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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ST. PAUL PLANS ERA OF PARK EXTENSION 
St. Paul has just begun an ener- 
getic campaign for more funds for 
her park system to enable the board 
to make necessary improvements and 
extensions to the park area that will 
in some degree take advantage of 
the magnificent natural opportunities 
that have been allowed to lie dormant 
by a niggardly policy of allowing the 
board barely enough money for main- 
tenance. 
The St. Paul Association of Com- 
merce last month passed strong reso- 
lutions pledging itself to work for a 
bond issue of $50,000 to start a work 
of park extension on a scale some- 
what commensurate with the accom- 
plishments of the sister Twin City, 
Minneapolis. 
When the comprehensive parkway 
system which the board has in view 
shall have been completed the city 
will have an unexcelled parkway 
scheme with forty-eight miles of 
drives, which will cost in the neigh- 
borhood of $5,000,000, four-fifths of 
which expense should be borne by 
the property benefited, according to a 
recent report of Dr. R. O. Earl of 
the St. Paul park board. 
In addition to converting a forty- 
acre tract just west of Como park 
into a public golf links and securing 
a tract in the West Seventh street 
district for a parade grounds for all 
sorts of public amusements, the 
scheme includes the following boule- 
vards: Wheelock parkway, partly 
completed, skirting the heights be- 
tween Como and Phalen parks; John- 
son parkway, from Phalen park to In- 
dian Mounds park; Lexington park- 
way, partly completed from Como 
park to Summit avenue, and contem- 
plated south to the river; Reserve 
boulevard, from the high bridge to 
Fort Snelling bridge; Riverside 
boulevard, from Seventh street to the 
city limits, completed; Como river 
parkway, from Como park to River- 
side boulevard, partly completed; 
West Side boulevard, from Isabel 
street to Mendota; Summit avenue 
boulevard, from Lexington avenue to 
the River boulevard, and Grand boule- 
vard, from Indian Mounds park to 
West End heights and the River drive. 
“The absurdly inadequate pro- 
visions of funds made by the city 
council for the park and parkway sys- 
tem of this city,” says Dr. Earl, “has 
delayed so many important improve- 
ments and endangered the board’s 
previous economic policy of detail 
work maintaining the property, that 
the withholding of adequate funds 
will prove highly extravagant. Sev- 
eral improvements are deteriorating 
and the future cost of restoring them 
will highly increase. One special in- 
stance is Wheelock parkway, where 
the border slope and gutters are 
being ruined by the elements and an 
inestimable loss inflicted by a forced 
neglect to do and care for the plant- 
THE ROCKERY, COMO PARK, ST. PAUL. 
