PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW PARKS 
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Frederick Gallatin, who with his 
wife gave land at Three Mile Harbor, 
fronting Gardiner’s City, to the town 
of East Hampton, Long Island, X. Y., 
for public park purposes, has sent 
his check to the Town Board for 
$250 to aid in clearing the track. The 
park will bear the name of Maid- 
stone. 
Bakersfield, Cal., will improve a 
ten-acre tract which was donated to 
the city by Truxton Beale. At pres- 
ent it is used as the public school 
playground and is called Beale Park. 
The city of Reno, A T ev., recently 
bought a three-acre tract on the Truc- 
kee River, which will be improved for 
park purposes. The city will also 
beautify the river banks between the 
boulevard and river. 
Snake Lake, and the picturesque 
ground bordering it, will become a 
part of the city of Tacoma. Wash., 
public park system. The offer of R. 
A. Booth, of Eugene, Ore., to deed 
the property to the city free of charge, 
was accepted by the Metropolitan 
Park Board at a recent meeting. The 
lake is in Oakland addition. The 
Pacific Traction street car lines goes 
near the site. The shores of the lake 
will be used in part for the proposed 
highway to the lakes and prairie dis- 
trict from Point Defiance Park. 
Georgetown, D. C., is to have an- 
other public park in the near future, 
if the approved plans of the army 
engineers are carried into effect by 
congressional enactment. The new 
park will be located on the site of 
the abandoned high-service reservoir 
at the corner of Wisconsin avenue 
and R street, an elevated plateau on 
the heights of Georgetown. This land 
belongs to the government and many 
years ago was used as a portion of 
the distributing system of the Wash- 
ington aqueduct. 
At a recent meeting of the West- 
mount, Montreal, Canada, Council, the 
scheme to provide the city with a 
park on the heights of the boulevard 
was accepted by the third reading of 
a by-law, authorizing the expenditure 
of $601,033 on four hundred thousand 
square feet of land. As a portion of 
this has been disposed of the eventual 
cost to the city of Westmount will 
only be $263,000. .The park will be 
laid out with roads, drains and other 
improvements all through the upper 
level and will mean an addition of 
only $5,000 a year to the present 
charges of the city. 
Congress has passed the bill per- 
mitting the State of Washington to 
lease certain tracts of school land for 
park purposes. This will allow the 
state to lease to the city of Hoquiam 
the 320-acre tract of land adjoining 
the north city limits for a public park. 
The “Park and Parking” Committee 
of Selma, Kas., is earnestly investigat- 
ing the matter of providing a number 
of small parks for the city. The coun- 
cil warmljr favors the idea. 
The Women’s Civic League of Ar- 
villa, N. D., is planning to improve 
a vacant block on the north side of 
the town that was left to the citizens 
of Arvilla by the Hersey family for 
park purposes. 
New London, Conn., will soon have 
a 100-acre park of the most pictur- 
esque and charming natural scenery. 
The park commissioners have decid- 
ed to purchase the Bates property, 
fronting on Jefferson avenue and ex- 
tending into the town of Waterford. 
It is a large tract of land, over 100 
acres, contains what is known as 
Bates’ woods and abounds in huge 
boulders, hills and ravines, and will 
lend itself easily to landscape treat- 
ment. It is a splendid addition to the 
park sj-stem, which will be more and 
more appreciated as it is developed. 
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