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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
equip play centers in the vicinity of the 
various school buildings throughout the 
borough. Mr. Graham referred to the Chi- 
cago public playgrounds, on which the 
Brooklyn system was almost entirely based, 
as being under successful operation. 
Improvements and Additions. 
The Boston Municipal Art Commission 
has finally approved the plans of the Pub- 
lic Works Department as drawn by Clarence 
Blackall, architect, for the construction of 
entrances to the high-pressure pumping 
station on the Charles street mall of the 
Public Garden. There will be two en- 
trance openings, one on each side of the 
gateway to the Public Garden, directly 
from Charles street. From in front of the 
entrance the doorway will appear as an 
archlike entrance to the garden. From the 
rear nothing of the doorway will be seen 
except the curve of the top. It is planned 
by the Art Commission to have a liberal 
supply of shrubbery on the sides. 
The park authorities of Springfield, 111., 
are favorable to adoptiong more etxensive 
gardening in the public school grounds of 
that city. 
The development of Coggshall Park, 
Fitchburg, Mass., along extensive lines is 
proposed by the Park Commissioners, and 
to this end it is their purpose to have 
plans prepared by a landscape architect of 
established reputation. 
Park Superintendent Eugene V. Goebel, 
of Grand Rapids, Mich., has completed 
plans and estimates for a swimming pool 
in the Godfrey Avenue Park. It is pro- 
posed to construct this municipal natator- 
ium close to Godfrey avenue and directly 
across the street from the big furniture 
factories. An open pool being out of the 
question, Mr. Goebel plans to have the pool 
inclosed in a simple but artistic brick wall. 
The pool will be 75x40 feet in size. Dress- 
ing rooms for men and women will be pro- 
vided and there will be eleven shower 
baths. Around the entire pool there will 
be a cement walk and every convenience 
will be provided for the use of the swim- 
mers. It is estimated that the pool as out- 
lined will cost about $6, COO. 
Several hundred black Acacia trees are 
being planted in Huntington Park, Cali- 
fornia. These are being set out as a 
parking on all vacant lots and will be 
cared for by the tree warden, Mr. W. E. 
Ford, for two years. 
The ladies of the Civic Club of Angle- 
ton, Tex., have been planting a lot of trees 
arid shrubbery in the City Park and are 
arranging to have a band stand put in the 
park. 
The Mothers’ Auxiliary of the Davis 
Street School, Atlanta, Ga., is improving 
the playground of that school. The fund 
for the work is a bequest of $500 left for 
the purpose by the late Mrs. Livingston 
Mirns. 
The park authorities of Rockford, 111., are 
considering the erection of a golf house in 
Sinnissippi Park at a cost of $5,000. The 
care of the birds which make their homes 
in Blackhawk park will also be provided 
for. ' Another progressive idea of the com- 
missioners is that of properly labeling the 
trees and shrubs of the parks, a beginning 
in which is to be made at Fairgrounds 
Park. 
A new horticultural building to cost at 
least $100,000 is to be erected on the Fen- 
way, Boston, Mass., or in some other of 
the public grounds as soon as the neces- 
sary money can be appropriated. The 
mayor has called upon the City Council to 
provide $5,000 for plans and specifications 
for the new structure. 
The N. E. W. Commercial and Improve- 
ment Association of Los Angeles, Cal., is 
asking the city to expend immediately $20,- 
000 on improvements to Echo Park. 
Lincoln Park, San Francisco, Cal., has 
been closed to golfers until the links are 
completed. Superintendent McLaren’s rec- 
ommendation for a public comfort station 
at Alamo Square, to cost $1,200, has been 
accepted by the Board of Park Commis- 
sioners. 
The members of the Advisory Park 
Commission suggested by the Commercial 
Club of Tulsa, Okla., to act with the Park 
Board in the matter of adopting plants for 
improving the parks, laying out the new 
boulevards and other matters which the 
board has under advisement, have been 
named and have held a joint meeting. 
Plans have been prepared under the di- 
rection of the Parks Commission of 
Worcester, Mass., by Olmsted Bros., land- 
scape architects, Brookline, for the devel- 
opment of Green Hill Park, to make it 
more accessible for pedestrians and ve- 
hicles and to offer greater attractions for 
the people of Worcester. To carry out the 
proposed changes and improvements will 
require upwards of $50,000. The main fea- 
ture will be a large athletic field off Lin- 
coln street, a new entrance to the park 
and an amphitheater near the mansion 
house. 
Commissioner Charles K. Holmburg, of 
the Health and Civic Beauty Section, 
Grand Junction, Colo., has completed his 
plans for the improvement of the Chil- 
dren’s Walnut Park on North Fifth street. 
The plans called for $1,000 in work this 
year and $1,000 next year. This will make 
a very pretty as well as useful park. The 
plans are changed from the original and 
have the approval of the Park Commis- 
sion. 
Commissioner Walter G. Eliot, of 
Queens, New York, has completed a report 
of the work life has accomplished during 
the past year in the parks of the borough. 
Commissioner Eliot was allowed by the 
Board of Estimates $15,123 for his depart- 
ment for the year. With this sum he had 
to care for eleven parks and four street 
triangles. In the parks there are 688.17 
acres, while in the triangular spaces are .75 
acres. During the year there were ac- 
quired 319 acres, the greater portion of 
this area being included in the former po- 
lice training grounds adjoining Kissena 
Park at Flushing. The commissioner had 
sixteen gardeners and thirty-two laborers 
to take care of these parks. 
New Parks. 
The Flushing (N. Y.) Playground As- 
sociation has under advisement a plan to 
lay out a playground in the Fowlerville 
section of Flushing, where the population 
is very dense. 
A bill has been introduced into the New 
York Assembly at Albany asking the state 
to appropriate $10,000 for the purpose of 
purchasing land surrounding Lake Ron- 
konkoma, in Suffolk County, the play- 
ground of Brooklyn and New York. It 
was believed up until about ten years ago 
that the town of Brookhaven still retained 
its rights surrounding Lake Ronkonkoma, 
but after considerable litigation the case 
was decided against the town and the prop- 
erty rights are now vested in private own- 
ers. 
The City Council of Worcester, Mass., 
has been considering the advisability of 
making an appropriation to buy 123,000 
square feet of land adjoining Newton Hill 
for park purposes. 
The Woman’s Relief Corps, Turlock, 
Cal., proposes to undertake the improve- 
ment of the park recently donated to them 
by Mayor Crane. 
The Board of Park Commissioners of 
Paducah, Ivy., has purchased 100 acres just 
outside the city limits for a new park 
which will be called Glenwood. The park 
cost $25,CCO, and will be paid for in in- 
stalments covering a period of ten years. 
The Oak Park (Chicago) Commission 
of Public Works will commence work on 
the suburb’s new park, to be called Sco- 
ville Park, early in the spring. The park 
will include the ground between Lake 
street, Superior street, Oak Park avenue 
and Grove avenue. 
Marblehead, Mass., is to take a part of 
the Graves Beach for park purposes. This 
is a needed improvement, as every piece of 
available land is bought up by private indi- 
viduals. If the town had not taken this 
step, residents of the lower part would 
have lost the right to use any of the beach 
on account of private ownership. 
A strong movement is well under way 
for a public park at Northport, L. I., 
N. Y. An available site on the West Side 
would furnish sites for public bath houses 
and a public dock. 
Sioux City, la., is fortunate in being the 
recipient of a new park, a gift of the Stone 
estate. As the town seems to desire a 
zoological garden, the several lodges are 
interesting themselves in securing animals 
for starting a collection. 
