PARK AND CEMETERY 
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A bill reducing the membership of the Buffalo Park Board 
from thirteen to five members has been passed by the New 
York Legislature. The executive committee of the old 
board estimated at the last meeting that there would be a 
deficit of about $28,000 at the end of the fiscal year. The 
•estimate for the appropriation was $100,000 less than for 
the previous year. 
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Representative Tongue has introduced in Congress a bill 
providing for tlie establishment of the Crater Lake Na- 
tional Park, embracing 249 square miles in the vicinity of 
Crater Lake, Klamath county. Ore. The lake is on the 
summit of the Cascade Range, and belongs to the vacant 
domain of the government. It is 6,239 feet above the sea 
level, surrounded by nearly perpendicular walls from 1,000 
to 2,000 feet high, and contains a circular island in which is 
an extinct crater 90 feet deep. It is in the midst of rugged 
■ and picturesque scenery and is of no value for agriculture 
or mining. 
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Henry Phipps, donor of the Phipps conservatory, in Schen- 
ley Park, Pittsburg, has presented the park with an addition 
to the conservatory to be devoted entirely to cacti. The 
structure will be of stone, 75 by 36 feet high and will be 
similar in design to the other greenhouses. The plans, 
which are by Lord & Burnham, of New York, have been 
adopted, and Superintendent Falconer is making arrange- 
ments for stocking the new cactus house. He has corre- 
spondents in the West Indies, Florida, California, Colorado, 
Nevada, Utah, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico, 
arranging for the shipment of the plants during the sum- 
mer. 
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Improvements and additions to parks are noted ts fol- 
lows this month; Keney Park Hartford, Conn., has adopted 
;plans by Benjamin Morris, Jr., for an elaborate gateway, 
four new pavilions, and a new public building at the Bar- 
bour street entrance. The pavilions will be of granite and 
sandstone, two of them flanking the new entrance on Wind- 
sor avenue, and the other two at tlie terminals of pedestrian 
pathways entering the park. The improvements are to be 
■begun this spring and completed by next fall. . . . 5 . bill 
has been introduced into the New York Legislature provid- 
ing for an appropriation of $500,000 for the purpose of 
continuing the improvements to Bronx Park Zoological 
Gardens, New York City. . .The city authorities of Que- 
bec will expend $50,000 during this year in improving the 
historic Plains of Abraham, which the Dom.inion govern- 
ment recently purchased and turned over to the city for 
park purposes. . . 1 '. L. Greenough, Missoula, Mont., is 
to present to that city a tract of land for a public park. . . 
Mr. Geo. P. Lord, Elgin, Ilk, has presented that city with 
five acres of land in the heart of the city for a public park, 
and several years ago donated 100 acres for the same pur- 
pose. . . The Park Board of Indianapolis, Ind., will file 
papers in the Circuit Court, asking for the condemnation of 
a strip of land from Thirtieth street to Thirty-eighth along 
rthe White River for an addition to Riverside Park. 
FROM THE PARK REPORTS, 
The annual report of the park department of Portland, 
Ore., soon to be issued, will contain a review of the receipts 
and disbursements of that department for the past eleven 
yea's. The total receipts for that period were $145,190.82, 
and the expenditures $144,001.88. The average annual 
receipts for that period were $13,198.26, and the disburse- 
ments $9,521.76. The receipts for 1901 were $32,670.32, and 
disbursements $10,685.68. 
The park commissioners of Worcester, iMass., at their 
annual meeting ask to be relieved of the care of the shade 
trees, and request that they be placed under the care of a 
city forester. They recommend the purchase of additional 
tracts of land selected by the council committee last year, 
and report the total expenditures for the past year as 
$23,157.19. 
Ex-Park Commissioner Brower, of the Boroughs of 
Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, in his farewell re- 
port to Mayor Van Wyck for 1901, speaks as follows con- 
cerning politics in the New York parks; "There are many 
suggestions which I might make on account of my nine 
years’ experience as commis.sioner, but it would seem to 
be almost useless to present them until the parks are taken 
out of politics, and the pleasure grounds of the people are 
protected from the constant changes made necessary by the 
new charter, as it is utterly impossible for any commissioner 
either to complete or have the experience necessary to make 
the needed improvements involving expenditures of money 
and time necessary to do justice to the best interests of the 
community.” 
The annual report of the park department of Cambridge, 
Mass., for 1901, shows expenditures for construction work 
amounting to $136,270.29, and for maintenance $23,745.44. The 
total receipts were $166,347.03. The report of the landscape 
architects, Olmsted Brothers, shows that they have pre- 
pared tw'enty-eight sketches, plans, diagrams and tracings 
for landscape improvements, principally for portions of 
Charles River road, Hastings Square and Porter Square. 
The report of J. Clyde Power, superintendent and engi- 
neer of the Indianapolis parks, tells of permanent improve- 
ments accomplished during the year in the grading of lawns, 
roads, unsightly banks and hillsides and the construction of 
walks, bridges and buildings. More than 3,000 trees were 
planted in Riverside Park and two handsome suspension 
bridges built across the river. The superintendent recom- 
mends the improvement of the water system and the estab- 
lishment of more small parks. The appropriation for the 
year was $98,425, and the expenditures $97,525, leaving a 
balance of $900. 
The annual report of Superintendent Nussbaumer of the 
St. Paul, Minn., Park Board, showed that the total income 
of the parks for the past year was $68,000. The expenditures 
were; Improvements, $31,602; maintenance, $33,293. 
The park board of Minneapolis, Mum., reports receipts 
from all sources of $199,212.49. The board has wiped out a 
two-year deficit of $25,000, and starts the new year ^vith a 
debt of $18,000 which it expects to pay of¥ during 1902. The 
council has approved the new park bond issue of $70,000, 
and bids were opened February i. They will bear 314 per 
cent, interest and will be payable in thirty years. 
The report of the Secretary of the park board of Ottawa, 
Can., shows receipts for 1901 amounting to $10,332.43 and 
expenditures of $11,643.00. The board was organized in 
1893 and has expended since that time, $27,000, an average 
of $3,000 a year, or about 5J4 cents per annum per head of 
population. 
