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garden court for the Henry Wallace place 
in that city. One of the features intro- 
duced into the plans will be a stone snow- 
lantern. Mr. Weirick is also developing a 
beautiful parking scheme for the Progress 
Club at Clear Lake. This includes a gen- 
eral plan of development for the lake front 
and for the town. 
The Arboricultural Association of South- 
ern California held their eleventh semi- 
annual convention November 11 and 12 at 
Redlands city hall. Many interesting pa- 
pers were read and addresses delivered. 
A petition has been presented to the 
municipal government by the Inyo Good 
Roads Club, of San Francisco, on behalf 
of the Midland Trail Association and its 
affiliated interests, requesting that in the 
contemplated esplanades along the ocean, 
west of Golden Gate Park, there be a com- 
bination of architectural features to suit- 
ably denote the end of a road that spans 
the American continent. It is suggested to 
adopt a structure of reinforced concrete. 
Mark Daniels, general superintendent and 
landscape engineer of national parks, has 
prepared plans. Two passageways through 
the sea wall are connected on th% ocean 
side by a roadway that describes a seg- 
ment of a circle, with the outer curve at 
the water’s edge. One of the reasons for 
this feature is to afford a driver, who is 
concluding a transcontinental journey, op- 
portunity to immerse the wheel rims of 
his car in the waters of the ocean and thus 
in its most literal sense complete a tour to 
the Pacific. Next to the openings just de- 
scribed, and toward the center of the de- 
sign, are two semi-circular niches, each 
with a sanitary drinking fountain and flag- 
staff in its center and low parapet on side 
looking oceanward. Next are two struc- 
tures, each with an entrance leading to a 
public convenience station on a lower level, 
accessible also from the beach. The facade 
presents a slightly concave front with a 
seat its entire length. Between the recess 
formed by the curved wall and the main 
promenade is a narrow parked strip with 
sufficient floral effect to offset the sombre- 
ness that might otherwise prevail. Above 
the seat is a series of connected bronze 
tablets forming a long, comparatively nar- 
row, horizontal panel depicting in relief 
approximately the course of the Midland 
trail between Washington with its New 
York connection and San Francisco, and 
showing thereon the locations and names 
of the various cities in which the trail 
passes through. Then rising above the wall 
proper the well-known piece of statuary 
entitled “The End of the Trail’’ will be 
placed. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
The city of Grand Rapids, Mich., recent- 
ly purchased the Tuinstra property adjoin- 
ing John Ball Park on the southeast from 
Dr. Perry Schurtz at a cost of $7,500. The 
land comprises twenty lots and will be 
planted by Superintendent Eugene Goebel. 
Miss Rebecca Richmond recently donated 
to the Grand Rapids Park and Boulevard 
Association a ten-acre tract of land in the 
northwestern part of the city, to be known 
as “Richmond Hills,” in honor of her 
father, William K. Richmond. 
Forty thousand dollars has been appro- 
priated by the city of Battle Creek, Mich., 
for improvement of its park property and 
157 more acres will be devoted to this 
work. Irving Park will comprise 55 acres 
along Burnham Brook, extending from 
Sprink Lakes to Garfield avenue. It will 
include two lakes, upper and lower, con- 
nected by lagoons, and a children’s play- 
ground, tennis courts for adults, and a 
pioneer log cabin, to contain historical ex- 
hibits, are other features. Verona Park 
will contain 95 acres. Here will be located 
baseball, football and athletic fields, a free 
golf course, a boat landing on Battle Creek 
and beautiful picnic grounds in natural 
woods. Piper Park will replace Piper’s 
Pond, on Maple street, north of Wabash 
avenue. Seven acres of land will be 
turned into a playground for children, 
with a lake just deep enough for wading, 
meandering walks, but no driveways, and 
a two-story shelter house. Piper Park and 
Irving Park were donated to the city, but 
Verona Park was purchased. 
Extensive additions and improvements 
in the park system of Louisville, Ky., en- 
tailing an estimated outlay of $423,800, are 
proposed in the budget which has been pre- 
pared by the Board of Park Commissioners 
for the present fiscal year. Among the 
large items are the proposed acquisition of 
Fontaine Ferry Park as an addition to 
Shawnee Park, at an estimated cost of 
$125,000, and purchase of playground sites 
aggregating $165,000. The suggested land 
purchases would total $313,400 and the im- 
provements declared to be needed at once 
•would necessitate an outlay of $110,400. 
General John B. Castleman was unani- 
mously re-elected president of the Board of 
Park Commissioners at the annual organi- 
zation meeting. 
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epitaph collections will be found the one 
about the grenadier who died from the 
effects of drinking cold small beer. We 
show in one of our illustrations a photo- 
graph of this stone with the inscription 
covering is so legible that most of it may 
be read in our reproduction. 
The sailors who went down on the famous 
battleship Maine were recently honored in 
Arlington National Cemetery with a monu- 
ment that is a replica of the mainmast 
and fighting top of the battleship. This 
mast, with the anchor, some of the guns 
and much other wreckage, was raised by 
the government when the hull was raised 
and given a burial out at sea. All bits of 
metal and odds and ends of material that 
could be used in any manner have been 
distributed all over the country to form 
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