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visiting, by aid of automobiles, the many places of interest in 
Newburgh, including its parks, private gardens, and the home of 
Downing. e Association was entertained at luncheon by 
Mrs. E. H. Harriman at Tuxedo Inn, in Tuxedo Park, twenty- 
five miles distant, to which we were rapidly driven by automo- 
biles. In the evening a reception was tendered to the Associ- 
ation by the citizens of Newburgh at the Coldwell Lawn Mower 
Plant. 
On Wednesday the Association was the guest of the Hon. 
George W. Perkins, president of the Interstate Park Commission. 
As his guests we were taken down the Hudson in a specially 
eee steamer, the “Albion.” A stop of an hour was made 
at West Point. At Bear Mountain a stop was made for luncheon 
as the sie of Mr. Poe After luncheon Mr. Perkins made 
an address in which he described the work which had already 
been done in the establishing of this vast park and his hopes for 
its future development. He is much interested in this work and 
is giving much of his time to promoting it. At three, the party 
embarked and proceeded down the river 
Thursday was devoted to an inspection of the parks and 
gardens of New York City. After addresses of welcome at the 
Hotel Astor by city officials, the party proceeded in automobiles 
furnished by the City of New York and the Fifth Avenue Stage 
Company. Central Park, Riverside Drive and Van Cortlandt 
Park were visited. rty was met at the Mosholu Bridge 
by an automobile Seafae oe flag of the New York Botanical 
Garden, which led the procession of cars through the grounds of 
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Bridge, where they proceeded on foot through the Hemlock 
Forest and the Economic Garden. Again entering the autos, 
after a short drive through the southern end of the grounds, mes 
proceeded to the New York Zodlogical Park, where they were 
entertained at luncheon by that institution. The ee of 
the afternoon was spent in a drive through the streets of New 
York and through Central Park, crossing into Brooklyn over the 
Brooklyn Bridge, where some of the parks were visited, and 
terminating the day and the convention at Coney Islan 
EORGE V. Nasu. 
