THE GiRDE'^ERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA 
249 
American Association of Park Superintendents 
f John F. Walsh, Jr., President, New York. 
R. W. CoTTERiLL, Sec.-Treas., Seattle, Washington. | 
Vice-Presidents 
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 m 
CHARLES W. DAVIS, Memphis, Tenn. 1 
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New Membership Roll of Honor 
New Member. 
Jas. A. Spurritr, 
Ellis S. Joseph. 
Occupation. 
Supt. of Parks. 
Zoo importer. 
City. 
Eveleth, Jlimi. 
Victoria, B. C. 
Secured by. 
Conrad B. Wolf. 
R. W. Cotterill. 
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ONE HUNDRED NEW MEMBERS FOR ST. LOUIS. 
As aiuiuinieed in la>t issue, «c will each nmiitli frmn iiuw until 
the St. Louis convention in September, carry in this department 
a Roll ot Honor, showing new members whose applications are 
on file and by whom secured. 
It has but a small beginning this month, but it is a Htth' early, 
and will no doubt assume larger proportions ne.xt month and by 
the September number should lill the page. 
The secretary has received a luunber of very cordial letters 
from some of our older members commenting on his appeal to 
the membership made in the last issue and bespeaking success. 
Fre<l Green of Providenee writes his sentiments in a fashion 
characteristic of his big heart and love of the association and 
its workers. He proposes that to relieve the financial tension 
we assess all the senior members •f.j each, and sends his check 
for a starter. 
Fred iias drawn the wrong coneiusion from my ajipeal of last 
month. While, of eoiirse. we need money, we are not insolvent, 
our bills will be all paid in course of time, and there is no need 
of passing the hat. The ])oint I wanted to bring out was that 
for the lutiu'e success of the association we must have a larger 
membership, for financial reasons and otherwise. In my opinion 
we shovild not continue as we have been doing, hence my proposal 
of an earnest extension plan. If this tails, we must put our 
heads together at St. Louis next September and decide u|)on what 
is best for the association. 
However. Fred has some good stuft' in his letter which will be 
of interest to all. In support of his .$5 assessment plan he says; 
"Surely it is worth an extra $5 once in a while when funds 
are low, to be associated with the best bunch of fellows in the 
world. 
"Just think of the splendid times we have together at our 
conventions. I would not liegrudge several times the amount 
just for the pleasure I get in looking forward to the bully times 
we will have with our St. Louis friends next September, for I 
have met them and I know. 
"It seems to me that every park superintendent worthy of the 
name ought to become a member of the association, but I would 
rather pay $10 a year dues than have a lot of lukewarm mem- 
bers who have to be coaxed to associate with us. Men who have 
to be chloroformed and brouglit in on stretchers are not the kind 
wanted. I do not say this to discourage any member wlio knows 
some good fellows wl;o are waiting for an invitation to join us." 
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. 
W. C. Claybangh. superintendent at Fresno, Cal., for several 
years, who joined our association at the San Francisco session 
of 191o. has sent in his resignation, political changes in his city 
resulting in his being succeeded by a political friend, high in the 
Tanks of the Electrical Workers' T^nion. Another example of 
patronage versus efticiency. 
.John ileisenbacher of Tulsa, Okla., has been straying otV the 
reservation, looking over park work, etc., at Kansas City and 
other cities of the Southwest. 
H. L. McGillis, park engineer at Seattle for five years, quali- 
fied for military service with the engineers' regiment, has been 
commissioned as a captain, is now at the training camp at 
American Lake and expects to be en route to France in the near 
fntiu'e. 
Theodore Wirth has been taking a swing through New En»land 
cities, and we note by an excliange that at Hartford, hil old 
stamping groimds, he was banqueted and eulogized bv a group 
at city oihcials and former associates, with our friends Parker 
and Huss in charge. Such events as tliese are the bright spots 
in the career of a successful park executive and repay him for 
many trials and tribulations. 
Fort \\ ayiie, Ind., has adopted a novel method of assistino- in 
the agricultural conservation movement by utilizing the city 
greenhouses for the propagation of thousands of cabba<»e and 
tomato plants, etc., which will be distributed to back yard car- 
deners about July 1 at a nominal price sufficient to cover actual 
cost ol propagation. 
Donald McLaren, of San Francisco, has been placed in charge 
ot the planting of thirty "model gardens" installed by the local 
touiicil of Defense to stimulate back yard gardeninc. 
Many cities are utilizing their park superintendents as ad- 
Msors in connection with the agricultural conservation wave 
whicli is swee])ing the country, 
A news item from Syracuse, N. Y., states: 
•'Frank Westcott, a local politician, has been appointed by the 
JIayor as Commissioner of Parks at a salary of .$3,.500 per 'year 
It was earnestly hoped that a thoroughlv in-actical man \vouId 
be chosen. However, Superintendent David Campbell will be 
retained." 
Jenson, Strehle, Griffin, Koenig and Ihlweiler of St. Louis are 
laying great plans for our September convention in that city, and 
there is no doubt but what it will be a record-breaker in' every 
particular. This quintet forms a complete convention commit- 
tee, right in the convention city, so there won't be anv lost 
motion, and they are not only on the job, but they are working 
all the time. " "^ 
L. P. Jenson, of St. Louis, is certainly an organizer. He did 
the foundation work of the St. Louis Park Employees' Associa- 
tion several years ago, and has recently organized 'the St. Louis 
Association of Gardeners, of which he is president, and the St. 
Louis Natural History JIuseum Association, of which he is sec- 
retary. Any one who lias been officially associated with liim or 
on a committee with him, knows that iie is a tireless worker a 
champion letter writer, and that he puts his heart and soul into 
anything he undertakes. If our association had about a dozen 
such workers as Jenson scattered over the country there would 
be something doing. 
L. P. Jenson. of St. Louis, is certainly an organizer. He did 
has returned to that city from Riverside, Cal., and has [iresented 
his home city with a beautiful cascade, patterned after the one 
in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. 
The cascade is being constructed in Glenwood Park, and Mr 
Loring has secured Mr. Francois Scotti, who has done similar 
work 111 California cities, to carry on the work. 
This will indeed be a distinctive addition to the wonderful 
Minneapolis park system, and that city is to be congratulated 
Mr. Loring is loved by all who know him, and his latest act will 
be the crowning feature of a life largely devoted to niakiinr 
IMinneapolis a city beautiful. " " 
