PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A YEAR’S WORK IN THE WINNIPEG PARKS 
The last annual report of the Pub- 
lic Parks Board of Winnipeg, Canada, 
tells of some active work of park im- 
provement and extension accom- 
plished under the direction of Super- 
intendent G. Champion. 
During the year two park proper- 
A comfort station and lavatory 
for men and women was erected in 
St. John's park and the- necessary 
shrubbery planting made to screen it 
effectively. This building was erected 
by day-labor, with the exception of 
the plumbing and wall plastering. 
with summer bedding plants for the first 
time, the new greenhouses giving an 
abundance of material. The beds were 
a blaze of color and showed up well 
against the perennial and shrubbery 
beds and borders behind them. 300 ad- 
ditional perennials were planted in the 
FLOWER GARDENS, ASSINIBGTNE PARK, WINNIPEG. 
ties were purchased; Sargent Avenue, 
Athletic Field containing about 20 
acres, at an approximate cost of $160,- 
000, while Kitchener Park, containing 
about 30 acres, was purchased for ap- 
proximately $24,000, thereby adding 
50 acres to the park area. 
The contract for trees was very 
favorable to the board, in view of 
the fact that the native trees suitable 
for street planting are becoming more 
scarce and higher priced each year. 
Approximately 2,500 elm trees were 
planted on the streets. 
Brookside cemetery after a great 
many years has come to the point 
where it is practically self-sustaining, 
at least it will be so this year. The 
errors of the past have been over- 
come and the barren dismal landscape 
no longer prevails. 
The proposed parkway to the north 
and west of the city took definite 
form. A double roadway was graded 
on the northern section for about 
four miles west of Main Street. 
The plaster is a patented water-proof 
material, and seems to be specially 
suited to this class of work. A cor- 
ner of the lawn at the north end of 
this park was turned into a play- 
ground for small children, and equipped 
with sand-boxes, merry-go-round and 
see-saws. 
Three bridges were built in Kil- 
donan Park to carry the drives over 
the creek, the largest of which is nine- 
ty feet long, crossing the creek at a 
spot where the ravine is very deep. 
This bridge is finished off with rustic 
wood and by training the wild grape 
vines which grow there in profusion, 
along the railings, a very pretty ef- 
fect was obtained. 
The flower garden and plantings in 
Assiniboine Park have been carefully 
tended and improved and have proven 
even more interesting than usual. There 
were 775 trees, 1,200 bush maples and 
805 shrubs planted in this park. The 
four large center beds in the flower 
garden, each 20x160 feet, were filled 
borders. A fine cricket pavilion, with 
veranda, balcony, dressing rooms, etc., 
was built on the south side of the 
cricket field in this park. The building 
is finished outside with dark brown and 
white, all inside work being stained and 
varnished. A band-stand was built 
near the river, at the junction of the 
flower garden, and Ferry road drives. 
It is a handsome structure, and is well 
set off and partially screened by the 
surrounding trees. Four miles of the 
drives were treated with a residuum 
oil, bearing a rather heavier percentage 
of asphalt than that used last year, 
about 7,000 gallons being applied. This 
one application rendered the roads dust- 
less for the whole summer. 
The receipts available for park pur- 
poses amounted to $118,286.38, while the 
expenditures chargeable against this 
fund amounted to $101,993.58, leaving 
a net credit balance of $16,292.80, ac- 
cording to the financial report of J. Id. 
Blackwood, Secretary of the Board 
of Park Commissioners. 
