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PARK NEWS 
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with unimproved ground located in 
the northwestern section of the city 
for park purposes. The land in ques- 
tion is worth between' $35,000 and 
$40,000 and consists of about four 
solid city blocks. 
Although every precaution appears 
to have been taken, says a local pa- 
per, against purchase of the property 
for the proposed extension of Cap- 
itol Park, Harrisburg, Pa., running 
above the $2,000,000 appropriated by 
the legislature, the state isn’t going 
to get off with that figure for a com- 
pleted park. The $2,000,000 is only 
to pay for the 20 acres or more of 
property acquired. The work of 
clearing away the buildings and con- 
verting the area into a suitable set- 
ting for the capitol will require a lot 
more money. The next legislature 
is to.be asked to authorize the crea- 
tion of a commission of high class 
landscape experts to take charge of 
the parking project and there will 
have to be an appropriation for this 
work. 
Improvements and Additions 
An appropriation of $5,000 has been 
asked of the Altoona, Pa., City Coun- 
cils for the improvement of the three 
city parks, Highland, Gospel Hill and 
Prospect. 
An increase of $15,000 over the appro- 
priation of last year will be asked for 
by the park commission of Fitchburg, 
Mass. Last year this department had an 
appropriation of $4,000. This year it 
wants $10,800. Last year $12,840.53 was 
expended by the department, making an 
overdraft of $8,840.53. Among other 
things an increase of $1,500 is wanted 
to fight gypsy and brown tail moths. 
Last year the appropriation was $1,500. 
This year $3,000 is wanted. The reason 
given for asking for the increase is the 
general increase in the spread of moths 
throughout the city. The sum of $500 
is also wanted for the forest warden. 
The board of Park and Cemetery com- 
missioners of Grand Rapids, Mich., pro- 
pose to complete a number of play- 
grounds the coming season, besides con- 
tinuing the improvements in the leading 
parks. 
At a meeting of the residents of the 
Park addition and Bridge hill, Oroville, 
Calif., early in the year, steps were taken 
to have every yard in both additions 
beautified. The motto of the new or- 
ganization is “Beautify the City and 
Make it Attractive for the Stranger.” 
Work on park improvements in 
Youngstown, O., will be started just as 
soon as the weather permits, and much 
work will be done. In Lincoln park 
four new bridges will be built, a shelter 
and bath house erected and a lake con- 
structed. The sum of $13,000 is to be 
spent on this park. The playgrounds in 
South Side park will be reconstructed 
and Wick park is to be provided with 
cement walks. 
A condemnation jury in the circuit 
court at Kansas City, Mo., recently 
returned its verdict in the North Ter- 
race park extension, involving $226,- 
645.68 in damages. The benefits to 
the same amount are assessed over 
the entire east park district. Much 
of the ground taken lies along the 
main line of the Chicago & Alton 
railroad. The park is an extension 
of North Terrace from Elmwood 
avenue along' Bluff to Belmont ave- 
nue, thence south to Independence 
road. 
Members of the sanitation and 
civic improvement committee of the 
Dubuque, la., Industrial corporation 
are optimistic regarding the proposed 
parking around the Dubuque post- 
office, for which they have worked 
earnestly for some time. PJans have 
been submitted to the authorities at 
Washington, and, it is expected, fav- 
orable action will be taken and work 
commenced before spring. 
Plans are being made by a promi- 
nent landscape architect for the im- 
provements which are to be made to 
the property known as the National 
Corn Products land at Glen Cove, 
Long Island, N. Y. This property in- 
cludes the site of the old Duryea 
starch factory, destroyed by fire sev- 
eral years ago, the upper and lower 
millponds and the land between them. 
The factory site is to be converted 
into a recreation field with a base-ball 
park. 
Park Commissioner Eliot, of 
Queens, N. Y., has asked the Board 
of Estimate for an additional appro- 
priation of $17,250 to complete the 
work planned for the improvement of 
Linden Park in Corona. He has $12,- 
800 available, but requires the addi- 
tional funds to complete the work. 
The scheme of the Board of Trade 
of Jersey City, N. J., to have the 
Hudson County Park Commission 
lay out a public golf links at West 
Side Park has struck a popular chord. 
The petition addressed to the Park 
Commissioners is being warmly sup- 
ported. 
A survey of two or three probable 
routes of the proposed boulevard 
planned to encircle Cuyahoga county 
from Rocky River on the west, to 
East Cleveland on the east, at Cleve- 
land, O., will be started as soon as 
weather permits. The newly-created 
county park and boulevard commis- 
sion has completed arrangements to 
this end. It is planned to run the 
westerly boulevard up Rocky River 
valley, connecting with one of the 
improved east and west county roads 
to the easterly boulevard planned to 
be located along' Euclid creek. An- 
other plan suggested is to connect up 
a boulevard along Tinkers creek 
valley with another boulevard to be 
laid out along the Chagrin river val- 
ley. 
Action toward making Wichita, 
Kas., a more beautiful city was taken 
at a meeting of the South End Round 
Table recently. Three things were 
especially emphasized as the impor- 
tant needs of the city for which the 
Round Table will stand: That the old 
soldiers’ monument be placed in a 
small park at the east end of the 
Douglas avenue bridge, as suggested 
by George Israel; construction of a 
suitable concrete or concrete-steel 
bridge across Big river at Harry 
street; two parks in the South End. 
Extensive improvements for the va- 
rious parks in Ogden, Utah, have 
been decided upon by the members of 
the park board, and the work will be- 
gin at once. 
Tulsa, Okla., is furnishing its play- 
ground parks with the best apparatus 
attainable, and its recent purchases 
will be installed and ready for use in 
Owen and Central parks by the mid- 
dle of April. 
Chattanooga, Tenn., is hastening the 
completion of plans for park improve- 
ment and development in anticipation 
of a vote in favor of the proposed 
$250,000 bond issue. 
It is stated that the Chamber of 
Commerce of Oklahoma City, Okla., 
has plans completed for adding one 
hundred acres to the tracts to be pur- 
chased by the city for park purposes, 
for which bonds aggregating $250,000 
are to be issued by the city. 
Plans are being prepared by the 
Fairmount Park Commission, for ex- 
tensive permanent improvements, as 
soon as the weather will permit, that 
will involve an expenditure of up- 
wards of $200,000. It is the inten- 
tion to improve both the east and 
west banks of the Schuylkill river, 
between Girard avenue and the bridge 
of the Fairmount Park Transporta- 
tion Company, which crosses the 
river at Strawberry Mansion. The 
severe weather of the past winter has 
had the effect of greatly damaging 
the drives throughout the entire park, 
but more particularly in the West 
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