PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The Brooklyn, New York, Committee 
of the Parks and Playgrounds Associa- 
tion, at a recent meeting, voted to en- 
list the aid of its local committee in 
preparing a plan for new playgrounds 
to be submitted to the Public Recrea- 
tion Commission. Each committee will 
be asked to determine upon the needs of 
its neighorhood and to send its sugges- 
tions to the Brooklyn Committee. 
The Park proposition accepted at the 
election on November 5 is of much im- 
portance to Bristol, Conn. The tract 
offered by Hon A. F. Rockwell is well 
known, and gift accepted will be the 
commencement of a public park and 
playground department of city work. 
Park Improvements. 
Five hundred dollars are to be ex- 
pended on the equipment of the Logan 
school playground, Spokane, Wash. It 
is a complete and attractive exercise 
ground. 
Plans for the beautification of the 
Capitol grounds at Baton Rouge, La., 
have been prepared and will be carried 
out by Joe Bernard, superintendent of 
the New Orleans Park and Frank 
Broackner, landscape gardener. 
The work of leveling Fairview park, 
Cleveland, O., and removing the earth 
to the Edgewater boulevard is in full 
swing. It will be done by municipal 
labor, and a steam shovel, engine and 
cars have been rented by the city to 
carry out the job. 
The planting of hardy flowering bulbs 
for spring flowering is under way in 
Cincinnati in its many parks. 
Improvements that will greatly im- 
prove the Missouri Pacific Railway sta- 
tion at Springfield, Mo., are under way 
by order of the officials. The planning 
has been done by Mr. J. S. Butterfield, 
the company’s landscape gardener. 
Park Superintendent J. M. Paige has 
prepared plans for the extensive im- 
provement of the play grounds at Po- 
mona, Calif., during the winter. The 
gift of C. I. Lorbeer of a tract of land 
adjoining Ganesha Park has added 
greatly in carrying out some of the pro- 
jects Mr. Paige has had in mind, and by 
next summer an artificial lake, plunge 
and amphitheater will have been con- 
structed. 
The first real step towards the actual 
creation of a city beautiful at Calgary, 
Alberta, was recently taken at a joint 
meeting of the city planning commis- 
sion and the park board. The reports 
were comprehensive and encouraging. 
The U. S. government is planning to 
spend some $11,000 next spring in beau- 
tifying the grounds of Custom House 
square, Bath, Me., and a suggestion has 
been made to the Bath Merchants’ As- 
sociation to the effect that the city be 
induced to condemn the Rouse prop- 
erty and the vacant lot adjoining, which 
belongs to the Bath National Bank and 
convert the lots into a city park. 
Electric conduits have been laid in 
the village park of Seneca Falls, N. Y., 
which, when wired, will supply a num- 
ber of concrete lamp posts to be set 
at frequent intervals in the park. The 
installation of these lights will complete 
the scheme of improvement mapped out 
two years ago by the Village Improve- 
ment Association. 
The park commissioners for the town 
of Welland, Ontario, Canada, have 
launched a project for the erection of a 
statue to the memory of William Ham- 
ilton Merritt, founder of the Welland 
canal. It is proposed that the monu- 
ment shall stand at the angle of Merritt 
park, near the abutment of the old 
bridge, and shall face north. 
Final plans for the beautification of 
Bridge square district, Minneapolis, 
Minn., have been submitted to members 
of the improvement committee of the 
nark board. With the selection of one 
of the three new plans and the tearing 
down of all buildings on block 37 in 
May, next, the board hopes to start 
active work in the improvement of the 
district by June. 
Work on the new plaveround for the 
Rocklin, Placer Co., Calif., grammar 
school was commenced in earnest last 
month by the older pupils under the di- 
rection of the principal. As a prelim- 
inary to the work a rally of the teachers 
and pupils was held when Mr. Max 
Stone, instructor of playgrounds in 
Sacramento, addressed the meeting. 
Much enthusiasm in the work was 
aroused by his directions and sugges- 
tions. 
The Shelter Houses in the larger In- 
dianapolis parks are quite attractive fea- 
tures. The Garfield Park House is con- 
structed of stone and iron, Japanese in 
design, and 60 feet square. The Milli- 
tary park shelter house is of artificial 
stone, put together on simple, dignified 
lines. One end of this building is re- 
served for use as a branch library. The 
concrete house in Riverside park, built 
in Mission style, is called one of the 
finest in the United States. 
Plans are maturing for the construc- 
tion of a new animal house in Miller 
Park, Bloomington, 111., to cost some 
$15,000. 
Plans for the establishment of a chil- 
dren’s playground to be open to the pub- 
lic have been started by the Woman’s 
Town Improvement Association of St. 
Petersburg, Fla. The plans call for 
grounds on the beach, and they are to 
be open to the public at all times and 
amusements of various kinds for the 
children will be provided. 
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A new gate to Garfield park, To- 
peka, Kas., to cost $1,000 will be built 
at the Quincy street entrance this fall. 
Bids have been invited. The entrance 
will include four concrete pillars with 
iron gates between. 
To carry out new plans for the 
beautification of the Bridge Square 
district, especially of the Gateway 
park, Minneapolis, Minn., made by A. 
R. Bennett, the civic architect, the 
park board has appointed Hewitt & 
Brown, Minneapolis, architects. The 
park will contain no buildings, as was 
first planned on but will probably have 
an ornament of some kind on the 
square across from the Nicollet hotel. 
Cleveland, O., is about to add 200 
or more acres of land to its lake front 
park chain. It is proposed to fill in 
along the shore line north of Edge- 
water park. 
The government has constructed 
about 13 miles of the required 19 
miles of public highway in the Mesa 
Verde National Park, in the extreme 
southwestern part of Colorado. This 
highway extends from Point Lookout 
on the north boundary, crossing the 
Mesa southward to the Cliff-dwellers 
ruins. Within the park are some 375 
cliff dwellings, or ancient pueblos. 
The Mesa Verde proper is an immense 
plateau, triangular in shape, pierced 
from the south by huge, narrow, par- 
allel canyons of great depth and lined 
by steep and precipitous sandstone 
cliffs. In the high and almost inac- 
cessible recesses of the cliffs are 
found the ancient homes of the cliff- 
men. The cliff dwellings range in 
size from diminutive huts to gigantic 
palaces, and community houses as 
large as modern city blocks. Besides 
these wonders the region teems with 
interesting features. 
The Civic League, of Cleburne, Tex- 
as, has appointed a committee to meet 
with the Board of Trade and the 
Young Men's Business League to dis- 
cuss the matter of rebuilding the court 
house away from the square and the 
construction of a park on the site of 
the old building. 
At a recent joint meeting of the 
Town Board of New Hartford, N. Y., 
with the Utica Park Board permis- 
sion was granted to extend the boule- 
vard on the southern boundary of 
L T tica through a small portion of the 
town of New Hartford. 
Frank A. Bourne, architect, has 
submitted detailed plans of the Copley 
square, Boston, Mass., improvement 
to the Art commission of that city. 
This plan favors the widening of St. 
Tames avenue and the elimination of 
the present conflicting tangle with 
