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commission is negotiating for the rest of 
the land in the reservation and expects to 
be able to close up with the twelve differ- 
ent owners without resort to the courts. 
From Park Reports. 
Superintendent Joseph Bernard, of the 
Park Commission of New Orleans, report- 
ed in his November report that the hay- 
making had been completed. All lawns 
were cut, hedges trimmed, boats, benches 
and swings repaired, and many plants were 
removed to the hothouse. All flower beds 
where plants were taken out are being 
prepared for winter planting. The nur- 
sery was thoroughly cleaned and the clean- 
ing process is being actively pushed on the 
back woods, ditches, roads and walks. The 
Day bridge was finished, accepted and the 
first payment thereon made. The Weiblen 
Marble Works have considerably advanced 
on the Beauregard monument and are now 
working on the Monteleone gate. 
In the annual report of the Park Com- 
missioners of Hartford, Conn., it is noted 
that the use of the parks by the public 
during the season of 1912 was much in- 
creased. Superintendent Parker reports 
that 665,000 people were in attendance, en- 
joying the various activities of the parks. 
The season of 1913' gave much larger at- 
tendance, and it is estimated that over a 
million people visited the parks and en- 
joyed the many sports and games. The 
public cemeteries under the jurisdiction 
and care of this department have been im- 
proved, and the demand for burial lots is 
steadily increasing. Superintendent Parker 
makes an interesting and comprehensive 
report on recreation in the parks that will 
be printed in detail in a future issue of 
Park and Cemetery. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
Plans for a ‘‘city beautiful” for Spring- 
field, Mo., which will provide boulevards, 
parks, driveways and other features of civic 
beauty, and which will include improve- 
ments lasting over a period of some fifty 
years, are being made by the Springfield 
Park Board, under the direction of Hare 
& Hare, landscape architects of Kansas 
City. Representatives of the firm have been 
working in Springfield the past month and 
have made good progress with the pre- 
liminary plans. They are preparing plans 
for three parks in Springfield and have 
the contract for the plans for the entire 
system of parks and boulevards for the 
city. One of the parks is ten acres, cen- 
trally located, and is to include lake with 
boating and bathing, children’s playground, 
field, etc. The lake will be supplied with 
water from a large spring, which will be 
one of the features of the park. The 
other two parks are smaller and will be 
developed with more attention to beauty 
and less to play. Hare & Hare have just 
completed a preliminary sketch for im- 
provements on the Courthouse Square, sur- 
rounding the courthouse at Carthage, Mo. 
Adjoining Wagner Place, at Jefferson City, 
Mo., which they planned last year, they 
have recently planned a new residential 
addition known as Fairmount Place. They 
have other interesting work under way and 
report a busy season. 
The City Park Commission of Albion, 
Mich., has recommended the purchase of 
the forty-one acres on Dickie’s hill for a 
public park and playground for the city. 
The City Federation of Women’s Clubs 
of Hutchinson, Kan., is actively promoting 
a civic center. 
Another small park is to be added to 
New York’s system of open air breathing 
places on the East Side. The new park is 
in Yorkville and faces First avenue, be- 
tween Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth 
streets. Park Commissioner Stover says 
that he expects to have the park in shape 
the coming summer. 
A gift of land amounting to about six 
Oakland, St. Paul, Turns Down Tene- 
ment Mausoleum. 
Representatives of a “community mauso- 
leum” building company have been pre- 
senting their scheme to the trustees of this 
association and the matter was referred to 
a select committee to investigate and re- 
port. The report of this committee was 
made to the board on December 3 and was 
unanimously approved. The following is 
the text of the report : 
“The committee to which was referred 
the consideration of the community mor- 
tuary mausoleum begs to report that the 
matter of entombing the dead in the man- 
ner proposed is so entirely new that there 
is not sufficient experience to determine 
whether it will eventually be satisfactory to 
either the purchaser of the crypts or to the 
cemetery association. 
“This, with the adverse report on the 
subject at the late meeting of the cemetery 
superintendents, leads your committee to 
recommend that further consideration of 
the subject be indefinitely postponed.” 
F. D. Willis, 
Supt., Oakland Cemetery. 
St. Paul, Minn. 
A most flagrant case of vandalism in 
the cemetery at Barre, Vt., was reported 
November 14, when Superintendent Alex 
Hanton, of the cemetery commission, went 
to Elmwood and discovered a number of 
monuments that had been tipped over in 
the night. In almost every section of the 
cemetery there were evidences that the 
spoilers had got in their work. A part of 
the Alexander Gordon monument and sev- 
eral other memorials were destroyed. 
Markers and iron memorials in different 
parts of the burial grounds were the ob- 
acres, to be used for park purposes, is 
offered to the city of Canton, Ohio, by 
Henry A. Shock. 
Plans for the development of New York 
City’s new $1,300,000 seaside park at the 
Rockaways were taken recently. A com- 
mittee composed of Charles A. Platt, land- 
scape architect of the Park Department; 
Nelson P. Lewis, chief engineer to the 
Board of Estimate ; Walter G. Eliot, park 
commissioner of Queens ; Robert G. De 
Forest, of the Municipal Art Society, and 
Arnold W. Brunner, architect, are consid- 
ering fourteen plans submitted by land- 
scape engineers from all parts of the coun- 
try. 
Leon, la., has been presented with a pub- 
lic park through the generosity of Mrs. J. 
W. Harvey, who has offered a tract of 
ground comprising about two acres front- 
ing on South Main street, known as the 
old Lunbeck property. 
ject of special attention from the night 
prowlers. 
James H. Thompson, formerly of Dix- 
on, 111., has been appointed superintendent 
of the National Cemetery at Jefferson City, 
Mo. Mr. Thompson has been assistant at 
the National Cemetery in St. Louis since 
last April. 
* Resolutions against conducting funeral 
services on Sunday have been passed by 
the South Side Ministerial Association of 
Pittsburgh. The pastors say their objec- 
tions are due to the amount of work re- 
quired of the members during the week 
and that some cemeteries do not permit 
interments on Sunday. The resolutions re- 
fer to “a large element of non-church peo- 
ple who often request that such services 
be held on Sunday.” 
Everett Cemetery, Everett, Wash., has 
several unusually interesting water effects 
in the form of ornamental fountains, and 
photographic postcards of three of these 
that we have received show striking land- 
scape views in the grounds. 
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, an- 
nounces the following new schedule of 
charges for building foundations to take 
effect January 1 : 12x12 inches, including 
setting of marker, $4.50; 12x16, $5.50; 
12x18, $5.50; 12x20, $6.50; 12x24, $7.80. 
Eor sizes above this, per cubic foot, 35 
cents. All foundations are made with ce- 
ment mortar and not less than six feet 
deep. 
Oakland Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo., has 
been sold to Zion’s German Evangelical 
Church. The purchase price was $27,500. 
This church has long owned Ashland Cem- 
etery and it has found it necessary to ac- 
quire additional ground. The tract em- 
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