to be held by 
the state as a public park. 
Park Commissioner Beardsley, of Auburn, N. Y., recom- 
mends the acquiring the properties known of Springside and 
Galpin Hill as a nucleus for a park system, and has obtained 
an option on 150 acres of that area. 
The district commissioners of Washington, D. C., have 
approved the bill providing for the establishment of a public 
park at Fort Thayer. A bill has also been introduced appro- 
priating $100,000 for the purchase of playground sites in 
close proximity to school buildings. 
The park board of St. Paul has decided to spend $5,500 
for concerts at Como Park next summer, on condition that 
$1,500 be paid by the street car company. Superintendent 
Nussbaumer has also asked for the purchase of another 
sight-seeing automobile. The one in use last summer cost 
$3,135 and made a profit of $1,697. 
Plans are being formulated for the improvement of the 
government reservation surrounding the National Military 
Park comprising the battlefield of Chickamauga at Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. The plan is to make a park of the reservation, 
construct a boulevard around the battlefield which shall con- 
nect with the city. Government aid is to be asked. 
