THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA 
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I American Association of Park Superintendents | 
John F. Walsh, Jr., President, New York. 
K. W. CoTTERiLL, Sec.-Treas., Seattle, Washington. | 
Vice-Presiden ts 
I HENRY W. BUSCH, Detroit, Mich. 
1 HERMAN W. MERKEL, New York, N. Y. 
CLARENCE L. BROCK, Houston, Texas 
ERNST STREHLE, St. Louis, Mo. 
ALEX. STUART, Ottawa, Canada 
CHARLES W. DAVIS, Memphis, Tenn. 
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PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. 
John Berry of Denver, charter member of the A. & K. 0. Y. D., 
the "June Bride" of the New Orleans convention and good fel- 
low generally, has yielded to the call to get back into the harness 
again in spite of his resolve to retire from active park work. He 
has accepted a position with the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., which 
owns immense properties and industries in Colorado, to supervise 
the beautification of the grounds of their various plants. No 
better man could have been selected for such a task, and we con- 
gratulate all concerned. 
Jacob Yl. Prost, for many years City Forester of Chicago and 
superintendent for the Special Park Commission, has severed 
his connection with the municipality and has engaged in business 
in Chicago on a pretentious scale as consulting landscape designer, 
forester, etc. Mr. Prost owns a well-established nursery, and 
will be in a position to handle both designing and execution. He 
has an ambition to take a place with such names as Olmsted, 
Kessler, Hare, etc., and the best wishes of our members will go 
to him as Mr. Prost has been one of our active members for 
many years, and has made a brilliant record at Chicago. 
Ralph R. Benedict, assistant superintendent at Kansas City, 
is slowly recovering from a serious illness which extended over a 
period of several weeks. Following an operation for tonsilitis, 
septic fever came on, followed by typhoid fever, and his life was 
in danger for a short time. Superintendent Dunn writes, however, 
that Mr. Benedict is slowly improving, and he has hopes that he 
will be on the job again by the time this is read. 
Adam Kohankie, the "Duke of Washington Park," at Denver, 
has been re-elected as president of the Denver Society of Orna- 
mental Horticulture, and S. R. DeBoer, another of our members, 
was elected as secretary-treasurer. The society is arranging to 
hold the second Annual Flower Show of the Colorado florists at 
Denver in October, and our old friend, John Berry, is chairman 
of the schedule committee. 
Wm. R. Hancock, formerly park superintendent at Fergus 
Falls, ilinn., and Bozeman, Mont., has located at Billings, Mont., 
where he has engaged in business as landscape engineer and 
designer. 
Wm. J. Zartmann, one of our old-timers who inadvertently 
permitted his membership to lapse, has reinstated himself :ind 
regrets very much that it appeared as if he intended to drop 
the association of which he was one of the pioneers. Mr. Zart- 
mann is now engaged in business for himself at New York City 
as a landscape designer. 
Robert R. Moss, one of our new members who for several 
years was in charge of a Long Island estate, has secured the posi- 
tion of superintendent of grounds for the Metropolitan Water 
District of Omaha, Neb. The work in hand covers the laying 
out and beautification of large areas surrounding reservoirs. The 
parties were brought together through the instrumentality of the 
secretary's office. 
The secretary has no further light on the rumored retirement 
of Wm. S. Manning as superintendent at Baltimore. An ex- 
change news item sets forth that the Baltimore Park Board is 
trying out a plan of having district foremen or superintendents, 
working under direct orders from the board. Another innova- 
tion is the substitution of flowering plants for shrubbery in the 
parkings. 
A legacy of $40,000 was willed recently by the late George J. 
Austin of'Batavia, N. Y., to his city for the purpose of establish- 
ing a much needed city park. The bequest has resulted in the 
municipality sitting up" and taking notice in the way of securing 
a tract of land in the central section of the city on which the 
legacy will be expended. 
There is a double lesson in instances of this kind. First, there 
is no b(tter way for a man of means to perpetuate his name 
and memory than to leave a legacy in the form of a park, play- 
ground or recreational building. Second, such legacies invariably 
tend to arouse the city authorities to the importance of such 
features and leads to the prompt development and operation of 
such things. 
Henry H. Elbers, director of the South Park Botanic Gardens 
at Buffalo, was recently elected as president of the Buffalo 
Florists' Club and is taking hold of that work enthusiastically. 
John W. Duncan, superintendent at Spokane, Wash., has for- 
warded to the secretary an interesting collection of data regard- 
ing municipal golf which he has secured from members and others 
and has added to it his own observations and conclusions, the 
whole forming valuable material for an association bulletin which 
will be published and sent to members in due course of time. 
Wm. R. Reader, superintendent at Calgary, Canada, is collect- 
ing data regarding water charges made to park departments by 
various cities, and the result of his inquiry will be placed in the 
hand of the secretary for publication for the benefit of our mem- 
bership. 
Are you on one of the association committees ? Look in the 
Year Book and see if you are in doubt about it. Did you note 
what the president had to say about committee work in the 
March number? He said: "I will expect a report from each com- 
mittee on the subject allotted to them at the St. Louis conven- 
tion which the association will be proud of." 
Past history has shown that it is hard to get many of our 
members to take an interest in the work of the association be- 
tween conventions, but it is to be hoped that this year will be 
an exception. Our president has laid out a constructive pro- 
gramme and has asked about fifty of our members to put their 
shoulders to the wheel. We shall see. 
Remember the slogan for the St. Louis convention — One hun- 
dred new members. AVe need them in more ways than one; in 
fact, we must have them; so don't get peeved if the secretary 
keeps dinning this into your mind in various ways from now until 
September. 
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