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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
hurst, “Forefathers” and “Pine 
Ridge” at the center; James S. Wot- 
ton, “Riverside” at the North; A. F. 
Whidden, “The West,” at the West 
village and D. P. Byam, “Hart Pond” 
Cemetery at South Chelmsford. 
John H. McCrohan, of New Bed- 
ford, Mass., whose name was certified 
to the park board by the civil service 
commissioners for superintendent of 
Hazelwood park, will fight the re- 
fusal of the park commissioners to 
consider him for the position, and 
through his attorney has started an 
investigation from the office of the 
civil service commission in Boston. 
John Hannigan is the present incum- 
bent, who, it is alleged, holds office 
illegally. 
W. W}’nne Johnson, of the Ore- 
gon Journal at Portland, Ore., has 
been doing a valuable work for civic 
improvement by his articles in that 
paper on topics of city betterment. 
recent illustrated full page on 
“IMunicipal .A.rt” shows a broad grasp 
of the subject. 
Miss Mary Josephine O’Connor 
has been appointed Playground Su- 
pervisor at Providence, R. I., for the 
coming season. 
OBITUARY 
T. Ross Hanson, president of the 
Greenmount Cemetery Co., died at his 
home in Philadelphia, May 12, of heart 
disease. Mr. Flanson was a member of 
the state legislature in the early 80’s, 
and was a brother-in-law of Congress- 
man McCreary. 
Mrs. Lottie Snyder Younce, secretary 
to Superintendent O. W. Crabbs, of 
Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, Ind., 
died recently as a result of heart fail- 
ure, superinduced by malarial fever. 
Mrs. Younce was' secretary to Mr. 
Crabbs for over five years, and was 
held in the highest esteem by her em- 
ployer, the attaches of the cemetery 
and the lot owners. 
William Scott, founder of the Wm. 
Scott Co., florists, Buffalo, N. Y., died 
in that city lYay 19, 1908. Mr. Scott 
was widely known as a writer on com- 
mercial floriculture : the son of an Eng- 
lish gardener he had an inborn love for 
flowers and possessed a remarkable 
versitality concerning them. 
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