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The comparative statement shown here- 
with has been prepared by the Board of 
Park Commissioners of Minneapolis, Minn., 
to place before the state legislature in 
their endeavor to get permission to make 
a new issue of bonds to the value of 
$500,000. An issue of $250,000, previously 
allowed by the legislature, is now under 
consideration by the Common Council of 
Minneapolis. With such a comprehensive 
age is 930 and but little less than that of 
Buffalo; Milwaukee’s population of 373,857 
also is only 17,000 less than that city; 
and the secretary of the Milwaukee Park 
Commission finds that the expenditure of 
but $188,000 a year on park maintenance 
and improvements is $422,000 less in Mil- 
waukee than in Buffalo. 
Plans prepared by Robert C. Gotwald, 
architect, have been adopted by the Park 
At a recent meeting of the Galesburg, 
111., Improvement Society, at which Dr. J. 
V. N. Standish and prominent men spoke, 
a movement was started to have all the 
trees of the city placed under the care of 
the Park Commission. It was also decided 
to wage a campaign for cleaner streets, 
the proper observance of city sanitary or- 
dinances, and to prepare plans for a more 
thorough cleaning-up period. 
The Chicago West Park commissioners 
have received with approval a plan to 
build an amphitheater in one of the West 
Side parks with a capacity to seat 20,000 
people. The commissioners voted to refer 
the matter to the Committee on Finance 
and Maintenance for action and recotn- 
CITY 
AREA Sq. Miles 
POPULATION 
PARK area Acres 
BOSTON 
47. 3 
717.920 
2^93 
MINNEAPOLIS 
54 
319,000 
3,710 
KANSAS CITY 
59.6 
248,370 
605,000 
2,357 
CLEVELAND 
49. 5 
1,954 
DETROIT 
lO 
■«* 
'j 1 
567,944 
. 1,244 
CINCINNATI 
70 
1,652 
SEATTLE 
59 
1 MlJtM 
280,485 
1^581 
ST* PAUL 
54. 5 
222,736 
1,492 
DENVER 
58.75 
213,381 
1,318 
SAN FRANCISCO 
46. 6 
450,000 
1^85^^ 
TACOMA 
36 
100,000 
255^000 
^091 
653 
PORTLAND, ORE. 
52 
DRIVES Miles 
44 
VALUE of LANDS 
te , 590 , 348 
VALUE of IMPROVEMENTS 
110,719,708 
34 
^^8^056 
1,713,043 
63 
7 j 150^000 
^^830,000 
38 
ZjiX.OOO Approx. 
^3^681 ,094 
38 
1,214,880 
3,993,781 
18 
4^2^592 
456,737 
m 
25 
2^781,640 
1,716,933 
^6^ 
672,975 
863,126 
50 
28 
10 
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Beard ef Park Commissioners, Minneapolis, Minn. 
SOME COMPARATIVE PARK STATISTICS FIGURED OUT BY MINNEAPOLIS PARK BOARD. 
statement before the law makers it should 
not be difficult to satisfy them that Min- 
neapolis is not keeping pace with the 
other cities in the matter of expenditures 
for park improvements. We are indebted 
to Supt. Wirth for the sketch. 
Improvements and Additions. 
Some $5,000 will be available this year 
for park purposes in Owen Sound, On- 
tario. The Park Commission has let a 
contract for an $800 bungalow in Harri- 
son Park, a tract of seventy acres. 
The contract for the new animal house 
for Miller Park, Bloomington, 111., has 
been awarded to the local firm, Fred Gar- 
ling & Son, the lowest bidder, at $21,970. 
Other bids were : John W. Evans Sons 
Co., $30,387 ; J. L. Simmons Co., Chicago, 
$34,471 ; Bloomington Construction Co., 
$29,550. The contract calls for the entire 
building complete, except the heating plant 
and connections. It will be a substantial 
structure. 
Residents of West California street, Ur- 
bana, 111., have arranged with landscape 
gardeners from the University of Illinois 
to beautify their parkings, the property 
owners to bear the expense. The council 
gave permission for the improvement. 
Milwaukee, Wis., is being criticised for 
its parsimony in providing funds for its 
park maintenance. Milwaukee’s park acre- 
Board for a bandstand in the public park 
at Springfield, O. 
The unsightly bluff that has long 
marred the appearance of St. Margaret’s 
Hospital, on the Kansas side of Kansas 
City, is to give place to a terraced park. 
The visitor will reach the building by an 
easy ascent of nine short flights of steps 
and an inclined walk, to reach which he 
will pass through a park of seven and 
one-tenth acres. The land condemned cost 
$89,575 and the improvement will have 
cost $35,000. 
The improvement of Northwestern Park, 
Rockford, 111., is to be immediately under- 
taken by the Park Commission. 
Ornamental public drinking founts have 
been ordered for use in the city parks of 
Waycross, Ga. 
Woolridge Park, Austin, Tex., is to be 
greatly improved this season. 
Eads Park, Paris, 111., is to be the pic- 
nic grounds of that community. In addi- 
tion to the eighty acres of trees, a com- 
plete lighting system and running water, 
piped and pumped from the great springs 
near by, work has begun for a dam across 
Sugar Creek, so that there will be a lake 
for boating, fishing and bathing. With the 
traction company’s covered train sheds for 
the protection of passengers, and good 
transportation, Eads Park must become a 
popular resort. 
mendation. Built complete it will cost 
some $120,000. 
Plans for the resumption of work at 
Taylor Park, Freeport, 111., have been 
made by the Board of Park Commission- 
ers. Mr. John Klehm, of Moline, is in 
charge of the work. Bids have been 
asked on the work of completing the arti- 
ficial lakes at the park, for the laying of 
sidewalks on the outer edge of the park, 
on Taylor avenue, and for the laying of 
a cinder drive within the park. The base- 
ball park will also be improved. Work at 
the park will be resumed as soon as the 
weather will permit and when once start- 
ed it will be rushed to completion. 
New Parks. 
Central Falls, R. I., is to have a public 
playground for the children. This is made 
possible by the gift last year of a strip 
of land by Samuel M. Conant. 
The people of Woodhaven, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., are now assured of a playground 
for children in Forest Park. Park Com- 
missioner Walter G. Eliot hopes to have 
it opened by next September. 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Roman Way made a 
munificent gift to Williamsport, Pa., last 
month, by presenting two adjoining prop- 
erties containing two and a half acres, 
and worth $40,000, for a public park to be 
known as Way Garden. 
