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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Quiggle; treasurer, John G. Root; 
secretary and assistant treasurer, Ar- 
thur P. Goodman. Jacob Bassinger 
was appointed superintendent. 
William S. Egerton, formerly super- 
intendent of parks of Albany, N. Y., 
who was removed by Commissioner 
Greenlach, as announced in this col- 
umn last month, was arraigned before 
Justice Fitts in the Supreme Court on 
eight indictments charging him with 
appropriating to his own use funds 
belonging to the city. His counsel 
entered a plea of not guilty and he 
was released on bond. Philip Bender 
succeeds Mr. Egerton as park superin- 
tendent. 
Truman Lanham, superintendent of 
parking, Washington, D. C., has been 
transferred to the position of superin- 
tendent of trees and parking, with a 
raise in salary from $1,400 to $1,800 a 
year. 
John A. Lambert, park superinten- 
dent of Chattanooga, Tenn., who was 
removed from office as announced last 
month has been re-instated after mak- 
ing a formal apology to the park 
board. 
The board of aldermen of Atlanta, 
Ga., has established the position of 
Superintendent of Parks at a salary 
of $2,000 a year. Dan Carey, private 
secretary to the mayor and a former 
newspaper man, is said to be slated 
for the position, though no appoint- 
ment or official information has been 
given out. 
The Queen Victoria Niagara Falls 
Park Commission is receiving appli- 
cations for the positon of superinten- 
dent, to succeed James Wilson, who 
recently went to Toronto, as noticed 
in these pages. The board has re- 
ceived some thirty applications, but 
has not yet made a choice. Engineer 
J,ackson is performing the duties of 
superintendent temporarily. 
.\ugust J. Frey, physical director of 
the Y. M. C. A., has been made super- 
visor of playgrounds at Duluth, Minn. 
The question of the appointment of 
a superintendent of public parks, 
whose duty it shall be, under the con- 
trol of the park commissioners, to not 
only care for the parks, but also to 
look after the grounds about public 
buildings and schoolhouses, is being 
considered by city officials of Fitch- 
burg, Mass. 
After an active career in cemetery 
management of twenty-five years, 
Henry F. Torrey, formerly president 
of Arlington Cemetery, Jersey City, 
N. J., has severed his official connec- 
tion with cemeteries and is now de- 
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