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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ELKS' REST, MOUNT WASHINGTON CEMETERY, KANSAS CITY, MO. 
Decatur, Tex.; Mathias Noll, Supt., “Mt. 
Vernon," Atchison, Kan.; G. H. Faden, Supt., 
■‘Park View," Hastings. Neb.; W. J. Strin- 
ger, "Grand Lawn," Rockport, Mich.; J. B. 
Chick, Sec , "Oak Grove." Le Roy, 111. 
The president extended the new mem- 
bership a heart}- welcome to the asso- 
ciation. 
The afternoon session, lasting from 
two to four o’clock, was devoted to ad- 
dresses and reports from the officers 
of state associations. 
“The Grading of Cemeteries,” an in- 
structive paper by O. C. Simonds, was 
read in his absence by Geo. L. Tilton, 
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. The pa- 
per concluded with this suggestive bit of 
advice : “Let me ask the superintend- 
ents to look out of the car windows on 
their way home and note the hills and 
valleys and the contours of the fields, 
as the most instructive lessons in grad- 
ing must be given to the eye rather 
than the ear. Downing called the beauty 
which you will see ‘Nature’s smiles,’ 
and if ypu can put such smiles into your 
cemeteries you will be acting on the 
modern principle of making cemeteries 
cheerful, places.” 
Frank Eurich read a brief sketch of 
the Association of American Cemetery . 
Superintendents, setting forth its object 
and some of the result’s it had accom- 
plished during the twenty-two years of 
its history. This address is to be print- 
ed for distribution among cemetery of- 
ficials for the purpose of enlisting their 
interest in the association. 
Wm. Crosbie, superintendent Wash- 
ington Cemetery, Washington, Pa., who 
has made a study, of forestry for years, 
read a plea for the judicious planting of 
trees to prevent a continuance of the 
disastrous floods resulting from the de- 
struction of the forest's. “From my own 
experience and observation at Wash- 
ington, Pa., which is on the battle line 
of climatic warfare,” said Mr. Crosbie, 
“I sincerely believe that all parts of the 
country would be benefited by the -plant- 
ing of trees. All superintendents of 
American cemeteries should make their 
influence felt for the public weal along 
this line in their various localities.” 
Judge C. A. Baldwin, president of 
Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb., 
aMdressed the convention. He com- 
mended the work of the cemetery mak- 
ers and said that “beautiful cemeteries 
make good people, by awakening love — 
love to God, love to man, love to the 
living and love ‘for the dead.” He re- 
ferred to the legal troubles between the 
city authorities and his cemetery super- 
intendent at Omaha, which he attributed 
to the fact of the cemetery having been 
originally used by Indians and others 
who were buried before Nebraska be- 
came a state. 
State association reports were made 
by J. E. Miller, for Illinois; George 
Gossard, for Ohio ; Geo. W. Creesy. 
for New England, all of whom said 
their associations were prospering and 
that recent meetings had been well at- 
tended. I 
Daniel E. Bushnell, secretary and I 
manager Forest Hill, Chattanooga, 
Tenn., was introduced as a represen- 
tative of the South, and spoke briefly 
on the relation of the cemetery man- 
agers to their lot owners. 
The remainder of the afternoon was 
devoted to sight seeing in the business 
part of the city. The visitors were es- 
corted to the top of one of the tallest 
office buildings, where they had an un- 
broken view of the city and country-side 
for miles around. The executive com- 
mittee and their ladies were present to 
point out objects of interest in the land- 
scape. 
In the evening Sid J. Hare enter- 
tained the convention with a lantern 
slide exhibition to which the public had 
also been invited. Nearly three hun- 
dred slides were shown, many of them 
beautifully colored, illustrating scenes in 
modern American cemeteries, east and 
west, contrasting the old with the new. 
