PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Olmsted Bros., Landscape Architects. ^ ' Longfellow , Architect. 
CHARLES ELIOT MEMORIAL, METROPOLITAN PARK SYSTEM, BOSTON, MASS. 
The illustration on this page shows a view of Great Blue 
Hill in the Boston Metropolitan Park System, with the pro- 
posed Charles Eliot Memorial Bridge in the foreground. 
Charles Eliot was the father of the Metropolitan Park Sys- 
tem, and the Park Board is to construct a “Charles Eliot 
Path,” encircling the summit of Great Blue Hill, and com- 
manding the best views in that locality. Where the path 
crosses a little ravine overlooking the Blue Hills Reservation, 
this bridge, bearing a bronze memorial tablet, is to be built 
by popular contributions. A fund of $3,000 is now being 
raised for the purpose. Chas. S. Rackemann, 23 Court St., 
Boston, is treasurer of the committee in charge of the work. 
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The South Park Board of Chicago is making extensive 
preparations for the expenditure of the $3,000,000 bond issue, 
recently authorized by the Legislature and approved by popu- 
lar vote. The plans contemplate the following improvements : 
$1,300,000 for Grant Park on the lake front; $500,000 for two 
forty-acre parks in South Chicago; $1,000,000 in Town of 
Lake for two forty-acre parks and one large park. The work 
is planned for completion in two years. The bond issue of 
$1,000,000 granted to Lincoln Park will be used for building 
a lake shore drive and making other improvements necessi- 
tated by the drive. 
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AMONG THE LANDSCAPE GARDENERS, 
Olmsted Brothers have been commissioned to plan the 
improvements for the site of the new Field Columbian Mu- 
seum, which Marshall Field is to erect in Grant Park, Chi- 
cago, at a cost of $5,000,000. The South Park Commissioners 
have formally offered to Mr. Field a site for the building, 
and the work of improving Grant Park, which is being filled 
in along the lake front, is to be hastened by means of the 
$3,000,000 bond issue for the South Parks which was recently 
approved at the polls. This park, when complete, will in- 
clude 205 acres, and will extend from Randolph street to 
Park Row, and extend into Lake Michigan fifteen hundred 
feet beyond the present shore line. 
City Engineer Case, of Colorado Springs, Col., is making 
plans for the improvement of Dorchester Park in that city. 
The improvements include the construction of two main en- 
trances, retaining walls along Monument Creek, and the lay- 
ing out of walks and drives. The planting will be carried out 
under the direction of the El Paso County Horticultural 
Society. The park contains about seven acres. 
Warren H. Manning has submitted plans to the Park Board 
of Milwaukee, Wis., for a lake shore drive. Another im- 
provement planned by the Board is the construction of a 
basin for aquatic plants, 360 by 85 feet, to be built in Mitchell 
Park. 
Frederick G. Todd, of Montreal, Que., has been selected to 
prepare plans and assist in drawing up reports for the future 
improvement of Ottawa as the Canadian capital. The Com- 
mission recently appointed by the Dominion government to 
prepare a report on this work intends to acquire large areas 
of land for park purposes both inside and outside of the pres- 
ent city limits, and to lay out a connecting system of boule- 
vards. The magnificent situation of the Parliament build- 
ings and the fact that the government owns a large part of 
the rugged and picturesque shores of the Rideau River, which 
runs through the city, makes possible a beautiful scheme. 
Mr. Todd has recently made plans and submitted a report 
for the improvement of the grounds of Trinity College, To- 
ronto, which embodies some interesting landscape problems. 
We have received a copy of the report. 
Heyl Brothers, Cincinnati, O., have recently been engaged 
on important landscape and engineering work for the fol- 
lowing cemeteries of that city: German Protestant Evan- 
gelical ; St. Joseph’s ; St. Mary’s German Catholic, and the 
Cathedral Cemetery. 
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NEW PARKS. 
The town of Benton Harbor, Mich., has voted to appro- 
priate $50,000 for the purchase of a new park about five 
acres in extent. * * * A ten-acre tract of land is to 
be laid out as a park at Lake Park, la. * * * The Chi- 
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway has presented to the 
town of Evanston, 111 ., a tract of land lying along its right 
of way, comprising about three acres. * * * An ordi- 
nance has been introduced into the City Council of Pueblo, 
Col., providing for the purchase of 157 acres of land known 
as Carlisle Park, to be converted into a city park. The ordi- 
nance contemplates a bond issue of $165,000 for the purchase 
of the land, which is to be submitted to public vote. * * * 
McKinley Park, a recent addition to the South Side park sys- 
tem of Chicago, was recently opened. It embraces 35 acres. 
* * * Citizens of Maywood, 111 ., are to present to that 
town a public park, a tract of land known as Maplewood 
Park. * * * Jacob Cronback is to present to the town 
of Mount Vernon, Ind., a 29-acre tract for a public park. 
