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Mrs. Mills, treasurer, and Mrs. A. M. 
Scott, Miss P. J. Nolan and Miss Eg- 
bert are on the executive. The Calgary 
Club has an extensive membership, 
which is now interesting itself in the 
bill-board campaign of the City Plan- 
ning Commission, and many club women 
are expressing their approval of the 
desire of the Commission for more 
stringent by-laws. 
If the park authorities accept the 
proposition made to it by Attorney 
Charles F. Dolle, representing the Kit- 
tredge estate, for a 95-acre farm adjoin- 
ing the Smith and Kirby farms near 
College Hill, Cincinnati will have a park 
much larger than Eden park with its 350 
acres. With the Kittredge farm the 
new park would have an area slightly 
over 460 acres. Ten thousand dollars 
is asked for the property and the park 
commission already owns the Smith and 
Kirby farms. 
IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDI- 
TIONS. 
The Humboldt Road Improvement 
Club, Chico, Butte Co., Calif., has taken 
up the question of park building, and 
proposes that at convenient places along 
the highways, planned for Butte coun- 
ty, parks and picnic grounds will be 
laid out for the convenience of tourists 
and the enjoyment of local residents. 
Donations of land for the purpose are 
solicited, which has in one instance al- 
ready been met, and it will be improved 
accordingly. 
Extensive improvements are now be- 
ing made in Lafayette park, Waterloo, 
la. New drives are being laid out, trees 
and shrubbery planted, a new north en- 
trance erected and a tennis court and 
baseball diamond arranged. More wild 
animals are being secured and much in- 
terest is being manifested in the "Zoo” 
department. 
The park commissioners of Altoona, 
Pa., are preparing for considerable im- 
provement in the three municipal parks. 
Handsome stone markers will be erected 
at the entrance of Prospect park. A 
children’s playground is also planned, 
as well as a systematic overhauling of 
the park trees. 
Superintendent Bernadotte of the 
Parks Department of Montreal, Canada, 
has a plan for the improvement of La- 
fontaine Park involving the expenditure 
of $50,000. The superintendent wants 
the eastern section of the park cut up 
into tennis courts, croquet lawns and 
artistically laid out with winding road- 
ways, a lagoon and a small forest of 
trees. 
The Ladies’ Literary Club of Reed 
City, Mich., proposes to do what it can 
in the “City Beautiful” line for that 
place. They have appealed to the citi- 
zens for help and will make personal 
calls to explain their plans and solicit 
subscriptions to help the work along. 
Between $20,000 and $25,000 will be 
spent by the park department of Des 
Moines, la., in beautifying the river 
front this year. This was announced 
recently by Councilman Zell Roe on his 
return from eastern trips where he stud- 
ied the park systems, public playgrounds 
and market houses there. 
A movement has been set on foot in 
Springfield, Mo., to improve existing 
civic conditions and to develop a park 
and playground system. The several 
clubs and such organizations have 
joined hands in the proposed work. The 
women will provide a fountain for the 
two city parks, Washington and Lafay- 
ette. 
Plans now are being prepared for 
the approval of the postoffice depart- 
ment at Washington providing for the 
beautification of grounds surrounding 
the Toledo, O., postoffice. Already grass 
and clover seed have been sown. Speci- 
fications necessitating an outlay of $6,- 
500 for plants, flowers, etc., were sub- 
mitted to the federal authorities a short 
time ago, but were rejected because of 
the expense. Present plans will call for 
an expenditure of about $3,000. 
The work of developing Frank Day 
park, the tract presented to the city of 
Lewiston, Mont., last year by J. E. 
Lane, O. W. Belden and N. J. Little- 
john, will shortly be taken up. A land- 
scape architect will prepare the general 
plans for the tract. 
A large amount of trees and shrub- 
bery has been set out in Salisbury and 
Perkins parks, Brockton, Mass. In ad- 
dition, reseeding lawns, repairing side- 
walks, and general cleaning up has been 
in progress to bring the parks up to a 
satisfactory condition. 
The C. E. Moellering Construction 
company were awarded the contract for 
the improving of Lakeside park, Fort 
Wayne, Ind., on its bid of $13,085, and 
has commenced operations. The engi- 
neer’s estimate was $13,192.66, and the 
Beers-Offutt company bid $13,184 for the 
same work. A new nursery was recently- 
started by Superintendent Goers and 
has been opened for inspection. The 
board is considering the advisability of 
constructing new ball grounds in the 
parks of the city. 
A resolution making an appropriation 
of $10,000 for grading and improve- 
ments at Colt park, Hartford, Conn., in- 
cluding provision for ice skating, and 
regrading baseball diamonds was re- 
ferred to the finance board. 
The boulevard light standards to be 
erected by the park board of Dubuque, 
la., in Washington park are constructed 
of cement, with a cement base and are 
ornamental affairs. They will be sur- 
mounted by five light globes. The 
park board is having extensive improve- 
ments made around Washington park. 
Parking is being put in where some 
worn-out cement walk was located, the 
trees are being looked after and on the 
whole it is expected there will be a 
great improvement in the appearance of 
the park. 
NEW PARKS. 
The C., B. & Q. Railway is parking 
the approaches to its new depot at Gales- 
burg, 111. Shade trees and ornamental 
flower beds will be planted and main- 
tained and seating accommodations will 
be provided. 
Earnest money has been posted by 
officials of the city of Houston for the 
purchase of a tract of 11J4 acres of 
land of C. L. Bradley for $12,500. The 
property lies near Beauchamp Springs, 
on the other side of White Oak Bayou 
and practically completes the chain of 
parks proposed in his message by Mayor 
H. B. Rice, a chain that extends from 
the Sam Houston park in a northerly 
direction about the city. 
Residents of Summit, N. J., who re- 
gard their city as one of the most 
beautiful and up-to-date municipalities 
in the, state, are congratulating them- 
selves over the prospect of a new, 
modern public park in the center of 
the city. Under the direction of the 
Board of Trade Committee for the 
Beautification of Summit, plans for 
the improvement of Bonnell Park 
have been prepared by Charles 
W. Leavitt, Jr., landscape archi- 
tect, of New York city. The plans have 
been approved by the council committee 
in behalf of the city. 
Lestershire, N. Y., has recently been 
presented with a half acre of land in the 
center of the village by Mrs. H. L. Jen- 
nison for park purposes. 
Cannon Park is the name of the new 
city park to be added to Danville’s (111.) 
chain of parks, which has been laid out 
as a children’s playground park. 
The Park Board of Council Bluffs, 
la., has practically completed negotia- 
tions which were necessary to secure the 
40 acres of land which General G. M. 
Dodge offered last year, and which with 
other donations and purchased proper- 
ties will make a 130-acre park for the 
extreme west part of the city. 
Negotiations for the purchase of the 
150-acre tract bounded by Central ave- 
nue, Adams street, Austin avenue and 
the Metropolitan “L” tracks, Chicago, 
111., have been closed by Archbishop 
Quigley and the West Side Park Com- 
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