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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Park act the commission will have 
to resort to condemnation. 
The Dover, N. J., Shade Tree Com- 
mission, while expecting to make a 
good showing in the improvements at 
Hurd Park, a recent gift of Mr. John 
W. Hurd, this 3 r ear, has issued an 
earnest appeal to the public of Dover 
and vicinity to put their shoulders to 
the wheel and help so that each and 
every one can have the satisfaction of 
knowing that they have had their 
part in developing Hurd Park. 
The Santa Cruz, Cal., Chamber of 
Commerce has taken the initiative in 
an ocean boulevard from San Fran- 
cisco to Monterey. The boulevard is 
to be built jointly by the counties of 
San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa 
Cruz and Monterey. The estimated 
cost is $900,000, of which the State 
Highway Commission will be asked 
to bear one-half. If construction is 
begun soon, the “Gilroy Gazette" says 
the road could be completed by 1915, 
i.i time to be available as' a feature 
of the Panama-Pacific Exposition. 
A dispatch from Mr. R. Iwerson, 
Parks Superintendent of Calgary, Al- 
berta, informs us that the parks by- 
law for $95,000 was passed by a ma- 
jority of 9 to 1, as well as the boule- 
vard scheme $45,000 and current ex- 
penses $26,000, a total of $166,000, or 
$100,000 more than last year. This 
is “some stride” in park work for a 
city of so short an existence as Cal- 
gary; its growth and development 
has, however, been phenomenal. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
City Park Superintendent C. W. 
Samuelson, of Sacramento, Cal., is 
devoting most of his time to improve- 
ments at the South Side Park, a tract 
of 33 acres, in which there is a lake 
to be nearly 1,000 feet long, contain- 
ing two islands, under construction. 
Trees and shrubbery are also being 
planted out. 
An ordinance has been introduced 
into the Albany, N. Y., city council 
appropriating $50,000 for the com- 
pletion and improvement of Beaver 
Park. There is no opposition. 
The commission form of govern- 
ment has been adopted in Chanute, 
Kas., and the last job of the retiring 
mayor was to sign $25,000 of bonds 
issued for public parks. The coun- 
cil has let the contract for an amphi- 
theater to be erected in one of the 
parks at a cost of $1,407.65, and an 
auditorium in another at a cost of $2,545. 
Plans are being prepared for the 
improvement of Riverside Park, Cum- 
berland, Md. 
The Northern Pacific Railroad 
grounds about the depot at Anaconda, 
Mont., are to be improved and made 
park-like. 
This summer the citizens of Bos- 
ton, Mass., will be enjoying benefits 
from the Parkman Fund greater than 
any provided so far. The $50,000 
bandstand on Boston Common, erect- 
ed as a memorial to the late George 
F. Parkman, will be completed and 
dedicated in June. The new aquari- 
um at Marine Park, South Boston, 
which will excel the noted one at 
Battery Park, New York City, will 
be opened possibly in June, and the 
Franklin Park zoo will be ready in 
a few months. The zoo and aquari- 
um will represent an initial cost of 
nearly $220,000. Convenience stations 
in all parts of the city and additional 
tree-planting throughout the park sys- 
tem will be provided this year from 
the same fund. During 1912, says the 
“Boston American,” the public of 
Greater Boston will be forced to real- 
ize more than ever the benefits made 
possible for them by the far-sighted 
philanthropy and the princely gift of 
the Beacon street recluse. His es- 
tate at the time of his death, con- 
servatively estimated, exceeded $5,- 
000,000. It provides an income of 
$200,000 annually, which must be de- 
voted exclusively to improvements, 
and none for maintenance. 
Extensive improvements are being 
planned by the park commission of 
Duluth, Minn., for Nemadji Park, 
East End, this spring. A landscape 
gardener will be engaged to convert 
the picturesque tract into a charming 
recreation spot. 
The Minneapolis Park improve- 
ment fund of $38,000, will in large 
part be distributed as follows: Im- 
provement between Lake Calhoun and 
Lake of the Isles, $17,000; Lake of 
the Isles, planting and grading, $5,- 
000; Loring Park, new walks, $1,500; 
East River flats, playgrounds, $5,000; 
Longfellow Field, $1,000; Camden 
Park, bridge and grading, $2,000; Lyn- 
dale Park, grading and planting, $2,000; 
Tower Hill, $1,000; Farwell, $1,200; 
Jackson Square, $700; Sumner field 
playground, $500; Audubon triangle, 
$500. Bids received for the construc- 
tion of a field house in Logan Park, 
totaled $32,007 for the complete build- 
ing, including furniture and hardware, 
and this figure is about $8,000 more 
than the park board has available for 
the building. There were seven bid- 
ders for the general construction work 
and the E. J. Davis Company was the 
lowest at $23,679. The bids were re- 
ferred to a special committee. 
The work of parking the state Capi- 
tol grounds at Pierre, S. D., is being 
pushed. It is being done under a gen- 
eral plan which will take some years 
to bring to a consummation. 
In honor of the G. A. R. encamp- 
ment, to be held in Los Angeles, Cal., 
in September, the Park Commission 
has decided to have characteristic 
patriotic emblems planted in appro- 
priate flowers in various city parks. 
A prize of $15 for the best design 
for a border to be planted around the 
sunken gardens of Exposition Park 
and a prize of $10 for the second best 
will be offered. The proposed border 
will be 800 feet long and about 18 
feet wide, and it is proposed that it 
shall be composed of flowers and 
plants that will be distinctive for each 
month of the year. 
At La Crosse, Wis., a contract for 
the installation of a mile of conduit 
and wiring in the new Levee Park 
has been let to the Thill-Manning- 
Whalen Company by the park com- 
mission. This is the first step toward 
the completion of the park project 
taken this year. Considerable asphalt- 
macadam road will be laid this year 
in the same park, besides other work 
in this and other parks of the system. 
But the commission will be hampered 
by lack of funds. 
Hamilton Park, a favorite lounging 
place, just south of the City Hall, 
Wichita, Kas., is to be planted out 
and made a pretty spot this year. 
Great preparations have been made 
by the authorities of Salt Lake City, 
Utah, for the improvement and care 
of the. parks and playgrounds this 
year. Liberty Park, of 100 acres, was 
Brigham Young’s farm and nursery, 
and the old mill is still there. On 
April 26, 1881, the city council au- 
thorized the purchase of the Mill 
farm, as it was then called, with the 
sum of $27,500, to be used as a city 
park. The park was dedicated July 4, 
1881. This year the area of the lake 
is to be doubled and the new part 
will be connected with the old by a 
couple of rustic bridges. A third is to 
be added to the greenhouse, about 
12 acres of new lawn put in, and there 
is making a playground of about 2 l / 2 
acres in addition to the children’s 
playground, which was made last 
year. 
The Ladies’ Improvement Club of 
Porterville, Cal., will erect a pavilion 
in the city park. They have made an 
appropriation of $1,000 for park im- 
provements. 
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