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PARK AND C EM ET ER Y. 
of the futility of our aspirations toward 
the rich land of opportunity, it speaks 
poetically. 
To Robert Aitken was entrusted the 
task of modeling four more than heroic 
size reclining figures to mark the level 
of the entrance to the sunken garden in 
the Court of the Universe; and he seems 
to have approached this task in a much 
more childlike frame of mind than he did 
his Fountain of the Earth in the Court 
of Abundance. Earth, Air, Fire and Wa- 
ter were given him as the subjects for 
the four reclining figures, and the sym- 
bols he has employed are conventional 
and well known, as the Phoenix and 
Salamander accompanying the figure of 
Fire, while Air is shown with wings and 
wears a star in her hair. 
The wonderful fountain in the center 
of the court, the Fountain of Earth, is 
by Robert Aitken. Helos, the Setting Sun, 
at one end of a great pool, holds out a 
globe to light rhe earth. Near the cen- 
ter of the basin is a group of ten crouch- 
ing figures. Destiny is represented by 
the symbol of the two great arms reach- 
ing out on either side of the pedestal, 
The submerged land bill, which provides 
for the building of the lake front park, 
Chicago, has been signed by Governor 
Dunne. 
Plans preparatory to the building of the 
Ross County Memorial building, which is 
to be built in Chillicothe, O., at the Paint 
street entrance of the park, were discussed 
recently by the Park Commission. The 
Park Commission also decided that from 
now on, no amusement companies or or- 
ganizations of any sort shall have the use 
of Poland Park for carnivals or amuse- 
ments of any sort. 
To change the name of City Park, of 
New Orleans, La., to Bienville Park and to 
erect a splendid monument there to the 
founder of New Orleans was proposed and 
adopted at the meeting of the Louisiana 
Historical Society, recently. 
The United States Geeological Survey 
will co-operate with the city of Denver in 
a topographical survey of what is termed 
the Georgetown quadrangle, including the 
area approximately bounded by Denver, 
Georgetown, Idaho Springs and Mount 
Evans, for the purpose of having the area 
incorporated in a national park. Included 
in the proposed new park would be Mount 
Evans, Echo Lake, Summit Lake, Chicago 
Lake, which will be made accessible by the 
proposed chain of mountain roads and 
trails. 
Colonel Thomas H. Swope, founder of 
Swope Park, Kansas City, Mo., will he 
holding in one hand the power to give 
life, and in the other, the taking of life 
away. On the first side, the side of the 
hand that gives, a man offers a woman 
the Kiss of Life, and they give their 
children to live on the earth. This is the 
beginning of things. Somewhat removed 
from the pedestal of the ten crouching 
figures is an immense globe, encircling 
which are four groups of human beings 
peopling the earth. 
In the Court of Four Seasons is Eve- 
lyn B. Longman’s delightful Fountain of 
Ceres, in which the mature goddess has 
just lighted on the pedestal, about which 
lovely maidens, done in has relief, hold 
hands in the measures of a dance. On 
the Pylons to either side of the court are 
replicas of Albert Jaeger’s “Feast of 
Sacrifice,” representing a youth leading a 
reluctant maiden, together with a huge 
bull, to the sacrifice. A symbolic group 
by the same artist, “Nature,” surmounts 
the large half dome at the south side of 
the court, and to each side of this half 
dome stand lovely figures of “Sunshine” 
and “Rain,” also by Jaegers. 
buried in that park, and a mausoleum cost- 
ing $20,000, will soon be erected for that 
purpose. It has not been decided, how- 
ever, whether a bridge or a monument 
shall be erected as a memorial to him. 
The Birmingham Ledger recently gave an 
extended account of Warren H. Manning's 
plan for the development and improvement 
of the city of Birmingham, from an 
aesthetic as well as commercial standpoint. 
He pointed out how the city's topograph- 
ical position would make it one of the larg- 
est distributing places of the South if ad- 
vantage was taken of the natural resources 
and explained that the principal trouble 
with the existing plan of the Birmingham 
district is that there are not enough con- 
tinuous up and down valley thoroughfares. 
A few only are continuous and of uniform 
width and direction. 
The Metropolitan Park Commission, of 
Boston, Mass., recently issued their annual 
report for 1914. The most momentous 
occurrence during that year was the de- 
struction of the northerly half of Welling- 
ton bridge by fire. No large acquirements 
of land were made, but over 40 acres of 
land with buildings upon it, known as the 
Riverside Recreation Grounds, were donat- 
ed by Chas. W. Hubbard, of Weston, Mass. 
Roadways w ; ere all put in good condition. 
Ravine road w r as relocated for a distance 
of about 600 feet from Woodland road, the 
westerly driveway of Fellsway along Fells- 
mere pond completed and The Woburn 
parkway, from Pleasant street, Woburn, to 
Pond street, Winchester, opened. Revere 
and Nahant beaches were opened and An- 
derson bridge completed. 
A number of business men residing in 
the vicinity of Downey park, Clinton, 111., 
have offered to erect a concrete pool and 
fountain, if the city will maintain it. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
A public park for the use and benefit of 
the negro race has been started by negro 
citizens of Temple, Texas, who have or- 
ganized the Colored Park Association of 
Temple, with A. B. Green as president and 
Monroe Wells as secretary. The city coun- 
cil has accepted a site in South Temple, 
near the Santa Fe Railway hospital, do- 
nated by W. Goodrich Jones, of this city, 
for a park. The property is valued at 
$6,000, and will soon be improved. 
The ladies of Elmwood, 111., have or- 
ganized an association for the improve- 
ment of West Park and expect to add 
amusement devices and make it the play- 
ground of the city. 
Plans are under way for the boulevarding 
and widening of the Main street entrance to 
Lakeside Park, Fond du Lac, Wis., and for 
the filling in of low ground, and the build- 
ing of cement walks. 
Colonel Morgan Jones, of the Abilene & 
Southern Railway, has proposed to the city 
of Ballinger, Tex., to build another public 
park near that railway's depot if the city 
will build cement sidewalks and macadam 
streets between the Santa Fe and Abilene & 
Southern stations. 
The City Park Board, of Dallas, Tex., 
has adopted the Kessler plan for improve- 
ment of Lake Cliff Park. The plan pro- 
vides for a large swimming pool, with 
general park features for the balance of 
the tract. The North Loop League, who 
are interested in this improvement, want a 
large lake as a park feature and will ask 
the board to reconsider their decision. In- 
dications are that the board will have only 
about $3,000 for park improvements this 
year, the balance of the estimated revenue 
of $116,000 going to park maintenance and 
to pay interest on bonds. It is expected 
$4,500 again will be appropriated for the 
purpose of giving free band concerts in the 
city parks this summer. The Dallas So- 
ciety of Architects recently endorsed the 
building of a park adjoining the new LTnion 
station. The White Rock fishing ordinance, 
prohibiting fishing in the city reservoir and 
the use of the land adjoining the lake, has 
been submitted to the city commission. 
A memorial fountain provided for in 
the will of the late Charles W. Watkins, 
who died on shipboard en route from 
Europe several years ago, soon will be 
placed in Garfield-Fletcher playground. 
Grand Rapids, Mich. Superintendent of 
Parks Eugene Goebel has asked for bids 
on the construction of the memorial, 
which will cost $1,000. 
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