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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
laying out walks, lake and tennis courts 
at Mission Park; the installing of tennis 
courts at Coeur d’Alene Park, and the 
grading of the drives in Down River Park, 
Indian Canyon Park, Palisades Park and 
High Drive Parkway. 
In the playgrounds, all of the improve- 
ments have been done during the past year. 
They consist of the grading, planting and 
installing tennis courts, ball field shelter 
and gymnasium apparatus at U. S. Grant 
Playground ; the grading, seeding and in- 
stalling of tennis courts, shelter, wading pool, 
gymnasium apparatus and ball fields at A. 
M. Cannon Playground ; the installing gym- 
nasium apparatus at Glass Playground ; the 
grading and installing ball field, swings and 
teeters at Ruth Playground ; the grading 
and laying out of ball fields, tennis courts 
and installing gymnasium apparatus in the 
Interstate Fair Grounds; the grading, lay- 
ing out ball field, building bowling green, 
tennis courts and installing gymnasium ap- 
paratus at the south end of Manito Park; 
the laying out of ball fields at Underhill 
Playfield ; the grading of the stadium site 
and building of bleachers around the same ; 
the grading, building of wall along the 
river bank, installing gymnasium apparatus, 
building wading pool and swimming pool 
and handball court at Sinto Triangle. 
With a few exceptions, the park system 
is now practically completed as regards 
area, but a few missing links are needed to 
complete the continuous linking together 
of the system as a whole. 
The river banks are, perhaps, now more 
important than any other, and a lower level 
drive as planned, commencing near the 
Monroe street bridge, along the north bank 
of the river to Down River Park, is one 
of the most desirable and practicable fea- 
tures to be accomplished. 
On the southerly side of the river, with 
the enlargement of the site and building a 
permanent stadium, the superintendent rec- 
ommends that a drive be built along the 
river bank to connect with High Bridge Park 
at A street, also with Riverside Park where 
Latah Creek enters the Spokane River, and 
also with the Indian Canyon Park near 
First Avenue and the west city limits. 
The Rim Rock Drive, which runs north- 
erly along the most scenic bluff within four 
miles of the center of the city, should be 
continued through the Fort George Wright 
Reservation and continued in a northerly, 
easterly and southerly direction through the 
Castle Hill additions, until it connects with 
the Elliott Drive. 
The expenditures for the Park Depart- 
ment for the calendar year 1913 were as 
follows : Maintenance, $80,584.03 ; im- 
provement, $104,150.84 ; land purchases, 
$129,628.49; total, $314,363.36. 
The officers of the Board of Park Com- 
missioners of Spokane are: A. L. White, 
president; H. J. Gibbon, secretary; John 
W. Duncan, superintendent of parks; B. A. 
Clark, supervisor of playgrounds; R. J. 
Clarke, park engineer. 
REPLANNING OLD SECTION OF A CEMETERY 
The accompanying plan for the rear- 
rangement of a small part of Cemetery 
Beth-El, Brooklyn, is of interest in show- 
ing the value of a carefully considered 
variation from the straight path system. 
according to the old plan, and, besides, a 
large number of good trees that should not 
be disturbed limited the locations of new 
paths to quite an extent. It is encouraging 
to note that although the cost of the new 
REARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS B AND E„ BETH-EL CEMETERY, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
Otto Sonne, landscape engineer. 
The two sections, B and E, were originally 
laid out with straight cement paths, 40 
feet apart and two tiers of rectangular lots 
in each space, a system that had been fol- 
lowed entirely on the older parts of the 
cemetery. The management, however, had 
become aware of the depressing monotony, 
forever growing, and resolved on a change, 
with this new design as the result. The 
problem presented some difficulties, as a 
number of lots had been sold and occupied 
drives, cement paths, retaining walls, grad- 
ing and planting is considerable for two 
and one-half acres, the management figures 
that the increased value of the lots will 
cover the cost of construction ten times 
over and make the change doubly satisfac- 
tory in being as much a financial gain as 
an esthetic one. 
The plan for this work was made by 
Otto Sonne, the New York landscape en- 
gineer. 
THE OBITUARY RECORD 
Loren Y. Stephens, superintendent of 
Green Lawm Cemetery, Columbus; O., Was 
stricken suddenly with heart failure De- 
cember 21 and died within a few minutes. 
His death was very unexpected, as he 
had been in excellent health. Mr. Ste- 
phens was the third superintendent of 
Green Lawn Cemetery, and had held that 
position for eleven years. His father, 
Adam Stephens, who died in 1903, was the 
second superintendent of the cemetery, 
which originally consisted of eighty acres, 
when it was bought for a burying ground 
in 1848. It has been increased in size from 
time to time since then. Mr. Stephens, 
while his father was superintendent, was 
for many years employed by the cemetery 
association as civil engineer and assistant 
superintendent. He was 61 years of age. 
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha 
Stephens; one son, Brentall, aged 11; one 
daughter, Josephine, aged 9; two brothers, 
Sherman F. Stephens, florist, of Columbus, 
and John J. Stephens, superintendent of 
Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Ind., 
and two sisters. He was a member of the 
Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, and of 
the old Columbus Riflemen. He was one 
of the most influential men and a tireless 
worker in the Ohio Association of Ceme- 
tery Superintendents and Officials and was 
always ready to give his knowledge on 
cemetery work and management in the in- 
terest of the association and the beautify- 
ing of the resting places of the dead. Jan- 
uary 14 the Board of Trustees held a meet- 
ing and appointed John Schmidt as super- 
intendent of Green Lawn Cemetery. Mr. 
Schmidt has been connected with the cem- 
etery for twenty-five years in various ca- 
pacities, and at the time of his appoint- 
ment had charge of the office at the cem- 
etery. 
