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Dock Department the power to lay out a public park and 
playground on avenue C and Seventeenth street on the East 
River front. * * The mayor of Rochester, N. Y., has rec- 
ommended that the Warner property, recently bid in by the 
city on a tax foreclosure sale, be turned over to the Park 
Commission to be made part of the public park system. The 
property embraces about thirty-six acres of land between 
Mount Hope and South avenues. It was bid in by the city 
for $17,150. * * The city government of St. Thomas, Ont., 
has voted to purchase Pinafore Park at an expense of $8,000. 
* * A bill has been introduced into the legislature of Penn- 
sylvania to enable the city of Philadelphia to take the old 
Lower Dublin Poorhouse and grounds near Holmesburg for 
a public park. * * Ex-Mayor B. H. Lien, of Sioux Falls, 
S. D., has presented that city with a tract of ten acres for a 
public park. * =k * 
NEW PARK RULES. 
The Park Board of New York City has submitted to the 
Board of Aldermen for approval a code of ordinances, rules 
and regulations for the government and protection of the pub- 
lic parks in all boroughs of that city. Among them are the 
following rules governing statuary and works of art : 
1. No statue, bust, memorial or memorial building of any 
description shall be erected in any of the public parks, park- 
ways, squares or places of the City of New York in any part 
of a park without the consent of the commissioner having 
jurisdiction. 
2. No existing natural scenery, no rock, woodland, lawn 
or existing drive shall be destroyed or altered in order to ac- 
commodate any statuary or memorial, and such statuary or 
memorial shall be secondary in importance to the natural 
features which must prevail in a park. 
3. Statuary, buildings or other structures of whatever char- 
acter, shall be considered : 
First — As objects of art. 
Second — In their relation to the landscape. 
No such statuary, building or structure, even if in itself 
satisfactory as a work of art, shall be accepted unless it will 
help to heighten or effect the beauty of the landscape, and un- 
less a satisfactory and appropriate site shall be found in con- 
formity with previous rules. 
4. Buildings required for the comfort of the public or for 
administrative purposes shall be excepted from the above re- 
strictions, but such buildings shall be made as unobtrusive as 
their purpose will admit, and must be of the most moderate 
size and shall be screened from view as much as possible. 
5. The pedestal of any statue or bust placed in any of the 
public parks, parkways, squares or places of the City of New 
York, within the jurisdiction of the department, shall not ex- 
ceed two-thirds of the height of the statue proper, nor shall 
the base occupy more area than is necessary in order to pre- 
serve the proper proportions of the pedestal and statue. 
6. Statuary and structures already in the public parks, 
parkways, squares and places, if not placed in conformity with 
the previous rules, may, if condemned by the Art Commission, 
be removed by the commissioner of parks having jurisdiction. 
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AMONG THE LANDSCAPE GARDENERS, 
Samuel Parsons, Jr., of New York City, who was recently 
employed by the city of St. Louis to estimate the probable 
cost of restoring Forest Park after the World’s Fair of 1904, 
has made his report to the Board of Public Improvements, 
and estimates that it would require at least $650,000 to put 
the park in presentable condition. More than $1,000,000 would 
be needed to restore the grass and trees on the site and to 
put the River des Peres back into its old channel. Mr. Par- 
sons further stated that it would not be possible to restore the 
park to its former beauty, and severely criticized the destruc- 
tion of the trees. 
Warren IT. Manning, of Boston, has been engaged as ad- 
visory superintendent to the Park Board of Milwaukee, Wis., 
for a period of two years. He will shortly submit plans to the 
board for the improvement of Washington and Kosciusko 
parks. The lake in Kosciusko park will be enlarged and ; 
playground for children arranged. A larger lake and more 
extensive animal gardens will be provided for Washington 
park. 
0. C. Simonds, of Chicago, has been engaged to prepare 
plans for the beautifying of Comstock Park, the property of 
the West Michigan State Fair Association at Grand Rapids, 
Mich. The improvements will extend over a number of years 
and will cost about $50,000. 
E. R. Roberts, landscape gardener, of Tacoma, Wash., 
writes that that city has presented to Bronx Park, New York, 
a pair of Olympic elks, born and raised in Point Defiance 
Park. Tacoma recently received a donation of 150 acres of 
land, making the total park area over 1,000 acres. Mr. Rob- 
erts writes also that he is engaged in pushing the movement 
for the establishment of a national arboretum and botanical 
garden near Tacoma. 
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CREMATION NOTES, 
1 lie Monument Park Cemetery Association has been incor- 
porated for the purpose of operating a crematory and a ceme- 
tery in Monument Park, El Paso County, Col., six miles 
north of Colorado Springs. 
Fairmount Cemetery Association, Denver, Colo., will soon 
let the contract for the erection of a crematory. The retort 
will be of fire clay made in one piece and heated by petroleum. 
1 he structure will include a reception room and columbarium 
and cost about $12,000. 
Rules of Forest Home Crematory , cMilivaukee. 
1. Cremations, as well as the delivery and disposal of the 
ashes, shall take place under the direction of the Superintend- 
ent of the Cemetery. 
2. Orders for cremations are granted only at the office of 
the Secretary of the Cemetery and persons applying for such 
orders must present an application made and properly signed 
and witnessed on a blank prepared for that purpose, and must 
also produce the permit of the Board of Health of the City of 
Milwaukee. The Secretary's order for incineration, together 
with the Board of Health permit, must be presented to the 
Superintendent. Unless these conditions are complied with, 
the incineration will not be allowed to take place. 
3. The cost of incineration, including a plain, metallic re- 
ceptacle for the ashes and the use of the Chapel, if desired, 
is twenty-five dollars ($25.00), which must be paid when the 
order is issued. 
4. Incinerations are made every day except Sunday, and 
one hour’s notice is sufficient for preparation ; but to avoid 
disappointment and possible confusion the application should 
be made at least twenty-four hours in advance of the time 
desired for the incineration. 
5. The casket, clothing and preparation of the body may be 
the same as for earth burial. The body is always incinerated 
in the casket as received (only the glass, handles and metal 
trimmings being removed) unless otherwise directed by the 
family of the deceased or their representative, or when a 
metallic casket is used other than zinc, in which case the 
remains are removed and wrapped in a winding sheet. 
6. All caskets, or parts thereof, handles, glass and trim- 
mings, not incinerated with the body, are immediately de- 
