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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
SECTION OF FENCE FOR YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 
at an expense of $19,332.29, consisting of 
about eighteen acres of woodland, made a 
substantial addition to the park system. 
New Bedford has seven public parks, com- 
prising a total area of 217 acres 29.07 
square rods. Brooklawn Park has re- 
ceived a generous part of the appropria- 
tion for improvements this year. A hand- 
some shelter house, containing all the 
necessities and conveniences desired in such 
a place, has been constructed. The build- 
ing is of wood, but very ornamental. The 
roof projects over the outside walls and is 
covered with red asbestos century cement 
shingles. The inside dimensions are 50x25 
feet. William F. Caswell is secretary of 
the Park Board ; Thomas W. Cook, gen- 
eral superintendent, and George H. Nye, 
consulting engineer. 
Charles Mulford Robinson, of Roches- 
ter, N. Y., has prepared an interesting 
general report on a park system for Coun- 
cil Bluffs, la., from which we quote briefly 
as follows : 
“It seems to me that there are six general 
principles which almost anyone would be 
ready to accept, as properly governing the 
selection of park lands for Council Bluffs. 
They are as follows : 
1. Some of the best typical scenery 
should be preserved. 
2. The parks should be so distributed as 
to serve all parts of the community. 
3. Their location, and to such extent as 
practicable their size, should anticipate the 
city’s growth. 
4. Other things being equal, lands which 
are of no great value for building should 
be selected. 
5. The parks should invite use, in the 
sense of performing an active social serv- 
ice. They should be created sparingly, if 
at all, for purely aesthetic purposes. 
6. There must be due regard for finan- 
cial limitations. 
Measured by the test of these principles, 
Council Bluffs has already park posses- 
sions of extraordinary merit. In Fair- 
mount and Dodge parks, some of the best 
typical scenery of the locality is preserved, 
through their utilization of the two domi- 
nant, and well contrasted, topographical 
characteristics — the bluffs and the river. 
The large parks are also distributed so as 
to serve the different parks of the city — 
Fairmount on the east, Dodge on the west, 
Lakeview Park on the north, and far to 
the south, Island Park. The geographical 
distribution of the present parks anticipates 
the growth of the city in any direction. 
Should the increase in population be east, 
west, north or south, there is available a 
large park acreage.” 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
The yearly report of Secretary R. N. El- 
liott, of the Dale Cemetery Association, 
Connersville, Ind., shows that association 
to be in a very satisfactory condition finan- 
cially. The Executive Committee, consist- 
ing of W. M. Gregg, superintendent of the 
cemetery, and R. T. Huston, was author- 
ized to build a rest house of brick with 
slate or tile roof in bungalow type of 
architecture. 
A number of soft maples and other or- 
namental trees have been ordered by Serv- 
ice Director J. J. Grafton, of Spring Hill 
Cemetery, Wellsville, Ohio, for planting in 
reclaimed portion of the burial ground. 
Steps are to be taken at once to restore 
the old Elyton Cemetery in Birmingham, 
Ala., which is in a very unsightly and neg- 
lected condition. M. T. Porter, Sam E. 
Greene and Judge W. M. Walker are in- 
terested in the movement. It is planned 
to erect a concrete wall, wire fence or 
privet hedge around the cemetery. 
It is the purpose' of the Springfield Cem- 
etery Association, Greenville, S. C., to beau- 
tify and to keep beautiful the burial place. 
FENCING YELLOWSTONE PARK. 
The illustration shows a section of iron 
fence recently erected at the Yellowstone 
National Park. The section shown here is 
near the north line of the park and includes 
2,OCO lineal feet of the fence, 5 feet in 
height, including one 16-foot double drive 
gate and one 4- foot walk gate. The 
wrought steel pickets are inch square 
and the two channel rails are each 2x^4 
inches. The fence was furnished and erect- 
ed by the Enterprise Iron Works of In- 
dianapolis, Ind. 
The City Council has appropriated $10,000 
for improvements in the cemetery and the 
association has arranged to employ an ex- 
perienced gardener. R. McHardy Mauldin 
is secretary of this association. 
The Weldon Cemetery Association, Wel- 
don, Houston County, Tex., has been in- 
corporated by H. Leggett, J. L. Carroll and 
J. S. Duke. 
A cemetery association of which E. L. 
Kelly and H. C. Myers are the promoters 
is being formed to establish a burial 
ground in Youngstown, Ohio, consisting of 
about sixteen acres. 
It is planned to build a chapel in the City 
Cemetery, Centralia, 111., funds for which 
are being raised by the Ladies’ Cemetery 
Association. 
Godfrey Cemetery, Alton, 111., has bought 
two additional acres of ground. 
At a meeting of the St. Columba Ceme- 
tery Association, Ottawa, 111., a contract 
for a large ornamental gateway at the en- 
trance of the cemetery was awarded to 
Sinnott Bros., of that city. 
Eighty acres have been purchased just 
outside the city of Augusta, Ga., by an 
