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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PARK NEWS. 
Zentaro Kawase, professor of forestry 
at the Imperial University of Tokio, has 
been making a tour of the national for- 
ests of this country to learn the govern- 
ment’s methods of selling timber and of 
reforestation. 
More than 858,000 young trees are be- 
ing set out this spring on national for- 
ests in Utah and southern Idaho, and 
the season is reported as particularly fa- 
vorable to their successful growth. 
Armstrong Lake, within the Beartooth 
National Forest, Montana, is said to 
rival the famed Lake Louise of the 
Canadian Rockies. It lies at an eleva- 
tion of 7,000 feet, surrounded by tower- 
ing mountains. A good road which can 
be traveled in half a day by automobile 
connects it with the railroad at Billings. 
A rustic hotel has recently been com- 
pleted and many trails make the sur^ 
rounding region accessible. 
Lincoln Park, Chicago, is to have a 
handsome band stand, Lorado Taft, the 
sculptor, being interested in the design. It 
is intended to be a permanent structure 
and will cost about $200,000. 
The South Park Commissioners of Chi- 
cago are planning to improve Grant Park 
with several interesting landscape and 
sculptural features. Daniel C. French's 
"Republic” in bronze, the stately figure that 
was originally made for the World’s Fair 
and afterwards stood in the lobby at the 
Art Institute, will be placed in this park. 
At a recent meeting of the Park Com- 
missioners of Buffalo, N. Y., several com- 
plaints were laid before the board regard- 
ing band concerts given in that city, but no 
action was taken by the board. Contracts 
were awarded for draining the forest 
bureau nursery at Orchard Park, for an 
iron fence along Scajaquada Creek at Del- 
aware Park and for the plumbing in the 
wading pool at Hennepin Park. 
Mayor Bridges Smith, of Macon, Ga., 
will soon name the tree and park commis- 
sion for that city. The council has decided 
that there shall be eight persons on the 
board, composed of four ladies and four 
men. It will be the duty of the tree and 
park commission to look after the neces- 
sary improvements on the parks and play- 
grounds. 
Members of the City Park Board, of 
Dallas, Tex., are discussing the question 
of asking the city government to turn over 
to the board for park purposes all of the 
land owned by the city at White Rock not 
covered by water from the reservoirs. The 
committee will soon have plans ready for 
bids on the construction of the shelter 
house and comfort stations in Summit 
Play Park. Plans are being prepared for 
the building of a fireproof neighborhood 
house in Trinity Play Park. Work will be 
begun soon on the construction of two pub- 
lic comfort stations in City Park. A com- 
mittee of citizens has asked the city to buy 
Woodchuck Hollow for park purposes. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
Mayor Campbell plans to more than 
double the size of Sam Houston Park, of 
Houston, Tex. The City Council has au- 
thorized the purchase of about two acres 
of land for a sum of $20,000. Plans for 
the beautification of the playground have 
not been completed. 
The park belonging to the Kansas City 
Southern Railway located in Port Arthur, 
Tex., will be beautified and improved. 
The City Park Board of Dallas, Tex., 
purchased a lot 50x130 feet fronting on 
Grand avenue, at a cost of $6,000. This 
will be added to Fair Park. 
At the annual meeting of the Park Com- 
mission of Colorado Springs, Colo., the 
following officers were unanimously elect- 
ed : D. V. Donaldson, president, and A. 
G. Sharp, vice-president. J. B. Lang was 
appointed superintendent, and R. P. Van 
Hook, assistant secretary. 
A bill is now before Congress appropri- 
ating 7.000 acres of government land for 
Denver's mountain park system. 
At a recent meeting of the citizens and 
property owners of Paris, Tex., plans were 
recommended for a circular boulevard 
around the city and for a park adjacent to 
the old city cemetery. 
The committee on municipal affairs of 
the Galveston Commercial Association is 
trying to secure a site for a new city park. 
A beautiful suburban park will be es- 
tablished jointly by the Park Board and 
Library Board in the grounds surrounding 
the Oak Cliff branch of the Carnegie Li- 
brary at Oak Cliff, Tex. Two thousand 
dollars has already been turned over to the 
Park Board for this improvement. 
Three deeds for property which will be 
added to park sites in Dallas, Tex., were 
recently bought at about $21,250. 
Mayor Bell and members of the Board 
of Park Commissioners of Indianapolis, 
Ind., recently viewed the south side of this 
city for prospective park sites. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
Sam Helinger, who opened the Heliger 
addition to Pleber Springs, has donated a 
large plot of ground in his addition to this 
city, to be made into a public park. 
The bill for the creation of the National 
Park of the Cliff Cities is to be pushed for 
passage in Congress soon, but the proposed 
area is to be cut down more than one- 
half because of the objections of the forest 
service. The redrafted bill is to include in 
the parks the lands west of the Rio Grande 
from the Santa Clara to the northern 
boundary of the Canada de Cochiti grant 
and westward to the western boundary of 
the Ramon Vigil grant. 
Members of the City Park Board, of 
Dallas, Tex., have looked over a tract of 
five and one-half acres, comprising part of 
the grounds of St. Mary’s College, which 
has been offered to the board as a park 
site. The price asked is $40,000. An offer 
has been submitted to the board to sell five 
acres situated near the paper mill in Oak 
Cliff as a site for a negro park. The price 
is $4,500. The board is contemplating the 
purchase of property on Prairie street and 
Elk drive for park purposes. A deal has 
been pending for some months for the 
purchase of twenty-six acres of land at 
Turtle Creek and Maple avenue, which has 
been submitted for park purposes. 
J. Harry Cross, chief park engineer of 
the city of Baltimore, has been engaged by 
the Roanoke Park Commission to design 
and improve the parks of the Magic City, 
and will begin work soon. F. Fallen has 
donated 5,000 Norway maple trees to be 
planted in this park. 
Plans for the transformation of the Ex- 
all Park tract at Bryan, Live Oak and 
Adair streets, Dallas, Tex., into a com- 
bined play park for the children and a 
beauty spot for the public generally were I 
received by Mayor W. M. Holland from 
George E. Kessler, landscape architect, of 
Kansas City. 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION. 
The illustration on the front cover of 
this issue shows the handsome entrance 
gates to the United Jewish Cemetery, 
Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. The Jewish 
Cemetery is one of the most beautiful 
modern cemeteries in the state and is 
not lacking in any improvement that j 
would tend to add to the attractiveness 
of its natural scenery. The main stretch of 
fence used in connection with these en- 
trance gates, but which is not very well 
shown in our illustration, comprises some 
2,000 feet and sets on Bedford stone coping. 
A splendid picture of this was shown in 
the March, 1913, issue of Park and Cem 
etery. It was all made and erected by The 
Stewart Iron Works Co., Cincinnati, O., and 
is a style of fence that is especially appro- 
priate for cemetery purposes, making a very 
imposing and substantia! enclosure. It 
embodies in its construction their pat- 
ented three-rib steel channel rail, adjust- 
able line post, center support, and many 
other specially desirable features which 
distinguish the products of The Stewart 
Iron Works Co. 
This modern and well improved ceme- 
tery is a splendid tribute to the Board 
of Delegates and Superintendent who 
look after its welfare. 
