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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ried out by means of several varieties of 
flowers. 
The city of San Antonio, Tex., is trying 
to obtain the title to the strip of land lying 
along River avenue for the extension of 
Brackenridge Park. 
The United States Senate recently adopt- 
ed the bill creating the great Colorado park 
and it will now be put before the House 
for passage. The tract for the proposed 
park embraces more than 300,000 acres in 
the beautiful Estes Park and Long’s Peak 
region, Denver, Colo. 
The Turtle Creek Park property was re- 
cently secured by the Park Board of Dallas, 
Tex. The total acreage of 122 acres cost 
the city $40,000, 100 acres of which were 
donated by Colonel W. E. Hughes. The 
board is also considering the purchase of 
the entire Lake Cliff property for a new 
park at a cost of $55,000 cash. . Members 
of the Park Board recently inspected a site 
for a proposed negro park located near 
Hall street. The Park Board recently au- 
thorized the issuance of a city warrant for 
$30,000 to the Board of Trustees of St. 
Mary’s College, in payment of five and a 
half acres of property adjoining the St. 
Mary's College campus. 
The city of Bloomington, 111., recently 
held a park improvement day. The citi- 
zens donated their services and the two 
parks were much improved as a result. 
The Park Commissioners of Macon, Ga., 
recently visited the parks of this city with 
a view to determine what improvements 
could be made to make the parks more at- 
tractive. 
To help solve the problem of the unem- 
ployed in Youngstown, Ohio, Mayor Har- 
tenstein has urged the council to pass spe- 
cial bond issues for park improvements. 
Plans for south side boulevard improve- 
ment work in Indianapolis, Ind:, to be un- 
dertaken in the South Park district next 
year, were discussed informally at a meet- 
ing of the Board of Park Commissioners 
a short time ago. No action was taken be- 
yond instructing J. H. Lowry, executive 
officer, to have an estimate made of the 
cost of various proposed sections along 
both sides of Pleasant run, east of Shelby 
street. 
The City Park and Public Square at 
Medina, O., are being improved under the 
direction of Messrs. Clark & Pike, land- 
scape architects, Willoughby, O. The work 
includes improvements to the grounds of 
the Public Library and the Congregational 
Church, which abut upon the Public Square. 
The Park Board budget for Racine, Wis., 
has been so cut down that many of the im- 
provements that were to be made will have 
to be eliminated. Outside of paying the 
salaries, the board will only be able to 
pay the first installments and interest on 
the Bauman property. 
The Stewart Engineering Corporation, 
of New York, has been awarded the gen- 
eral contract for the Perry memorial mon- 
ument terrace and parking grounds, cov- 
ering fourteen acres, at Put-in-Bay, O., 
which is the final development for the proj- 
ect to commemorate the victory of Com- 
modore Oliver Hazard Perry at the battle 
of Lake Erie, for which an appropriation 
of $800,000 has been made by the United 
States government. J. H. Friedlander and 
C. D. Seymour are the associate architects. 
To provide work for Youngstown’s (O.) 
unemployed this winter the council recently 
voted to issue bonds in the sum of $15,000, 
cn recommendation of the parks commit- 
tee. This money will be distributed among 
all of the city parks and will do much to 
relieve the stress in the city among the 
poor this winter. 
Members of the City Planning CommisT 
sion, of Scranton, Pa., discussed at a re- 
cent meeting the possibility of a $300,000 
bond issue, the money to be used for a 
park extension movement. 
Josenh M. Hixon, of La Crosse, Wis., 
recently agreed to complete Levee Park 
of that city, providing the Finance Com- 
mittee of the City Council would appro- 
priate $15,000 instead of $10,000 for park 
improvements. The completion includes 
the sodding of the ground, laying out of 
the roads and walks and the planting of 
trees and flowers. 
The grounds of the State Normal School 
at Maryville, Mo., are being beautified along 
The new office building at Mt. Elliot 
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich., now nearing com- 
pletion, is attractive in design and modern 
in its appointments. The style is an adapta- 
tion of English gothic. The exterior is 
Kelly’s Island gray limestone, random 
ashlar, with a roof of Bangor gray slate, 
rustic finish, graduated from -one-quarter to 
three-quarters of an inch thick, laid in ran- 
dom widths. The building is 88 feet 8 
inches by 33 feet 4 inches, exclusive of a 
covered driveway across one end, which 
gives it a total length of 107 feet. On the 
first floor are the waiting room, general 
office, two private offices, private toilets and 
a roomy vault for records. The waiting 
room has a vaidted ceiling and a floor of 
terazzo; the walls are finished in gray plas- 
ter, with oak trim around doors and win- 
dows. This room has a brick mantel with 
tile inlay and cut stone shelf. It is well 
lighted and will be comfortably furnished. 
On the second floor there are conveniently 
arranged apartments for the keener. The 
building is electrically lighted and steam 
heated. A high basement provides ample 
storage room for tools and supplies, a 
lines suggested by Horace F. Major, of 
Columbia, Mo., professor of landscape gar- 
dening and superintendent of grounds at 
the University of Missouri. 
During the winter months Grand Rap- 
ids will spend approximately $40,000 on its 
park system, according to plans prepared 
by Eugene Goebel, superintendent of parks. 
A new city park is being created as a re- 
sult of the activity of the children attend- 
ing the Moneta (Cal.) school. The Moneta 
parent-teacher organization has decided to 
make the two and one-half acres of school 
ground into a park. A handball court, ball 
ground, tennis court and other accessories 
of the playground are to be features. 
The work of planting shrubbery in the 
new park at Union Station, in the rear of 
the general office building of the Gulf, Col- 
orado & Santa Fe at Galveston, Tex., has 
been commenced under the supervision of 
Mr. Do-rnberger, of Brenham, gardener for 
the Santa Fe Railway. 
Plans for the building to be erected at 
Trinity Play Park, Dallas, Tex., have been 
submitted by Architects Lang & Wichell. 
The building will cost $18,000 and will con- 
tain quarters for the free kindergarten, 
milk station, rest rooms, toliets, locker 
rooms and reading rooms. Preliminary 
work will soon be commenced for the de- 
veloping of the Cole tract. Plans for Exall 
Park and Turner Plaza have also been 
gone over in detail. 
boiler room, fuel room, vault for records, 
etc. Conveniently arranged toilet rooms 
are located in a one-story wing, 36 feet by 
26 feet 8 inches. The rooms have marble 
wainscoting and white enamel brick above 
and terazzo floors. This part of the build- 
ing has a copper roof and special provision 
has been made for ventilating the rooms. 
Donaldson & Meier, of Detroit, were the 
architects. The estimated cost of the build- 
ing and equipment is about $33,000. When 
Superintendent John Reid’s planting plans 
have been carried out, the building, which 
is situated convenient to the main entrance, 
still not in full view, will have an artistic 
setting amidst tastefully grouped masses of 
trees and shrubs. 
The annual report of the Rhinebeck Cem- 
etery, Rhinebeck, N. Y., sets for the follow- 
ing statistics : Disbursements — Deposited in 
Rhinebeck Savings Bank, trust fund, $1,250; 
total, $4,603.44. Resources — Perpetual care 
fund. $19,031.20; cemetery fund invested, 
$9,627; total, $30,195.81. Interments for 
the year, 67. 
The annual meeting of the Fairview 
Cemetery Association, of Stillwater, Wis., 
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