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Insane into a public park, the City Park 
Association, of Philadelphia, has appointed 
a committee to confer with the manage- 
ment of the institution. Eli Kirk Price, 
president of the association, is on the com- 
mittee. 
The Park Board of Joplin, Mo., has 
awarded the contract to the Ideal Con- 
crete Works, of Joplin, Mo., for the con- 
struction of a pavilion in Mineral Park. It 
will be 18x36 feet and will be built of con- 
crete blocks, at a cost of $1,135. In the 
upper portion of the pavilion will be a 
bandstand. The room underneath the stand 
will be used as a rest room and will be 
provided with seats and conveniences. M. 
F. Keith is superintendent of parks. 
New Parks. 
The East Dallas Park Improvement 
League, Dallas, Tex., has appointed com- 
mittees to request the purchase of a 17- 
acre tract for park purposes. The park 
land would cost the city about $120,000, to 
be paid for from a recent bond issue. Dr. 
J. IT Dean, president of the league, is 
head of the committeee in charge of the 
park matter. 
The Board of Estimate of Greater New 
York is considering the plan for laying 
Park Superintendent Goebel, of Grand 
Rapids, recently recommended the removal 
of one of the pumps from the Oak Hills 
Cemetery and its installation at Green- 
wood. He suggests the purchase of a new 
and larger pump for Oak Hills. There 
has been a question raised in the past re- 
garding the wisdom of the policy pursued 
by the park officials in maintaining a pri- 
vate water-works system for the ceme- 
teries. These critics have argued that the 
city water supply should be used. Super- 
intendent Goebel asserts that the mainte- 
nance of the cemetery lots is not paid for 
by the city at large, but by the lot owners. 
Therefore, when he is able to sec"re water 
for 2 J4 instead of 4J4 cents per 100 cubic 
feet he believes the board is justified in 
maintaining its own system. Further, the 
location of the cemeteries is such that dur- 
ing the summer seasons adequate city pres- 
sure is impossible to secure, and it is just 
at these periods that ample water for 
sprinkling the cemetery lots is vitally nec- 
essary. 
The regulations of Oakland Cemetery 
St. Paul specific limitations to the sizes of 
monumental work on lots. When peoole 
are told these limitations they sometimes 
forget them and are troubled when they 
order something too large for the lot. Su- 
perintendent F. D. Willis has therefore de- 
vised a lot selection slip to prevent such 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
out a public park to comprise the triangu- 
lar plot bounded by Broadway, West 174th 
street and Wadsworth avenue. Property 
holders whose property is benefited under 
the plan will pay one-half the cost of 
$25,000. 
The City Commission of Hutchinson, 
Kan., selected the six blocks at Seven- 
teenth and Main, south of the state fair 
grounds, comprising about twenty-six 
acres, for a new north side city park, which 
will be improved under the direction of 
Commissioner of Parks R. H. Flinn. 
The Merchants’ Association of Salina, 
Kan., is considering the parking of the 
Union Depot grounds. E. H. Merrill is 
one of the leaders in the movement. 
Crookston, Minn., will soon have a sub- 
stantial addition to its park system through 
the donation of a forty-acre tract in 
Jerome’s addition, lying along the river 
bank. The new addition will come through 
the initiative of Captain M. R. Brown, of 
Minneapolis, a former resident of Crooks- 
ton. 
The Grandville Avenue Improvement 
Association, Grand Rapids, Mich., has pe- 
titioned the Common Council for the 
transfer to the Park Board of a strip of 
land at Grandville avenue and Hall street. 
tion, of that city, is arranging to carry 
on extensive landscape improvements at 
the cemetery. Among other features will 
be a large lake covering a natural ravine 
about midway of the company’s holdings. 
The ground formerly occupied by the 
old smallpox hospital on Eastern avenue, 
S. E., Grand Rapids, Mich., was dedicated 
to the Park and Cemetery Commissioners 
recently and will become a part of Oak 
Hills Cemetery. 
The Mt. Calvary Cemetery Association 
has platted a five-acre addition to the 
cemetery, which is now open. The addi- 
tion joins the old cemetery on the east. 
The commissioners of Oakland Ceme- 
tery, Little Rock, Ark., have decided to 
beautify the cemetery and have authorized 
the employment of F. M. Blaisdell, of Lit- 
tle Rock, landscape architect, to prenare 
plans. They have also decided to build a 
fence on the south side of the grounds 
and to reconstruct the gates. 
New Cemeteries. 
Incorporation papers for the Cotton- 
wood Cemetery Association of Oak Hill, 
in Peoria County, 111., have been filed. 
W. D. Wrigiey, Isaac Wantling, William 
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OAKLAND CEMETERY. 
St. Paul 191... 
The Secretary, 
302 Germania Life Bldg., 
Fourth and Minnesota Streets. 
Mr 
has selected Lot No Block 
Area $ 
Monumental work may be placed not ex- 
ceeding in size : 
Monument base 
Grave marks 2-0ixl-0, 
not over 4 inches 
high. 
I have noted the 
sizes of monumental 
work allowed and 
agree thereto. 
Purchaser. 
Improvements and 
Additions. 
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