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of the interstate park, the other half of which lies in Min- 
nesota, just across the river, and has already been acquired 
by that state. The Wisconsin commission expects to turn 
the park over to the state before the legislature of 1901 
convenes. 
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The entire park system of Cleveland, Ohio, is scheduled 
to be completed one year from the coming fall, when ah 
the work authorized by law will have been completed. There 
is $800,000 left of the money realized from the last sale 0: 
park bonds, and contracts for $750,000 of this amount are 
now being carried out. There is a strong sentiment in 
Cleveland for the continuance of the work, and it is said that 
a bill appropriating $1,000,000 for Cleveland parks will Ire 
introduced in the next legislature. The last legislature 
passed a bill appropriating that amount, but Mayor Farley 
questioned the legal standing of the park board, and refused 
to sign the bonds. 
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As a preliminary step toward the extension and develop- 
ment of the park system of Washington, D. C., the Park 
Commission has had prepared a map of the District, de- 
signed to show the ownership of all the land, with a view to 
finding out just what property is owned by the District, 
and what by the United States government. The commis- 
sion has under consideration a scheme for the improvement 
of the Mall, which involves the construction of a vista or 
stretch of greensward 350 feet wide from the capitol to the 
monument. 
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Peterson Park, near Mattoon, Ilk, which was bequeathed 
to the cities of Mattoon, Newton and Charleston by the late 
Judge Abner Peterson, has been sold for $15,000. The 
money will be divided equally among the three towns, and 
will be used to establish parks bearing the donor's name. 
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At the meeting of the Board of Park Commissioners of 
Peoria, Ilk, the annual appropriation bill, amounting to 
$121,251.42, was passed. The appropriation was divided as 
follows: For improving and maintaining parks, $89,951.42; 
for salaries, $4,000; for legal expenses, $100; for election ex- 
penses, $1,200; for tools, machinery and repairs, $1,500; for 
water and light, $5,000; for office and incidental expense.s, 
$1,000; for interest on district obligations, $8,500; for sink- 
ing fund, $10,000. An ordinance providing for the issuance 
of $50,000 in bonds at per cent, for 20 years, interest 
payable semi-annually, was passed, and the bonds were sold 
to MacDonald, McCoy, & Co., of Chicago, for $50,050. The 
board allowed bills amounting to $55,328. 
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The forty-first annual report of the Park Board of Balti- 
more, Md., shows the following facts: Expenditures for the 
year on the various park sections were as follows: Druid 
Hill Park section, $94,802.79; Clifton Park section, $44.- 
360.78; Carroll Park section, $41,179.53; Patterson Park 
section, $44,526.28; Riverside Park section, $9,864.29; inter- 
est, $35,737.50; sinking fund. $17,777.18; general office, $8,- 
346.29. The receipts of the board during the year were 
$296,594.73, of which $285,410.38 was paid by the United 
Railways and Electric Co. A saving of $5,800 in office ex- 
penses was effected, and the following improvements made; 
Construction of 2,200 feet of path on the lake drive in Druivl 
Hill Park, and planting of along the western boundary of 
that park; construction of roads and a playground for 
Clifton Park; repairing of conservatory and laying out an 
athletic field in Patterson Park, besides many smaller im- 
provements in all the parks and squares. 
Cemetery Notes. 
Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn., has passed new rules 
providing that no interments shall be made on Sunday ex- 
cept in case of necessity or contagious disease. Concern- 
ing grave markers they provide that one marker, not ex- 
ceeding twelve by twenty-four inches in size and four inches 
in height, may be set at each single grave. No double 
grave markers will be allowed. 
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The annual report of the treasurer of Lake View Ceme- 
tery, Cleveland, O., shows the following state of finances: 
Cash on hand of receipts over disbursements, $1,470.34, ..is 
against $126.96 last year; total assets, $1,190,302.70, an ex- 
cess of $564,012.30 over the liabilities; operating expenses 
with interest on funded debt, $33,257.29; gross earnings and 
receipts from sale of lots, $40,778.62. 
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A company of capitalists of Freeport, Ilk, have bought 
108 acres of land near there and propose to form a stock 
company and develop it into a modern cemetery. The price 
paid was $6,000. The land is wooded and rolling and readily 
adaptable to cemetery uses. 
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The Buffalo Park Burial Association, Tonawanda, N. Y., 
has asked for a permit to convert 170 acres of land, known 
as the old Lewis farm, into a cemetery. Some opposition 
has been met with on the part of citizens of Tonawanda, and 
the Board of Supervisors will give the matter a public 
hearing. The association has promised to make $30,000 
worth of improvements during the first year if the county 
grants them permission to establish the cemetery. 
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Two new Catholic cemeteries are reported this month. 
The St. Nicholas Croatian Roman Catholic Church, East 
Ohio Street, Allegheny, Pa., has purchased 135/2 acres of 
ground in Reserve township for the sum of $10,750. The 
property will be cleared at once and the cemetery conse- 
crated in about a month. The cemetery is to serve as a rest- 
ing place for all the Croatians, many of whom are buried in 
other parts of the state. A new Catholic burial ground, 
known as St. Patrick’s cemetery, has been dedicated at 
Montville, Conn. It contains about 400 lots. Dedicatory 
exercises were conducted in both the French and English 
languages. 
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Riverside Cemetery, Dowagiac, Mich., has completed 
some important improvements during the year, some of 
which are; Establishing a system of water-works, consist- 
ing of a gasoline engine, pump, and 5,000 feet of water 
pipe; building of two fountains; sodding and grading of the 
grounds, etc. The board has adopted a new rule requiring 
foundations for monuments to be made of stone and cement 
to be not less than five feet deep. The perpetual care fund 
is also having an encouraging growth. 
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The Haynes memorial gateway to the ancient burying 
ground of Center Church, Hartford, Ct., has been com- 
pleted. It is 13 feet wide, and is flanked by two pillars of 
colonial pattern, 18 feet high, surmounted by colonial urns. 
They are of rough red brick with pediments, and stand on a 
coping of limestone. The urns are modeled after the one 
on the Roger Newberry .mounment in the old cemetery .at 
Windsor. The gate is of wrought iron grill work, mount- 
ed on iron posts of ornate pattern, which are surmounted 
