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PARK AND CEMETERY 
ParK Notes 
The Palisades Park Commission has begun the work of 
surveying the state park along the palisades of the Hudson, 
and announces that the work of improvement will occupy 
about three years. The commission has clear titles to all the 
land between Fort Lee and Huyler’s Landing, a distance of 
four miles, and last summer employed Charles W. Leavitt, 
Jr., landscape architect, to study Italian roads and mountain 
park effects with the view of introducing similar effects into 
the Palisades Park. 
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A bill has been introduced into Congress for the estab- 
lishing of a national military park on the Delaware river 
near Trenton, N. J., where the Continental army crossed on 
the day before the battle of Trenton. The proposed territory 
is on both sides of the river, including both the landing and 
embarking places of the army, and embraces about 500 
acres. 
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A conference was recently held by the members of the 
St. Paul and Minneapolis park boards to outline plans for a 
system of inter-urban parks, and it was decided to appoint a 
committee of twelve to determine the steps to be taken. 
Mr. C. M. Loring advocated the immediate purchase of lands 
around Lake Calhoun and along Minnehaha creek, and the 
Minneapolis board is considering the use of its recent $70,000 
bond issue to acquire land around Lake Amelia and along 
the west river bank from Lake street to Minnehaha. The 
total expenditures of the board for the year 1901 amounted 
to $201,103.66, the largest items of which are as follows: 
Maintenance, $43,829.13; improvements, $1,172.92; tree plant- 
ing on streets, $6,696.81; land purchases, $5,480; tools and 
personal property, $4,629.85; general expenses, $4,409.57; 
officers’ salaries, $5,500; interest on bonds, $32,000; certifi- 
cates of indebtedness, $61,455.54; bills payable, $25,000. 
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The appropriation of $500,000 allowed by the Legislature 
to the South Park Commissioners of Chicago, for 1901, has 
been used for extensive improvements. Sixty-eight acres 
have been added to Jackson Park, and the south half of it, 
which has been unimproved since the World’s Fair buildings 
were torn down, has been brought to sand grade, ready for 
covering with black earth, and forty acres of it prepared for 
baseball, tennis and golf grounds. In Washington Park 
new flower gardens have been laid out and 14,000 feet of 
water pipe supplied for watering the meadow. Ten acres of 
the new Gage Park have been brought to grade, and water 
and sewer pipe laid. In the south parks, which comprise 
one-third of the city’s park system, 186,000 trees and shrubs 
have been set out during the year. 
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The twelfth annual report of the Commissioner of Parks 
and Boulevards of Detroit, Mich., is a good example of a 
progressive official report, orderly in plan and handsomely 
executed. An act of the Legislature in 1901 abolished the 
Board of Commissioners and created a one-man commission, 
appointing Mr. Robert E. Bolger to the office, and a number 
of notable improvements have been made during the year. 
A new range of greenhouses is under construction, the ser- 
vice building and three of the ranges being already com- 
pleted at a cost of $11,059.52. Plans for the construction of 
a new aquarium and horticultural building to cost $100,000 
have been adopted from designs by Nettleton & Kahn, De- 
troit. In Belle Isle Park- two permanent bridges have been 
constructed at a cost of $8,000, roads have been resurfaced 
and lakes deepened and dredged. A nursery has been estab- 
lished and an arboretum is under way. Bedding plants to 
the number of 195,578 and 8,704 trees and shrubs have been 
set out. The financial report shows receipts as follows: 
Park Improvement Fund, $149,567.15; Park and Boulevard 
Fund, $199,385.24. Expenditures: Park Improvement Fund, 
$1,439.22; Park and Boulevard Fund, $190,207.37. Cash bal- 
ance June 30, 1901: Improvement Fund, $148,127.93; Park 
and Boulevard Fund, $9,177.87. 
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The following improvements and additions to parks are 
reported this month: The city engineer, Spokane, Wash., is 
planning to improve Liberty Park. An appropriation of 
$7,000 is available for the purpose. * * A bill is now pend- 
ing in the Philadelphia Common Council for the addition of 
twenty-three acres to Fairmount Park. The territory is a 
triangular tract on the northwestern boundary of the park, 
along the Schuylkill river, and is valued at $100,000. Fair- 
mount now contains 3,316 acres, and is the largest park in the 
United States. * * Audubon Park, New Orleans, La., is 
to build a memorial stone bridge in memory of the late Miss 
Langles, who provided for the beautifying of the people’s 
garden, and was afterward drowned in the wreck of the 
steamer La Bourgogne. The park now has a fund of $2,500 
donated by private individuals for improvements. * * The 
Park Commission of Des Aloines, la., is considering the pur- 
chase of twenty acres of land at Clifton Heights as an addi- 
tion to the park. * * The Common Council of Boston, 
Mass., has passed an order authorizing a loan of $25,000 to 
be expended for park purposes in the Brighton district. * 
The Park Commission of Chattanooga, Tenn., has planted 
1,400 shade trees during the year 1901, 300 of which were to 
replace old ones. * * The Gettysburg National Military 
Park Commissioners will buy Tipton Park, an adjoining 
tract of land of about 20 acres, for an addition to Gettysburg. 
It is to cost $6,150. * * Santa Barbara, Cal., has voted to 
impose a tax of five cents on every hundred dollars of as- 
sessed valuation for park improvements. 
NEW PARKS. 
A resolution is to be introduced into the City Council of 
New Orleans, La., providing that all triangles formed by 
street intersections and the irregular configuration of lots 
due to the passing of the Mississippi river through the city, 
shall be set aside for public parks. * * The Board of Esti- 
mate has authorized the condemnation of a large tract of 
land in the fourteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth wards of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., for a public park. It is valued at about 
$500,000. * * The Tuesday Club, of Sacramento, Cal., has 
undertaken to raise funds for the purchase of East Park, 
which is to be set aside as a children’s playground, and 
renamed McKinley Memorial Park. * * The City Council 
of Baltimore, Md., has passed a resolution asking the Mary- 
land delegation in Congress to secure the passage of a bill 
turning over to the city of Baltimore the site of Port 
McHenry for a public park. * * Jersey City, N. J., has 
appropriated $35,000 for the purchase of Lafayette Park, and 
has ordered the land to be acquired at once. * * Mr. E. C. 
Hill, of Trenton, N. J., has offered to pay the expenses of a 
preliminary survey of land along Assanpink creek from East 
State street bridge to East Trenton, with a view to trans- 
forming it into a public park. The Olmsted Brothers will be 
employed to do the work. * * Citizens of Westfield, N. J., 
have voted to levy taxes for the establishment of a new park. 
