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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Park Notes 
Park Commissioner Young, of Brooklyn, N. Y., will ask 
the Board of Estimate, of Greater New York, to purchase 
one and a quarter miles of ocean front, from Seaside Park to 
Sea Gate, with the view of creating a great metropolitan sea- 
side pleasure ground. 
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Through the efforts of the City Parks Association of Phila- 
delphia, thirty-one ordinances and petitions asking for the 
appropriation of land in various parts of the city for park pur- 
poses are now pending before the City Council or the Park 
Commission of that city. The association has been especially 
active in stimulating interest in the outlying neighborhoods 
in beautifying the city and in establishing small parks and 
playgrounds. * % * 
A memorial from the Municipal Art Society of New York 
City making recommendations for the improvement of City 
Hall Park is being considered by the Board of Estimate and 
■Apportionment. The report recommends that all the build- 
ings in the park except the City Hall and the County Court 
House be removed, and that the ground area of the County 
Court House be not e.xtended. It is also proposed to con- 
demn the property extending from the New Hall of Records, 
between Chambers and Reade Sts., up to Broadway, that plot 
to be used for a large municipal building. 
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The Board of Park Commissioners of Seattle, Wash., filed 
with the City Council of that city its recommendations for a 
system of parks and boulevards. It advised that a surveying 
party be put in the field to prepare preliminary surveys ; that 
an expert landscape architect be consulted ; that co-operation 
be had with the regents of the university ; and with the Uni- 
ted States government regarding connecting Fort Lawton 
with the boulevard system. The commissioners also advised 
that a bill be prepared to be introduced into the legislature 
authorizing cities of the first class to provide for parking 
strips and for their proper maintenance by the adjoining prop- 
erty owners. 
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A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of Vermont 
creating a Board of Park Commissioners for the city of Bur- 
lington, and authorizing them to issue bonds for $50,000 to 
acquire and improve lands for public parks. Two of the pro- 
visions of the bill, governing trees are as follows: The board 
shall have authority to direct and regulate planting of shade 
and ornamental trees in the streets and public grounds of said 
city and to appoint a city forester to superintend and regulate 
the planting and culture for same. The board may cause suit- 
able shade trees to be planted along any street, and may 
cause to be assessed upon the land abutting benefitted, the 
cost of purchasing and planting such trees. 
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Superintendent Nussbaumer, of the St. Paul park system, 
has submitted to the board of that city a statement of the 
improvements needed at the parks for the coming year. The 
expenses for the various improvements are estimated as fol- 
lows : Phalen Park improvements and dredging, $20,000 ; In- 
dian Mounds Park, $5,500; Mississippi River Parkway, from 
Summit to St. Clair, $5,000; Lexington Avenue parkway, $3,- 
500; Como parkway, $3,000; general park maintenance, $36,- 
000. The total amount is $78,000 and exceeds the amount the 
board will receive. Among the improvements for Phalen 
Park is a new pavilion designed by Mr. Nussbaumer, which 
will be erected during the winter or spring at a cost of $13,- 
000. The superintendent was recently given a thirty-days’ 
leave of absence to inspect the park systems of other cities. 
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The Park Board of Memphis, Tenn., is preparing for an 
extensive system of park improvements under the direction 
of Mr. George E. Kessler, of Kansas City, Mo. Plans for 
Forest Park have already been adopted. The entrance will 
be from Union Avenue, which will be lowered three and a 
half feet, and a sloping lawn will lead up to the Forrest 
monument, now being modeled by Sculptor Charles H. Nie- 
haus, which is to stand near the entrance. This monument 
will occupy a conspicuous position in the park, similar to that 
of the Logan monument in the Lake Front Park in Chicago. 
A lily pond and a large playground are other features of the 
park. Overton and Riverside Parks, comprising about 800 
acres, were purchased at an expense of $210,000 from a former 
bond issue of $250,000. The rest of this fund is to be used 
for their improvement. Chairman Robert Galloway, of the 
Park Commission, estimates that an expenditure of $50,000 a 
year for ten years will be necessary for improving the parks. 
He is to ask the County Court to permit the utilization of the 
turnpike tax for the improvement of the park boulevards out- 
side of tile city limits. 
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NEW PARKS, 
The City Council of Rochester, Minn., has 'voted to pur- 
chase “Mayo Park,” a tract of land lying on the Zumbro 
river. * * * ^he late William G. Kelley has bequeathed 
to the town of Bristol, R. I., a part of his estate for the pur- 
chase of a public park. * * * Stephen Bull, a millionaire 
manufacturer of Racine, Wis., has presented that town with 
53 acres of grove and meadow land for a public park. Mr. 
Bull is to purchase land surrounding this tract, and, it is said, 
will ultimately present about 100 acres to the city. * * * 
The Special Parks Commission for the South Side of Chi- 
cago, has recommended fourteen sites for small parks and 
playgrounds to the South Park Board. As many of these as 
possible are to be acquired and developed with the proceeds 
of the $1,000,000 bond issue recently authorized for this 
purpose. * * At a special election held in Pekin, 111 ., it was 
voted to establish a park district and to elect five park com- 
missioners. * * The Illinois Central Railroad is to es- 
tablish a park at Normal, 111 ., on land lying between Ash and 
North streets. The trees and plants are to be furnished by 
Mr. Henry Augustine. * * The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 
Paul Railway is parking its station grounds at Wausau, Wis., 
under the direction of a landscape gardener. * * Competi- 
tive plans for two new parks have been submitted to the city 
of Pasadena, Cal., by the following landscape gardeners : R. 
Mackay Fripp, Thomas Chisholm, of Pasadena; A. Campbell- 
Johnston, of Garvanza ; W. O. D. Ballerstedt, of Los An- 
geles; Geo. Hansen, of Berkeley; James Jensen, of Chicago, 
and Caleb Shoebridge. * * J. W. Osborne, of Spokane, 
Wash., is to present to that city a five-acre tract for a pub- 
lic park. * * A popular movement is on foot in Roches- 
ter, N. Y., to acquire 40 acres of land advertised for sale 
under foreclosure and use it as a public park. * * A mill- 
pond is to be filled in and converted into a park by H. H. 
Rogers of Fairhaven, Mass. It is estimated that it will re- 
quire from 50,000 to 60,000 cubic yards of filling. * * The 
Grand Trunk Railway will surround its new station at Lan- 
sing, Mich., with a park. Plans for improvement have been 
prepared, and the work will include grading, planting of trees 
and shrubbery, laying out walks, etc. 
