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public. For this purpose such athletics and 
held sports as golf, lawn tennis, baseball, 
football, tobogganing, ice skating, boating, 
etc., is offered to the people. Besides this, 
children's playgrounds are maintained, and 
wherever playgrounds are in congested dis- 
tricts they are under the direction of 
trained supervisors. One of the great en- 
tertaining features is the zoological garden, 
which ranks sixth in size and contains over 
700 specimens. 
Following is the text of the Milwaukee 
County Park Commission law : 
la every county in this state having a population 
of at least one hundred and fifty thousand . 
the chairman of the county board shall . . . ap- 
l>oint ... a county park commission consisting 
of seven members. The commissioners first ap- 
pointed shall hold office for the term of one, two, 
three, four, five, six and seven years respectively. 
Thereafter one commissioner shall be appointed an- 
nually to hold for ... a term of seven years 
and until the appointment and qualification of a suc- 
cessor. . . . Such appointments shall be made 
in writing and filed in the office of the county clerk. 
All appointments heretofore made are legalized. 
2. Any vacancy in said . . . com- 
mission shall be filled . . . within ninety days 
by appointments for the unexpired term . 
by the chairman of the county board; but if not 
filled within said time, the remaining members of 
the commission may fill such vacancy. 
3. Before entering upon the duties of his office 
each of said commissioners shall take and subscribe 
the usual oath of office . . . which 
shall be filed in the office of the county clerk. 
Section 697-69. 1. Within thirty days 
after their appointment and qualification the said 
commissioners . . . shall convene at the court- 
house . . . and perfect an organization; and 
thereupon such park commission shall have the 
usual powers of such bodies in addition to those 
hereinafter enumerated, shall use a common seal, 
make by-laws and choose annually from its members 
all necessary officers. 
2. It may also appoint such other . . . agents 
and employes ... as may be necessary to carry 
out its functions . . . and may remove . 
them at pleasure, and make all rules and regu- 
lations concerning . . . its work . 
3. It shall .. . . maintain suitable 
offices, . . . where its maps, plans, documents 
and records shall be kept, subject to public inspec- 
tion at all reasonable hours and under such reason- 
able regulations as . . .it may prescribe. 
Section 697-70. . . . The commission shall 
make a thorough study of the county 
. . . with reference to making reservations of 
lands, therein, for public uses and laying out am- 
ple open spaces, parks, roads and boulevards; 
. . . make plans and maps of . . .a com- 
prehensive county park system; . . . gather 
such further information in relation thereto as it 
may deem expedient . . . and report the same 
to the county board . . within two years from 
the date of ... its organization. It shall 
make such other reports, from time to time, as may 
be requested by the county board.. 
Section 2. Sections 17870-3, 17S70-3a, and 17870- 
3B of the statutes are renumbered, consolidated and 
revised to read: Section 697-71. The said commis- 
sion shall have charge and supervision of all county 
parks, and all lands heretofore or hereafter acquired 
by the county for park or reservation purposes; 
and shall have power: 
(1) To lay out, improve, maintain and govern all 
such -parks and open spaces; to lay out, grade, 
construct, improve and maintain roads, parkways, 
boulevards and bridges therein or connecting the 
same with any other parks or open spaces or with 
any municipality in the county, using such meth- 
ods and materials as it may deem expedient; to 
determine and prescribe building lines along the 
same; -and to make rules for the regulation of the 
use and enjoyment thereof by the public; 
(2) To accept, in the name of the county, de- 
vises of land and bequests and donations of money 
to be used for park purposes; 
(3) To acquire, in the name of the county, by 
purchase, land contract, lease, condemnation, or 
otherwise, with the approval and consent of the 
county board, such tracts of land or public ways 
as it may deem suitable for park purposes; but 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
no land so acquired shall be disposed of by the 
county without the consent of said commission, and 
all moneys received for any such lands, or any ma- 
terials, so disposed of, shall be paid into the coun- 
ty park fund hereinafter established. 
Section 697-72. Whenever the said commission re- 
quires lands or lights in lands or public ways for 
any of the purposes specified in section 697-73 and 
is unable to agree with the owner or owners as 
to the price and terms of purchase, or when- 
ever for any reason such agreement cannot be made 
without unreasonable delay, a report in writing by 
said commission, including a description of the lands 
or rights in lands or public ways so required, with 
the name or names of the owner or owners and 
other parties interested, if known, and their resi- 
dence, if known, and the value placed thereon by 
said commission of each tract or right, with an 
estimate of the damage resulting to the owner or 
owners from the taking thereof, shall be served 
on all parties interested, in the manner of service 
of summons in a civil action, and filed in the 
office of the clerk of the circuit court. At any 
time within twenty days thereafter any such owner 
or other party interested may apply to the judge 
of the circuit court and thereupon proceedings shall 
be had, according to the provisions of sections 605, 
606, and 607 of the statutes; but if no such ap- 
plication be made within said time the report of 
said commission shall stand in lieu of the appraisal 
and thereupon all further proceedings shall be as 
provided in said' sections. 
Section 3. A new section is added to the stat- 
utes, to read: Section 697-73. The county board 
shall annually, at the same time and the same man- 
ner as other county taxes are levied and collected 
by law, levy and collect a tax upon the taxable 
property of such county of one-tenth of a mill upon 
each dollar of the assesesd valuation of the taxa- 
able property upon which other county taxes are 
levied and collected, and the entire amount of such 
special tax shall be paid into the county treasury 
as ,a separate and distinct fund, to« be paid out 
only upon the order of the county park commis- 
sion for the purchase of land and the payment of 
expenses incurred in carrying on the work of the 
commission. Any part of said fund, except five 
thousand dollars annually, may be transferred to 
the general fund of the county treasury whenever 
county bonds for the purchase of land have been 
voted by the county and placed at the disposal of 
the county park commission, or whenever the coun- 
ty has assumed an indebtedness on its behalf, 
equal to the amount of money to be transferred. 
Section 4. Sections 17870-4 and 17S70-5 of the 
statutes are repealed. 
Section 5. Park commissions organized under 
former statutes hereby revised and consolidated shall 
continue to act and be deemed reorganized under 
this statute with all powers and liabilities herein 
granted and imposed. 
Section 6. This act shall take effect and be in 
force from and after its passage and publication. 
A. A. C. S. CONVENTION IN TWIN 
CITIES. 
The annual convention of the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintendents will 
be held in the Twin Cities, August 24 to 
28. The first three days will be given up 
to meetings and sightseeing in Minneapo- 
lis and the fourth day to St. Paul. 
Headquarters will be at the West Hotel. 
President Thomas Wallis, Rosehill Cem- 
etry, Chicago, will be pleased to receive 
any suggestions from members in reference 
to papers. These will have to be in by 
July 1. 
The Convention Committee for the Min- 
neapolis convention is as follows : 
A. W. Hobart, Lakewood Cemetery, Min- 
neapolis, Minn.; Wm. Eurich, Hillside, 
Minneapolis ; J. P. O’Connor, Calvary, St. 
Paul, Minn. ; H. M. Turner, Rose Lawn, 
St. Paul ; F. D. Willis, Oakland, St. Paul. 
A number of members will undoubtedly 
want to continue to the coast for the ex- 
position and visits to cities between, and 
will be interested in the following schedule 
of railroad fares that will be in effect dur- 
ing the summer. There will be on sale 
round-trip tickets with a final limit of three 
months from date of sale not to exceed 
December 31, 1915, permitting stopovers at 
any point in either direction, at the follow- 
ing rates : 
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74.45 
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. .Columbus. . 
. 91.85 
PARK NEWS. 
Robert B. Cridland, Philadelphia land- 
scape architect, has been selected by the di- 
rectors of the Southeastern Fair Associa- 
tion, of Atlanta, Ga., to lay out the 
grounds for the fair at Lakewood Park 
crat and Chronicle describes at length the 
progress Rochester has made in the de- 
velopment of parks and boulevards since 
1890. Through the untiring efforts of a 
few of the men in that city, Rochester has 
and to prepare a general plan for the de- 
velopment of the park. 
George E. Kessler, the landscape archi- 
tect who laid out the St. Louis exposition 
grounds and the beautiful Kansas City, 
parks, is now engaged in doing landscape 
work in Dallas, Tex. 
Will O. Doolittle, formerly park superin- 
tendent and city forester of Painesville, O., 
has now charge of the parks in Minot, 
N. D. 
A recent article in the Rochester Demo- 
developed one of the finest systems of bo- 
tanic gardens and parks in the country. The 
park holdings at present consist of 1,603 
acres. 
The preliminary report of the City Plan 
Commission of Bridgeport, Conn., with 
civic survey and other supplementary ma- 
terial, by John Nolen, city planner, has been 
issued. Copies may be had at 25 cents, 
plus 10 cents for postage. Address City 
Plan Commission, City Savings Bank Bldg., 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
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