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American Association of Park Superintendents | 
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS 
JOHN F. WALSH, President, New York. R. W. COTTERILL, Sec.-Treas., Seattle, Washington. 
CONVENTION AFTERMATH. 
Past President Mische, Secretary Cotterill and \V. S. Rawlings, 
on tin- homeward trip to the Pacific Coast, visited a number of 
members and bad a most enjoyable time. A day was spent with 
Vice-President Brock at Houston, with a side trip to Galveston 
and a dip in the Gulf. 
Dallas and Fort Worth were also visited, then Mr. Mische pro- 
ceeded to California, visiting Los Angeles and San Francisco. 
Cotterill made stops at Denver, going over the mountain boule- 
vards, spent a day with members— Carl Fohn and J. B. Lang — at 
Colorado Springs exploring the wonders of Gardens of the Gods, 
Cheyenne Canyon, High Drive and beautiful Glen Eyrie. A 
pleasant evening was spent with C. H. llolmburg at Grand Junc- 
tion, a day at Salt Lake City, where a new member was lined. 
up (S. II. Lambourne), tben a day with our old comrade, J. W. 
Duncan, at Spokane. 
The convention proceedings will not be issued until sometime 
in December, as the secretary lias not yet compiled the stenog- 
raphic report. The papers which were presented at the convention 
which were sought by many will be found, however, in the 
columns of the Chronicle. 
The new certificates of membership for framing, authorized by 
the last convention, will be ready for issuance shortly and will 
be forwarded to all members in good standing. Bear in mind that 
you will not receive one unless your dues for the current year are 
paid, so if you are one of those who receive a due bill from the 
secretary, prompt payment will get you one of the certificates. 
The St. Louis contingent was delighted at securing the 1917 
convention and the Louisville delegation was certainly disap- 
pointed after making such a systematic and energetic effort. The 
St. Louis boys, however, had a system of their own which was 
hard to beat, and as they have been put off from time to time 
and have been such good losers, it was perfectly logical that their 
patient efforts should be rewarded. St. Louis is the bub of the 
country, geographically, and we should have a bumper attendance 
next September. 
Memphis i- on the map with a vengeance with members of our 
association who have visited that city. Besides having the best 
assortment of park features to show of any city of the South, 
they have a group of park authorities whom it is a pleasure to 
meet with and who make the time spent in their city so pleasant 
that it is hard to leave. 
NEW MEMBERS. 
There were twenty-four new memberships added to our rolls 
at the New Orleans convention, a larger number than for many 
sessions. For the benefit of those who did not attend the con- 
vention as well as for the general information of the member- 
ship, tin' list is presented herewith, with brief facts regarding 
same, as shown on applications. 
Senior Members. 
Emile Altherr. — Superintendent of National Battlefields Park, 
■Quebec. Canada. Age 34. born in Switzerland. Graduate of Horti- 
cultural College. Ilaidenswiel, Switzerland, and Swiss Federal 
Polytechnic Scl 1- at Zurich. 1009-10-11 in landscape work at 
Montreal; 1912 to present at Quebec in present position. 
Joseph Bernard. — Superintendent of City Park in New Orleans 
for past 12 years. Age 63; born in New Orleans. 
C. C. Cox.— Superintendent of Parks at Wichita. Kan., for the 
past six years. Age 39; born in Kentucky. 
Will 0. Doolittle. — Superintendent of Parks at Minot, N. D., 
for past two years. Prior to that was six years at l'ainsville, 
■Ohio, tour years as city forester and two years as park super- 
intendent, also three years as instructor at Wymans School of 
the Woods. Marquette, Mich. Age 37: bom in Painesville, Ohio. 
V. Grant Forrer. — Superintendent and assistant superintendent 
•of parks at Harrisburg, Pa., for the past nine years. Age 39; 
born in Harrisburg. 
Julius Koenig. — City forester of St. Louis, Mo., for the past 
six years. Engaged in florist and landscape work since child- 
hood. Age 40: born in St. Louis. 
Samuel Marshall. — Superintendent of Audubon Park, New Or- 
leans, for the past seven years. Age 72; born in New Orleans. 
Fred Nussbaumer. — Superintendent of parks at St. Paul, Minn., 
for the past 25 years. Born in Germany. Former member of 
the association. 
W. S. Rawlings. — Superintendent of parks at Vancouver, B. C, 
for the past four years, and was secretary for three years preced- 
ing. Several years' experience in England in municipal engineer- 
ing. Age 33; born in London. 
Thos. W. Shimmins. — Superintendent of Cameron Park, Waco, 
Texas, for the past six years. Four years prior in charge of Ward 
Park. Waco, Texas. Age 39; born in Kansas. 
Walter Wright. — Secretary and executive officer, Special Park 
Commission, Chicago, 111., for the past five years. Age 32; born 
in Chicago. Has for several years attended conventions as repre- 
senting Sustaining Membership of Special Park Commission. 
Junior Members. 
Jas. E. Fitzpatrick. — Superintendent of parks at Terre Haute, 
Ind., since January 1, 1916; prior to that with department in 
clerical capacity for two years. Age 32; born in Terre Haute. 
Harry B. Frase. — Recently elected councilman and superinten- 
dent of parks and public property for Des Moines, Iowa. Age 44; 
born in Akron. Ohio. 
Associate Members. 
L. M. De Saussure. — Secretary of the Memphis Park Commis- 
sion for the past eight years. Chief Rabbi of the Ancient and 
Effervescent Order of Yellow Dogs. Age 47; born in Camden, 
S. C. 
C. H. Hager. — Right-of-way agent for Toledo. Ohio, for the 
past 10 years, in which capacity he has been closely identified 
with the Park Department. Age 60; born in New York. 
Chas. 0. Hausler. — City architect for the city of St. Paul, Minn. 
Age 30: born in St. Paul. 
John D. Hyland. — Commissioner of parks, playgrounds and pub- 
lic buildings for the city of St. Paul. Minn. Age 42; born in St. 
Paul. 
D. L. Mackintosh. — Horticulturist and superintendent of con- 
struction for the State Prison grounds at Stillwater, Minn. Has 
bad 21 years' experience in all branches of horticulture, land- 
scape work and management of estates. Age 55; born in Scot- 
land. 
Robert Ross Moss. — In charge of private estate at Long Island, 
N. Y. Has had 20 years' practical experience in landscape work 
on (states in Scotland and the United States. Age 40; born in 
Scotland. 
J. Paul Zaleski. — Landscape architect. Has had practical ex- 
perience in parks in Poland and in charge of private estate at 
Geneva. Wis. At present at University of Illinois completing 
course in landscape architecture. Age 27: born in Poland. 
Sustaining Memberships. 
Board of Park Commissioners of Bibbing, Minn. 
Board of Park Commissioners of Virginia, Minn. 
Playground and Recreation Association of America. 
J. W. Thompson, of Seattle, is engineering a movement to 
organize an associatii f park officials of the Pacific Coast on 
the theory that distance makes it impossible for many of the 
coast officials to make the convention trip and a district associa- 
tion will arouse more interest between cities whose work is some- 
what in common. This is something along the line of the New 
England Park Institute which has proven very beneficial to park 
men in that section. There are many points in favor of associa- 
tions of this kind, but there is no question but what they have 
a tendency to weaken the national organization. 
BATHING SUIT RESOLUTION. 
It will be recalled that the New Orleans convention adopted, 
after much discussion, a resolution urging a standard rule regard- 
ing bathing suits to be used at public bathing beaches and bath 
houses. The resolution was drawn rather hastily and has been 
misunderstood and misinterpreted, so Walter Wright has for- 
warded a specific set of rules, which the committee had in mind, 
but was unable at the time to incorporate in the resolution, but 
which carry out the spirit of the committee report which was 
adopted, so it is produced herewith for the use of members. 
