PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Competitive Park Plans Wanted. 
The Commissioner of Parks, Borough of 
Queens, New York City, has decided to in- 
vite competitive outline sketch designs for 
the development of the new Telawana 
Park, in order to get as wide a diversity 
of designs as possible. There appears to 
be an opportunity in this case of develop- 
ing a seaside park affording greater oppor- 
tunities for originality than any other sea- 
side resort in the world. This competition 
is open to all landscape architects and land- 
scape engineers, whether resident of the 
state of New York or not. The prizes that 
are offered are as follows : First prize, 
$500: second prize, $200; third prize, $100. 
I.andscape architects or engineers desiring 
to submit plans may notify Hon. Walter 
G. Eliot, member of the committee, and 
will be furnished with a printed copy of 
the rules’ governing the 'contesj:, together 
with a topographical and location map of 
the property. Plans must be in the hands 
of the committee on or before noon of 
November 1, 1913, addressed to the Hon. 
W. G. Eliot, Commissioner of Parks, Bor- 
ough of Queens, Richmond Hill, N. Y. The 
committee will examine the plans and re- 
port its findings to the competitors on or 
before December 1, 1913. 
The group of civic experts and stu- 
dents of civics who left Washington and 
New York in July for a tour of European 
countries, under the auspices of the Am- 
erican Civic Association, has just re- 
turned. Richard B. Watrous, secretary of 
the association, was in charge of the party. 
The members of the party were given 
unusual opportunities to make careful in- 
vestigations of the methods applied in the 
cities of Germany, France and England for 
efficient administration, with particular 
reference to the care of the streets, the 
disposal of household waste, the creation 
and maintenance of parks and the solution 
of housing problems, and the large gen- 
eral subject of comprehensive city plan- 
ning. Four of the six weeks abroad were 
spent in cities of Germany, one week in 
Paris and a week in London, with two 
days at Brussels. 
Improvements and Additions. 
An important forward step was taken 
recently in the construction of the East- 
ern Parkway Extension in Long Island, 
New York, through Cypress Hills and 
Mount Carmel Cemeteries, when Richard 
T. Greene, president of the Cypress Hills 
Cemetery corporation, declared that he 
and the other directors of his association 
were ready to accept the latest plan for 
the road, which Chief Engineer Nelson P. 
Lewis, of the Board of Estimate has pre- 
pared. The width and character of the 
road through the cemetery property has 
been one of the chief points of contention 
in the negotiations between the city and 
the cemetery officials. The cemetery di- 
rectors were unwilling to assent to the 
building of any road which did not con- 
form to the topography of the cemetery 
and its existing road system. They also 
felt that if a road were built at all it 
should be 150 feet wide. In the latest map 
the city has gone to considerable addi- 
tional expense to meet the views of the 
cemetery officials in the matter. The road 
sweeps in broad curves through the ceme- 
tery and is carried across in places on 
ornamental bridges and viaducts in order 
to permit the cemetery roads to pass be- 
neath it and thus prevent any interference 
with funerals by the speeding automobile 
traffic. 
Plans for an elaborate gateway, 100 
feet wide and to cost $35,000, at the south- 
west entrance of Forest Park, St. Louis, 
have been completed by George Kessler, 
consulting landscape architect of the Park 
Department. The Municipal Assembly 
will be asked to make an appropriation so 
that the work may be completed next year. 
O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, is to pre- 
pare plans for the laying out of the new 
North Park in Quincy, 111., and also for a 
new entrance to South Park in that city. 
The City Council of Beaumont, Tex., 
has purchased another park site of 14 
acres and ordered that $10,000 be appro- 
priated for the improvement of the island 
between Brake’s Bayou and Neches River. 
The formal transfer of Jackson Mound 
Park to the City of Memphis was made 
recently by the estate of Daniel Lake, de- 
ceased. The purchase price was $85,000. 
The men of the Civic Club of Clarks- 
ville, Ark., will improve a new park and 
a landscape gardener will be engaged to 
plot the grounds. 
From the Park Reports. 
The annual report of the Metropolitan 
Park Commission, of Boston, is an inter- 
esting book of 121 pages, detailing the 
year’s work of this great park system. 
The reservations and parkways in the care 
of this board remain practically the same 
in area as last year. The slight changes 
made, and the reasons therefor, are stated 
in the secretary’s report. The most im- 
portant new acquirement is that made on 
Ocean Avenue, Revere Beach, to provide 
a location for much-needed stable, garage 
and storage sheds. There has been prac- 
tically no extension of formal construc- 
tion and development work, except in a 
few specific cases, which are referred to 
in detail in this report. In continuation 
of the work of previous years the im- 
provement, and in a few places recon- 
struction, of parkways' and formal roads, 
to make them better suited to stand auto- 
mobile travel, has engrossed the attention 
of the engineering and division forces. In 
the woods reservations a few short pieces 
of new road have been built to improve 
the roads which were at first built rather 
hastily and in temporary form. Most of 
these are in the Blue Hills, where there 
is necessity for ways crossing the 4,700 
acres of this Reservation, to provide in- 
tercourse between the towns bordering it 
and to enable the Reservation forces to 
reach the otherwise inaccessible portions 
of the Reservation, in which insect pests 
show a tendency to increase. Wm. B. de 
las Casas is Chairman of the Commission, 
Olmsted Brothers, advisory landscape arch i- 
Cecil E. Bryan, Inc. 
Builder of large mausoleums, 
receiving vaults, chapels, etc. 
Engineers for all kinds of 
large mortuary structures. 
1134 Otis Building, Chicago 
