PARK AND CEMETERY 
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PARK NOTES. 
A fountain is to be erected between the two parks of Frank- 
lin, Pa., in memory of Judge A. G. Egbert. The proposed work 
will be 25 feet high with about the same diameter at base. The 
cost will be nearly $2000. 
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A Woman’s Park and Improvement Association is a feature 
of Pueblo, Colo. It has so zealously and actively agitated various 
improvements in the city that the demand for said improve- 
ments has become general and a park system is now receiving 
particular attention. 
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Mrs. Sarah E. Doming, of Terre Haute, Ind., on June 4th, 
donated eighty acres of ground east of the city for park purposes 
provided Ohio Street is opened across the Evansville and Terre 
Haute railroad tract within two years. The question of opening 
the street is now in the Supreme Court. 
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Fountains are very appropriate features ot ornament to 
brighten some of the neglected spots and corners in our villages 
and their adoption for such purposes are becoming more com- 
mon. Oneida, N. Y., is one of the towns adding to its attract- 
iveness in this line, two bronze fountains being among its ad- 
ditions. 
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Chester, Pa., is in a fair way to prosecute park improve- 
ments. An ordinance has been passed creating a board of park 
commissioners, and the hundred acres of land now owned by the 
city for park purposes, and which has been secured by the liber- 
ality of certain citizens, will soon witness operations designed to 
fit them for the peoples pleasure and recreation. 
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Possibilities of extravagance loom up in connection with 
park improvements in our large cities, but permanence costs 
money and permanence with artistic features costs more money. 
But $40,000 for a marble band stand for Humboldt Park, Chi- 
cago, leads to the conclusion that some band stands come high^ 
and marble for a band stand also seems straining hard for costly 
effect. 
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Mrs. Augusta C. Pease, widow, last month notified the gov- 
ernor of the Connecticut Society of Sons of Colonial Wars, 
Hartford, Conn., that the price of the piece of land at the junct- 
ion of Charter Oak Avenue and Charier Oak Place, desired for 
the site of a memorial for the Charter Oak, w'hich once stood 
there, would be “nothing at all” except the legal consideration 
of “one dollar.” Her husband had often expressed a wish that 
the spot might be used for the purpose and on that consideration 
she was glad to make the gift . 
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Food for thought is liberally supplied in the fact that the 
Commissioners of Charities of Rings county, resolved last month 
to improve the fifty acres of gronnd about the Almshouse in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. They employed some of the prisoners from the 
jail and with this help and that of the male members of the 
county’s poor, a transformation scene is being enacted which 
could be imitated to advantage atsimiliar establishments through- 
out the country; No unsightly spots should be permitted about 
public institutions, for whatever purpose existing. Incalculable 
good results from a little natural beauty judiciously disposed 
about such establishments. 
Great improvement is taking place in Chattanooga, Tenn 
Among other features a system of tree planting has been inau- 
gurated in which the park commissioners are being generally 
assisted by the citizens. The idea is that the same variety of 
trees shall be planted along each street so that uniformity and 
consequently a better appearance shall result. The commission- 
ers will suggest suitable varieties, so that trees best adapted for 
street purposes, both as to nature of growth, shape and adaptabi- 
lity may be secured. The question of the removal of fences in 
the residence streets is being agitated, and will be carried out 
when protection can be assured. Altogether an era of improve- 
ment has set in and the co-operation of the citizens with the park 
commissioners promises most beneficial results. 
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If Mr. Falconer, the superintendent of Schenley Park, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa., is allowed a free hand, that park will be one of the 
loveliest, from a botanical standpoint as well as otherwise, in the 
country. From the results of his work at Dosoris, Long Island, 
the country residence of Mr. Chas. A. Dana, of the New York 
S 7 (?i, this may be taken for granted. His intention appears to 
be to follow a botanical arrangement in filling the park with 
plantlife, but naturally modified from book form according to the 
natural conditions prevailing and the requirements of the sev- 
eral situations. It is to be hoped that we may sooner or later 
find such a public park completed according to the design and in- 
tention of an authority, untrammeled by the petty restrictions 
so common and detrimental in their effects m our public service. 
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Blue Mountain Park, established about the Croydon moun- 
tains, not far from Newport, N. H.,by the late Austin Corbin, 
comprises some 26,000 acres of land, wild but picturesque, ad- 
mirably adapted to the purpose intended, a wild game preserve. 
Some thirty miles of wire mesh fence, eight and a half feet high, 
surround the estate, while trees of suitable variety are being 
planted along the wire to eventually form a live fence and 
keep the untamed stock within bonds. The fencing was com- 
pleted in 1890. Entrances are to be found at convenient locations 
at each of which confortable gate keepers lodges are constructed. 
Some forty or more miles of streams and lakelets traverse the 
property, abounding in fish. The principal animals now domi- 
ciled on the tract are buffalo, moose, elk, dear and wild boars, 
imported from Germany, besides various game birds. The in- 
closure contains the largest variety of wild birds and beasts of 
any similar preserve in the country. 
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The commissioners of the South Park system, Chicago, will 
take charge of the Lake Front Park, the great park project now 
being vigorously prosecuted. This will place the work in compe- 
tent hands, create confidence in the tax payers, and if their prev- 
ious efforts promise anything, will carry out the work to the end, 
that practically right at the heart of the city of Chicago, one of 
the most beautiful parks in existence, with all the accessories of 
water expanse, and landscape, will still further build up the great 
city. It IS now proposed to construct a water side boulevard, 
connecting Jackson Park with the Lake Front Park, giving a 
lake shore drive to the south side, several miles long. The park 
system of Chicago, is developing in the larger way in line with 
the city’s prosperity, but unfortunately thus far little attention 
has been paid to that even broader necessity, the small park. 
Perhaps no city in the world is more seriously lacking in this 
feature of urban economy than Chicago. But it must come and 
that speedily, and the many will have to provide heavily for the 
neglect of the few of years ago, when the cost would have been 
comparatively light to the few. 
