VI 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Certain residents of the northwest 
section of Chicago are opposing plans 
for a small park at West Blackhawk 
and Noble streets on the ground that 
in their opinion too much of the space 
in the new small park will be used for 
a large field house, which will include 
an assembly hall and club rooms, lunch 
room, reading room, library, gymnasium 
and shower baths. They believe less 
space should be devoted to the building 
and more to an outdoor playground. 
The park board has received bids for the 
construction of the proposed building, 
which will cost between $175,000 and 
$ 200 , 000 . 
Mr. Frederick P. Wilcox, Grand Rap- 
ids, Mich., recently deceased, has be- 
queathed $10,000 for the purchase of a 
park to be located in a certain specified 
locality, otherwise it is to be deposited 
with the city treasurer and the amount 
used in the purchase of park property. 
The Minneapolis park system com- 
prises 3,686 acres, an acre of park space 
for every 88 persons, and it is claimed 
to give more park space per capita to 
its citizens than any other city in the 
country. 
Finally, after some few years’ con- 
sideration, an outdoor stadium with 
park surroundings is to be constructed 
at Spokane, Wash. 
The Cleveland & Youngstown Rail- 
way Company has donated 32 acres of 
land to the city of Cleveland for park 
purposes. The proposed road will skirt 
the property at a point called Kings- 
bury Run. 
Mr. Warren H. Manning, Boston, 
Mass., has recently been in Harrisburg, 
Pa., advising upon the new island park 
on McCormick’s Island. This was a late 
park gift to the city and suggests some 
fine park possibilities. 
St. Thomas, N. D., has just opened 
a ten-acre tract of public park, the gift 
of public-spirited citizens. 
Salt Lake City, Utah, will estab- 
lish a public playground near the Jor- 
dan river in the northwest part of the 
city; $8,400 has been appropriated for 
the purchase. 
The playground idea has taken hold 
of Cedar Rapids, la., and the grounds 
about two of the public school buildings 
have been opened for that purpose. 
Mrs. Rebecca Williams has presented 
a deed to the city of Bellefontaine, O., 
for Campbell’s Grove, fifteen acres of 
beautiful woodland, to be used as a pub- 
lic park. Mrs. Williams recently pre- 
sented Rutan Park to the public. The 
two tracts of land cost Mrs. Williams 
$15,000. 
By an agreement of the heirs, Mrs. 
Bartlett Tripp and Yankton College, a 
piece of land, three acres in extent and 
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