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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
nition, in the shape of any monu- 
ment or marker, of the fact that Le- 
compton was the first capitol of the 
State of Kansas. A movement has 
been started to make a state park 
out of the sixteen acres formerly oc- 
cupied as capitol grounds and later 
as . the campus of Lane university. The 
building of the capitol never went 
beyond the basement and first story, 
and the walls were afterward torn 
down and the stone used in the Uni- 
versity building. 
The issue of $50,000 in bonds was 
authorized by the park board of 
Springfield, 111., at a meeting held 
recently for the purchase of an east 
end park site and for a part payment 
on the electric lighting fixtures be- 
ing installed in the parks by the util- 
ities company. Thirty thousand dol- 
lars of the money will be used to pay 
for the Thompson tract of sixty acres 
purchased for a park site. 
The public interest manifested in 
the question of establishing a park 
system for Aberdeen, Wash., has re- 
sulted in offers of donations of land. 
A proposition has been made that the 
pioneers of Aberdeen and Hoquiam 
make donations of park lands and 
that the parks thus provided, and the 
boulevards connecting them, be 
named after pioneers. 
An ordinance authorizing the pur- 
chase of forty acres of land for park 
sites passed the Granite City, 111., 
Council by a vote of 8 to 2 on Sept. 
If. It entails the expenditure of 
$43,600. Granite City has no parks. 
The estimate of Park Commissioner 
Kennedy, of Brooklyn, N. Y., of the 
budget requirements of his depart- 
ment for 1913 is $1,309,000.49, as com- 
pared with $938,689.15, the total ap- 
propriation for 1912, an increase of 
$370,311.34, for 39 per cent. The 
greatest increase is in an account cov- 
ering repairs and replacements by 
contract or open order, maintenance 
of parks and boulevards. 
The park board of Cincinnati, O., 
has determined to ask the people for 
the $2,500,000 bonds issue for new 
parks and playgrounds. Council 
failed to act on the board’s request, 
and, as under the law the board itself 
is permitted to put the question to 
the people on September 12 it decided 
so to do. 
As a result of a trip east to attend 
the recent annual Convention of park 
superintendents at Boston, and a 
visit to many park systems en route, 
Mr. George A. Hill, superintendent of 
parks of Tacoma, Wash., advises that 
a comprehensive plan for an entire 
park system be prepared, and carried 
out as fast as funds can be secured. 
Secretary J. A. Ridgway, of the 
Minneapolis, Minn., park board, in 
a filed statement, says that $272,510 
will be required to operate the parks 
of Minneapolis next year. 
The Park department of Des 
Moines, la., finds itself overstocked 
with Elk and Deer and are prepar- 
ing to dispose of some. Park of- 
ficials who might be wishing to se- 
cure such additions to their zoological 
sections should apply to Mr. Zell G. 
Roe, Park Commissioner, Des 
Moines, la. 
In the special election held Spetem- 
ber at 17 at Holdrege, Neb., the pro- 
posal to issue city bonds for $50,000 
for the purpose of securing a public 
park was defeated by twenty-two 
votes. 
At the time efforts were being made 
to induce the County Park Board, 
Jersey City, N. J., to locate a park 
in Currie’s Woods the advocates of 
that project declared that there could 
not be too many parks. This conten- 
tion is borne out in the report just 
made public by the Park Board to 
the effect that in August 220,000 per- 
sons, almost one-half of Hudson’s 
population, used the parks in the 
various sections of the county. 
Concerning Philadelphia’s greater 
park system, the City Parks Asso- 
ciation has this to say about it in 
its current annual report: “Splendid- 
ly broad and far-sighted is the rec- 
ommendation of the Committee on 
Unimproved Land, supplemented by 
the map prepared by the Bureau of 
Surveys, looking to the preservation 
for all time of the valleys of the 
streams, which flow into the Dela- 
ware and the Schuylkill within twen- 
ty-five miles of the City Hall. These 
streams embrace the area extending 
from Chester Creek on the south- 
west, which enters the Delaware be- 
low Chester, to the Neshaminy on 
the northeast, which flows into the 
Delaware at Bristol. The proposed 
system extends to the northwest to 
include Valley Forge Park, secured 
by the State Government. All of 
these valleys are to be linked togeth- 
er by parkways into a co-ordinated 
system.” 
Attendance at concerts, public play- 
grounds, tennis courts, public baths 
and comfort stations has been heav- 
ier during the season which closed 
September 15 than ever before in the 
history of St. Louis, according to re- 
ports submitted to Park Commission- 
er Dwight F. Davis September 19. 
In the eighteen playgrounds 86'3,931 
children took advantage of the ap- 
paratus, and it is estimated that 1,800,- 
000 persons, visited the two public 
baths and three of the leading com- 
fort stations. The public baths in 
St. Louis have, it is claimed, been 
operated this year more cheaply than 
in any other city in the United States. 
The reports show the cost of main- 
tenance per capita was 17-100ths of 
a cent. 
After years of waiting it appears 
probable that Milwaukee, Wis., will 
acquire the riparian rights, now 
owned by the Northwestern Railroad, 
which will enable the city to com- 
plete its lake shore drive. The rail- 
road has proposed an agreement 
whereby it exchanges the above 
rights for sufficient land to enlarge its 
depot facilities. 
At a special election held early in 
September in Zanesville, O., the park 
Commission plan was adopted by a 
vote of 3,018 to 1,000. 
Early in September the city coun- 
cil of Traverse City, Mich., voted' 
to rescind its former action to sub- 
mit the question of purchasing the 
property of the John F. Ott Lumber 
company for a public park to the 
people at a special election and has- 
purchased the property outright for 
$28,000. 
More public improvement work is; 
being done in St. Louis, Mo., now 
than ever has been undertaken at any 
one time in the city’s history. Ap- 
proximately $10,000,000 is being ex- 
pended and some 150 miles of streets- 
are being dug up to make the neces- 
sary changes and betterments in- 
sewerage, water service, etc. 
The statue of Garibaldi in Lincoln 
Park, Chicago, is to be removed to 
a new site at the entrance to the park 
at the intersection of Clark, Wells 
and Wisconsin streets. This is the 
first monument to be removed in ac- 
cordance with the suggestion of Fran- 
cis T. Simmons, president of the Lin- 
coln park board, to shift the statues 
within the park to the outer edge 
and place them in niches, inclosed on 
three sides by shrubbery, so as to 
make them visible to passengers on 
street cars as well as pedestrians. 
Park Improvements. 
Five sets of plans were received 
by the Pleasure Driveway and Park 
Board, Peoria, 111., for the new South 
Park Pavilion, for which $14,000 has 
been apropriated in the budget. 
The project of boulevarding Cleve- 
land avenue, St. Paul, Minn., from 
Summit avenue to its intersection' 
with the river drive near Fort Snell- 
