THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA 
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j American Association of Park Superintendents \ 
John F. Walsh, Jr., President, Nciv York. 
K. W. CoTTERiLL, Scc.-Trcas., Seattle, Washington. 
Vice-Presidents 
= HENRY W. BUSCH, Detroit, Mich. 
I HERMAN W. MERKEL, New York, N. Y. 
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CLARENCE L. BROCK. Houston, Texas 
ERNST STREHLE, St. Louis, Mo. 
John F. Walsh, Jr., President 
American Association of Park Superintendents 
STAND BY THE PRESIDENT. 
Tlie lipading (it tlii.s lu-tii-li' iii:i.v infer tlial we have the war in 
mind, but in tins ease we mean the Presidpnt of the American 
Association of Park Superintendents. Did you read his program 
of proposed activities of the Association for 1017 and his appeal 
for the support of the memhership, published in the December 
number? 
If not, you owe it to liim and to the Association, to do so and 
to give it .your most earnest consideration. It is just brimful of 
good suggestions as to what our membership can and should do. 
It outlines a program of constructive work, which, if carried out, 
will give our Association ]irestii;e it has never before attained. 
Oin- organization has too ureat an opportunity to be a force in 
the country and of so much lienefit to its members, that we should 
not permit ourselves to drift into what might be termed a social 
organization. 
In line with his program. President .Tohn F. Walsh announces a 
series of special committees to take the lead in working out the 
various phases and it is hoped that these committees will enter 
seriously upon their work and will receive the support of the 
membership at large, whom I hey will no doubt call upon for 
assistance. 
Committee on Uniform Cost Records. 
Henry W. Busch of Detroit, Chairman : All Vice-Presidents, Alex 
Fisk. of Racine: tJeo. A. Parker, of Hartford,; Ralph Benedict, 
of Kansas City : W. S. Planning, of Baltimore, and Theo. Wirth, 
of Minneapolis. 
This committee is expected to secure, upon a standard form 
which they will decide upon, cost records of all forms of park 
construction and maintenance In all sections of the country. A 
comprehensive report on this subject will be expected at the St. 
Louis convention and should form a valuable document for publi- 
cation, tor comparative purposes and as an aid to members in 
making up estimates and budgets. 
Committee on State, Provincial and National Parks. 
W, S. Manning of Baltimore, chairman ; F. T>. Mulford and Geo. 
W. Hess of Washington. D. C, John McLaren of San Francisco. 
ALEX. STUART, Ottawa, Canada 1 
CHARLES W. DAVIS, Memphis, Tenn. | 
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E. T. Mische of Portland, L. P. ,Ten.son of St. Louis, Fred Green of 
Providence, Geo. W. Burke of I'ittsburgh, Gus Amryhn of New 
Haven, Jas. R. Shea of Boston, .John Berry of Denver, Walter 
Wright of Chicago, ,Tohn Meisenbacher of Tulsa, Okla., and Geo. 
Champion of Winnipeg. 
This committee sliould ascertain systematically, who the execu- 
tive people are in charge of the man.y state, provincial and na- 
tional parks, which are being established at an increasing rate and 
endeavor to interest these people in our Association and secure 
their affiliation with us. 
Their work is becoming more and more in common with ours 
and they should be members of our Association. We should take 
more interest in their work and establish working relations with 
the government authorities who have this important work in 
charge. This committee has a broad field of effort and we hope 
the.y will show results at the St. Louis convention. 
Committee on Good Roads Construction and Maintenance. 
Harry S. Richards of Chicago, chairman : Edward A. Miller of 
New York. .T. B. Shea of Boston, .John W, Duncan of Spokane, 
Alex Stuart of Ottawa. Fred Steinhauer of Denver, E. P. Griffin 
of East St. Louis, Wm. II. Dunn of Kansas City, John W. Ker- 
nan of Lowell, Chas. W. Davis of Memphis. John Morley of San 
Diego, C. L. Brock of Houston. Grant Forrer of Harrisburgh, J. 
W. Thompson of Seattle, and Theodore Wirth of Minneapolis. 
The construction and maintenance of good roads that will stand 
up under all sorts of conditions, in various sections of the country, 
is an important subject. The members of this committee are men 
wdio have had a wide range of experience with different types and 
they should be able to submit a report embodying the result of 
their experience and submitting specifications and data of cost, 
etc., wliicli would be invaluable to all. 
Committee on Park Playgrounds and Activities. 
Alex Fisk of Racine, chairman ; Ralph Benedict of Kansas 
City, C. A. Bossen of Minneapolis. Frank Hamilton of New York, 
E. P. Griffin of East St. Louis, Lionel Evans of Youugstown, J. 
P. Foster of Chicago. G. Hennenhofer of Pueblo, Adam Kohankie 
of Denver, W. S. Manning of Baltimore, Ernst Strehle of St. 
Louis and Geo. .\. Parker of Hartford. 
Playground facilities and activities in parks, is a problem which 
aroused considerable discussion at our New Orleans convention 
and merits further consideration and investigation. A .symposium 
of views based on praetii-il exjierience in various cities, would 
form a most interesting report and the conclusions of the group of 
men forming this committee, will be of great value. 
The carrying on of this committee work is going to mean a lot 
of thought and correspondence by the various members, but it is to 
be hoped that no member will shirk the duty assigned. 
The working out of details will be left entirely to the chairnien 
and we will all hope for some reports at the St. Louis convention 
in Septendier. which will be of benefit to the Association and its 
entire mend)ersbip. 
The secretary has been assigned the leadership of a plan of ex- 
tension work to increase our membership and later on he will call 
upon every member of the Association to assist him. This is go- 
ing to be a big task but he is going after it in a systematic way a 
month or two prior to the convention. This is going to mean that 
he will have to write hundreds of personal letters so he hopes that 
the committees outlined above will relieve him of as much as pos- 
sible of their detail work and as it were, work out their own plans 
in their own way. 
R. W. C. 
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. 
Conrad B Wolf, of Hibbing. Minnesota, who hasn't missed a 
convention for years, has the distinction of being the first mem- 
ber this year to send in an application for membership. His 
applicant 'is Jas. A. Spurrier, park superintendent at Eyeleth, 
Minnesota This will make the fourth small Minnesota city to 
be represented in our Association. Hibbing. Chisholm and ^ irginia, 
being the others. These cities, though small, are very progressive 
and have well established park systems with competent officials 
'"pr'' Frank Baker, for many years superintendent of Zoological 
Park' at Washington, D. C. has resigned, writes F. L. M^l^ford 
our former secretary, who is so busy with the Bureau of Plant 
