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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Aimual reports or extracts from them^ historical sketches^ 
descriptive circulars^ photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this dcpartmeiit. 
An improvement association has recently been organized 
in Tatenuck, a suburb of Worcester, Mass. The association 
will devote itself first to agitation for a new public school 
and a fire station and will take up the work of tree planting 
and a general cleaning up of the suburb. Edwin B. May- 
nard was elected president, E. B. Rick secretary and Wm. 
F. Hyde treasurer. 
* * * 
The Troost Park Improvement Association, of Kansas 
City, Mo., is endeavoring to influence the park board in the 
laying out of the extension to the Paseo Boulevard. The 
boulevard was originally planned to skirt the banks of Troost 
Lake, but influences had been used to divert it 200 feet from 
the route specified. The association has protested against 
the new course and will use its influence with the park board 
to have it changed. 
* * 
At the annual meeting of the Barre Village Improvement 
Society, Barre, V't., reports of officers were given showing 
a prosperous condition of affairs and a successful year’s 
work. The investment committee reported the permanent 
fund as $8,736. The interest from this sum, with the money 
obtained by gifts and the proceeds of several entertainments, 
are devoted each year to the beautifying and improving of 
the town. 
* * * 
For six years the Home Gardening Association of Cleve- 
land has worked to implant a love for gardening among the 
school children of the city and to point out what can be 
done to improve the home surroundings at small expense. 
How successful it has been is shown in the report just pub- 
lished, which furnishes interesting reading. La=t year there 
were sold to the school children of Cleveland 247,348 penny 
packets of seeds ; to outside organizations working with the 
same object, 192,840 packets. To sell seeds outside of the 
city was no part of the original plan, but smaller organiza- 
tions, finding that they could not put up seeds as cheaply as 
they could buy them of the Home Gardening Association, 
asked to become purchasers, and last year, sixty-five such 
organizations were represented. A machine for putting up 
seeds has been introduced and will greatly help in the mechan- 
ical part of this work. The exchange garden, which was an 
experiment two years ago, was so successful that a similar 
garden was opened last year in another part of the city. 
This is a station where persons having a surplus of certain 
varieties of plants can exchange with those who have other 
varieties in superabundance ; or where florists and people 
with large estates can send their surplus plants to be given 
away, a scheme which ought to appeal to every flower lover. 
The report for 1906 may be had by addressing Miss Lucy 
B. Buell, secretary, 501 St. Clair avenue, Cleveland, O. 
PUBLIC DRINKING FOUNTAIN 
Newton, Mass. 
The Newton Center Improvement Association, Newton, 
Mass., is to erect a public drinking fountain in Newton Cen- 
ter, and the accompanying illustration shows the very at- 
tractive design for tlie work, which has been furnished by 
Coolidge & Carlson, architects. The fountain will be con- 
structed of seam-faced Quincy granite, with limestone trim- 
mings, ard will cost about $1,500. The Massachusetts So- 
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has contrib- 
uted $400 to the work and the rest of the fund is to be 
raised by popular subscription. The city has granted a loca- 
tion and agrees to perpetually maintain the fountain. Wm. 
H. Rice, treasurer of the association, is in charge of the 
* * 
The bronze tablet shown in the illus- 
tration was unveiled in October on the 
campus of Marietta College, Marietta, 
O., by the Ohio Company of Associ- 
ates to commemorate the first perma- 
nent settlement in the Northwest Ter- 
ritory, the establishment of civil gov- 
ernment under the ordinance of 1787 
and the first organization of its free 
institutions. 
The tablet is a replica of the one re- 
cently placed on the United States Sub- 
treasury building, in Wall street. New 
York, by the same organization. 
The design represents a document 
torn so as to leave rough edges at the 
top and bottom, and bearing the seal 
of the Ohio Company. The scroll head- 
ing and the branch and leaves in the 
background are arranged to good dec- 
orative effect. The tablet was designed 
by Homer Lee, of New York. 
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