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of $1,250,000, for a city-owned seaside 
park, has been reported on favorably. 
This project has met with favor from 
recreation associations, civic and other 
bodies, who have urged that the city 
buy the ocean frontage for a great sea- 
side park, and for the site of a large 
sanitarium for children suffering from 
bone tuberculosis. The project to es- 
tablish a great public park along the 
Queen’s shore of Hell Gate is also re- 
vived. This plan was laid out in 
1^04. The proposed site embraces fifty- 
eight acres facing Hell Gate opposite 
Ninety-ninth street, Manhattan, and ex- 
tending 3,000 ft. along the Astoria 
shore. 
Springfield, Ohio, has just dedicated 
a memorial arch to John and David L. 
Snyder, who gave the beautiful Snyder 
park to that city in 1898. It comprises 
225 acres, and was at one time used by 
the city as a dumping ground. In 1898 
John and David Snyder offered the 
tract to the city on condition that $20,- 
000 should be expended upon its im- 
provement in two years. When the city 
had spent $15,000 on the work, the 
brothers turned over the deeds to the 
city and also gave $225,000 in 4 per 
cent bonds, the interest of which was 
forever to be used in maintenance. In 
other gifts also these two bachelor phil- 
anthropists aided the park and the city. 
It is rumored that J. P. Morgan has 
practically arranged to turn over his 
estate known as Craigston, just south 
of Highland Falls, N. Y., to the Pali- 
sade Park Commission to be added 
to the land now held by it under ces- 
sion to the state. Craigston is a mag- 
nificent park and its acquisition by the 
commission would be a valuable one. 
According to the estimate filed with 
city comptroller the city commis- 
sion of Superior, Wis., will require $14,- 
000 to carry on its work next year. 
This is $300 more than last vear when 
the park commissioners were given 
$13,700. 
Under the direction of the board of 
park commissioners the superintendent 
of city parks and an engineer from the 
city engineering department of Salt 
Lake City, Utah, are devising and plan- 
ning a general system of parks and 
boulevards for .the city. When com- 
pleted, this system will form the basis 
of all work to be done in the future. 
NEW PARKS 
The two pieces of ground lying in 
White township, adjoining Beaver Falls, 
Pa., options on which were secured by 
the Chamber of Commerce last spring 
for park purposes, are now in the hands 
of trustees, to be held until thev can 
be satisfactorily turned over to the bor- 
ough for the free use of the people of 
this locality. The property consists of 
about eight acres lying along the ma- 
cadam road and is 20 minutes’ walk 
from the postoffice. 
Supplementing the plans of the Es- 
sex County, N. J., Park Commission, 
which are not pleasing to Nutley, the 
town council of that place has decided 
to acquire land to permit the construc- 
tion of a parkway from Chestnut street 
to the Passaic County line along Third 
river. 
The purchase of Mildred Park, 
Springfield, III, has been completed, and 
improvements will be started at once. 
The driveways are to be covered with 
white rock instead of red shale, as in 
the other parks. 
The new City Park on Rock Creek, 
Independence, Kan., has been cleared up 
and was opened by an Old Settlers’ re- 
union last month. 
The Linwood Development Company, 
of Oklahoma City, Okla., has deeded a 
half block of ground in Linwood addi- 
tion to the city for park purposes. 
A new park was dedicated in the 
south part of Minneapolis, Kan., last 
month. 
Park Superintendent Vinnedge, of 
Fort Worth, Tex., is arranging plans 
for a park on the site of a new substa- 
tion of the Stone & Webster corpora- 
tion on Calhoun stoeet between Front 
and Seventeenth streets. 
The Park Board of Omaha, Nebr., 
has recently approved the findings of the 
report of an investigating committee 
recommending the purchase of a park 
site and ordered the same filed for final 
action. The site under consideration is 
known as tlie Cassidy tract and lies 
in the center of a district thickly popu- 
lated by workingmen. 
A new 60-acre park is a project now 
under way in Battle Creek, Mich., 
which will in a large way be a gift of 
private citizens, as the city will be called 
upon to pay but a small proportion of 
its cost. It will have playgrounds, gym- 
nasiums, wading and swimming pools, 
and will be a combined people’s pleasure 
and recreation park. 
After years of effort Deadwood, S. 
D., is to have a city park, the coun- 
cil having recently authorized the pur- 
chase of property for the purpose. 
At the recent “Budget Exhibit’’ in 
New \ ork, Park Commissioner Ken- 
nedy, of Brooklyn, showed a remark- 
able photographic object lesson on the 
Brookl 3 n parks. Including Prospect 
Park, bridge approaches, and the vari- 
ous plaj'grounds, the commissioner has 
some 1,100 acres to care for besides 
some miles of parkways and streets. 
The commissioner’s motto is “improve 
— not acquire’’ and a \ery large amount 
of improvement work is under way 
and laid out. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
The contract to construct the park 
about the Pan-American building. Sev- 
enteenth street and Potomac park, 
Washington, D. C., has been awarded. 
The cost is not to exceed the $100,000 
donated by Andrew Carnegie at the 
Peace meeting last February. The im- 
provements will consist of sunken gar- 
dens, fountains, steps, and a marble 
wall, about 4 ft. high, running around 
the entire length of the grounds. 
The plans for the work were pre- 
pared by the architectural firm of Kel- 
sey & Cret, of Philadelphia. In speak- 
ing of the new improvements. Director 
Barrett, in a pamphlet which he re- 
cently issued, says ; “The grounds are 
to be inclosed, but a spacious formal 
court in front will give an inviting air 
of freedom and openness, so that not 
until one penetrates the rear will one 
fall under the spell of absolute detach- 
ment. The garden house at the extreme 
rear will shut out a distracting view of 
the new factories that have already crept 
into an otherwise favored neighborhood. 
It will become an out-of-door apartment, 
with a homelike appearance and air, not 
that of a public meeting house.’’ The 
main entrance will be a massive gate- 
way of marble, and another gate will be 
located at the northeast corner of the 
grounds. On either side of the build- 
ing two large sunken gardens will be 
lail out, while in the rear a fountain, 
incased in a large court, will play upon 
statues representing South American 
industry and art. 
The park board of Buffalo, N. Y., has 
awarded the contract for building a 
casino in Cazenovia Park, to Austin 
Summers at his bid of $23,000. The 
building will be located on the Caze- 
novia Park lake and will serve a pur- 
pose similar to the Delaware Park 
casino. Another contract will be for 
the proposed greenhouse in Delaware 
Park, near the Art Gallery, to cost about 
$20,000. Other improvements planned 
have to do with the proposed new zoo 
in Delaware Park. Bids will soon be 
asked for an elephant house, part of 
the $100,000 construction work con- 
templated. 
The board of park commissioners of 
Fargo, N. D., is planning to greatly im- 
prove the two pretty parks of the city. 
It has employed the services of C. L. 
Mellor as park superintendent, the year 
round. Before the cold weather sets 
in he proposes to have the parks cleaned 
up and put in shape. 
