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PARK AND CEMETERY 
FROM THE ANNUAL REPORTS. 
The park board of Omaha, Neb., issues the following state- 
ment of expenditures for the different parks for 1904 : Hans- 
com Park, $6,097.31 ; Riverview, $10,899.21 ; Elmwood, $1,- 
826.29; Miller, $1,387.97; Kountze, $789.90; Curtiss Turner, 
$665.72; Fontenelle, $860.19; Bemis, $596.53; Jefferson Square 
and Capitol Avenue, $349.60 ; Florence Boulevard, $5,753-75 ; 
South Central Boulevard, $1,765.68; West Central Boulevard, 
$16,874.75 i Southeast Boulevard, $15,860.67. In addition to 
the above given items the general supplies come from two 
funds, the park and the road fund. Receipts of the park fund 
to Dec. 1 amount to $34,326.78 and of the road fund to $45,- 
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The park commissioners of Attleboro, Mass., report the 
expenditure of $2,000 on Capron Park in 1904. Among the 
improvements noted are the planting of 238 trees, and the 
clearing of 10 acres of territory. An appropriation of $500 
for a public fountain is asked from the town. 
A joint report of the five borough presidents in New York 
City recommending the purchase of land for more than a 
score of new parks, to cost $13,000,000, has been presented to 
the Board of Estimates. Nine millions of the amount asked 
was requested by President Ahearn for Manhattan. The 
largest project was for a park to connect Morningside and 
Riverside Parks, from 121st to 123d street. This land is esti- 
mated to be worth $5,000,000. The two blocks bounded by 
West Fortieth street, West Forty-second street, Eleventh and 
Twelfth avenues is another park site proposed. Its value 
is estimated at $2,432,425. A small park at Convent avenue, 
between West I42d and West 143d streets; one at 166th street, 
Nicholas avenue, and Broadw'ay, and one each at the East 
Tenth street and West Forty-second street ferries, are also 
recommended. 
The annual report of the City Parks Association of Phila- 
delphia for 1904 urges that the administration submit to the 
people’s vote a loan of at least $5,000,000, the amount with 
which Boston began to increase its system. The principal 
acquisition during the past year was the addition to Hunting 
Park of 40 acres of land. Also an effort which seems likely 
to prove successful has been made to save the 40 acres of 
magnificent forest trees in Sherwood Park, threatened by 
the opening of new streets. A part of the present munici- 
pal hospital lands have been set aside for park purposes, giv- 
ing an opportunity for the creation of a fine civic center, 
which is at present Philadelphia’s great lack. The most 
notable progress has been made in the creation of park ap- 
proaches, $2,000,000 for the Fairmount Park parkway having 
been included in the loan bill passed last year. As projected, 
the parkway extends in a direct line from the city hall to 
Fairmount reservoir, a distance of approximately one and a 
quarter miles. Upon the completion of the filtration system 
it is proposed to abandon the reservoir and erect upon the site 
a museum of art. The width of the parkway from the city 
hall to Logan Square is 160 feet, with ample space provided 
at the city hall end for an imposing entrance and plaza ; from 
Logan Square to Twenty-second street the width is 300 feet; 
at Twenty-second street the width is about 560 feet, gradually 
increasing to Twenty-fourth street, from which point to the 
park its northern boundary is Fairmount avenue, and its 
southern boundary Callowhill street. 
The annual report of the park board of New Haven, Conn., 
shows an income for the year of $27,252.11, and the expen- 
ditures leave a balance on hand of $1,258.04. Superintendent 
Gustave X. Arnrhyn reports that important changes have been 
made in Bay View Park through the grading, seeding and sod- 
ding of the slopes adjoining the basin. This was afterward 
ornamented in some places by planting of shrubbery and made 
accessible by a winding cinder path built within a short dis- 
tance of the lake. A drinking fountain sheltered by a large 
weeping willow has also been erected here. In Waterside 
Park all the area of filled ground which could possibly be 
brought to an established grade last summer has been turned 
over to the young people for the enjoyment of baseball and 
football. The nursery has given gratifying results, the stock 
being in the very best condition and free from disease. About 
7,000 plants were taken out for planting on the various parks. 
The report of the commissioners of Tower Grove Park, St. 
Louis, for 1904, records a successful season of work. The 
north drive was completed at a cost of $6,300, and other 
drives damaged by the heavy rains repaired. The hail accom- 
panying these storms also wrought considerable damage to 
the water lilies and the trees and shrubs. The aquatic gar- 
dening was as usual one of the most interesting features 
of the park. The superintendent reports that the number of 
trees lost during the past season was much smaller than 
usual, and that the depredations of insect pests have materially 
lessened. The total receipts for the year amounted to $31,- 
040.46, and the expenditures to $25,008.56. Some of the items 
of expenditure were: Labor, $16,204; salaries, $1,400; concert 
music, $1,742; gravel and macadam, $1,242; weed killing chem- 
icals, $234. 
To Cemetery Officials in the State of Michigan. 
Believing that it will be to the interest of all cemeteries in 
this state to follow the example of several other states and 
organize a “State Association” for mutual benefit, the under- 
signed would be pleased to receive expressions from all those 
interested in such a movement by letter. 
In responding please express your preference as to location 
and time for a first meeting, also give the name of your ceme- 
tery, the city or town and the name of the official who would 
likely attend this first meeting with his postoffice address. 
Further movements and developments in this matter will 
greatly depend upon the number of answers to this call and 
the encouragement to organize received. 
A cordial invitation to respond without delay is hereby ex- 
tended to all cemetery superintendents and other officials in 
the state of Michigan. Please address 
Frank Eurich, 
Supt. Woodlawn Cemetery, 604 Union Trust Bldg., Detroit. 
Mich. 
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Membership of the A. A. C. S. 
Editor Park and Cemetery: — The correspondence which 
has recently appeared in your esteemed journal has been in- 
teresting and as one of the oldest members I cannot help but 
feel that the members are themselves mostly to blame. We 
go to the meetings and while there we are full of interest. We 
return home and forget all about the Association until we 
get reminders in the columns of Park and Cemetery, and 
then look out for the secretary’s circular. At nearly all the 
conventions it has been the executives who have been the cause 
oi new membership. Rarely, very rarely, do we individually 
bring along a new man. If we only followed your advice, 
dear editor, and each introduced a new member, what gath- 
erings we should have. The executives have quite enough to 
do to make the meetings successful without having to drum 
up new members. But if they did not the numbers on the 
roll would fall off. 
