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PARK AND C EM ET ER Y. 
PARK DEVELOPMENT IN SALT LAKE CITY 
Much active improvement work has been 
accomplished in the last few years in the 
parks of Salt Lake City, Utah, under the 
direction of Superintendent Nicholas By- 
hower. 
The work was very actively started un- 
der Commissioner of Parks and Public 
Property George D. Keyser and has been 
actively pushed. 
The following gives the acreage of the 
parks : Liberty Park, 95 acres ; Pioneer 
Park, 10 acres ; City Building Park, 10 
acres ; Canyon Road Park, 2 acres ; Ath- 
letic Park, 10 acres ; street parkings, 5 
acres ; City Creek Playgrounds, 3 acres. 
Total, 135 acres. 
Liberty Park was Brigham Young's farm 
and nursery and only a part of it has been 
improved. The lake has been doubled in 
size, the new part being connected by rus- 
tic bridges. The greenhouses are enlarged, 
twelve acres of new lawn made, and the 
children’s playground enlarged 2]/ 2 acres. 
Pioneer Park is located on the spot 
where the first Mormon pioneers camped. 
A swimming pool for girls and play- 
grounds have been constructed here. 
Ensign Peak Park, containing 625 acres ; 
Porley’s Creek Park, 210 acres, and Jordan 
River Park, 20 acres, have also been im- 
proved. 
The children are not being forgotten, for 
they have playgrounds at Liberty, Pioneer 
and City Creek parks. 
A 22-mile boulevard is planned which 
will connect these parks and other points 
of interest. 
Superintendent Byhower has been at 
Salt Lake fifteen years and knows the few 
plants and trees that will grow in this dry 
soil. It is only by tile irrigation at the 
roots of many trees and constant watering 
that they live. In the lawns water plugs 
are placed every ICO feet, and with 50-foot 
hose and careful watering the lawns are 
kept green. 
The snow-covered mountains in the dis- 
tance. the wide streets, the tall Canadian 
and Carolina poplars, the green parking 
along the sidewalks, and pretty lawns are 
interesting features of the park scenery. 
RUSTIC AVORK AT OUTLET OF LAKE IN LIBERTY PARK. 
LAKE IN LIBERTY PARK. SALT LAKE CITY BEFORE IMPROVEMENT, ENLARGE- 
MENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF TWO ISLANDS. 
OAK CLIFF CEMETERY ENTRANCE. 
Our front cover illustration this month 
show's the very attractive entrance to 
Oak Cliff Cemtery, Derby, Conn., which 
is among the most modern and well-kept 
burial grounds in the state. 
The drive gates, which form the main 
part of this entrance, are hung to mas- 
sive piers, measuring 5J4 feet from water 
table to top of cap and 36 inches square 
at base, made of rough granite blocks 
with 1-inch hammered edges. Gates are 
a popular and imposing design, yet 
neither extremely ornamental or severely 
plain. They are 17 feet wide, construct- 
ed of kLinch square pickets; hinge bars, 
2x1 inch; front bars, 2x14 inch, flat; cover 
bar, l34xtV inch; horizontal rails, 2xl4 
inch, channel: braces, 1 14x14 inch, se- 
curely riveted to pickets; center and cor- 
ner scrolls, 1 4 x i g inch. Gates are fast- 
ened by means of bronze lock with brass 
handles, and throughout the idea of sub- 
stantial work and neatness in design is 
combined with high-class workmanship 
and finish. 
One walk gate 4 feet wide to match 
drive gates and four ornamental iron 
newel posts 8 inches square for walk 
gate and ends of fence were also fur- 
nished, and the contract included ap- 
proximately 7C0 feet of fence 5 feet high, 
constructed of 14-inch square pickets 
with forged points, set square and spaced 
5 inches on centers; horizontal rails, 
2xys inch, Stewart’s patent 3-rib channel; 
line posts, 1 inch square, with 14-inch 
round braces, heavy collars and 14-inch 
set screws. Fence sets on concrete 
coping 10 inches wide, and line posts, 
which are placed at end of each 8-foot 
panel, extend 6 inches in coping; line 
post braces 4 inches and center supports 
3 inches in coping. 
This is another example of the sub- 
stantial and attractive work turned out 
by The Stewart Iron Works Co., of Cin- 
cinnati, O., w'ho designed, built and 
erected the fence and gates in 1912. It 
will be seen from the specifications that 
the Oak Cliff Cemetery Association ap- 
preciates not only the importance of in- 
stalling iron entrance gates and fence 
that would add to the attractiveness of 
the cemetery, but an installation that 
would afford the necessary protection 
and give lasting, satisfactory service. 
