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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Sites for eleven small parks have been selected by the 
South Park Commissioners of Chicago, and are to be im- 
proved at a cost of $600,000. The bond issue for small parks 
voted last year provided for the expenditure of $1,000,000. 
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A resolution has been introduced into the Board of Aider- 
men of Buffalo, N. Y., asking that the Mayor appoint a 
committee of five citizens to confer with committees from 
the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen to consider the 
feasibility of turning the Pan-American Exposition grounds 
into a public park. 
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The new president of the Borough of Manhattan will 
submit to the incoming Board of Aldermen of New York 
City a plan for the transferring of Blackwell’s Island, where 
the city penal institutions are located, to the national gov- 
ernment for use as a naval drill ground and public park. 
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The bill which was introduced into the last Congress, pro- 
viding for the purchase of 4,000,000 acres of forest land in 
the Appalachian mountains for a national park, has been re- 
introduced by Representative Brownlow, of Tennessee, who 
has amended it to provide that the tract shall be known as 
the McKinley National Park. 
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The City Parks Association, of Philadelphia, has sent to 
the Council’s committee on finance a letter advocating the 
establishing of a park to be named in honor of the late 
Thomas Meehan, who, as a member of the Council, did much 
for the development of the Philadelphia park system. The 
tract favored is bounded by Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh, 
Jefferson and Master streets, and is already the property of 
the city. 
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State Senator McKinney, of New York, has introduced 
into the legislature of that state a bill authorizing the Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission to acquire not less than 5,000 
acres of forest land in Suffolk county. Long Island, to be 
reserved as a state park, for the preservation of the timber, 
and the protection and breeding of deer and wild game. The 
bill is designed to stop the ruthless cutting of timber for 
firewood and its destruction by forest fires. 
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The Park Board of Grand Rapids, Mich., has planned an 
extensive system of improvements for the coming year which 
will necessitate the doubling of the park budget of this year 
which amounted to $23,000. The largest expenditures will be 
made on John Ball Park, which is to be enlarged by the pur- 
chase of thirty acres of land at $2,500 an acre, and will Iw 
united to Lincoln Park. Other improvements in this park 
will be the building of rustic bridges, shelter-houses and 
drives, turning a creek from its course, the construction of an 
addition to the greenhouse and the establishment of a cit - 
nursery. In Campau Park, two lakes, a waterfall, and a foun- 
tain have already been constructed and are to be opened next 
spring, and a statue of Antoine Campau, the donor of the 
park, is contemplated. Lincoln Park will also have a new 
lake, for which excavations were begun last summer, and an 
improvement in its electric light system. The value of the 
city’s various park properties is estimated by the controller at 
over $330,000. 
■A. case now before the courts of New Jersey involves die 
constitutionality of an act of the last Legislature which 
granted to Atlantic City some of the state’s riparian prop- 
erty for park purposes for a nominal consideration. The 
law is being contested on the ground that an act of 1894 
dedicated the State’s riparian property to the school fund, 
and that the Legislature has no power to dispose of it for 
any other 'purpose. 
FROM THE PARK REPORTS. 
The report of the commissioners of Lincoln Park, Chicago, 
for 1901, the first annual report since the attempted regener- 
ation of that park from politics, shows a saving of $50,000 
in the expenses for the year. The total expenditures for 1901 
were $167,374.42 as against $218,288.35 for 1900. The ex- 
penditure for wages in 1900 was $143,778.87, and in 1901, 
$119,776.63. The chief items in the expense account of the 
past year are as follows: Walks and drives, $12,211.35; lawns 
and trees, $18,239.80; floral department, $16,792.33; zoological 
department, $19,327.91; power house, $19,386.02; police, 
$21,742.09; general expenses, $25,003.24. All the parks on the 
south and west sides of the city are to be connected by boule- 
vards this 3^ar, which will complete the continuous drive 35 
miles long through the entire system of parks. The improve- 
ment will cost about $148,775. 
The annual report of the park commission of Portland, Me., 
shows the expenditure of an appropriation of $7,500 in ad- 
dition to $1,000 for the department of forestry which is under 
the management of the park hoard. The work of the year 
has been largely in the way of maintenance, the principal 
improvements having been the planting of shrubbery, and the 
building of a retaining wall for the lake at Deering’s Oaks. 
New concrete walks are to be laid in Lincoln Park during 
the coming summer. 
The park board of Newport, R. L, reports the expenditure 
of $4,003.33, with an appropriation of $3,850, making an over- 
draft of $153.33. Among the items in the appropriation was 
one of $150 for the extermination of the elm-leaf beetle. The 
improvements made during the year comprise the construc- 
tion of a new drinking fountain and the erection of a band 
stand in Morton Park. 
At the annual meeting of the park commission of New 
Haven. Conn., the treasurer’s statement showed the total re- 
ceipts for the year to have been $18,886.12, of which $392.08 
remains unexpended. The expenditures for the different 
parks were as follows : East Rock, $6,350.01 ; West Rock, 
$2,281.82; Fort Hale, $1,544.18; Edgewood, $1,542.62; May 
View, $1,187.78; Beaver Ponds, $820.03; Fort Wooster, $227. 
69; Quinnipiac, $169.18; Clinton, $15. 
The seventh annual report of the parks of Peoria, 111 ., 
shows a total expenditure of $63,645.33. The receipts for 
the year were $121,464.59, and the balance on hand at the 
end of the fiscal year 1901 was $57,819.26. The expenditures 
for the different parks were as follows : Glen Oak, $30,- 
985.23; Laura Bradley, $16,526.50; South Park, $1,363.44; 
Madison Park, $341.75. The total sum expended since the 
inauguration of the park system seven years ago is $572,- 
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The report of the park commission of Dayton, O., shows 
receipts for the year to he $4,319.99, and the balance on hand 
$996.03. The estimated expenses for the year beginning 
March i, 1902, are $3,300. The report speaks of the neces- 
sity of increasing the park funds so as to take adequate pre- 
ventive measures against the San Jose scale. The state law 
requires the spraying of scale infested sections, which has 
involved large inroads on the park fund during the past year 
owing to the unusual prevalence of the pest. 
