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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PARK NEWS. 
W. H. Jtlanning, landscape archi- 
tect of Boston, Mass., has been look- 
ing over Grand Rapids, Wis., prepara- 
tory to making plans for a park sys- 
tem. 
Ross, Cal., has voted to bond the 
town in the sum of $3,000 for park 
purposes. 
Corlears Hook Park, New York, is 
to be improved and enlarged at a cost 
of some $25,000. 
Nothing could be more definite as 
to a city’s desire in reference to its 
parks than the decided vote of Fall 
River, Mass., ratifying the act of the 
legislature authorizing cities to ap- 
point commissions to lay out public 
parks. The vote stood 6,563 to 1,519. 
The Wisconsin senate recently 
adopted a substitute for the Johnson 
bill naming the new state park in 
Door county Peninsula Park, instead 
of Stephenson Park, which was pre- 
sented by Senator Bosshard. It also 
provided that the $25,000 donated by 
Senator Stephenson for the purchase 
of the land be returned to him. 
The eastern branch of the Associa- 
tion of Park Superintendents held a 
meeting and had a day out, as guests 
of G. X. Amryhn, superintendent of 
parks, at New Haven, Conn., on June 
10. A picnic dinner was served at 
East Rock, and a tour of the parks 
and a climb up East Rock contributed 
to the pleasures. The grounds of the 
Elm City Nursery Co. were also vis- 
ited. Mr. Christopher Clark, now 84 
years of age, so well known for his 
splendid efforts to improve North- 
ampton, Mass., invited the association 
to hold its next meeting at North- 
ampton in September, which was 
unanimously accepted. 
The city council of Champaign, 111., 
has gone on record as favoring the 
organization of a park district. 
The Capitol Park extension bill, 
to enlarge the capitol grounds at Har- 
risburg, Pa., has been signed by the 
governor with a proviso. The ap- 
propriation is $2,000,000. 
The bill carrying $10,000 annually 
for five years to the state park board 
was passed by the Wisconsin legisla- 
ture. This is in addition to the lump 
appropriation of $50,000 already given 
the board for purchase of park lands. 
If the philanthropic plans of Nelse 
Hansen, at Grayling, Mich., tiie local 
millionaire lumberman, carry he will 
present to the state some 7,000 acres 
of the wildest and most beautiful nat- 
ural park land in the middle west and 
Michigan will have its own Yellow- 
stone Park. This land is located in 
Crawford county near the above town, 
and is one of the few remaining well 
timbered tracts of such size. It 
abounds in wild game and is an ideal 
spot for a park such as Mr. Hansen 
would like to give to Michigan. 
By the will of Mrs. Mehitibile C. 
C. Wilson of Cambridge, Mass., $10,- 
000 is bequeathed to the city of Bos- 
ton, to be used to build a drinking 
fountain for men and animals at the 
corner of Columbia road and Wash- 
ington street, Dorchester. She also 
leaves $5,000 for the care of the foun- 
tain, beautifying the parks and buy- 
ing books for the public library. 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., recently 
paid Richard Canfield $150,150 for his 
park and casino for city park pur- 
poses. 
The heirs of the late Edward C. 
Hegeler, the millionaire zinc manu- 
facturer and old-time resident of 
La Salle, lib, have donated a four- 
teen-acre plot to the city for park pur- 
poses, with the reservation that five 
acres of it is to be given to the La 
Salle-Peru township high school, to 
be used by them in their agricultural 
experiment work. 
The purchase of two more small 
park sites has been recommended by 
the Small Park Commission of Buf- 
falo, N. Y., to cost about $112,000. 
The proprietors of the Elm City 
Nursery, New Haven, Conn., a mem- 
ber of which, Mr. Ernest F. Coe, has 
recently spent some time in the Flow- 
ery Kingdom, have issued invitations 
to view an interesting and compre- 
hensive collection of Japanese dwarf 
trees, and other typically Japanese 
plants which have just arrived. There 
are also a number of splendid ex- 
amples of Japanese stone lanterns in 
the collection. 
By the will of Dr. Charles G. Weld, 
of Boston and Brookline, Mass., his 
estates in these two places are do- 
nated to them respectively for the 
purpose of public parks. 
Mr. C. M. Loring, well known in 
connection with the Minneapolis Park 
system, and whose love for trees is 
always practically expressing itself, 
has come to the front in another 
effort to encourage the planting of 
street trees by the neighborhood as- 
sociations in that city. He has offered 
to place to the credit of the Joint Im- 
provement Association the sum, of 
$500, to be distributed in prizes for 
the best uniformly planted street, 
when not less than five streets of not 
less than five blocks shall have been 
entered for competition. The trees 
to be either elm, hackberry, linden or 
maple, one variety to a street, and 
planted in accordance with the Park 
Board regulation. This is an example 
worthy of emulation and extension. 
Quincy, 111., has a park area of 225 
acres with a population of 167 to 
each acre of park. It has a boule- 
vard and park association organized 
under a special charter, and it is un- 
der this association that its fine park 
system has been secured and devel- 
oped. The association’s methods pro- 
vide a study in park work well worth 
particular investigation. 
Some 200,000 new bulbs are an- 
nually purchased and planted in large 
and long beds of solid colors in 
Schenley Park, Pittsburg, Pa., and 
make remarkably showy and attrac- 
tive displays. After blooming all the 
bulbs are dug and matured, and the 
following fall these are planted again 
under the shrubbery and in the grass 
of the long stretches of lawn. There 
is no doubt as to the beauty of the 
new bulbs, but as has been observed 
elsewhere the most artistic effects 
are seen in the grass plats and shrub- 
bery patches where the old bulbs were 
replanted. 
NEW PARKS 
A public park has been opened in 
Windsor Locks, Ct., largely through 
the efforts of the women. The chil- 
dren's amusement and exercise have 
not been forgotten. 
The citizens of Winchester, Mass., 
have voted to raise $90,000 to purchase 
the Whitney mill property, at the junc- 
tion of Main street and Mystic Valley 
parkway. When improved this section 
of Winchester will be one of the most 
beautiful spots in the Metropolitan 
Park district. 
Siarved Rock on the Illinois river, 
a historic spot around which cluster 
memories of Pere Marquette, La Salle, 
Joliet and others of the early explor- 
ers and missionaries, is to be establish- 
ed as a state park. The bill appropriat- 
ing $150,000 for the purchase of the 
land has been signed by the governor. 
The voters of The Dalles, Ore., have 
decided to set aside 40 acres belonging 
to the city for a public park. It is an 
ideal spot lying immediately south of 
