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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Huntington avenue. The railway 
tracks are carried along in front of 
the library. A true square is formed 
by completing the sidewalk line at 
Trinity Church and carrying it across 
to Boylston street. Inside the square 
the surface is to be two and one-haif 
feet below the general street level, 
and a fountain will be placed. On the 
Boylston mall there is provision made 
for four groups of statuary, which may 
be put in place at any time. The ef- 
fective part of the square may be 
built at once, without the fountain or 
central ornaments. 
A number of improvements have 
been planned for Ganesha Park at 
Pomona, Calif. Mr. I. M. Paige, Supt., 
proposes to include a children’s play- 
ground, a bath house and plunge, an 
open-air theater, an artificial lake for 
boating and other concessions. The 
cost of the theater, which will be first 
constructed, will be $40,000, and it is 
to be modeled after the amphitheater 
at Avalon, Catalina. 
Spencer & Temple, architects, have 
prepared plans for a band stand for 
the public park at Milford, 111. Be- 
neath will be two well equipped toilet 
rooms and a storage room for park 
appurtenances. The structure will he 
16 ft. by 20 feet, and will be furnished 
with an abundance of electric light. 
It is to be built of cement concrete. 
The Board of Park Commissioners 
of Fall River, Mass., has accepted the 
new bridge at the South Park over 
the steam railroad tracks. With the 
exception of a fence, the bridge is 
ready for traffic. The new bridge is a 
decided addition to the park lands 
leading to the shore front. It is of 
concrete construction and is the first 
structure of that kind that has been 
undertaken by local engineers and 
contractors. It cost $29,000, of which 
the railroad company paid $10,000. 
Great improvements are planned for 
Forest Park, Queens Borough, New 
York. New walks and drives are be- 
ing laid out in its 536 acres, which 
were purchased by the city of Brook- 
lyn before its consolidation with New 
York. While on high ground it has 
a clay subsoil and several lakes are 
to be constructed, one of 22 acres area 
at an elevation of about 90 feet above 
sea level. The land cost about $2,000,- 
000. Especial interest is taken in the 
project to connect Eastern Parkway 
with Forest Park, by a route leading 
by the edge of Cypress Hills Ceme- 
tery. 
The Old Lusk cemetery, Edwardsville, 
111., will be acquired by the city and 
converted into a memorial park. 
Beaumont, Texas., has purchased Is- 
land Park on Brake Bayou, for $100 
per acre. The site will afford Beau- 
mont one of the finest parks in the coun- 
try, near the heart of the business dis- 
trict and entirely surrounded by water, 
although in full view of all travelers 
that pass through the city of Beaumont 
over the Southern Pacific road. The 
new site will furnish a permanent home 
for the Southeast Texas Fair, which is 
the pride of the people of Beaumont. 
Schiller Park, Genesee street and the 
city line, Buffalo, N. Y., is now a cer- 
tainty, the payment being authorized for 
the land bought to add to the LTrban 
and Walker gifts. Schiller park ex- 
tends for upwards of 20 acres along 
Scajaquada creek from Genesee street, 
and is the result of the gift to the city 
of small plots of land on both sides of 
the creek near Doat street by George 
LTrban, Jr., and William Id. Walker. 
Additional land, bought to add to the 
donated property, cost the city $65,000, 
and it is expected that it will cost as 
much to improve the land for park pur- 
poses. 
Mrs. Susan Cheney, widow of the late 
Frank Cheney, recently presented to the 
town of Manchester, Conn., a tract of 
land for park purposes comprising seven 
acres and centrally located. She also 
gave the town $15,000 on condition that 
the money be applied to reducing the 
town debt. 
Richmond, Va., is considering a plan 
for additional playgrounds for the city. 
The transformation of Arnold Park, 
Fort Worth, Texas, from a dumping- 
ground into a pleasant breathing spot in 
two years is a delight to the citizens. 
It is a little over an acre in extent and 
cost the city $10,000, and was named 
after Major Ripley Arnold, U. S. A., 
who founded old Fort Worth in 1849. 
Park Superintendent George E. Vin- 
nedge used his automobile to run out 
the driveway curves, and it is said with 
success. 
Improvements in Library Park, Liv- 
ermore, Calif., are to be carried out by 
the Livermore Women’s Improvement 
Club. Electroliers, benches and other 
appurtenances are to be provided. 
Improvements to cost from $15,000 
to $17,000 are to be made in the walks 
and drives in Wick park, Youngstown, 
O. The work, however, will not be 
started until spring. 
The park board of Seattle, Wash., on 
October 19, granted permission to the 
board of public works to proceed with 
the excavation and grading of the West 
Seattle stadium site, the dirt to be used 
in filling Alki avenue. This action was 
taken by the board with the consent of 
William Piggott and Frank T. Hunter, 
donors. The excavation will be made in 
accordance with the preliminary stadium 
plan submitted to the board by Archi- 
tect Bebb. 
An offer to purchase and install a 
large drinking fountain for stock at 
the intersection of Hattie street and 
Vickery boulevard has been made to 
the Fort Worth, Texas, park depart- 
ment by Mrs. L. D. Cobb, of Jarvis 
street. The acceptance of this offer is 
favored by the park board. 
The erection at Washington park, 
Springfield, III, of a band stand at a 
cost of $2,500 and a boat house to cost 
$6,000 is advocated by Superintendent 
Macpherson in plans offered to the 
board. The park body has also discussed 
the building of a new entrance to 
Washington park from South Grand 
avenue. 
New Parks 
Montreal, Canada, will acquire 34 
acres on Rosemont Boulevard for the 
establishment of a park in Rosemont 
ward, at a cost of $145,000. The price 
is equivalent to about 11 T A cents a 
square foot which is considered very 
low. 
The City Council of Temple, Tex., has 
accepted a gift of sixteen acres of land 
in two irregular tracts in the southwest- 
ern suburbs of the city from Messrs. 
Sam H. Cater and C. T. Mahler. The 
land is beautifully wooded, is watered 
by a fine spring and is a natural park. 
The city will have to purchase about 
four acres of land at a minimum price 
in order to give the park a symmetrical 
proportion. The place is known as 
Hodge’s Spring and was famous as a 
camping place in the early days for 
freighters and wagon trains generally. 
Vermont is rapidly adding parks to its 
public domain, the latest being on Paine 
mountain, just east of Northfield vil- 
lage. The local commercial club has 
purchased an area of about 40 acres 
which is to be held for the benefit of 
the townspeople as a park. The sum- 
mit of the mountain at an altitude of 
2,600 feet is within the tract, and the 
wood road to it is to be put into condi- 
tion for carriage travel. The top is par- 
ticularly accessible, being only about, 
three miles from the village. 
The sons and daughters of the late E. 
C. Hegeler, of La Salle, 111., have ex- 
pressed a willingness to expend the 
necessary money to improve the park 
site bequeathed by their father in trust 
to the city. The stipulation is that the 
city shall maintain the improved park. 
In the acquisition by the board of 
water commissioners, of Detroit, Mich., 
of the 40 acre tract for the extension of 
the new pumping station adjacent to 
the old water works park a 100 acre 
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