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every convention since 1894 and is 
known among his friends at home as the 
great American traveler. He is secre- 
tary of his local cemetery and president 
of the Central Trust and Savings Bank 
of Geneseo. 
The charter members present were J. 
C. Cline, Dayton, O.; Geo. W. Creesy, 
Salem, Mass. ; Frank Enrich, Detroit, 
Mich. ; John Reid, Detroit, Mich., and 
the scribe. Creesy and Enrich have an 
unbroken record of attendance and Reid 
has missed but two or three meetings. 
Wm. Falconer and Geo. W. Creesy 
were said to be the only persons in the 
party who could show any dnst on their 
clothes after returning from the auto 
ride, which goes to show that some men 
are so attractive that even oiled roads 
cannot keep the dust away from them. 
Dr. R. • N. Kesterson, president 
"Greenwood,” Knoxville, Tenn., exhib- 
ited the model of a tent stake invented 
by him to overcome the annoyance of 
stakes pulling out of the ground. At- 
tached to the stake is an arm working 
on a swivel, the ropes pass through an 
eye at the end of the arm, which, when 
under strain, holds the stake firmly in 
position. It is a simple device that will 
be appreciated by those who have occa- 
sion to use tents. 
Sid J. Hare exhibited numerous plans 
of parks, cemeteries, real estate subdi- 
visions, home grounds, etc., that had 
been completed under his direction in 
Kansas City and adjacent towns, Mr. 
Hare is an enthusiastic apostle of The 
Town Beautiful whose services are in- 
creasingly in demand. He has been 
ably assisted by his son, Herbert, who 
contemplates taking a two years’ course 
in landscape work at Harvard. 
A convention without Creesy would 
be like Fourth of July without fire- 
crackers. He and H. Wilson Ross were 
the sole representatives of New Eng- 
land. 
A. W. F. Lee, of Cordell, O. T., has 
the distinction ' of being the first mem- 
ber from Oklahoma. 
Various projects were discussed for 
increasing the membership of the asso- 
ciation. Every member can help by 
sending the secretary a complete list of 
all the cemeteries and their officers in 
his city and vicinity. 
W. A. Addicott, of Sharon, Pa., 
showed some photographs of Calvary 
Cemetery, Toledo, O., to the Catholic 
priest in his town, which resulted in the 
latter taking immediate steps to remodel 
and improve the Catholic cemetery. 
M. H. Rice, the leading local monu- 
ment dealer provided button-hole bou- 
quets for the ladies and cigars for the 
men on the auto ride. 
The procession of autos attracted 
no little attention and newspaper 
comment. It was made up of some 
of the finest and fastest touring cars 
in Kansas City. At least one man in 
the party never wants to travel at 
such speed again, at least by auto-. 
M. Jensen, superintendent of “Mt. 
Olivet,” Colma, Cal„ accompanied by 
his wife and two children attended 
the convention. Mr. Jensen has a 
two months’ vacation during which 
he will visit the principal cemeteries 
in the east. He became a member of 
the association while located at Ober- 
lin, O., in 1900. 
The group picture taken in Mount 
Washington cemetery and illustrated 
in this report, is a decided departure 
in picture taking. The artist's usual 
request to "look pleasant” was ex- 
pressed differently, with the results 
as shown. Too bad McCarthy’s open 
countenance isn’t there. 
John B. Chick, LeRoy, 111., presi- 
dent of the Illinois Cemetery Associa- 
tion, mailed a hundred or more Kan- 
sas City souvenir cards to cemeteries 
in Illinois advertising the National 
association. An excellent idea. 
The oiled roads made quite an im- 
pression on the visitors and Mr. Ben- 
edict’s address on the subject was fol- 
lowed by a very general discussion. 
This paper will be published in Park 
AND Cemetery for October. 
The matter of expense incurred in 
entertaining a convention of the Asso- 
ciation of American Cemetery Super- 
intendents is said to have deterred 
many superintendents from extending 
an invitation to the association to 
meet in their city. With but one or 
two exceptions, the association has 
not met in a city to which it was not 
formally invited. Such invitations nat- 
urally carry with them the usual 
courtesies of drives through the parks, 
boulevards and cemeteries, with 
lunches or banquets, steamboat or 
trolley rides, and other forms of di- 
versions, all of which are more or 
less expensive. On some occasions 
the entertainment has been on such 
an elaborate scale as to discourage su- 
perintendents from the smaller cities 
from ever hoping to entertain the as- 
sociation. 
Some members of the association 
incline to the opinion that it -w'ere far 
better for the association to go where 
it pleased and let individual members 
defray their own expenses, thereby re- 
lieving the cemetery proprietors in 
the city visited from any obligation 
in the way of furnishing an elaborate 
program of entertainment. 
It is always pleasant to see a city’s 
parks, boulevards, residential sections, 
and such other features as residents 
are always glad to show to their visit- 
ing friends, but this, however, is an 
expensive feature, particularly when 
they require long drives and there is 
a growing feeling among members of 
the association that time spent in this 
way could be more profitably employ- 
ed on the cemetery grounds discussing 
the hundred and one details that 
every superintendent is desirous of 
knowing about. It is there, as a rule, 
that the most practical results are ro 
be had from the conventions, and, 
from the comments recently heard, 
there is a growing desire for more 
opportunities of this kind and less of 
the elaborate and expensive forms of 
entertainment that are too often a 
burden upon the hosts. 
The Kansas City convention com- 
mittee made a step in the right direc- 
tion, and we are violating no confi- 
dence when we say that the expenses 
of the entertainment were less than 
$500, or a little more than $100 each 
for the three cemeteries and Mr. Hare, 
and this amount would have been re- 
duced nearly half had the guests been 
allowed to have defrayed the cost of the 
auto rides. 
WILLIAM STONE MONUMENT 
The monument illustrated here marks 
the grave of the late William Stone, su- 
perintendent of Fine Grove Cemetery, 
Lynn, Mass., and for many years one of 
the faithful members of the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintendents. 
It is a simple, rugged sarcophagus of 
Westerly granite, in keeping with the 
character of the man it honors, and oc- 
cupies a choice location in the grounds. 
The work was executed by the Westerly 
Granite Co., Westerly, R. 1. It bears the 
simple inscription, “Superintendent Pine 
Grove Cemetery, 1886-1907.” ■ 
IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM STONE 
Former Superintendent of Pine Grove 
Cemetery, Lynn, Mass. 
