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PARK AND C EM ET ERY. 
30 acres, and the latter is a small tract 
200 feet square. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS 
Plans are being worked out by the 
Park Department, of Cincinnati, O., to 
make Mt. Echo Park, on Price Hill, one 
of the city’s most beautiful parks ac- 
cessible to the public. Park officials 
have faith that the public will eventual- 
ly use Mt. Echo Park as much as Bur- 
net Woods and Eden Park are now 
used. 
The Southern Pacific R. R. will co- 
operate with the city authorities of Gold 
Hill, Oregon, to provide a creditable 
city park. 
Plans are being worked out by the 
Park Commissioners of Joliet, 111., to 
provide a greenhouse for West Park. 
This year’s improvements have been 
completed as far as can be on the $5,000 
appropriation provided. 
The roads in Rock Spring Park, 
Springfield, 111., are being renovated. A 
thorough rolling and oil treatment has 
been applied. 
The contract for the construction of 
a two-story and basement field house 
on the Collins playground, Sixteenth 
avenue south and Washington street, 
Seattle, Wash., has been awarded by 
the board of park commissioners to A. 
C. Dow & Ryden for $21,338. Plans are 
being prepared for the construction of a 
24-foot bridge. 
The Upper Milwaukee River Im- 
provement Association, Milwaukee, 
Wis., has been organized, to improve 
conditions on the river, and the cities 
and towns are to be visited to effect 
co-operation and to keep out sewage 
and other detrimental inflows, so that 
the beautiful river may be made “na- 
tural” again. 
The St. Charles, 111., town park board 
members are planning the immediate in- 
stallation of a new decorative light sys- 
tem for Pottawatomie Park. A new 
entrance is also contemplated, to be un- 
dertaken at earliest convenience. 
The program of the Kansas City Park 
Board for the new fiscal year will in- 
clude, among many other expenditures, 
the big South Park District improve- 
ments, $145,000 ; bath house at The 
Grove, Fifteenth street boulevard and 
about the grounds, $95,000, and a big 
bath-house at Garrison Square, the park 
for negroes. 
Superintendent David A. Seymour, of 
the Buffalo, N. Y., park department, says 
that the work of grading the ground 
adjoining the new boat casino at Caze- 
novia Park is about completed, much 
sooner than was expected, and it makes 
one of the most beautifully graded 
lawns in the city. There is a good deal 
of other improvement work to be done 
in this park, but it will be completed 
this fall. 
The statue of Hiawatha originally 
purchased for Minnehaha Park. Minne- 
apolis, Minn., but which has been stored 
in St. Paul on account of a disagree- 
ment as to site, will probably soon be 
placed in Minnehaha Park. 
The new pavilion in the park of Al- 
lerton. 111., is near completion and will 
be a great boon to the citizens. 
According to plans of the Chicago 
West Park Commissioners bathing fa- 
cilities for 15,000 men, women and 
children will be provided. The plans in- 
clude the erection of two natatoriums, 
each with swimming and wading basins 
to accommodate 7,500 men, women and 
children, or 15,000 in both. 
It will cost from $25,000 to $35,000 
to complete the work which the board 
of Park Commissioners contemplate at 
the South Park water front below Bay 
street, Fall River, Mass. 
The deed for the proposed stadium 
site in West Seattle, Wash., has been 
signed and the park board only awaits 
the proposed loan from the city council 
to make the first series of improvements 
to cost $100,000. 
NEW PARKS 
The Traverse City, Mich., city coun- 
cil has voted to purchase the property 
of the John F. Ott Lumber Company, 
which has a bay frontage of two blocks 
and contains 14 acres for $28,000. This 
will give the city one of the finest park 
locations in the state. 
The old Courthouse Square, of Aus- 
tin, Texas, has been turned into a public 
park, but will not be formally thrown 
open to the public until later in the 
fall. 
Hon. A. F. Rockwell has offered to 
give to the city of Bristol, Conn., a con- 
siderable tract of land at the old Hick- 
ory Park. Senator A. J. Muzzy has 
also made a gift of land adjoining the 
above. 
The purchase of a tract of land of 25 
acres has already been agreed upon to 
provide Hammond, La., with a public 
park. 
Coatesville, Pa., is to have a park. 
Kankakee, 111., is about to purchase a 
tract of land, known as the “Sand Pit,” 
of between 9 and 10 acres area, for park 
purposes. Price, $2,000. Kankakee has 
also formally opened the West Side 
playground park. 
The voters of Taylorville, 111., have 
voted to issue bonds to the amount of 
$30,000 for park purposes. Tt is the ex- 
pectation to purchase the 53 acres owned 
by Mrs. C. A. Manners, just south of the 
Wabash depot. This is quite a natural 
park site. The city has an option on 
the tract at $500 per acre. 
W. O. McCabe has announced his 
intention of donating to the city of Day- 
ton, O., a woodland tract of about nine 
acres, which is known now as McCabe’s 
Park. Mr. McCabe is a park enthusiast, 
and was recently offered $25,000 for this 
tract. 
The Newton, la., city council has en- 
tered into a contract with B. F'. Man- 
ville whereby the city accepts a free 
gift of thirty acres in Manville’s new 
addition for public park purposes and 
the council promises to levy a park tax 
for the improvement of the grounds. 
The Fort Ridgely National Park, Min- 
nesota, was formerly dedicated on Au- 
gust 22, which was the fiftieth anniver- 
sary of the battle, which was a critical 
contest in the war to suppress the Sioux 
outbreak. 
A proposition is before the authori- 
ties of Colorado Springs, Colo., that the 
city spend $5,000 a year for four con- 
secutive years in converting the Pros- 
pect Lake district into a first-class city 
park. The plan shows the need of a 
city park on the east side, and calls the 
proposed improvement a “people’s 
park.” The Prospect Lake district is an 
idea! place for a park, the view from 
the top of the hill being unsurpassed. 
The district also contains 90 acres, 65 
acres of which are under water. 
The Board of Finance of Jersey City, 
N. J., has ordered $3,500 appropriated 
for the improvement of Bayside Park 
in the Greenville section, and has also 
appropriated $25,000 for the improve- 
ment of the new Montgomery Park at 
Montgomery street and Cornelison ave- 
nue. 
Extensive improvements have been 
recommended for the Lake Harriet pa- 
vilion, Minneapolis, Minn., which will 
make it one of the finest park pavilions 
west of Chicago. The proposed enlarge- 
ment will cost some $10,000 and will be 
carried out after plans by Mr. Harry W. 
Jones, architect. The additions include 
an outdoor cafe with confectionery 
room ; an extension of the fountain 
room ; enlargement and improvement of 
the roof garden, giving an increased 
seating capacity. The roof garden will 
seat 3,000 and the ground floor audi- 
torium 1,500. Pergolas are to be intro- 
duced as outside additions, and a float- 
ing band stand on improved principles 
will be a new feature. 
A new octagon shaped band stand is 
to be erected at Sinnissippi Park, Rock- 
ford, 111., after plans prepared by Ar- 
chitect Peterson. 
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