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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PARK SUPERINTENDENTS TO MEET AT TORONTO 
For practical instruction in park 
work, the annual meetings of the 
American Association of Park Super- 
intendents are among the most valu- 
able experiences in park education. 
They are first hand studies of the 
park systems of the cities visited, 
supplemented by valuable discussions 
among these expert and energetic of- 
ficials and comparisons with their 
own experiences. 
A more than unusually interesting 
and valuable program has been pre- 
pared for this year’s meeting, which 
is to be held at Toronto, Can., August 
15, 16, and 17, with headquarters at 
Queens Hotel, business sessions to be 
held in the City Hall. 
Discussions of the problems of park 
management and improvement, as 
suggested by the formal papers to be 
read by experienced men, are given 
prominent place in addition to the act- 
ual field work of inspection, always the 
chief feature of these gatherings. Its 
membership includes the leaders in 
park work in America, and their com- 
bined experience as embodied in the 
bulletins the association is now issu- 
ing in pamphlet form constitutes a 
compendium of modern practice in 
park work to be had from no other 
sources. 
The association has enthusiastic 
members in Toronto and other Can- 
adian cities who have spared no pains 
in their arrangements to give visit- 
ing members, a royal welcome. 
An outline of the program as far 
as arranged at this date is as follows: 
August 15, morning — Reception of 
visitors and address of welcome by 
the Mayor of Toronto. 
Usual business — Election of officers, 
president’s address, etc. 
August 15, afternoon, 2 p. m. — 
Drive through city parks, etc. 
August 15, evening— Business — 
Reading of papers and discussion 
thereon. 
August 16, morning, 9:30 a, m. — 
Automobile trip, 
August 16, afternoon, 2 p. m, — Trip 
by boat around Toronto Island; 5 p. 
m., luncheon at Island Park. 
.'Vugust 16, evening — Business meet- 
ing. 
Arrangements not fully made for 
August 17th at this time. 
The officers of the association are: 
President, Byron Worthen, Man- 
chester, N, H, 
Vice-Presidents: John Chambers, 
Toronto, Ont.; John W, Duncan, 
Boston; Frederick Nussbaumer, St. 
Paul: John F. Cowell, Buffalo; W. 
S. Manning, Baltimore; C. E. Keith, 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
Secretary-Treasurer, F, L. Mulford, 
Harrisburg, Pa. 
A DENVER PLAYGROUND 
The new playgrounds to be opened 
in North Denver, it is said, will be 
the most complete of any similar 
places west of Chicago. Arthur Le- 
land, public instructor of the parks 
for children in Denver, has completed 
plans for the one in the Highlands 
bounded by West Thirty-ninth and 
West Thirty-eighth avenues and Os- 
age and Navajo streets, which is 
shown here. He has provided sepa- 
rate out-of-door gymnasiums for 
boys and girls. The south end of 
the block will be occupied by an oval 
track for foot and wheel races, the 
cinder path to be nine laps to the 
mile. The girls will also have a hand- 
ball court, a giant stride, a set of 
see-saws, nine swdngs for the big 
girls and eight leather-bottomed ones 
for the little ones. A blackthorn 
hedge is to surround the girls’ gym- 
nasium. A wading pool is also plan- 
ned for later in the season. 
A combined g 3 -mnasium and bath 
house is desired for the northern half 
of the grounds. The board has sug- 
gested that perhaps some philan- 
thropic resident, of Denver might do- 
nate the city such a building. 
