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\VOODED WALK IN WASHINGTON “THE CAVE,’’ W \SHINGTON PARK, PORTLAND, ORE. 
PARK, FOItTLAND, ORE. 
SO that a fairly satisfactory use was ob- 
tained. 
The building at Peninsula is completed 
and the attendance there and in the park 
itself greatly increased. 
The school playgrounds are another un- 
settled problem, largely because of the 
division of authority and responsibility 
and also on account of the expense at- 
tached to maintaining any playground. A 
playground can be equipped in fairly good 
shape for about $l,o00. The supervision 
and incidental expense for about four 
months is about $750. The school board 
is to be commended for the action it has 
already taken in supplying tennis courts, 
baseball grounds and in some cases a gen- 
erous amount of land. 
Columbia Park had its largest crowds on 
July 4th and on the Play Festival in Au- 
gust. While this park is remote from the 
center of the city, j’et it has an increased 
use and a unique character. With the 
thickening of population around it, this 
park is hound to become one of the mosi 
useful in the city. 
At Kenilworth the w^ading pool and sand 
court were the apparent cause of almost 
doubling the use of the park. 
A new playground was installed in Mt. 
Tabor Park near the north entrance. This 
was for small children, after the same plan 
as Laurelhurst, and proved so popular that 
a director was provided. This year a new 
playground will be provided at the north- 
east corner. 
The A. A, C. 
S. Convention in Barre, 
The thirty-first annual convention of the 
Associaton of American Cemetery Super- 
intendents will be held at Barre, Vt., Au- 
gust -28, -29, 30 and 31. 
An exceedingly interesting program has 
been prepared and the entertainment has 
been carefully arranged for the purpose of 
illustrating the special features of the busi- 
ness sessions. 
The local committee, of which Alexander 
Hanton, superintendent of the Barre City 
cemeteries, is chairman, is making room 
reservations for a large attendance, but in 
order to facilitate their w'ork it will be 
necessary that any one attending the con- 
vention advise them of the fact, and of 
the number of persons in the party, as the 
hotels are making their reservations 
through the committee only. 
The local committee have spared no 
pains to make this convention one of the 
most successful in the history of the asso- 
ciation, and all that can possibly do so 
are urged to attend with the assurance 
that the educational features as well 
as the entertainment, coupled with the 
beautiful scenery of Vermont at that sea- 
son of the year will amply repay them for 
the time spent. 
W. B. Jones, Secretary. 
THE COMING CONVENTION. 
Final arrangements for the thirty-first 
annual convention of the Association of 
American Cemetery .Superintendents are 
assuming definite proportions. The recent 
visit of Messrs. Painter of Philadelphia, 
Jones of Pittsburgh and Atkinson of Tren- 
ton to Barre did much toward clearing 
away several uncertainties that existed. 
The convention will be held in Barre, 
Vt., on August 28 to 31, inclusive, a four 
days' session being necessary to complete 
the program. A definite number of ad- 
dresses and papers will be on the program. 
Among the contributors will be such w'ell- 
known men as Messrs. Leonard Ross of 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston; W. N. 
Rudd of Mt. Greenwood, Chicago; James 
Currie of Forest Home, Milwaukee; H. C. 
Bassinger of Woodmere, Detroit; Sidney 
J. Hare, landscape architect, of Kansas 
City. The State of Vermont Geological 
Department will contribute an address on 
"The Location and Geological Formations 
of Granites.'’ The L’niversity of Vermont 
will be represented by a speaker from its 
botanical department, as will Dartmouth 
College. The states of Vermont and New 
Hampshire have been requested to send 
delegates from their forestry department.^ 
with subjects covering the moth rust and 
other blight disturbances. 
A final program will lie reproduced in 
the next issue of Park and Cemetery, and 
the names of one or more superintendents, 
who are authorities in specialized branches, 
will be added to the present list. 
The idea of the committee is to make 
the entire convention as thoroughly in- 
structive as is possible, and to send each 
delegate home with a feeling that his time 
and m.oney have been well spent. Each 
man should depart from Barre with a grim 
determination to attend faithfully each fu- 
ture convention of the association. A spe- 
cial drive is also being made for new mem- 
bers, and it is felt that the enrollment will 
be considerably increased, as several have 
already signified their intention of joining. 
This is an age of association work, and 
industries and groups of individuals are 
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