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INDIAN MOUNDS AND PANORAMA OP THE MISSISSIPPI. 
Indian Mounds Park, St. Paul. 
till the boat left for Excelsior, where 
cars were waiting for the return to the 
city. 
Friday the majority of the visiting 
members went to St. Paul for a view 
■of the parks of that city. They were 
met at Como Park by Superintendent 
Fred Nussbaumer, who showed them 
around the grounds of this great park 
in automobiles. Como is the pride of 
St'. Paul, a great landscape park of 415 
acres, that includes every feature that 
could be incorporated into - a park. 
There are two great lakes, natural for- 
ests and hills, a deer preserve, a famous 
lily pond, gardens of every kind with a 
profusion of well-grown plants in every 
style of planting, from the old-fashioned 
perennial garden to a realistic carpet- 
bed representation of the Gates Ajar. It 
has open meadows and cool woods, long 
drives and woodland paths, band con- 
certs and boating, and is the gardener’s 
paradise. 
From here the party took cars for the 
state capitol and went through the 
building with guides who explained its 
beauties. After a luncheon at The 
Frederick as guests of Mr. Nussbaumer, 
the part}- left for Indian Mounds Park 
at the other end of the city. From these 
great mounds is one of the finest views 
in the United States, giving a magnifi- 
cent panorama of the Mississippi and 
the Twin Cities. This park, with the 
State Fish Hatchery adjoining, includes 
about 133 acres. 
One of the most interesting and useful 
institutions in St. Paul, the free public 
baths on Harriet Island in the Missis- 
sippi river, was the last place on the 
visiting list in this city. These baths 
were established through the efforts of 
Dr. Justus Ohage, who turned them over 
to the city in 1901. The baths are free, 
a nominal charge being made for soap, 
towel, suits and locker. The equipment 
cost $33,400. The island also has a me- 
nagerie, a gymnasium, picnic grounds, 
a public kitchen, a dancing pavilion, and 
a day nursery for small children. A 
laundry is maintained which washes. 
surgically clean, all the suits and towels. 
It has a capacity of 12,000 suits and 
25,000 towels a day. The number of 
bathers varies from 150,000 to 200,000 a 
season. 
Among the Out-of-Town Guests Were: 
Prof. J. F. Cowell, Buffalo, N. Y. ; M. H. 
West, Chicago, 111.; W. H. Dunn, Kansas 
City, Mo.; G. Champion, Winnipeg; C. V. 
Fohn, Colorado Springs, Colo; Arthur Hay, 
Springfield. HI.; H. S. Keffer, Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa; F. L. Mulford and wife, Harrisburg, 
Pa.; A. Pinoteau, Montreal; John Henderson 
and wife, Montreal; J. Crepeau and wife, 
Montreal; L, Mendenhall and wife. Duluth; 
C. O. E. Boehm, Davenport, la.; Chas. Hai- 
ble, Newburg, N. Y. ; O. E. Wolff. Cedar 
Rapids; John H. Hemingway, Worcester; 
W. D. Cukerski, Grand Rapids, Mich.; G. X. 
Amrhyn, New Haven; Chas. E'. Keith, 
Bridgeport. Conn.; W. R. Adams, Omaha; 
J. F. Foster, Chicago; J. W. Thompson, 
Seattle; Benj. E. Gage, Chicago; J. W. 
Rodgers, Cincinnati; Chas. G. Carpenter and 
wife, Milwaukee; W. S. Heizer, Rockford. 
HI.; Richard H. Tacke, Lexington, Ky. ; H. 
C. Helm, Duluth : Wm. G. MacLean. Madison, 
Wis. ; James C. Williams, Erie, Pa.; L. S. 
Cole, Chicago, 111.; Harry L. Manss, Cincin- 
nati; R. F. Geeseka, Chicago; W. A. Fin- 
kelnburg, Winona, Minn.; Nelson Bennett, 
Tacoma, Wash.; W. E. Keach, Chicago; A. 
Phelps Wyman, Chicago; O. H. Sample, 
Park and Cemetery, Chicago. 
jEchoes 
Tlie official greeting is “Hello!” 
Theodore Wirth made a speech which 
he said was the hardest work he did ; 
he made a hit, however, when he said : 
“If you ain’t got a board like mine, you 
gotta get one.” 
President Northrup of the park board 
says they are thinking of enlarging the 
Ifoard from fifteen to twenty-five to have 
enough men to hang onto the superin- 
tendent’s coat tails. 
Secretary Mulford also made himself 
famous with a speech when he was re- 
elected. It contains some original and 
forceful thoughts that ought to be con- 
veyed to the members who were absent 
as well as those who were there. Mr. 
Mulford spoke, in full,- as follows : 
“Write your bulletins; pay your dues.” 
Mr. Charles M. Coring paid the pen- 
alty of his jnany years of useful service 
to the parks by being called on for a 
speech at every stopping place. 
Harrisburg made a good fight for the 
next meeting, but J. W. Thompson, of 
Seattle, and Nelson Bennett, of Tacoma, 
carried it away with them. It was an 
open question as to whether their suc- 
cess was due to a desire to see the 
Alaskan Exposition or to investigate 
Mr. Bennett’s statistics about the height 
of those mountains. 
A. Phelps Wyman, landscape gar- 
dener, of Chicago, while he was 
in IMinneapolis, made a strong plea 
in the Minneapolis Journal for the 
acquiring of public park land on the 
shores of Lake Minnetonka, which 
are fast being acquired for private 
residence purposes. Mr. Wyman sug- 
gests tlie appointment of a metropoli- 
tan or county park commission to ac- 
quire and preserve these beautiful 
shores before it is too late. 
“The trade” was represented In- : L. 
S. Cole, of Swain Nelson & Sons, Chi- 
cago; B. E. Gage, of the Peterson Nur- 
series, Chicago ; W. E. Keach, of “Tar- 
via,” Chicago ; A. Phelps Wyman, land- 
scape architect, Chicago ; and Ernest E. 
Jones, of the Edman Selling Agency, 
of Minneapolis, who exhibited at one 
of the meetings a metal protector for the 
bottom of shoes of workmen who use 
a spade or for other work that wears 
on the sole of the shoe. He is to mar- 
ket the device to parks and cemeteries. 
OILED ROADS IN KANSAS 
Editor Park and Cemetery: I de- 
sire to take some exceptions to the 
article entitled “Dust Suppression and 
Macadam Road Making” appearing in 
your August number. This city and 
county are located in the oil belt of 
Kansas and has had considerable ex- 
perience with oil for road purposes 
and to date has had notliing but com- 
plete success from its use. 
W'e have used it on our rock roads 
(macadam) with the effect of doing 
away entirely with the dust nuisance. 
Kansas City the troubles due to the 
ravages of the elements and attrition 
of vehicles, especially automobiles, 
have now all lieen settled by tlic use 
of road oil (a residmuu of crude) and 
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