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A fine pavilion has been presented to Hermann Park, 
Goldsboro, N. C., by Messrs. H. and S. Wed, two public spir- 
ited men, who a few years ago made a gift of the park itself to 
the city, and have been improving it since. 
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Salem, O., is to have a fine park in the near future, a Mr. 
J. T. Brooks having decided to improve a piece of land, some 35 
acres in extent, called Pine Hollow, and make it a public park. 
A park has been much needed and this generous suggestion of 
Mr. Brooks should find appreciative response. 
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Elizabeth Haywood of Warren, O., has donated 12 acres of 
land south of Sharon for the establishment of a park to perpetu- 
ate the memory of her late husband, ex-State Treasurer Benja- 
min J. Haywood. The offer has been accepted and a large 
amount of money will be expended to beautify it. 
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The Johnston fountain, a memorial gift to the municipality 
erected last summer at Champaign, 111 ., at a cost of some ¥10,- 
000 and which stands in the center of the city, was badly defaced 
last month by vandals. The miscreants used chisels, defacing 
the beautifully-carved stone base of the fountain in a shameful 
manner. 
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Truly the park idea is growing. At a special election held 
at Waverly, Kans. , recently, the proposition to buy a site for a 
town park carried by a vote of over 2 to i. This was ihe third 
election held for this purpose in the last two years. The propo- 
sition was defeated by one vote the first time and the second 
election resulted in a tie vote. 
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In France, Germany, Belgium, and some other European 
countries it is the practice to plant fruit trees along the public 
roads. The local governments plant the trees and cultivate them 
as a source of revenue, and it is said that in Belgium there are 
three quarters of a million roadside fruit trees, which in one year 
produced |2 000,000 worth of fruit. The walnut, chestnut, cherry, 
plum and apple are the favorite trees for roadside planting. 
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The members of the Fredericksburg national park commis- 
sion have laid before the Secretary of War their plans for a 
memorial park which will include the battlefields of Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, Tebb’s Tavern and seveial other fields 
comprised in an area of twelve miles square on the south side 
of the Rappahannock. A bill is pending before congress on this 
subject. The secretary of war, without binding himself to any 
positive action, promised to do what he could to further the 
wishes of the commission. 
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General C. C. Andrews, is continuing his campaign for a 
national park in northern Minnesota. The limits for the park 
he has in mind include 61 1 592 acres of land surface and 218,470 
acres of water. To create a park it will be necessary for the 
government to enter into a new treaty with the Indians, but 
General Andrews believes this will not be difficult, for he thinks 
the Indians would prefer to have tourists than lumbermen visit 
their locality. Game would be preserved and the country would 
be a magnificent health resort. 
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Prof. Bell, the inventor of the telephone, is laying out at 
Washington, D. C., a remarkable garden patterned after the 
fairy parks of Japan, with their miniature mountains, trees and 
gracefully bridged lakes. The most striking feature, however, 
of the garden will be the genuine Japanese house boats, or )ane- 
bune. The dainty craft are constructed of clean, unpainted 
wood, upon which no iron can be detected, but only here and 
there a cleat of copper. In the centre is the cabin, a lilliputian 
Japanese house, with the steeply arched roof and the pretty 
paper doors. Within, it is neatly matted and furnished with a 
hibachi or charcoal brazier, and a tiny blue tea service. 
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Congress has from time to time taken action in favor of a 
grand memorial bridge across the Potomac River at Washing- 
ton to the National cemetery at Arlington, in honor of George 
Washington and dedicated to American patriotism as also 
to the plan for a national boulevard connecting Arlington with 
Mt. Vernon. In his annual report just published, General John 
M. Wilson, Chief of Engineers, strongly recommends the con- 
struction of both these important monumental woiks. The sun- 
dry civil act of March 3rd, 1899, contained an item of $5, coo, to 
continue the examination of the subject, and to secure designs 
and estimates for the bridge and four eminent bridge engineers 
have been invited to submit competitive designs on or before 
January i6th next. 
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The full bench of the supreme court of Massachusetts, has 
rendered a decision in the case of the attorney general vs. Henry 
Bigelow Williams and others, proprietors of the Westminster 
Chambers in Copley square, Boston, holding the act of the Leg- 
islature limiting the height of buildings in Copley square to 90 
feet as constitutional, and allowing the plaintiff to maintain his 
bill to restiain the height eff the Westminster Chambers to 90 
feet. The act limits the height of buildings to be built or al- 
tered, exclusive of towers, domes and sculptured ornaments, 
abutting on St. James avenue, between Clarendon and Dart- 
mouth street and Huntington avenue, and upon the corner of 
Dartmouth and Bo> Iston streets, to 90 feet, and limits to the 
height of 100 feet buildings to be built or rebuilt on land abut- 
ting on Boylston street, between Dartmouth and Clarendon 
streets. The court further holds that the prohibition against 
erecting a building above the height of 90 feet is absolute, ex- 
cept that certain erections which are usually above the substan- 
tial parts of a building may, with the approval of the park com- 
missioners, be put on any such building above that height. 
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After considerable public discussion on the action of the 
Fairmount Park Commissioners in prohibiting the use of Au- 
tomobiles, the said commissioners finally decided the ques- 
tion in favor of such vehicles, restricting them to two entrances. 
The resolution and stringent rules adopted are as follows, and 
will offer suggestions in sim lar cases: Resolved, That until 
otherwise ordered, automobiles for the conveyance of passengers 
shall be permitted to use the following drives, to wit: Thirty- 
fourth street. Belmont avenue, northwest approach leading from 
City avenue bridge to Ridge avenue. ALo Dauphin street en- 
trance, turn to the right or north over the trolley bridge up 
Greenland drive to Chamounix drive to Belmont drive, to Bel- 
mont avenue, and return the same route. 
Subject to the following regulations established for the pro- 
tfection of the public: 
1. Conductors in charge of automobiles must be skilled in 
the management of such vehicles. 
2. When horses become restive or frightened at the ap- 
proach of an automobile the conductor of same shall bring it to 
a full stop. 
3. Conductors of automobiles must not sound the gong or 
bell except at the intersection of drives. 
4. Conductors of automobiles must conform to the rules 
governing other vehicles in the Park including the restriction 
of speed to seven miles an hour. 
