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The ninth annual report of the Board of Park Commission- 
ers of Des Moines, presents a number of interesting features, 
among which is the publication in full of the state laws gov- 
erning parks. The report emphasizes the necessity of the 
establishing of a down-town park, and gives the following 
financial facts : . Expenditures for parks and expenses, $35,- 
708.52; for lands, $22,287.90; total amount of warrants is- 
sued during the year, $57,996.42. The last Legislature passed 
an act allowing the board to make use of the river front for 
park purposes, and also increased the tax limit from two to 
three mills. 
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The forty-second annual report of the Board of Park Com- 
missioners of Hartford, Conn., shows that the total expendi- 
tures for the twelve months ending April 30, amounted to 
$33,598.05, the appropriation being $34,550.75. The report of 
Superintendent Wirth gives detailed statements of the condi- 
tion of the various parks and the work done in them. Eliza- 
beth Park has been enlarged by an addition of 3^4 acres at a 
cost of $5,000. The financial statement of the board is as 
follows : Expenditures from tax fund during year, $33,- 
333-87; balance of tax fund on hand, $15,651.53; expenditure 
from bond fund for improvement of Pope, Goodwin and 
Riverside parks, $13,179.54; balance of bond fund on hand, 
$12,447.16; receipts from Elizabeth park fund, including sales 
of stock to the amount of $39,731.78, $43,529.71 ; balance on 
hand to credit of fund, $18,943.95. The report is well printed 
and illustrated, and has a striking Indian figure on the cover. 
PARK IMPROVEMENTS. 
The Park Improvement Committee of the Chamber of Com- 
merce at San Diego, Cal., has raised $7,750 for improving the 
parks of that city. A well-known eastern landscape gardener 
is to be engaged to do the work. * * * The Commis- 
sioners of Lincoln Park, Chicago, have voted a $500,000 bond 
issue for small parks and playgrounds on the North Side of 
the city. * * * The Park Board of Springfield, O., has 
recommended that the council appropriate $200,000 for the 
purchase of additional land for Court Square. * * * The 
city of Winnipeg, Man., will issue local improvement de- 
bentures to raise funds for boulevarding and tree planting 
at a cost of $1,070. * * * The north 40 acres of John Ball 
Park, Grand Rapids, Mich., is soon to be opened up and a 
new driveway built. '* * * An arboretum, 100 by 24 feet, 
is to be erected in Forest Park, Springfield, Mass., on plans 
prepared by the Lord & Burnham Co. * * * Mrs. Lydia 
Bradley, donor of Bradley Park, Peoria, 111 ., has given an 
additional 40 acres to the park, making its total area about 
180 acres. * * * Denver, Colo., has purchased 35 acres 
of land for $60,000 as an addition to Washington Park. * * 
* The Committee on Parks of the City Council, Milwaukee, 
Wis., has recommended the purchase of 24 acres of land at 
$4,850 an acre for an addition to Washington Park. * * * 
W. S. Stratton has added 40 acres to Cheyenne Park, Colo- 
rado Springs, Colo., and is having the ground planted and 
otherwise improved. The total cost of the park, including the 
new ground, will be about $100,000. * * * The Park Com- 
mission of Marion, Ind., is to employ an expert to outline a 
systematic plan of improvement for the parks. A new shelter 
house 30 by 40 feet is to be built. * * * The City of New 
Bedford, Mass., has appropriated $18,000 for repairing dam- 
age done in Hazelwood Park by a recent freshet. * * * 
Park Commissioners of Brantford, Ont, are to build a new 
promenade at Jubilee Terrace. It will be 315 feet long, 12 
feet wide, and 14 feet above the water. * * * A new pa- 
vilion has been built in Como Park, St. Paul, Minn., and a 
playground 15 acres in extent laid out with baseball grounds, 
tennis courts, and fields for other athletic sports. * * * 
An ordinance has been introduced into the City Council of 
Baltimore, Md., submitting to the voters at the November 
election a $5,000,000 street and park improvement loan au- 
thorized by the state legislature in 1898. Of this sum $500,000 
NEW PARKS. 
West Chicago Park Commissioners have begun condemna- 
tion proceedings to obtain sites for four small parks in the 
crowded districts of the West Side. * * * The council 
of Grand Rapids, Mich., is considering the purchase of 48 
acres of land lying between John Ball and Lincoln Parks for 
a new park. * * * Mr. Charles Cockshutt, of Brantford, 
Ont., has presented to that city a tract known as Agricultural 
Park to be used as a public park. * * * Funds are being 
raised at Bristol, R. L, for the purchase of land for a public 
park. * * * A movement is on foot to establish a state 
park at Butts Fort, near Newport, R. 1 . * * * Two new 
parks are to be established in the first ward, Brooklyn, N. 
Y. One of them comprises 144 lots at Hunter’s Point, and 
the other 414 acres at Ravenswood. * * * The United 
Confederate Park Association is clearing its grounds near 
Fort Worth, Tex., and expects to dedicate its new park next 
summer. The tract embraces 400 acres. * * =1= The C. H. 
Manly Company has presented the city of Jackson, Mich., 
with 7 l 4 acres of land to be improved and named Jackson 
Mound Park. * * * The profits of the recent carnival at 
Neligh, Neb-, amounting to about $2,000 are to be devoted 
to the purchase of land for a new park. * * * The Chi- 
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railway is to make a park of 
grounds adjoining its depot at Hastings, Neb. * * * Mrs. Will- 
iam Hamilton, Mrs. Mary Peltier, and Mrs. Minnie Loranger 
have presented to the town of Flint, Mich., a triangular plot 
of land for a public park as a memorial to the late William 
Hamilton. * * * A park of too acres is soon to be opened 
to the public near Waco, Tex. A forty acre lake is one of 
the attractions of the park. * * * Birmingham, Ala., has 
recently made the first payment on Behren’s Park purchased 
by the city for $10,000. * * * John W. Jones, of Kala- 
mazoo, Mich., has presented to that city a tract of 100 acres 
for a public park, on condition that the city expend $5,000 for 
five years in improving it. * * * Col. W. H. Angell, of 
Sun Prairie, Wis., has presented that town with nine acres of 
land for a park. * * * The city of Hammond, Ind., has 
purchased 3j4 acres of valuable land on the lake front for a 
public park. * * * The old depot formerly used by the 
Wabash Railway at Danville, Ind., is being torn down, and 
the site will be converted into a public park. * * * Mus- 
catine, la., is planning a river front park. The government 
is to use the appropriation of $10,000 available for the harbor 
to fill in a park if the city will build the retaining wall and 
make the other improvements. * * * The city council of 
Chattanooga, Tenn., has passed an ordinance appropriating 
$12,500 for a new park. * * * The grounds occupied by 
the National Export Exposition at Philadelphia are to be 
turned into a Horticultural Park. * * * Marathon City, 
Wis., has purchased a park for $1,000. * * * Samuel Par- 
sons, of the New York parks, is to make plans for the new 
eight-acre park to be laid out in Utica, N. Y. * * * Miss 
Anna M. Wagar has donated three acres of land to the 
hamlet of Lakewood, O., for a park. * * * The park 
commission of Pierce City, Mo., will begin at once the work 
of improving the new park of 3 l 4 acres. * * * The town 
of Troy, O., voted at a special election to buy a 13 acre park. 
