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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A A C S Notas 
/orike \i)Qh Convention 
“At a meeting of that queer committee 
Hyer-Root and Cook-Hare we decided 
to give the Association of American 
Cemetery Superintendents a real west- 
ern time at Kansas City, one unlike that 
of any other convention. A programme 
is to be the first feature, and Mr. Geo. 
E. Kessler, so well known to our coun- 
try as a leading landscape architect, has 
consented to give us an address. One 
feature of the convention this year will 
be the use of the lantern and slides 
showing features of interest in land- 
scape art in park and cemetery work. 
The members of the A. A. C. S. will 
all receive the Kansas City booklet, 
"Factory Facts.” It will tell why Kan- 
sas City is Kansas City, U. S. A., and 
show that it is the center of all things 
even if it is not the capital of the U. 
S. It is good reading and we expect 
all to read it and be posted, then we 
know you will come. 
After due consideration of all things 
we have decided on Aug. 11, 12 and 13 
as the date and on investigating we find 
that out of 21 years only two days 
reached a temperature of 100 degrees in 
Kansas City at the time we have se- 
lected, and the mean temperature of 
those dates for 33 years has been 77 
degrees, so we have a chance of having 
more pleasant weather than at a later 
date. 
The parks and boulevards of Kansas 
City alone should bring every cemetery 
superintendent to see what has been ac- 
complished in a short time. August 
will assure us better conditions of trees 
and shrubs and landscape work than if 
we should wait until later. While we 
cannot yet assure the members of a low- 
er rate than 2c per mile we feel none 
will stay away on that account. 
Our headquarters will be at the 
Coates House, one of the oldest, yet 
one of the modern, up to date hostleries 
of the west, comparing favorably with 
any we saw on our last trip. Your com- 
mittee will weigh well the many good 
suggestions offered by members in an- 
swer to Mr. Eurich’s questions, which 
are as follows : 
"Have you any suggestions to make 
for changes in the work of this associa- 
tion that will make it of more value to 
its members? 
“What topics or subjects would you 
like to have considered at the next meet- 
ing? 
“Could you be induced to present a 
paper on any particular subject? If so, 
name the subject. 
“What questions would you like to 
see discussed in the meantime in Park 
AND Cemetery? 
“If you are a member of your local 
Horticulture Society, give name. 
“What provisions have you with your 
lot owners who build mausoleums to de- 
posit a fund for the maintenance of the 
structure? Please give particulars. 
“Please give names and addresses of 
persons connected with cemeteries who 
might be induced to become members 
of our association.” 
Your commmittee extends this general 
call for lantern .slides and photos of 
modern up to date landscape work in 
cemeteries, such as sections with and 
without copings, curbings and hedges, 
sections with headmarkers of all sizes 
and shapes, and sections where head- 
markers are prohibited above the level 
of the ground, or restricted in height. 
Roads, drains, slopes, border planting, 
gateways, entrances, receiving tombs, 
office buildings, chapels, superintendents’ 
residences, bridges, lakes, fences, graves, 
grave covers, specimen trees, shrubs and 
vines, bedding, before and after improve- 
ment views, etc., etc., in fact photos of 
all the good, bad and indifferent methods 
of cemetery work are wanted to make 
the lantern slides from. Send your 
photos to Sid. J. Hare, 3224 Campbell 
St., Kansas City, Mo., and the commit- 
tee will decide on those to be used. We 
want 200 slides at least. 
The preliminary programme will be 
about as follows : 
Tuesday, Aug. 11 — Opening session at 
Coates House, 10 A. M. 
Address of Welcome, Business, Re- 
ports, etc. 
2 P. M. — Subjects of interest to be 
arranged. 
4 P. M. — Kansas City and 20 miles 
around it from a sky scraper. A view 
of the Garden Spot of America, with 
the Kaw and Missouri river valleys unit- 
ing just above the city and 400 feet be- 
low the level of the observers. 
8 P. M. — Session open to the public at 
“New Casino.” Lantern slides showing 
the modern methods in cemetery work 
as compared with the old grave yard 
method. 
Paper — “The Object and Aim of our 
Society.” 
Wednesday, Aug. 12. — 8 :30 A. M. — 
Auto trip over the boulevards, through 
Penn Valley park and down Cliff drive 
(This trip alone will pay every one who 
attends). Then through Elmwood Cem- 
etery, winding up at Mt. Washington 
Cemetery for lunch, 1 P. M. 
2 P. M. — Session at Mt. Washington 
Cemetery. 
Address by Geo. E. Kessler, landscape 
architect of the Kansas City Park Sys- 
tem, whose work at the St. Louis 
World’s Fair and also park work in 
many of the cities of America has placed 
him in the front rank as authority on 
landscape work. 
“Park Roads, Their Cost and Care, 
With Oil as a Surface Protector,” by W. 
H. Dunn, superintendent of Kansas City 
Parks. 
8 P. M. — Evening session at Coates 
House. Subjects of interest. 
Thursday, Aug. 13. — 8 :30 A. M. : Car 
ride to Forest Hill Cemetery and busi- 
ness session there at 10 A. M. 
Paper by Mr. Ross, “Evergreens and 
Grasses for Cemetery Planting.” 
11 A. M. — Cars to Swope Park. 
Swope Park contains 1,354 acres, is lo- 
cated southeast of the city, and is the 
natural beauty spot of this earth so far 
as parks are concerned. 
1 P. M. — Lunch in the park. 
2 P. M. — Session in park : Business, 
papers, adjournment. 
All members are invited and we know 
you will go home so well pleased that 
you will pack up your trunk and come 
back here to live, when you lose your 
job. The prevailing southwest wind of 
our country is always blowing, so put 
a string on your hat, Mr. Creesy. Sin- 
cerely yours, Committee, 
Root, Hyer, Cook, Hare. 
FROM ANNUAL REPORTS 
At the annual meeting of the lot own- 
ers of the Island Cemetery Company, 
Newport, R. I., President Robert S. 
Franklin reported several additions to 
lots under perpetual care, and noted the 
straightening of many fallen headstones. 
The expenditures for the year were $8, - 
072.06. 
The Lakewood Cemetery Annual, pub- 
lished by Lakewood Cemetery, Lake 
City, Minn., has been noticed before in 
these columns and presents this year 
the same interesting general cemetery 
features and the annual report of offi- 
cers. Notice is given that the rule pro- 
viding that foundations must be built 
by the cemetery, will be strictly en- 
forced, and that fees for all care must 
be paid in advance. The perpetual and 
special care fund now amounts to $10,- 
745. The expenditure for the past year 
was $2,450. N. C. Pike is secretary and 
J. M. Underwood, superintendent. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett, Mass., 
publishes a brief report of the business 
of the year, showing 1,045 interments, 
making a total of 35,287. There were 19 
brick graves and 385 foundations built, 
and a new greenhouse 100x22 feet con- 
structed. The expenditures amounted to 
$68,803. F. F. Marshall is superintend- 
