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PARK NEWS. 
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The park commissioners of Mem- 
phis, Tenn., have been making an 
appeal to the public spirit of the cit- 
iens to buy Jackson Mound Park and 
present it to the city. 
Miss Ida M. Haynes of Tilton, N. 
H., in memory of her brother. Dr. 
George B. Haynes of Cumberland, 
who died last summer, has offered to 
the metropolitan park commission. 
Providence, -R. I., a gift of a valuable 
tract of land, comprising between 80 
and 85 acres, in the towns of East 
Providence and Barrington, to be 
used for park purposes. 
The Educational Commission of 
the Methodist church decided on 
February 4 that the university should 
come to Dallas, Te.xas, and should 
be placed on the North Dallas or 
Highland Park site. The Dallas of- 
fer accepted is 133 acres for a cam- 
pus and land for 2,000 city lots, esti- 
mated value $1,500,000, and $300,000 
in notes. 
The Boston Park Commission has 
approved the project to secure Cyrus 
E. Dallin’s equestrian Indian group, 
^‘The Appeal to the Great Spirit,” for 
the park system. It will cost $12,000. 
The metropolitan park commission. 
Providence, R. I., has presented a re- 
quest to the General Assembly for 
an appropriation of $45,000 to carry 
on its work, and will also ask for 
the authorization of a bond issue of 
$250,000. 
Everett, Mass., is preparing to lay 
out and improve a park on the Ma^s- 
tic river. It is proposed to lay out 
playgrounds and walks, build a pub- 
lic boat house, bath house and dock 
on the water front. 
A bill was recently introduced into 
the Idaho senate appropriating $12,- 
000 for the purchase of a tract of 
7,000 acres of land, formerly a part 
of the Coeur d’Alene Indian reser- 
vation, for a state park. The park, 
which is to be called Chatcolet Park, 
is in Kootenai country, near Har- 
rison, and at the point where the St. 
Joe river empties into Coeur d’Alene 
lake. It is described as the most 
beautiful spot in Idaho. 
The purchase by the state of Illi- 
nois of Starved Rock and 1,000 acres 
of land along the Illinois river for 
$125,000 is recommended by the State 
Park Commission in a report submit- 
ted to the legislature. As the Starved 
Rock project can be made available 
immediately for public enjoyment, 
the .commission recommends it as 
more feasible than the proposed state 
parks in the white pine forest of Ogle 
county and in the mound region of 
St. Clair and Madison county. 
Mr. William Rhodes, a veteran of 
the Civil War, and a much esteemed 
citizen of Fertile, la., has deeded to 
that town a fine park site. He has 
been a resident of the place for 50 
years. 
The Harrisburg, Pa., Capitol Park 
extension bill, presented to the Penn- 
sylvania senate, calls for an appro- 
priation of $2,000,000. 
Judge Whitney, of Toledo, O., who 
some months ago donated some 30 
acres of land to that city for park 
purposes, has been spurring the au- 
thorities up to devise some means of 
raising funds to improve the park 
lands already held by the city for 
park purposes. 
A bill has been introduced in Con- 
gress by Senator Taylor to provide 
for the creation of a new national 
military park at the battlefield of 
Stone River, to be known as the 
Stone River National Military Park 
and which would include the present 
national cemetery at that place and 
1,000 additional acres of ground, 
which would in turn enclose the 
Union and Confederate battle- 
grounds; in addition to preserving 
present buildings and roadways there 
would be carried on under three com- 
missioners the opening up of new 
roads to ascertain and definitely mark 
the lines of battle of all troops en- 
gaged in the battle of Stone River; 
'to ascertain and mark the locations 
of the regular troops, and to erect- 
monuments on those positions, which 
may be designated by Congress, plain 
and substantial historical tablets for 
the designation of positions and 
movements, etc. The preliminary 
appropriation for the carrying on of 
this work would be $125,000. 
In an effort to recover possession 
of a large park site donated to the 
Columbus, Greensburg & Richmond 
Traction Company, the town of 
Hartsville, Ind., has filed suit against 
the company in the Bartholomew cir- 
cuit court. 
The city council of Mabton, Wash., 
has accepted the land for its first 
city park, a gift by Mr. and Mrs. C. 
B. Alexander and Mr. and Mrs. Fred 
Phillips, and steps are being taken 
to improve it. The donation was se- 
cured through the Woman’s Civic 
Improvement Club. 
Authorization of a county appro- 
priation of $100,000 for a park at 
Belleville, N. J., will be sought from 
the Legislature, probably during its 
present session. Action along this 
line was taken at a recent meeting 
of the Board of Trade of tlie town- 
ship. 
Governor Aldrich, of Nebraska, 
has prepared a special message ask- 
ing both houses of the Legislature to 
memoralize Congress and the secre- 
tary of the interior to take favorable 
action on H. R. No. 6757, introduced 
in Congress by Congressman Hin- 
shaw of Nebraska. This bill provides 
for an appropriation by Congress 
to purchase the Daniel Freeman 
homestead in Gage county. Neb., for 
use as a national park. 
Members of the Social Workers’ 
“Back to the Land” movement, be- 
lieving that some of Los Angeles’ 
parks should be utilized for the main- 
tenance of the poor and the teaching 
of self-support, are asking that a por- 
tion of Griffith Park be set aside for 
the establishment of an experimental 
farming school and home center, to 
be operated under the direction of a 
commission and directed upon the 
same plan as are the national Indian 
government school communities. 
A bill has been introduced into the 
New York Legislature at Albany 
providing that Cropsey avenue, in the 
Borough of Brooklyn, from Bay 
parkway. Twenty-second avenue, to 
Fourteenth avenue and Dyker Park, 
shall, from the passage of the act, be 
under the exclusive charge of the 
Park Commissioner of New York 
City. The parkway is hereafter to 
be known as Bath Peach parkway. 
The bill provides that no street sur- 
face railroad or other railroads shall 
be constructed along this parkway. 
PARK IMPOVEMENTS 
The City Beautiful Club, of Vicks- 
burg, Miss., will undertake the im- 
provement of the pretty little park on 
the river bluff at the eastern terminus 
of Broadway. The city engineer has 
in preparation a topographical map 
of the park and this will be sent to a 
landscape artist in the east. 
The Park Commission of Syracuse, 
N. Y., have arranged a plan for the 
expenditure of $100,000, proA'ided by 
a bond issue, for permanent park im- 
