PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PLAN FOR A COMPLETE SMALL CITY PARK SYSTEM 
The comprehensive plan for a city park 
and playground system for New London, 
Conn., recently prepared by John Nolen, 
the landscape architect of Cambridge, 
important because it shows what a small 
city can do if action is taken in time. Mr. 
George S. Palmer, an unusually intelligent, 
generous and public-spirited citizen in New 
London, has promoted the park work there 
for a number of years and has at last suc- 
ceeded in getting people to see the impor- 
tance of this sort of development. The 
Legislature has authorized the city to issue 
bonds to the amount of $100,000. It is 
further interesting to note that this work 
is not to end with paper plans. The board 
has already acquired the Bank street tri- 
angle, some of the property in the section 
known as Bates Woods, and is proceeding 
rapidly with other improvements. The 
campaign in New London began with the 
efforts of a young clergyman there and has 
grown in the course of two or three years 
into a really popular movement. 
Mr. Nolen classifies the various branches 
of a complete park system as follows : 
City Squares and Open Spaces ; 
Mass., offers interesting study as a very 
careful and complete program of park de- 
velopment for the average small city. 
The New London plan is, first of all, 
