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count shows thirty-seven picnics with an 
attendance of 4,612. A comparison with 
last year shows a gain in attendance at 
the swimming pools in the parks of 20,919 
and in receipts of $132.10. The commis- 
sion also acquired much new land, which is 
being improved and developed. 
The agitation at Fort Wayne, Ind., to 
have a city garbage incinerating plant 
moved from its location on Clinton street, 
just south of Lawton Park, has been re- 
newed. George Wagner has suggested that 
it be shifted to a location on the city 
property near the lighting plant. Mr. Wag- 
ner believes that some of the waste heat 
from the garbage plant could be harnessed 
and used for making steam for the light- 
ing plant or No. 1 pumping station. 
As a part of its active campaign looking 
toward the improvement of Minnetonka 
boulevard, Minneapolis, Minn., from the 
city limits to Minnetonka Mills, the Min- 
netonka Boulevard Improvement Associa- 
tion, of which F. H. Hawkes is president, 
is seeking appropriate suggestions from 
landscape architects. A number of de- 
scriptive articles have appeared in the local 
papers. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
W. W. Seley, of Waco, Tex., recently 
proposed to that city that if the water 
commission will donate the half block oc- 
cupied by the city reservoir he will buy the 
other half block, to be converted into a 
park, the only condition being that the 
park be named after his father, C. M. 
Seley. The city recently assumed charge 
of the park surrounding Waco spring. 
James A. Lawless, pioneer citizen of 
Itasca, Tex., has donated to the city the 
lots just east of the water works for park 
purposes. The park will be named in 
honor of Mr. Lawless. 
Three thousand dollars with which to 
purchase a city park on the east side, 
Greeley, Colo., was recently voted upon by 
that city, and the grounds will be ac- 
The Order of Brith Abraham Ceme- 
tery Association, of Minneapolis, Minn., 
has applied in district court for appoint- 
ment of commissioners to condemn lots 
38 and 39 of Sabin’s Lake Harriet Garden 
lots, asserting the property is needed for 
extension of the cemetery. The ceme- 
tery association now owns lots 37 and 
40 and declares it has been unable to 
purchase the two intervening lots and 
desires that the court appoint commis- 
sioners to fix a valuation on the lots. 
Monuments, statues and headstones 
in two sections of Calvary Cemetery, 
St. Louis, Mo., were overturned and 
quired by condemnation. Plank Colvin, of 
Albany, N. Y., is the owner of the prop- 
erty. 
The Soo Company has commenced work 
of laying out a park at the west end of 
their passenger station at Rhinelander, Wis. 
A dancing pavilion was recently erected 
in the park at Livingston. 111., and is being- 
run under the auspices of the Mt. Olivet 
Cemetery Association. 
Commissioner Carlock, of Bloomington, 
111., is being urged to provide sidewalks 
from the main walk in Miller Park to the 
old soldiers’ monument. 
Half Moon Lake and adjoining grounds, 
Eau Claire, Wis., are being greatly im- 
proved through the interest of several citi- 
zens of that city. Among the projects 
which are contemplated are the improve- 
ment of boating, fishing and swimming 
facilities, the stocking of the island with 
game, and the furnishing of better accom- 
modations for those interested in winter 
sports. In order to put such a systematic 
method of working into effect it has been 
decided that a society or club be formed 
for this purpose, and the movement has 
the endorsement of the Civic and Com- 
merce Association, the Mayor and other 
prominent citizens. 
Three blocks of the Woodlawn Avenue 
parkway, San Antonio, Tex., were recently 
completed. Two-year-old Washingtonian 
palms grown in the municipal nursery at 
Brackenridge Park have been transplanted 
to the parks and planted at intervals of 
every fifty feet. A municipal light plant, 
the power for which will be supplied by 
the San Antonio River as it passes through 
Brackenridge Park, and the current used to 
light the park as well as the driveways 
along River avenue, is a plan being con- 
sidered by Commissioner Lambert. 
1 he Park Board of Butte, Mont., has 
decided to dedicate the park between First 
and Second avenues, north, at Twelfth 
street, in memory of the late John G. 
Morony. 
broken by vandals recently, causing 
damage estimated at several thousands 
of dollars. The two sections are in the 
old division of the cemetery at the 
northeastern portion of the grounds. 
L'nder the provisions of a bill signed 
by Governor Dunne, of Illinois, the 
burial place of every soldier and sailor 
in Illinois must be designated in a cer- 
tificate to be filed with the county clerk 
of the county in which the cemetery is 
located. The bill was fostered by the 
Woman’s Relief Corps of Illinois. 
The Portage (Mich.) township board 
has raised the price of cemetery lots at 
Forest Hill Cemetery to non-tax payers 
or non-residents of the township from 
$15 per lot to $30. 
Alderman Ernest Middleton, chair- 
man of the Public Grounds Committee, 
introduced a resolution which was 
adopted by the council, offering for sale 
350 lots in Riverside Cemetery, Kalama- 
zoo, Mich. The lots range in price 
from $50 to $250 each. 
In the matter of the extension of 
the Windsor Cemetery, Windsor, Mich., 
James Anderson and Henry Clary, of 
Windsor, have been named as arbitra- 
tors between the cemetery board and 
the property owners of whom additional 
land for the cemetery is desired. 
Injunction was taken out recently by 
the city of Elmhurst, 111., to prevent the 
Elmhurst Cemetery Company establish- 
ing a cemetery at Cherry Farm. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
Illinois City Cemetery was recently 
incorporated at Illinois City, 111., by Mel- 
vin L. Thomas, Elmer France and R. J. 
Ricketts. 
The Beaver Park Cemetery was incor- 
porated at Fremont County, Colo., a 
short time ago by Ben F. Taylor, A. C. 
Larsh and J. A. Meyer. 
The Wellington Cemetery Association 
was incorporated at Wellington, Col- 
lingsworth County, Tex., with a capital 
stock of $1,400. The incorporators are: 
R. F. Curry, K. T. Richardson and J. T. 
Litchfield. 
The Desplaines Avenue Cemetery Asso- 
ciation of Chicago recently purchased 
from the Chicago Title and Trust Co., 
trustee, two tracts of land containing about 
sixty acres in all, on the east side of Des- 
plaines avenue, between Sixteenth and 
Twentieth streets, for a stated considera- 
tion of $139,358. 
A petition is being circulated among 
the Ashkum, 111., people, soliciting their 
support in a movement to raise funds 
for the maintenance of the cemetery at 
that place. 
The hill east of -Steele Cemetery, Falls 
City, Neb., is being graded. 
The new cemetery of the Lithuanian 
parish of SS. Peter and Paul was dedi- 
cated recently at Grand R.apids, Mich. 
The cemetery contains ten acres and 
can accommodate 5,000 graves. It cost 
$2,250. 
A $10,000 bond proposition to annex 
twenty acres to the Galva Cemetery, 
Galva, 111., was voted upon favorably by 
the citizens of that city. 
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Shaareth 
Israel Synagogue, Dallas, Tex., are mak- 
ing extensive improvements in the 
grounds of the Jewish cemetery. The 
cemetery will be graded, new gravel 
driveways laid and concrete walks put 
in each section. A new entrance and 
fence are also being constructed and the 
total cost of the improvements amounts 
to about $2,000. 
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