PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PARK NEWS. 
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The twenty-first annual report of th 
Board of Park Commissioners of Cam- 
bridge, Mass., sets forth some very inter- 
esting facts about the work accomplished 
during the year of 1914 and proposed im- 
provements. Among them, plans for a 
shelter with proper sanitary arrangements 
will be drawn for Thorndike Field, the 
most popular of the city playgrounds, artd 
Section E. of Charles River Parkway, con- 
necting Western avenue and River street, 
will he completed, aside from providing 
other proper roadways. Much work was 
done on the browntail and gypsy moths 
and the elm-leaf beetle exterminator, and 
many private estates were cleaned of these 
pests during the winter months. About 
5,448 street trees were cleaned. Up to the 
last year the commission had these moths 
well under control, but during the time 
they were in flight, in July, a greater num- 
ber of the browntail moths came to Cam- 
bridge from the neighboring towns, and 
consequently the expense of doing the 
moth work this year was almost 50 per 
cent larger than it ordinarily is. Under 
the direction of Professor Sargent, of the 
Arnold Arboretum, all the dead wood in 
the large cavity on the north side of the 
historic tree, Washington elm, was re- 
moved and sprayed. A similar treatment 
was administered about sixteen years ago. 
The season’s work on the parks and 
parkway system of St. Paul, Minn., con- 
sisted mainly of upkeep work, as shown 
by the report of the Board of Park Com- 
missioners for 1913. However, the grading 
of one-half mile of lake shore drive was 
accomplished in Phalen Park, and fifty 
canoes placed on Lake Phalen and Lake 
Como, aside from erecting a sheltered ca- 
noe dock at Lake Phalen. Many of the 
city playgrounds were improved, bathing- 
facilities established in Phalen Park and 
band concerts given during the summer. 
Among the work accomplished by the 
Bureau of Parks, of Portland, Ore., for 
the year 1913 is the paving, drainage and 
lighting of 6.000 feet and the grading of 
8,000 feet of the Hillside Parkway, grad- 
ing of drives, remodeling of house and 
the planting of shrubs at Mt. Tabor; the 
completion of the recreation building at 
Peninsula and of the comfort station at 
Sixth and Yamhill streets. Playground 
work also increased and several new sets 
of apparatus were installed. 
Olmsted Brothers, landscape architects, 
of Brookline, Mass., recently issued a re- 
port on their proposed park system for 
Dayton, O. This describes in detail the 
theoretical arrangement of parks, boule- 
vards, playgrounds, etc., for that city, 
taking advantage of whatever characteris- 
tic natural topographical features of inter- 
est and beauty there may be. A copy of 
this book may be had on application to D. 
F. Garland, Director of Public Welfare, 
Dayton, Ohio. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
The shelter buildings and other perma- 
nent improvements at Summit Play Park, 
Dallas, Tex., are nearing completion and 
the park is expected to be opened to the 
public by February 1. The Park Board 
recently completed the purchase of an- 
other tract of land for Exall Park. A lot 
50x250 feet, facing on Live Oak street, was 
bought from M. E. McCarty for the sum 
of $4,500. A plan for extending City Park 
from its present southern limits at Gano 
street to Grand avenue, thus making it a 
mile long, has been suggested by City En- 
gineer J. M. Preston. The plan also in- 
cludes a proposition to purchase a strip 
500 feet wide, taking in both banks of Mill 
Creek from City Park to Commerce street 
at Duncan or Walton. 
Members of the special parks commis- 
sion, Chicago, 111., in an appearance before 
the council committee on finance, asked 
that a proposal to approve a $1,000,000 bond 
issue for new small parks, playgrounds 
and bathing beaches be placed on the little 
ballot at the April election. 
Frederick W. Leistikow, of Winnipeg, 
Man., has donated $5,000 to the city of 
Grafton, N. D., for the purchase of a park 
site. This is to be established as a me- 
morial to his parents, former residents of 
this city, and is to be called Leistikow Me- 
morial Park. 
The prospective park near the Detroit, 
Grand Haven & Milwaukee depot at Fen-", 
ton, Mich., is still under discussion. The 
latest development is that the railroad com- 
pany has offered to fill in and grade the 
hollow near the depot, providing Fenton 
would pay for the landscape gardening and 
see that the park, when completed, is kept 
in order. 
To commemorate the three Cushing 
brothers, war heroes, a memorial is being 
erected in Cushing Memorial Park, recent- 
ly established to their memory. The park 
is situated at the site of their old home 
near Delafield, Wis., on a rise of ground 
which gives a commanding view of the 
country around. The park is to be sur- 
rounded with an iron fence and further 
developed by the construction of drive- 
ways, walks, and the planting of trees and 
shrubs. E. H. Niles, of the White Elm 
Nursery Co., Oconomowoc, Wis., laid the 
plans for the landscape effects. The work 
is being dojie by popular subset iptions and 
$5,000 appropriated by the state of Wis- 
consin. 
C. C. and W. G. Gittings, of Racine, 
Wis., have presented to the city fifteen 
acres of land for additional park purposes. 
A. A. Fisk, superintendent of the Board 
of Park Commissioners, of Racine, Wis., 
writes to correct an article that appeared 
in this department last month about the 
Park Board budget of that city. Mr. Fisk 
writes as follows: “It is true that our 
budget was cut down a good deal, but not- 
withstanding this fact we are going to do 
a lot more work besides paying the sal- 
aries of park employees. It undoubtedly 
would be a source of information to know 
that Racine perhaps has more recreative 
facilities in its park system than any other 
city of its size in the Lhiited States. This 
is a pretty broad statement, but I think 
the same could be thoroughly proven.’’ 
CEriETERY NOTES 
Slews - 
The annual report for Mt. Elliot and 
Mt. Olivet cemeteries, Detroit Mich., for 
the year ending October 1, 1914, shows a 
total income from all sources of $85,029.35. 
Of this amount $43,196.23 was for lots and 
single graves in Mt. Olivet, the new Cath- 
olic cemetery in course of development. 
The average monthly interments are 250 at 
Mt. Olivet and 50 at Mt. Elliot. The total 
cash and invested funds of the cemeteries 
aggregate $96,038.38. The old cemetery is 
practically filled except for the lots that 
are vacated from time to time by removals 
to Mt. Olivet. 
At a recent meeting of the Linwood 
Cemetery Association, of Pana, Til., the 
following officers were elected : President, 
Mrs. A. B. Corman ; vice-president, Mrs. 
Rudolph Schweitzka : secretary, Mrs. Lee 
Robb; treasurer, Miss Janet McCoy; cor- 
responding secretary, Miss Ida Mull. 
The construction of a community mau- 
soleum proposed by the New York Com- 
munity Mausoleum Co., near the entrance 
to Ocean View Cemetery (Staten Island), 
N. Y., has received much opposition, 
headed by Cornelius J. Kolff, secretary of 
the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce. 
At a meeting of the Pinewood Cemetery 
Association, of Daytona, Fla., recently, the 
following officers were elected : Colonel C. 
M. Bingham, president; W. F. Bleekman, 
vice-president; A. K. Brokaw, treasurer, 
and Mrs. W. W. Carter, secretary. Mrs. 
Wilson Allen, manager, and Dr. S. P. Ice- 
land and Laurence Thompson, directors. 
