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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
This treatment appeared to give very 
general satisfaction. The road in Au- 
gust was still moist and absolutely dust- 
less. 
In the tarvia treatment, by Barrett 
Manufacturing Company, New York 
City, eighteen thousand lineal feet of six- 
teen-foot macadam road were treated 
with Tarvia B, on the section of high- 
way between the city of Buffalo and 
the village of Williamsville. The ap- 
proximate cost was ; 
10,230 gals, of Tarva B at 5c... $511. 50 
Freight 153.45 
Labor, etc 270.00 
Total $834.95 
at the rate of two and six-tenths cents 
per square yard. 
The method of application was as fol- 
lows : 
The road was swept free from dust, 
using the ordinary horse sweeper. The 
tarvia was then applied from tank 
wagons fitted with a perforated pipe 
sprinkler, the application being made on 
one side of the road, allowed to pene- 
trate, covered with sand and sweepings 
to prevent tarvia picking up on tires, 
shoes, etc. No tarvia was applied on 
opposite side until the one treated was 
ready for traffic. 
Various types of road machinery were 
exhibited on Bailey avenue, near the 
city line, the principal exhibit being made 
by the Buffalo Steam Roller Company, 
which demonstrated a complete hauling 
outfit, consisting of a fifteen-ton hauling 
engine and a train of five-yard dump 
wagons : also a twelve-ton steam road 
roller, a ten-ton tandem roller and a 
scarifier. 
An excellent type of road scraper, 
which graded a most difficult section of 
clay filled with rocks and stumps, was 
exhibited by C. S. Barron, of New York 
City. The machine used was a 600- 
pound Twentieth Century, and was oper- 
ated with one man and one team with- 
out the use of picks or shovels. 
The Root Scraper Company, of Kala- 
mazoo, Mich., exhibited their Good 
Roads machine, which is intended to 
finish roads and keep them smooth after 
they have been graded. 
The Watson Wagon Company’s dump 
wagons were shown in operation. 
The work of grading, graveling and 
macadamizing town roads in the towns 
of Cheektowaga and West Seneca, un- 
der the direction of the respective high- 
way commissioners, and under the pro- 
visions of the New York State Money 
System Law, were viewed by the dele- 
gates. The cost of this work ranges 
from $100 to $1,800 per mile. 
HOME and LAST WORK of AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS 
HOME OF AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS, CORNISH. N. H. 
The little town of Cornish in the New Hampshire hills is, 
the only place in this country where a colony of men and 
women famous in art and literature have built themselves 
great country homes to work undisturbed by the multitude of 
curiosity seekers that haunt the steps of the famous in the 
large cities. The most famous of these residents of Cornish 
was the late Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and we get the follow- 
ing interesting glimpse of his home and late works from an 
entertaining article on this artistic and literar}^ colony in a 
recent issue of the Springfield, Mass., Republican, to which 
we are indebted for the accompanying picture : 
“High up on the hillside above the river sits Aspet, the 
home of Saint-Gaudens, in the center of big, rolling lawns, 
its white colonnade standing out from the darker background. 
even though half-hidden by climbing vines. A high hedge 
shuts off all but fleeting glimpses of the last home of Amer- 
ica’s greatest sculptor and but little idea of the two studios 
can be obtained from the road. Mrs. Saint-Gaudens, her 
son Homer and his wife live here, and they, and some of 
the artist’s assistants, are carrying out the work left undone 
when death claimed the great man. 
Among the other famous people who have homes at Cornish 
are : Maxfield and Stephen Parrish, W. W. Hyde, H. 0 . 
Walker, and Kenyon and Louisa Cox, painters; Herbert 
Adams and Ann Lazarus, sculptors; Percy Mackaye, Louis 
Shipman and Langdon Mitchell, playwrights; Winston 
Churchill, the novelist; Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier’s, 
and Peter F. Dunne, of “Dooley” fame. 
