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PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Plans for three shelter houses for Schenley Park, Pitts- 
burg, ha\’e been prepared by architects Rutan & Russell, and 
plans for three more to be erected in Highland Park are 
being prepared. Bids are soon to be advertised for the six 
buildings which will cost $70,000. 
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'I'he park board of Denver, Cob, is to ask the city council 
to pass a relief measure allowing it to draw on next year's 
funds to help it out of a financial emergency. The measure 
will authorize the city treasurer to transfer $20,000 from other 
funds to the park fund for immediate use, with the under- 
standing that the amount shall be considered a loan until the 
next year's park fund has been collected and turned over. 
The park board has estimated the amount needed at $28,000. 
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The Redondo Improvement Association, Redondo, Cal., is 
making plans for the construction of a boulevard between 
that city and San Pedro. A map has been prepared, and the 
engineers estimate the cost of the road at $15,000.00, part of 
which is to be raised by the association, and part from a 
contemplated appropriation. The route is said to traverse 
some of the finest scenery on the Pacific Coast. 
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Palmer Park, comprising 839 acres, has been formally 
turned over to Colorado Springs, Col., by Gen. William J. 
Palmer, founder of the city. The famous Austin Bluffs, two 
miles northeast of the city, are included in the park. The 
General some time ago inserted a clause in the deed exclud- 
ing automobiles in their present state of development. 
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At a recent meeting of the park commission of Chattanooga, 
Tenn., Superintendent Stegall was instructed to ascertain 
the number of trees dead of those planted last year and to 
estimate the number needed for next year. The board decided 
that no trees will be planted next year in front of property 
of people who have allowed them to die, but only in localities 
where citizens will agree to care for them. The secretary 
was instructed to advertise for bids on the planting of 250 
Carolina poplars, 250 elms, and 250 water oaks. 
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The Board of Commissioners of Lincoln Park, Chicago, 
have asked for a ta.x levy of $830,700 for improvement and 
maintenance of that park for the coming year. The amount 
is more than double the customary appropriation, which was 
in 1901, $310,000. The largest estimated items of expendi- 
ture are as follows : For the reconstruction of the sea wall 
along the Lake Shore Drive, $300,000: salaries, $140,000; 
lumber and supplies, $60,000; clay, black soil and sod, $50,- 
000; sinking fund. $25,000; interest, $25,000. 
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The New York and Chicago Road Association is at the 
head of a movement to construct a boulevard between those 
two cities. The association is said to have enlisted the sup- 
port of 1,234 persons and organizations along the route who 
have promised their aid in securing legislation for the pro- 
posed highway. The government is expected to defray 25 
per cent of the cost of construction. William L. Dickinson, 
treasurer of the association, made an automobile trip of in- 
spection over the proposed route in September. 
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City Engineer William J. Hardee, of New Orleans, recom- 
mended to the council of that city that it ask the Legislature 
to make it mandatory to set aside a certain sum out of the 
proceeds of he sale of franchises and pipe line privileges for 
building and maintaining a boulevard to connect Audubon 
Park with the City Park. The boulevard would be about 
four miles long, and 300 feet wide, and consist of a number 
of parallel parkways, including avenues of trees, bicycle paths, 
and a speedway. On each side of the avenue proper he pro- 
posed to have wide banquettes of schillinger pavement, and 
then divided by a strip of lawn lined with trees, would be 
the right of way for the street cars. 
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The South Park Commissioners of Chicago, have recently 
completed in Washington Park a boathouse of granite con- 
crete, a close imitation of red granite, produced by a process 
patented by W. Black, the commission’s engineer, and H. S. 
Richards, assistant superintendent. The structure is 304 feet 
long, and includes a main building and wings 120 feet 
long extending from each side for boat shelters. The total 
cost of the building was $17,000. The commission has also 
under construction a larger building for the new McKinley 
Park, now being improved. 
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Mr. O. B. Hadwen, of Worcester, Mass., has presented to 
that city a tract of land for a public park. The tract embraces 
fifty-two acres, one-third of which is a wooded area, contain- 
ing pines and other trees, some of which are over 100 years 
old. The rest of the ground is hilly, and alfiords a fine view 
of the city and adjoining towns. The north and longest side 
of the park is bordered by a fine sheet of water about 300 
acres in extent. Mr. Hadwen is eighty years of age, and has 
been a member of the park commission since 1867. 
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The Illinois Park Association is urging the establishment 
of the “Illinois Park of Fame,” in Sangamon County, 111 . It 
is planned to reserve 500 acres of land, a portion of which 
is to be allotted to each county in the state for the erection of 
monuments and the exhibition of its enterprises and resources. 
A memorial hall, built from material taken from each county, 
and containing a museum, library, and collections of historical 
relics and curios is also planned. The funds are to be raised 
by obtaining a life membership of 100,000 people at ten dol- 
lars each, and from voluntary contributions. T. J. Crowder, 
Springfield, 111 ., is secretary of the association. 
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The first annual report of the Board of Trustees of the 
Pleasure Driveway and Park District of Springfield, 111 ., 
gives an account of the organization of that park district 
which embraces 150 acres, 132 of which are included in Wash- 
ington Park. The Board was organized in 1899, and O. C. 
Simonds, of Chicago, engaged to prepare plans for the im- 
provement of Washington Park, which has been developed 
according to his suggestions. The report is well printed and 
illustrated with some unusually fine photogravure views of 
scenes in the parks. 
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The commission appointed by the Legislature of California 
to acquire land for a state park in Santa Cruz County has 
completed negotiations and agreed to purchase 3,800 acres 
of land from the Big Basin Lumber Co. for $250,000. The 
tract is about 16 miles from Palo Alto, and includes the 
famous forest of big redwood trees, which experts have pro- 
nounced the finest timber area in the world. Several fine 
streams of water are included in the area, and it is surrounded 
by mountain ranges from 1,900 to 2,300 feet high. It is esti- 
mated to contain about 135,000,000 feet of marketable lum- 
ber. The Legislative act, which is the result of agitation 
