VI 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
relumed from an extended trip to Eng- 
land, where he made a careful study of 
park matters. He reports that the play- 
ground system in this country is far 
ahead of that of England. 
John Dunbar, assistant superintendent 
of parks, Rochester, N. Y., has been 
granted a three months’ leave of ab- 
sence with pay to recuperate from a re- 
cent severe illness. 
Philip Prioleau, city engineer of Jack- 
sonville, Fla., has been placed tempo- 
rarily in charge of the park system of 
that city. 
The New York Tribune has a long 
article on landscape gardening as it ap- 
peals to women and says the American 
Association of Landscape Gardeners has 
half a dozen women members out of a 
possible .50. Three of these are New 
Yorkers, ]\[iss Beatrix Jones, the dean 
of the corps ; Miss Marion Coffin and 
l\Iiss iMartha Brown. The most promi- 
nent of her sex in the profession, and 
also the first who could truly be called 
a landscape architect, is an English 
woman. Miss Wilkinson. She is offi- 
cial adviser of the London board of 
public works, and designs squares and 
parks. 
The New England Cemetery Asso- 
ciation lield a meeting and dinner at 
the Quincy House, Boston, October 
12. Fuller report in the next issue of 
Park and Cemetery. 
M. H. West, formerly assistant su- 
perintendent of the Lincoln Park sys- 
tem of Chicago, who has been acting 
superintendent since the death of Su- 
perintendent R. H. Warder, has been 
officially appointed superintendent to 
succeed Mr. Warder. 
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