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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A.A C.S Notes 
/or&e-\^o& Convention 
The Executive Committee for the 
Kansas City Convention of the Associa- 
tion of American Cemetery Superin- 
tendents are preparing to show their 
eastern friends something of the true 
western spirit when they visit that city 
in August. The preliminary programme 
published last month has called forth 
some favorable comment from Park and 
Cemetery readers and the hope is ex- 
pressed that the eastern members will 
show up in goodly numbers. It will do 
them good as is suggested by one writer 
"to get in contac’t with the hustling 
westerners.” An effort will doubtless be 
made to attract exhibitors of machinery 
and appliances for use in cemeteries and 
also to ensure a display of photographs 
of entrances, chapels and similar improve- 
ments. All such exhibits tend to make 
the conventions interesting and instruc- 
tive. The Executive Committee, in one 
sense, will appreciate suggestions as well 
as the co-operation of members in add- 
ing to the practical benefits of the con- 
vention in this manner. Let each one 
help to make this the best convention 
yet and thereby extend the helpfulness 
of the association. 
From the Committee 
"Within a few days each member of 
the A. A. C. S. will receive a folder 
postal card with 21 colored views of 
Kansas City, Mo. A little history of 
its progress to date and the possibility 
of its reaching the second place in the 
rank of the great cities of the United 
States within a few 3 'ears. Our bank 
clearings last week placed us seventh 
instead of tenth as printed on the pos- 
tal. and so it goes ; before the printer’s 
ink is dry new records make the past 
sound like ancient history. We trust 
each superintendent will study the pos- 
tal views carefully, learn that Kansas 
City is not a prairie town as one mem- 
ber at Providence seemed to think, but 
that it is one of the most naturalh- 
picturesque of American cities with 
many natural features so blended into 
a park system that it is difficult for 
even the expert to tell what was there 
originally, and what part the landscape 
artist has accomplished. 
Kansas City has more than 100 hotels 
and the one selected, the Coates House, 
as announced in the preliminary pro- 
gram printed here last month, is on the 
highest point in the city. The letters 
with picture of hotel sent to each mem- 
ber in April show that it ranks well 
with any we have visited lately. The 
prices we have secured will make it 
possible for all to arrange for rooms 
there during their stay in Kansas City. 
The price is '$L90 and up European 
plan and $2.50 American. Some of the 
early birds have already written and 
engaged rooms and we are looking for 
a full, house, and profitable time to all. 
Those pictures and lantern slides of 
the good things you have accomplished 
and a few of your failures should be 
sent at once, so we will know what we 
have to depend upon for Lantern Slide 
Night. 
That lunch at Swope Park, Aug. 13, 
back in the hills of Missouri, will be a 
typical early da\’ western barbecue if 
we can Hyer a Cook that won’t go on a 
strike. 
Keep your eye on this column and 
your fingers on your loose change until 
time to come to Kansas City, Aug. 11 , 
12 , 13, next. Your Committee, 
Root-Hyer-Cook-Hare. 
NEW CEMETERIES, IMPROVEMENTS AND EXTENSIONS 
The Riverside Cemetery .Association 
of Eckman, N. D., has been incor- 
porated by Robert Ellsworth, C. M. 
Johnson, and Marvin Penrod. 
The lodge and entrance of the new 
Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernar- 
dino, Cal., are nearly complete and the 
cemetery is soon to begin sale of lots. 
.A. M. Ham is president of the associa- 
tion and W. H. Swan secretary. 
Congress has passed a bill authorizing 
Woodlawn Cemetery Association, St. 
Marie’s, Idaho, to purchase 40 acres of 
land in the Cceur d’.Alene Indian reser- 
vation. 
Fairlawn Cemetery Association, Okla- 
homa City, Okla., will erect an admin- 
istration building and make other im- 
provements to cost $5,000. 
Plans have been prepared for develop- 
ing a new . section in Union Cemetery, 
Brockton, Mass., and the old part will 
be put under perpetual care. 
The Bennington Park Lawn Ceme- 
tery has been incorporated at Benning- 
ton, Vt., with a capital stock of $15,000. 
City Engineer John W. Howard of 
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Ga., 
has completed the surveying of the un- 
improved tract in Bonaventure Ceme- 
teryy and the city is considering the pur- 
chase of an addition. 
Opposition is being encountered by 
the new cemetery ordinance at Muske- 
gon, Mich., providing that all work on 
lots must be done by the cemetery em- 
ployees, and the consideration of the 
measure has been postponed to ascer- 
tain the opinion of the people on the 
subject. 
Elias K. Freed and John M. Harley 
of N. Wales, Pa., have secured options 
on a tract of land in the rear of the 
Kneedler station for the purpose of lay- 
ing out a cemetery. 
The Glenwood Cemetery Association, 
Utica, N. Y., will soon start the con- 
struction of a new entrance and will 
move the residence of Superintendent 
Keen to a new site. 
The Greenwood Ce-metery Co., Lex- 
ington, K\'., has been incorporated to 
develop a cemetery for colored people 
on a sixteen acre tract on the Thos. 
Bradley farm at Forest Hill. Henry A. 
Tandy is president of the company; Dr. 
W. H. Ballard secretary, and Jordan C. 
Jackson superintendent. 
The Point Pleasant Cemetery, War- 
wick, R. I., has been incorporated. 
