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PARK AND CEMETERY 
ParK Notes 
Mr. Warren H. Manning, Boston, has been retained by the 
executive committee of the Harrisburg, Pa., Board of Trade 
to prepare a plan for a system of parks for that city. 
* * * 
At the recent state convention of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution at Harrisburg, Pa., a com'mittee was 
appointed to urge the acquisition of Valley Forge as a national 
or state park. It was estimated that the land could be acquiree 
for $2,000. Definite plans have not been made. 
* * * 
The bequest of $13,000 left to tbe Park Commission of Phil- 
adelphia by the late Henry M. Phillips for the construction 
of a memorial fountain in one of the parks has been invested 
for the present, and the Committee on Plans and Improvement 
is arranging for plans and sites. The Philadelphia Fountain 
Society has asked for a site on which to construct a fountain 
to cost $5,000. 
* * * 
The Commission for the Improvement of the park system 
of Washington, D. C., will exhibit plans, drawin,sts and models 
embodying its ideas for the contemplated park system at tht 
Corcoran Art Gallery in that city during the months of Jan- 
uary and February, 1902. This will be the first public view ol 
the commission’s plans for beautifying the national capital. 
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The work of transforming Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo., 
into the site for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1903 
has begun, and workmen are now engaged in cutting down 
trees preparatory to the process of grading. The water from 
Forest Park Lake has been piped into the River des Peres, 
and the lake site will be used for one of the largest buildings 
of the Fair. The park contains 668 acres. 
* * * 
At the last session of the Connecticut Legislature an appro- 
priation of $2,000 was made for a state park to be used as a 
forest reserve for the purpose of illustrating the proper plant- 
ing and care of forest trees. Mr. Walter Mulford, of the 
Agricultural Station at New Haven, Conn., has been ap- 
pointed state forester to take charge of the work, and is now 
examining prospective sites for the park. Artificial planting 
of valuable timber trees will be one of the features of the 
work in the endeavor to determine the most rapid and profit- 
able growth possible. 
* * * 
Four towns of South Dakota — Deadwood, Central City, 
Lead and Terraville — are planning to establish a joint pub- 
lic park on a site about equally distant from all of them. The 
location proposed is McGovern Hill, a tract of about 75 
acres, now owned by private parties, who have expressed a 
willingness to donate it for park purposes. It is on the line 
of the survey for the extension of the Elkhorn Railway from 
Lead to Deadwood, and when it becomes park property the 
company will build a station on the grounds. 
* * * 
The secretary of the Park Board of Baltimore, Md., has, 
by direction of the Board of Estimates, prepared an estimate 
for a reduced appropriation for next year in order to make 
up for the deficit of $34,000 with which the board will close 
this year. The City Comptroller will require front the board 
next year a monthly statement of all its financial transactions, 
so as to avoid further deficits. The estimate for next year 
is as follows: Office salaries, $3,024.00; office expenses, 
$1,447.00; parks and squares salaries, $164,862.48; expenses, 
$154,316.52. The receipts for this year up to October 18 
amounted to $309,099.20, and expenditures for the same pe- 
riod. $288,962.28. 
* * * 
Additions and improvements to parks are reported as fol- 
lows : The heirs of the late Col. W. S. King, of Minneapo- 
lis, Minn., have deeded to that city forty acres of land to be 
added to Lyndale Park in consideration of $5,000. * * The 
Board of County Commissioners, St. Paul, Minn., has decided 
to accept the offer of 50 acres of land at Lake Phalen for 
$10,000 as an addition to Phalen Park. 
* * * 
The work of improving McKinley Park, Chicago, the new 
forty-acre tract recently renamed by the South Park Com- 
missioners, is being rapidly pushed forward, and it is ex- 
pected that the park will be in good condition by next spring. 
The improvements comprise grading, planting of grass seed 
and the constructing of a wading pond and an artificial hill. 
The West Park Board is also contemplating extensive im- 
provements in the electric lighting system and on the refec- 
tories in Garfield. Humboldt and Douglas Parks. They are 
to co-operate with the Northwest Side Improvement Club 
for the purpose of establishing a gym'nasium and natatorium 
in Humboldt Park. 
NEW PARKS. » 
New parks are being planned as follows: The Park Board 
of St. Paul, Minn., is taking steps to acquire a triangular 
tract of land to be known as Seabury Park. It is centrally 
located near the capitol grounds and will cost about $75,000. 
* * A proposition is soon to be submitted to popular vote 
to issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring a new park at 
St. Mary’s, Kas. * * The heirs of the late Edward Bain, 
the millionaire wagon manufacturer, of Kenosha, Wis., will 
present to that city a park in which a memorial fountain is 
to be built in memory of tbeir father. * * An ordinance 
has been passed by the city council of Kansas City, Mo., 
providing for the purchase of six blocks of ground in the 
southeastern part of the city for a public park. The tract 
will cost $50,000. * * The Chamber of Commerce of Seat- 
tle, Wash., will present to the City Council of that city a 
proposition to buy ten acres of land from the Denny estate 
and transform it into a Central Park. The price asked is 
$125,000. The Council is at present taking steps to acquire 
a tract of land along Lake Washington for park purposes. 
* * The special committee on parks of the City Council, 
Worcester, Mass., has recommended the purchase of new park 
land at New Worcester and Quinsigamfond, involving an ex- 
penditure of $65,000. * * A new north side park embracing 
too acres of land is to be presented to the city of Atlanta, 
Ga., by Mr. G. W. Collier. * * The Samuel Bemis Mem- 
orial Park, Spencer, Mass., has been surveyed and plotted, 
and will shortly be turned over to the board of trustees. A 
mem'orial log cabin in memory of Samuel Bemis, the first 
settler of Spencer, is to be built in the park, and a monu- 
ment to Elias Howe is also planned. * * A new recreation 
park is to be opened at Seventh and Harrison streets, San 
Francisco, for the use of school children, and the supervisors 
have appropriated $12,000 for its improvement. * * Everett, 
Wash., is soon to open its first public park, the gift of one 
of its citizens. The site extends along a high bluff over- 
looking Puget Sound, and affords a view of the Cascade 
Mountains. 
