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Dayton, O., Park Board, has been instruct- 
ed to advertise for bidders for the con- 
struction of 2,500 feet of wire fence at the 
McCabe Park, for which it is designed to 
use cement posts. Inasmuch as there are 
twenty-two different kinds of trees in 
Cooper Park, the board is discussing the 
plan of placing labels on them. 
Jones Park, on the Caseyville road in 
East St. Louis, 111., will be converted into 
a playground, recreation park, athletic field 
and bathing beach, if the plans of the 
Board of Park Commissioners, tentatively 
agreed upon, are carried out. 
The Gulfport Council, St. Petersburg, 
Fla., has adopted plans for the beautifica- 
tion of the city and building of a system 
of parks. Park reservations were made on 
both sides of the right of way of the St. 
Petersburg and Gulf Street Car Co.’s tracks 
when the survey was made for the line. 
The Building and Grounds Committee of 
the City Council of Galesburg, 111., will 
erect a pavilion in City Park. Plans for 
the improvement of the park also call for 
the construction of a dam across the water 
of the creek flowing through the park. 
The Woman’s Club of Urbana-Cham- 
paign, III, has raised $600 for playgrounds. 
Plans for the embellishment of Lanigan 
Park that lies west of Louisiana street, 
between Elk and Fulton streets, Buffalo, 
N. Y., were recently made, and Fleming & 
Townsend, landscape architects, have been 
employed to do this work. 
John Nolen, of Cambridge, Mass., has 
been retained by the city of Schenectady, 
N. Y., to prepare detail drawings and plans 
for the proposed river front improvement 
and Cotton Factory Hollow park districts. 
These two sections of the city will be given 
first consideration by the park commission- 
ers and will probably be the first lands 
purchased by the city. 
Eckland & DeArment, architects, with 
offices in Moline and Rockford, 111., have 
just completed plans for a new pavilion 
and recreation hall ordered by the Rock- 
ford Park Board. 
The Boulevard and Park Association of 
Quincy, III, has decided to accept the 
proposition of the Adams County Board of 
Supervisors and raise $1,500 to be expend- 
ed for the improvement of Locust street, 
Twenty-fourth street and Harrison boule- 
vard drives. 
Landscape Architects Kerrick & Shurd, 
of ferre Haute, Ind., have submitted plans 
for the laying out of Oak Park, in Brazil, 
Ind. 
M. T. Marston, Kansas state landscape 
gardener and architect, who has charge of 
the landscape work and gardens at the 
state penitentiary and other state institu- 
tions, will plan improvements for the state 
fair grounds. By permisison of the State 
Penal Board, the hothouses and beds at 
the state prison greenhouse have been turned 
over to Mr. Marston for starting seeds and 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
cuttings to be used on the state fair grounds 
at Hutchinson. 
The Public Improvement Committee of 
the City Council of Sterling, 111., has been 
instructed to proceed with the erection of a 
fountain in Lincoln Park. 
The park commissioners of Pekin, 111., 
have decided to have plans drawn for a 
new bath house, but the building will not 
be erected until next year. 
The Marshalltown, la., City Council has 
closed a contract for the purchase of a six- 
acre addition to the City Park. 
Plans are rapidly being completed for 
the improvement of Meridian Park, a ten- 
acre tract lying between Fifteenth and Six- 
teenth streets and Euclid street and Flori- 
da avenue Northwest, Washington, D. C. 
This land was purchased with an appro- 
priation of $450,000 and has been fully 
cleared for improvement. 
Improvements aggregating several thou- 
sands of dollars have been outlined by the 
Board of Park Trustees of Peoria, 111. 
The improvements are to be scattered in all 
of the four largest parks and constitute 
needed additions to the present equipment. 
A field -rest house at Bradley Park, an ex- 
tensive system of ornamenal cement walks 
around the palm house at Glen Oak Park, 
the improvement of the recently purchased 
six-acre tract of land at Madison Park, 
and the building of a driveway into South 
Park are the principal improvements. 
Sixty thousand dollars has been appro- 
priated by the Council of Gary, Ind., for 
use by the Board of Park Trustees in car- 
rying out its plan of creating a city park 
system. 
A plan involving the complete transfig- 
uration of the landscape on the north bank 
of the Spokane River, Spokane, Wash., and 
its beautification as a great city park, was 
brought before the City Council by the spe- 
cial committee comprising Commissioner of 
Public Works Z. E. Hayden, Park Su- 
perintendent John W. Duncan and City 
Engineer Morton Macartney. 
From the Park Reports. 
The Park Commission of Fitchburg, 
Mass., in its illustrated report recently is- 
sued, states that the policy started last year 
of combining the work of the superintend- 
ent of moth work and forest warden with 
this office has been carried out this year 
and has worked very successfully. The 
expense of maintaining the office has been 
divided equally between the departments 
and such supplies as could be used by both 
have also been divided proportionately. Un- 
der this system it has been easily possible 
to maintain a force of about ten men prac- 
tically the entire year. During the past 
summer there has been a force of six men 
at work caring for the parks and play- 
grounds. Interesting reports of Ralph W. 
Fish, supervisor of playgrounds, and For- 
est Warden W. W. Colton are also in- 
cluded. 
The nineteenth annual report of the Park 
Commission of New Bedford, Mass., gives 
the following statistics of the year’s work 
under Superintendent Thomas W. Cook : 
Appropriation by the City Council, $50,000. 
The expenditures this year amounted to 
$48,517.24, leaving a balance of $1,482.76. 
Of this amount $26,554.0 2 was paid for la- 
bor and $21,963.22 for materials in the 
maintenance of the parks. The maintenance 
work of the past year, in addition to the 
general care of the parks, has included the 
completion of the ponds at Brooklawn 
Park which were commenced last year. 
The report of the commissioners of Fair- 
mount Park, Philadelphia, gives interesting 
details of the work in this great pleasure 
ground. It includes a summary of the prin- 
cipal matters connected with the develop- 
ment of the six outlying parks in addition 
to Fairmount Park and Hunting Park. 
Fairmount Park has grown during its ex- 
istence of forty-four years from an area of 
2,240 acres to one of 3,448 acres, embrac- 
ing within its limits nearly 43 miles of 
drives, 44 miles of foot-paths and 12 miles 
of bridle-paths. The initial tract of 43 
acres, added to the original 44 acres of 
Hunting Park, the 48 acres in Burholme 
Park, the 338 acres in Cobb’s Creek Park, 
20 acres in Morris Park, 532 acres in Pen- 
nypack Park, 44 acres in Wister’s Woods 
and 24 acres in Fisher Park, makes a total 
of 1,049 acres in outlying parks placed un- 
der the commissioners’ care by ordinance 
during the last eight years. Thomas S. 
Martin is secretary of the commission, and 
Jesse T. Vogdes chief engineer. , 
PERSONAL MENTION. 
Marion C. Brents, formerly a market 
gardener, has been appointed park cus- 
todian by the new Board of Park Commis- 
sioners of Taylorville, 111. 
Charles W. Campbell, city engineer of 
St. Joseph, Mo., has resigned as the en- 
gineer for the Park Board, in which ca- 
pacity he has been acting about three 
months. 
William Turner, gardener and horticul- 
turist, for the past twelve years head gar- 
dener for the late B. H. Borden, of Oceanic, 
N. J., and for seven years head gardener 
to William Rockefeller, Rockwood Hall, 
Tarrytown, has secured through Landscape 
Architect John T. Withers, of Jersey City, 
the position as general overseer on the es- 
tates of Frederick Cromwell and Seymour 
L. Cromwell at Bernardsville, N. J. Mr. 
Turner has been very successful in fruit 
growing under glass. 
At the recent sitting of the Legislature 
of Vermont the city of Barre had its char- 
ter amended so as to create a Parks Com- 
mission. At a meeting of the aldermen of 
Barre they appointed City Engineer George 
Reed, Fire Chief Gladding and Superin- 
tendent of Cemeteries Hanton, with Mr. 
Hanton as secretary, to be the Park Com- 
missioners. 
