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throughout on heavy enamel paper, and illustrated with half 
tones showing many views of California’s beautiful park 
scenery. It contains an account of the dedication of the 
Spreckels Temple of Music presented to Golden Gate Park 
by Claus Spreckels, and a summary of information about each 
of the city parks and squares, which, under the provisions of 
the new charter, are now under the care of the park commis- 
sioners. A complete catalog of the trees, shrubs and plants 
of Golden Gate Park, and in the conservatory and nurseries, 
is appended. The expenditures for the year 1902 were $311,- 
332.22, and the balance $14,528.50. 
The 21st annual report of the Board of Park Commissioners 
of Minneapolis for 1903 is up to its usual high standard of 
illustration, and contains reports of the president, superin- 
tendent, secretary and attorney showing the transactions of 
their respective departments for the year 1903. The deficit 
of $12,108.67, with which the board started the year, has been 
wiped out and a balance of $1,030.68 remains in the treasury. 
The total expenditure for the year was $176,247.50. The total 
appropriation was $189,386.85, and the largest items of ex- 
penditure were as follows : Maintenance, $79,299.05 ; improve- 
ments, $16,851.72; interest on bonds, $34,985; certificates of 
indebtedness, $44,374.84. A new pavilion was built at Lake 
Harriet to take the place of the one destroyed by fire, and 
a refectory was erected in Minnehaha Park at a cost of $8,500. 
The report has a beautiful photogravure illustration of Min- 
nehaha Falls on the cover, and two striking views in the 
body of the book showing the falls in 1863 and in 1893. 
The park commissioners of St. Paul, Minn., have issued 
a souvenir edition of the annual park report for 1903 that 
is a complete compendium of information about the parks of 
that city. The growth, area, and present condition of each 
of the parks is considered and a plan of each of the prin- 
cipal tracts given. A comparative table of the areas of the 
St. Paul and Minneapolis parks and parkways, included in the 
report, gives a total of 1,748 acres to Minneapolis, and 1,189 
acres to St. Paul ; the areas of the parks, proper, are given as 
1,072.1 for St. Paul, and 803 for Minneapolis. The total ex- 
penditures for the land acquired since the beginning of the 
system is $330,612.17, and for improvements and maintenance, 
$830,292.35. The proposed exterior zone of parks to be em- 
bodied in a metropolitan park system for the twin cities is dis- 
cussed in the address of President J. A. Wheelock, and a plan 
of the tract to be included is given. The idea is favored by the 
president, who believes, however, that the time is not yet ripe 
to put the movement under way. The report of Superintend- 
ent Nussbaumer tells of the building of a new pavilion in 
Phalen Park, a concrete and cobblestone bridge in Como Park. 
The River Boulevard, one of the finest features of the park 
scenery, was nearly completed, and 5,485 trees were trans- 
planted from the nursery to the parks. The total expendi- 
ture for the year was $80,236.22, including the following items : 
Maintenance, $33,001.56; improvements, $30,786.08; general 
expense, $15,922.76. The report contains many fine half-tone 
illustrations. 
The report of the Park Commissioners of Springfield, Mass., 
for 1903, shows total receipts of $31,739.37, and expenditures of 
$27,403.68. Some of the items of expenditure were : Main- 
tenance, $16,874.66; grading and turfing, $3,066.80; drives and 
walks, $3,020.27. The total area of the parks is now 502.36 
acres, of which 464.24 acres are in Forest Park. Several par- 
cels of land were secured for the extension of Court Square, 
and a bequest of $10,000 was given to the board by the late 
Tilly Haynes for further additions to this square. The 
aquatic gardens in Forest Park have been improved and new 
drives built about the ponds. A detailed statement of ex- 
penditures for each of the tracts is given, an inventory of 
park property, including the flora of Forest Park, the state laws 
relating to parks, and a topographical map of Forest Park. 
The annual report of D. D. England, superintendent of 
Parks of Winnipeg, Can., gives the total area of the parks of 
that city as 34.5 acres, with an estimated valuation of $166,- 
116.45. The largest of the tracts is St. John’s Park, 10.5 
acres, but arrangements have been made to acquire a new 
suburban park of 340 acres, to cost about $46,000. The expen- 
diture for maintenance of parks for 1903 was $6,315.14, and 
for boulevards, $13,450. The board was last year granted per- 
mission to spray trees for property owners, and 3,000 were 
sprayed for private citizens. New terraces were laid out on 
the river bank in Assiniboine Park, and considerable grading 
was accomplished in St. John's. During the last four years 
18,150 trees were purchased at a cost of $4,174.50, and of this 
number 14,128 are now growing, being a loss of 21 2-3 per 
cent. The average cost was 23 cents a tree. The City Council 
his issued a handsomely illustrated souvenir book of the city, 
which shows some good views of the parks. 
The Cable monument, illustrated here, stands in Chippia- 
nock Cemetery, Rock Island, 111., and is' worthy of note for 
its symmetry and dignity of mass as well as for the fact of 
its having a metallic pedestal, a characteristic form in many 
European monuments. The pedestal is of sheet bronze and 
CABLE MONUMENT, ROCK ISLAND, ILL. 
the figure, of standard bronze, was modeled by Paul de 
Vigne, of Brussels, Belgium. The figure typifying Grief is 
strongly conceived and expressively modeled, and is repre- 
sented as placing a palm branch upon the sarcophagus. The 
monument was erected by the Cable family, well known in 
Illinois politics. 
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The bill recently introduced in congress for the setting 
aside of 6.61 acres of land at Central City, Col., for the use 
