PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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MINNEAPOLIS PLANS BIG PARK MEETING 
The annual convention of the Ameri- 
can Association of Park Superintendents 
to be held at Minneapolis, August 11, 
12 and 13, as announced in our last is- 
sue, will offer a rare opportunity for 
park superintendents and executive of- 
ficers in the west to become identified 
with this active and useful organiza- 
tion, and see the remarkable park con- 
struction that Superintendent Theodore 
Wirth has accomplished and under way. 
Special effort is being made to induce 
new members to attend, and no live 
the east, the possibilities offered by its 
park possessions and through contem- 
plated extensions, will convince every 
visitor that Minneapolis will have one 
of the grandest systems of parks, park- 
ways and l)oulevards in the country. 
■‘THE OUTLOOK” AT LAKE HARRIET. 
Minneapolis Park System. 
The many fine lakes ; the grand drives 
along the wooded banks of the Missis- 
sippi river ; Minnehaha Falls and creek ; 
the fine parkways through the residen- 
tial parts of the city, and the many 
smaller parks, cannot fail to instruct 
and interest every visitor identified with 
park work and development. 
The following preliminary program 
has been prepared and will, in the main, 
be carried out; 
Headquarters, West Hotel, Hennepin 
avenue and Fifth street. Rates, $1.50, 
up. 
1st day, Tuesday — 9:30 a. m. : Open- 
ing session at Park Commissioners’ of- 
fice, City Hall, 3rd avenue and 5th 
street. Address of welcome by Mayor 
James C. Haynes and Hon. Jesse E. 
Northrup, president of the board of 
park commissioners. Response by J. F. 
Cowell, president of the association, 
followed by business meeting, to be ad- 
journed at noon. 
12:15 p. m. ; Automobile ride to 
Minikahda Club, Lake Calhoun, by way 
of Park avenue to Powderhorn Park 
and Lake street. Luncheon at club 
house at 2 p. m. Papers and discussions 
at the club house. An interesting pro- 
gram for this session is being prepared 
and the names of the essayists and 
the sulijects will l)e sent out with 
the final program in July. The Mini- 
kahda Club grounds offer a splendid 
view over Lake Calhoun, Lake of the 
Isles and the city, and it is an ideal 
park man in the west should miss this 
occasion. Minneapolis has a great park 
system in the making, and it will be 
both an education and a pleasure to see 
how she is making it. The system in 
general ■was described in our April is- 
sue, and an outline of the. program was 
given last month, and this has been 
amplified into the preliminary program 
given here. 
The park board of the convention city 
has appointed a special committee of 
five members and the superintendent to 
work out an interesting program and 
provide for the welfare and entertain- 
ment of their visitors. The association 
has never met farther west than Buf- 
falo, and Minneapolis will spare no 
pains to justify its claim as the ideal 
convention city of the great northwest. 
As a park city, she stands second to 
none in the country, and while its sys- 
tem of parks and parkways is far from 
completion and perfection as compared 
with the systems of the older cities of 
VIEW OF LAKE HARRIET, FROM THE OUTT,OOK. 
Minneapolis Park System, 
