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PA.RK AND CEME-TE-R^Y 
SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT. SHARON, PA. 
Park Notes 
It is reported that the Rio Grande Railroad is to park nearly 
all of its stations in Colorado and Utah. John P. Brown, 
secretary of the International Society of Arboriculture has the 
work in charge and has 65,000 catalpa trees under cultivation 
at Provo, Utah. 
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Effort is being made to get Congress to establish a national 
park in Camden county, near Lebanon, Mo. I’he tract com- 
prises about 3,000 acres, and contains a number of natural 
curiosities among which are a cave, a natural bridge, an ice- 
cold spring which is said to rival that of Carlsbad, a whis- 
pering dell and natural coliseum. 
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The State Municipal Park Association of Iowa, was recently 
formed at a meeting of park officials held at the State House 
in Des Moines. The organization has for its object the co- 
ordination and promotion of park work in the different cities 
of Iowa and in the state at large. It is intended to be a 
means by which men prominent in park work and landscape 
architecture, can be brought together for mutual education 
and benefit. A permanent organization was effected, and the 
■following officers elected; President, Sid. A. Foster, Des 
Moines: vice-president', A. C. Graham, Council Bluffs; sec- 
retary, W. M. Krebs, Cedar Rapids ; treasurer, M. P. Schmidt, 
Council' Bluffs: executive committee, Philip M. Crapo of 
Burlington, and members from Davenport, Dubuque, Iowa 
City and Sioux City who are recommended by members of 
the park boards of those cities. 
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A tree and park commission was recently created by the 
City Council of Augusta, Ga., and its first membership ap- 
pointed by the mayor. Twelve hundred trees will be planted 
this winter as a new experiment. Those planted last winter 
proved almost a total failure, only a few hundred surviving 
the transplanting out of 4,000. The varieties to be planted 
are principally elm and hackberry. 
The project of constructing a boulevard along Lake Michi- 
gan between Chicago and Milwaukee has again been revived 
by the donation of miles of roadway north of Chicago by 
H. S. Van Ingen. Contracts have been let for the completion 
of the road through the government reservation at Fort Sheri- 
dan and the town of Lake Forest and it is expected that 30 
miles of the boulevard will be completed in a few months. 
Officers of the Sheridan Road Association predict the com- 
pletion of the roadway in five years and are urging favorable 
legislation from the Illinois and Wisconsin Legislatures. 
The Park Commissioners of Louisvi’le, Ky., will donate 
2,000 or more plants for distribution among the school children 
of that city to be used in making window gardens and for 
Irotanical study. The collection will include ageratu.n, scarlet 
sage, verbenas, chrysanthemums, geraniums, coleus and others 
and a prize may be offered for the most successful window 
bo.x. 'fhe distribution is under the direction of Superintendent 
Ernest Kettig, of Western Park. . 
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The South Park Board of Chicago has expended during 
the past year $451,699 for improvements, and $366,299 for 
maintenance. In Jackson Park 70 acres of additional terri- 
tory has been brought to grade, of which two-thirds has been 
surfaced with black earth, and ten acres of plantation has 
been completed this fall. In the grading the sand-filling re- 
quired has been dredged from the artificial lakes, about ten 
acres of the lake area having been excavated for this pur- 
pose. In the center of the park a bridge of seventy feet span 
has been constructed to replace the temporary structure which 
has been in use since the World's Fair. It has a concrete arch 
faced with Minnesota red granite, cost $49,000, and it is ex- 
pected that early ne.xt summer all of Jackson park will be sur- 
faced and the planting completed with the exception of twen- 
ty-five or thirty acres in the southeast corner of the park. The 
new McKinley Park, embracing 35 acres, has been completed. 
This park has no driveways, as it is intended chiefly for a 
playground. It has a fifteen-acre meadow for ball games, 
a five-acre area for tennis, an outdoor gymnasium for men 
and women, with a quarter-mile running track, a pool half 
an acre in extent for children, and a swimming pool 350 feet 
in length and 150 feet wide, surrounded with a plantation. 
The following improvements and additions to parks are re- 
ported this month ; A miniature lake and rustic bridge have 
been constructed in Lincoln Park, Tacoma, Wash., and nur- 
sery grounds, established for propagating hardy trees, shrubs, 
and plants. * * Seattle, Wash., has appropriated $8,500 
for purchasing an addition to Volunteer Park. * * * 
Land valued at $94,692.50 has been condemned for an addi- 
tion to Spring Valley Park, Kansas City, Mo. * * * Plans 
have been adopted for the improvement of Ruggles Park, Fall 
River, Mass. * * * Proceedings are to be instituted to 
acquire two blocks of additional land for Sunset Park, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. * * * The contract has been let for the clear- 
ing of a 20-acre tract of land for an addition to Mesker Park, 
Evansville, Ind. * * * The city of Pittsburg has acquired 
by condemnation proceedings 15 acres of land as an addition 
to Schenley Park. The tract was valued at $25,375. * * * 
Plans are being prepared for a Moorish Pavilion to be erected 
in Eden Park, Cincinnati. It will be erected over the spring 
from which the water will issue through a marble fountain. 
* * * San Diego, Cal., will expend about $16,000 in im- 
proving its city park. Mr. Samuel Parsons will furnish 
the plans. * * * Pasadena, Cal., has voted a municipal 
bond issue of $300,000, a large part of which will be devoted 
to parks. 
