oL5 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
bandstand and fountains. In order 
to do so the immense fountain and 
statues now standing will be removed. 
The Board of Park Commissioners 
of Wilmington,' Del., has been al- 
lowed $15,000 by City Council on ac- 
count of the special fund for park 
purposes. This is the first money 
Council has voted to the Park Board 
out of the receipts of the recent bond 
issue for parks. The resolution pro- 
vides that the money shall be used 
to make improvements to park lands. 
This prevents the commission from 
acquiring new lands. 
statement of the condition of 
The Vicksburg National Military 
Park to June 30, has recently been 
issued from the Commissioner’s of- 
fice at Vicksburg, Miss. Among the 
chief items are: Area, 1,323.78 acres; 
cost per acre, $16,624: Miles of fin- 
ished roadway, 30.37: cost per mile, 
$13,313.24; number of bridges, 16; 
cost, $116,449; number of guns mount- 
ed by United States, 128; 66 Union, 62 
confederate: number of tablets by 
United States, 897; 31 bronze, 866 
iron; 568 Union, 329 Confederate; 
number of iron guideboards, 122, 
Number of memorials by United 
States, 22; 1 for Union Navy, 4 por- 
trait busts (2 Union, 2 Confederate), 
17 portrait tablets (11 Union, 6 Con- 
federate) ; cost, $157,928.93. A mem- 
orial for Confederate Navy is de- 
sired, at approved site, to cost not 
to exceed $125,000. Number of mem- 
orials, monuments, and markers, by 
States, in place, 424; 400 Union, 24 
Confederate; Number of monu- 
ments, and markers, as gifts, in place, 
22: 5 Union, 17 Confederate; cost, 
$4,257.50: Number of bronze por- 
traits as gifts, in place or under con- 
tract, 21; 4 statues, 1 bust, 16 tab- 
lets; cost $57,084.85. Number of 
bronze portraits, as gifts, assured, 9; 
2 equestrian statues, 1 bust, 6 tablets. 
Appropriations by United States, 
$1,219,000, including $150,000 for con- 
struction of Union Navy memorial; 
cost of this memorial, $144,041, leav- 
ing an unexpended balance of $5,959, 
Authority of Congress is desired to 
use this unexpended sum ($5,959) for 
bronze portraits of brigade and di- 
vision commanders. Union and Con- 
federate, engaged in the operations 
commemorated, Missouri has ap- 
propriated $50,000 for the park; 
amount heretofore reported, $797,000; 
total, $847,000, by 15 States. 
Enterprising citizens and the mem- 
bers of the Women’s Improvement 
Club of Vallejo, Calif., have started 
an agitation for the laying out of an- 
other public park in the eastern end 
of town, and also for the establish- 
ment of a ladies’ rest room under 
the Carnegie Library. The park 
would cost about $7,500, and of this 
sum the Improvement Club ladies are 
willing to donate one-third of the 
amount necessary. 
The City Plan and Improvement 
League of Dallas, Texas, have begun 
active work on the development of 
the proposed parkway along Turtle 
Creek, as suggested in the Kessler 
plans. 
George Vinnedge, superintendent of 
city parks, San Antonio, Texas, has 
prepared plans for a lake in Syca- 
more park. He proposes to secure 
this lake by building a dam across 
Sycamore creek, and is now drawing 
specifications for this work which will 
begin soon. The lake will be about 
one-third of a mile in length and more 
than eighty feet wide. 
The north and south entrances into 
Washington park, Milwaukee, are be- 
ing widened and improved. The two- 
story building standing on Sherman 
boulevard, on the north side, has been 
removed and the wide boulevard now 
will run directly into the park. At 
the south end of this triangle the 
Baron Steuben monument will be 
erected. 
The work of preparing the site of 
the Maine Memorial, to be erected 
at Columbus Circle, Central Park, 
New York City, has made a notice- 
able change in the view of the Park 
from the Broadway cars and the side- 
walks. Four large trees have been 
cut down from the centre of the site, 
and the circular rest-house has been 
removed. The result is that a long 
sweep of the Park lawn and trees 
meets the eye of the passer where 
were formerly the trees and the wood- 
en house. 
The triangle near the Illinois Cen- 
tral depot, Pekin, Ilk, which has been 
used as a storage and dumping ground 
is being cleared up by the Park board 
which will convert the spot into a 
public park. 
The Webb Pink Granite Co., of 
Milford, Mass., has been awarded the 
contract to furnish the granite for 
a handsome band stand, to be erected 
in Boston from the Parkman fund. 
The granite to be used in the struc- 
ture is to cost close to $15,000, and 
when finished is to be a very ornate 
affair. 
The Hudson County Park Com- 
missioners, Jersey City, N. J„ recently 
awarded contracts for the buildings 
that are to put the finishing touches 
on West Hudson Park, The con- 
tracts call for the building of a rustic 
outlook and a rustic bridge over the 
lake. A big main outlook is to be 
constructed on one of the knolls in 
the park. On the field set aside for 
games a spacious grandstand is to 
be erected and on the edge of the 
lake a boat-house, up-to-date in every 
particular, will be built for the accom- 
modation of at least 100 boats. The 
successful bidder was William Rob- 
ertson & Son, of Jersey City. The 
contract is for $21,469, and the build- 
ings will be completed within two 
■months. 
The H. C. Frick Coke Co. have put 
some men at work to make a park at 
Standard, Pa. The site of the new 
park is between the State road and 
Shupe’s Run. A number of double 
houses have been cleared away, and 
the company has made an approp- 
riation of $31,000 for the work. It 
will be a great improvement. 
The late Illinois legislature made 
an appropriation of $5,000 for a state 
park on the site of old Fort Chartres, 
near Prairie du Rocher, 50 miles south 
of St. Louis and between the Miss- 
issippi and Kaskaskia rivers. In seven 
years the old fort will be 200 years 
old, it having been first built in 1718. 
In 1778 it was captured from the Eng- 
lish by Gen. George Rogers Clark. 
Wylie Park, the latest addition to 
the park system of Aberdeen, S. D., 
was opened on July 4. The tract of 
land, consisting of 160 acres, possesses 
great natural beauty. 
Lee Happ of Macon, Ga.. has of- 
fered to present to the Tatnall Square 
playground, of that city, a sanitary 
drinking fountain. It was much need- 
ed and the gift has been accepted. 
The plans of the Olmsted brothers, 
Boston, Mass., for the improvement 
of Fairmount Park under the bond 
issue of November last have been 
practically accepted by the Board of 
Park Commissioners, Riverside, Calif. 
Public-spirited citizens of Bonham, 
Texas, have raised money by sub- 
scription and purchased a tract of 
land in north part of town. At a 
recent meeting of the City Council it 
was donated to the city to be made a 
City Park. 
The town of Marble Rock, la., has 
accepted the offer of E. H. Shepard- 
son, who on payment of $100 per acre, 
has deeded ten acres of land which he 
purchased a few days ago for park 
purposes at $200 per acre. The park 
is well wooded and has a fine stream 
running through it. 
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