PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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beautifully wooded, will be donated to 
Yankton, S. D., for park purposes. The 
late Judge Bartlett Tripp publicly made 
an offer of the land to the city, but 
died before the deal could be carried 
out. 
The City Council of Buffalo, N. Y., 
has resolved to purchase what is known 
as the Sawyer farm of 175 acres at 
Kensington, Bailey, and the city line 
for park purposes. The price is $235,- 
000, or a little more than $1,300 an 
acre. 
Condemnation proceedings to obtain 
official court sanction of the purchase 
of the land for the proposed new park 
in the territory bounded by Central ave- 
nue on the east and Austin avenue on 
the west, have been filed in the County 
Court by the West Park Commission- 
ers of Chicago. The park will consist 
of 514 acres, all but two of which have 
been purchased from the Catholic Bishop 
of Chicago for $560,000. 
The town of Eden, Me., has voted to 
purchase the Julia C. S. Grant property 
for a public park, at a cost of $21,000. 
More parks are planned for Windsor, 
Ontario, provided for in a resolution 
adopted by the council. 
Two or three attractive small parks 
are to be added to the Oak Park, Chi- 
cago, district. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
Mr. Henry Atherton, Jr., architect, 
has prepared plans for marble sanitary 
drinking fountains, four of which are 
to be erected in Public Square Park, 
Wilkes Barre, Pa. They will be of Ten- 
nessee marble. 
The Senate at Washington has ap- 
propriated $75,000 for the improvement 
of that part of Potomac Park lying 
west of the railroad embankment. 
Hewitt & Emerson, architects, Peoria, 
111., have prepared plans for a field house 
to be erected on the recreation ground 
at the south end of the city, to cost, 
fully equipped, $140,000. It will be a 
two stories and basement building, 268 
feet by 195 feet. 
Starved Rock, the historic state park 
recently acquired by the State of Illi- 
nois, is rapidly becoming a popular re- 
sort, and improvements are being slowly 
made, though hampered by shortage of 
funds. 
Work has begun on the improve- 
ments of the state Capitol lands sur- 
rounding the building at St. Paul, Minn. 
The entire block west of the Capitol 
will be made into a park this summer 
and the smaller additions will also be 
graded and improved. 
Under the direction of Park Supt. 
Vinnedge of Fort Worth, Tex., quanti- 
ties of wild flower seeds are being gath- 
ered this summer and sown in the Fort 
Worth parks. The superintendent pro- 
poses to beautiful Fort Worth to a con- 
siderable extent with wild flowers. At 
several of the parks half acre tracts 
will be given over to them. 
Among the improvements in the Mis- 
sion district, San Francisco, Calif., 
to be made now, are the children’s play- 
ground in the Excelsior Homestead. 
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estimates for Parks, Cemeteries, Public or Private Grounds no matter where located. 1 erms most reasonable 
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HERBICIDE to kill them. 
It keeps your roads looking better and costs less in the end. 
Invaluable for Parks, Cemeteries and Large Estates. 
HERBICIDE is easily applied— Give it a fair trial. 
One application of 
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will kill the weeds on any kind oi road and by killing the soil fertility insures 
destroying all forms of vegetation for several years. 
(Before using HERBICIDE) 
Mr. F. A. Barnes, Supt. Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Mass., writes: 
HERBICIDE is the slickest thing for killing weeds I ever saw. I was so well pleased 
with it that I want you to send me two casks of “HERBICIDE” as soon as pos- 
sible. I shall not be content until I have used it on all my avenues and walks. 
Many other Park and Cemetery Superintendents are just as enthusiastic over HERBICIDE 
as Mr. Barnes. 
One gallon of Herbicide and forty gallons of water applied with any kind of sprinkling de- 
vice will keep 200 feet of a 5-foot path clean of weeds for years. Sold in 
6 gallon casks $5.50 10 gallon casks $10.00 
25 gallon casks $21.50 48 gallon bbls. $35.00, F.O.B. New York City 
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(After using HERBICIDE) 
