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Santa Barbara, Cal., has begun condemnation proceedings 
to acquire land along the river front for a public park. When 
this tract is obtained, the city will have possession of the en- 
tire eastern water front. 
A movement is on foot in Bristol, N. H., to organize a Park 
Association to acquire the Coolidge farm, near that city, for a 
public park. The tract includes about 20 acres. 
S. W. Nichols has donated $10,000 to the town of Jack- 
sonville, 111., to establish and maintain a public park. 
AMONG THE LANDSCAPE GARDENERS, 
The Park Board of Minneapolis is considering the acquir- 
ing and parking of a 51-acre tract which is now vacant land 
and unsightly city property. Thomas Lowry has offered to 
donate and improve six blocks of the tract on condition that 
the rest of it be obtained by the park board. Warren H. 
Manning, of Boston, has prepared plans for the improvement. 
The land and improvements, it is estimated, will cost about 
$70,000. 
J. Wesson Phelps, of Hartford, Conn., is in charge of the 
extensive landscape improvements now being made at Oak 
Hill Cemetery, Southington, Conn., under the direction of G. 
A. Parker, of Hartford. The entrance will be brought nearer 
the street, and the approach will be by a reverse curve instead 
of a straight drive up the hill as at present. The grade of 
the west drive will also be lowered, and other improvements 
made. It is expected that it will take two seasons to complete 
the work. 
The City Improvement Association of Boulder, Colo., has 
employed W. W. Parce of Denver, to make plans for im- 
provement of the Chautauqua grounds. The contract calls 
for general outlines, special grading and planting plans com- 
plete, and contemplates extensive improvements of the 
grounds. 
Messrs. Harlan P. Kelsey and Irving T. Guild, of Boston, 
have entered into partnership for the practice of landscape 
architecture, with offices at 6 Beacon street. Mr. Kelsey has 
had long experience in arranging and planting estates and 
parks and in growing of plants. Mr. Guild is an architect, 
formerly of the architectural publishing house of Bates & 
Guild, and formerly editor of the Architectural Review. 
Mr. Herbert J. Kellaway, with the firm of Olmsted Broth- 
ers, contributed an interesting article on Revere Beach Reser- 
vation of the Metropolitan Park System of Boston, to the 
Engineering Record of Oct. 24, 1903. It is a complete his- 
torical and descriptive account of this park, and is illus- 
trated with a number of suggestive views showing some of 
the improvements accomplished. 
Cemetery Notes. 
Cemetery shares are said to be quite a market feature in 
Scotland and are actively dealt in on the Edinburgh Stock 
Exchange. 
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An agreement has been reached between the undertakers, 
liverymen and cemetery officials in Leadville, Col., whereby 
Sunday funerals will be abolished, says The Sunnyside. 
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A new map of Scott County, Iowa, now being prepared, 
shows 29 cemeteries located in the county. There are six in 
Davenport and Davenport township, and six in Hickory Grove 
township. 
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Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo., has advanced its 
rates for Sunday interments for the purpose of discouraging 
Sunday funerals. The former charges were : Adults, $5 ; 
children, $3, the same rates for week days and Sundays. The 
new rates are : Adults, $7 ; children, $5 ; Sundays, adults, 
$10; children, $7. 
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The Union Railway Belt Line, Memphis, Tenn., has under 
consideration a plan to extend its tracks into each of the 
four city cemeteries, so that funeral trains may be operated 
from the depots or any railroad crossings to the cemeteries. 
It is proposed to charge $25 for a funeral train, consisting of 
engine and one coach, and $10 for each additional coach. 
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Oak Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, Mass., has acquired six 
acres of adjoining territory and has employed a landscape 
gardener to improve it to conform to the rest of the tract. 
Avenues and driveways are being built, and a comprehensive 
scheme of drainage is under construction. A portion of the 
work will be finished this autumn. 
Graceland Cemetery, Albany, N. Y., is now showing sub- 
stantial results from the improvement work which has been 
in progress for the past two years. It is laid out on the 
park plan, and grave mounds higher than two inches are not 
allowed. An attractive entrance gate has been erected, and 
a granite mortuary chapel of gothic architecture is under 
construction. 
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Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, suffered damages amounting 
to about $50,000 from a fire November 8. The blaze started 
in the barns, and spread rapidly to the adjoining hay sheds, 
and finally to the trees and shrubbery, covering a tract of 
about four square blocks. The firemen were unused to fight- 
ing forest fires and had much difficulty in getting it under 
control. Forty horses, which had escaped from the barns, and 
the squirrels, gophers, and other small animals from the for- 
est added to the confusion. Two frame buildings, three green- 
houses, twenty wagons and many tons of hay were destroyed, 
while the large growth of shrubbery and trees was almost 
consumed. 
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Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn., will soon add 40 
acres to its territory, making the total area 237 acres. At a 
recent meeting of the association measures were discussed 
for the more rigid censorship of monuments, and for the best 
method of investing the permanent improvement fund, which 
includes 20 per cent of the receipts as provided by the state 
law. Mr. Charles M. Loring, Treasurer of the Association, is 
quoted as follows in one of the local papers : “We desire to 
make Lakewood cemetery the park cemetery of the United 
States. We are working hard towards this end, and doing 
it as economically as possible. There is not a single salaried 
official, excepting those directly connected with the grounds, 
and the trustees receive no pay. The cemetery is not con- 
ducted for profit. At the last two meetings of the associa- 
tion of cemetery superintendents we were complimented on 
having the most beautiful and well kept grounds in the coun- 
try.” 
NEW CEMETERIES, IMPROVEMENTS AND 
ADDITIONS, 
A new stone chapel was recently dedicated at Calvary Cem- 
etery, Dayton, Ohio. 
Stromsburg Cemetery, Stromsburg, Neb., was recently pre- 
sented with new iron entrance gates by the Stromsburg Wom- 
en’s Club. 
Among the improvements made at Mount Mora Cemetery, 
St. Joseph, Mo., were the erection of a new iron fence and 
