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PARK AND CEMETERY 
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The board of park commissioners of Tacoma, Wash., has 
submitted estimates for the cost and maintenance of city 
parks for 1904, from which to base estimates for the 1904 tax 
levy. The commissioners ask for $27,540 for the eight parks, 
of which amount Point Defiance will receive $15,500; Wright, 
$6,100; Lincoln, $2,290; McKinley, $2,290; Ferry, $250; South 
Second, $60; Norton Memorial, $50; Puget Park, $1,000, 
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The Wisconsin interstate park commission, which, with a 
similar commission from Minnesota, will establish an inter- 
state park near St. Croix Falls, on both sides of the Missis- 
sippi, was recently appointed by Governor La Follette, the 
members being I. Seery and Henry D. Barker, of St. Croix 
Falls, and Phil H. Perkins, Superior. 
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The park board of Minneapolis is making plans for con- 
tinuing the practice of planting trees along the streets through- 
out the city. Over forty miles of trees have been put dowm 
since the law providing for this was enacted in 1889. The 
board charges $5 apiece for planting the trees and caring for 
them for three years. 
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At a recent meeting of the Iowa State Municipal Park 
Association, at Des Moines, resolutions were adopted urging 
the purchase by the state Legislature of from 1,000 to 5,000 
acres of land bordering one of the northern Iowa lakes for 
a state park. The matter has been referred to the legislative 
committee, composed of A. C. Graham of Council Bluffs, W. 
M. Krebs of Cedar Rapids and W. B. Keffer of Des Moines. 
The association also recommended the erection by Legislative 
appropriation of a monument to Iowa’s war governor, Samuel 
J. Kirkwood, for which the Park Board of Des Moines has 
offered a site. * * * 
London now possesses 313 parks and open spaces, which 
have cost about $10,995,000. This gives a proportion of one 
acre to 752 of the population, which now numbers rather 
more than four and a half millions. Twenty years ago the 
parks afforded one acre to 951 of the population and had 
cost about $4,100,000. ^ * 
The park board of Chattanooga, Tenn., has asked for an 
appropriation of $9,900 for the coming fiscal year beginning 
October 1. For the past year the appropriation was $5,000, 
when there was only one park under the control of the com- 
mission. Two new parks have been established this year. 
Of the sum asked, $3,000 is to be devoted to planting trees 
and grass in Houston Park. The commission also has control 
of the street trees and is to give particular attention to their 
care. The board has ordered two sprayers for the protection 
of the soft maples against the San Jose scale. 
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A preliminary report is soon to be made by the Charles 
River Basin Commission for the improvement of the Back 
Bay district of Boston, which is to be developed as a great 
water park. A dam is to be built at or near the present 
Craigie Bridge to maintain a permanent level of high water. 
The dam will be about 100 feet wide and will be crossed by 
a driveway. It will cost about $1,500,000. The banks of the 
Charles up through Watertown, Waltham, Newton and Need- 
ham to "Dedham have been taken for the public by the 
Metropolitan Park Commission. When the system is com- 
plete there will be boating up the river for 15 miles. 
AMONG THE LANDSCAPE GARDENERS. 
Superintendent R. H. Warder, of Lincoln Park, Chicago, 
and O. C. Simonds as consulting landscape gardener, have 
prepared plans for the new addition of 236 acres to Lincoln 
Park. The tract will be given up largely to open meadows 
and playgrounds, as the commissioners believe that Lincoln 
Park is the most congested park in town. A prominent 
feature will be a forty-acre yacht harbor stretching from 
Fullerton avenue to Diversey boulevard, to be used as a refuge 
for small craft. Two artificial islands will protect this sheet 
of water from the gales that blow from the northeast. One 
of the islands is to have a pavilion and the other will be 
made into shaded picnic grounds. A lagoon will contain 
small wooded isles. The funds for this improvement were 
provided for by the last legislature, which authorized the 
park board to issue $1,000,000 bonds, and the work is about 
to be commenced. 
H. A. Dubois, of Peoria, has outlined a plan for the im- 
provement of the river front in that city. The plan involves 
the building of a curb and a wall, grading, and planting of 
trees. 
John Thorpe, of Chicago, designed and carried out the 
improvements in Central Park, Winona, Minn. The work 
was designed to make an artistic natural setting for the 
handsome fountain presented to the park commissioners by 
Mr. W. J. Landon and erected about a year ago. The 
fountain was modeled by Isabel Moore Kimball, of New 
York, and represents Weenonah, an Indian maiden, after 
whom the city was named. It was illustrated in Park and 
Cemetery and Landscape Gardening. Bluffside Park, a tract 
of 120 acres recently opened, is proving very popular. 
IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. 
An electric fountain to cost $2,000 is to be erected in Penn 
Park, York, Pa., as a gift of J. T. Kopp. * * The Park 
Board of New York City has advertised for bids for con- 
structing an entrance to Bronx Park. * * A new pavilion 
is to be built in O’Fallon Park, St. Louis, at a cost of $2,500. 
* * The Park Board of Springfield, 111 ., has decided to 
make an appropriation of $7,500 for the purchase of park 
sites and improvement of existing parks. One of the im- 
provements .planned is a casino to cost $15,000 to be erected 
in Washington Park. 
NEW PARKS. 
Citizens of Plainwell, Mich., are raising a fund of $2,000 
for the establishing of a public park. The fund already 
amounts to $1,500. * * Citizens of Grand Rapids, Mich., 
are urging the City Council to purchase a ten-acre tract in 
the north end of that city for a public park. * * A hundred- 
acre tract embracing the prehistoric mounds near Anderson, 
Ind., has been offered to the state as a park on condition 
that the interurban railway extension to Middletown be 
changed to pass the mounds. Henry Bronnenburg, adminis- 
trator of the Bronnenburg estate, which owns the mounds, 
has made the offer to the state. * * Adrian Iselin, the well- 
known yachtsman, has presented to the city of New Rochelle, 
N. Y., Neptune Park, which under his direction has been for 
three years in process of improvement. The property is val- 
ued at more than $100,000, and the only condition attached to 
the donation is that no liquor shall be sold in the park. * * 
General William Palmer is planning to improve a 500-acre 
tract in Monument Valley near Colorado Springs as a public 
park. The surveys call for 'a complex system Of walks and 
bridle paths, but there are to be no driveways. 
