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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Park Superintendents in Annual Meeting 
The American Association of Park Su- 
perintendents held a busy and enthusiastic 
annual meeting at St. Louis, August 11, 
12 and 13. The meeting was devoted 
largely to outdoor study and field work, 
and much practical benefit to the members 
resulted. 
Director of Public Welfare Schmoll 
welcomed the delegates at the opening 
session, which was devoted to routine 
exequtive business. The afternoon was 
spent in a visit to the East St. Louis 
parks. 
The members were guests on the trip 
of the East St. Louis Park Board, Emmet 
P. Griffin, superintendent of parks at East 
St. Louis, and pioneer memlier of the na- 
tional association, acted as host. The del- 
gates were taken to East St. Louis over 
the Eree Bridge in automobiles. 
The visitors were shown the boulevard 
system of East St. Louis, Jones Park, the 
sunken garden, public playgrounds and 
Monk’s mound. The day was concluded 
with a banquet at the St. Clair Country 
Club. Maurice V. Joyce was toastmaster 
and the address of welcome was by Ed- 
mund Goedde, president of the board, and 
the response by John F. Walsh, president 
of the association. Other speakers were : 
Henry W. Busch, Detroit, Mich.; Harry 
S. Richards, Chicago, and Bruce A. Camp- 
bell of East St. Louis. 
At the second morning session Nelson 
A. Cunliff, park commissioner of St. 
Louis, addressed the delegates. “Tree 
Planting in New York” was a lecture 
given by Prof. Laurie P. Cox of Syracuse 
Lffiiversity and Horace M. Albright, assist- 
ant director of National Park Service, 
Washington, D. C., spoke on “National 
Parks.” 
Theodore Wirth of Minneapolis, pre- 
sented an address on “Bird Protection in 
the Minneapolis parks, which is printed in 
full in this issue. 
The afternoon was devoted to a tour 
of North Side parks and in the evening 
the members attended the annual Shaw 
banquet at the Mercantile Club, given by 
the Missouri Botanical Society. The wo- 
men visitors were entertained during the 
morning with an automobile tour and in 
the afternoon visited the Welle-Boetller 
bakery and Grant’s farm. At 7 :30 p. m. 
a dinner in their honor was given at the 
Bevo Mill. 
At the evening session at the Mercantile 
Club Dr. George T. Moore, director of 
the Missouri Botanical Garden, acted as 
tastmaster and the following responded 
with brief speeches : E. A. Miller, New 
York; J. F. Foster, Chicago; John F. 
Walsh of New York, president of the 
association ; C. L. Brock of Houston ; John 
McLaren of San Francisco; Theo. Wirth 
of Minneapolis, and Nelson Cunliff, com- 
missioner of parks and recreation, St. 
Louis. 
The visitors were entertained the next 
evening at the Municipal Theater in For- 
est Park with a performance of the play- 
ground pantomime, “Rip Van Winkle,” 
produced by 876 children of the play- 
grounds. 
Electrical effects were added to the 
scenic splendors that were revealed at the 
daylight performance given some time be- 
fore and several special dances that were 
not suited to daylight. The new dances 
incuded the “fireflies,” the “moonbeams” 
and the “storm gnomes.” Miss Alice Cady 
danced in solo. 
There were 9,000 free seats for the pub- 
lic at the performance. 
Bird Protection in the Minneapolis Parks 
Address Before the St. Louis Convention of Park Superinten- 
dents, by Theodore Wirth, Superintendent of Parks, Minneapolis. 
Most of our park possessions offer in 
themselves ideal conditions for bird life, 
and it is more or less simply a matter of 
protecting the birds against their enemies, 
of which the wilful boy and thoughtless or 
careless hunter are no small factor. Out 
park ordinances not only forbid the fir- 
ing of firearms on park properties, but 
even the carrying of them. This ordi- 
nance we strictly enforce, and same is now 
so well known and understood that we 
have comparatively little trouble along 
these lines. 
We have a long, severe winter, during 
which we maintain a number of feeding 
stations in all parts of the park system. 
We have also built and placed a large 
number of nesting boxes or bird houses, 
which are well populated. 
We protect our useful birds in every 
possible way, and the local Audubon So- 
ciety is doing excellent work through its 
unceasing campaign in interesting and edu- 
cating young and old people of our city 
in the care and protection of useful birds. 
A good many varieties of birds which 
were rarely seen around here a few years 
ago are now found in large numbers, and 
many birds which formerly left in the fall 
now stay with us over winter. 
The following is a list of the birds to 
be found in our city and vicinity; 
Horned Grebe. Black Tern. 
Herring Gull. Canada Goose. 
Bittern. 
Least Bittern. 
Great Blue Heron. 
King Rail. 
Virginia Rail. 
Sora. 
Florida Gallinule. 
Coot. 
Wilson’s Snipe. 
Least Sandpiper. 
Spotted Sandpiper. 
Killdeer. 
Bob-white. 
Ruffed Grouse. 
Mourning Dove. 
Marsh Hawk. 
Red-tailed Hawk. 
Pigeon Hawk. 
Barred Owl. 
Screech Owl. 
Yellow - billed Cuc- 
koo. 
Black-billed Cuckoo. 
Belted Kingfisher. 
Hairy Woodpecker. 
Downy Woodpecker. 
Yellow-bellied Sap- 
sucker. 
Red - headed Wood- 
pecker. 
Red - bellied Wood- 
pecker. 
Northern Flicker. 
Whip-poor-will. 
Nighthawk. 
Chimney Swift. 
Ruby- throated 
Hummingbird. 
King Bird. 
Crested Flycatcher. 
I Phoebe. 
O 1 i V e-s 1 d e d Fly- 
catcher. 
Wood Pewee. 
Least Flycatcher. 
Prairie Horned 
Lark. 
Blue Jay. 
Crow. 
Bobolink. 
Cowbird. 
Y e 1 1 o w-h e a d e d 
Blackbird. 
Red-winged Black- 
bird. 
Meadowlark. 
Orchard Oriole. 
Baltimore Oriole. 
Rusty Blackbird. 
Brewer’s Blackbird. 
Bronzed Grackle. 
Evening Grosbeak. 
Purple Finch. 
Redpoll. 
Goldfinch. 
Pine Siskin. 
Vesper Sparrow. 
Grasshopper S p a r- 
row. 
Lark Sparrow. 
Harris’ Sparrow. 
White-c r o w n e d 
Sparrow. 
White-t h r o a t e d 
Sparrow. 
Tree Sparrow. 
Chipping Sparrow. 
Clay-colored Spar- 
row. 
Slate-colored Junco. 
I Song Sparrow. 
Lincoln’s Sparrow. 
Swamp sparrow. 
Fox Sparrow. 
Towhee. 
Rose-breasted Gros- 
beak. 
Indigo Bunting. 
Dickcissel. 
Scarlet Tanager. 
Purple Martin. 
Barn Swallow. 
Tree Swallow. 
Bank Swallow. 
Rough -winged 
Swallow. 
Bohemian Wax- 
wing. 
Cedar Waxwing. 
Northern Shrike. 
Migrant Shrike. 
Red-eyed Vireo. 
Philadelphia Vireo. 
Warbling Vireo. 
Yellow-throated Vi- 
reo. 
Blue-headed Vireo. 
Black and White 
Warbler. 
Nashville Warbler. 
O r a n g e-crowned 
Warbler. 
Tennessee Warbler. 
Northern P a r u 1 a 
Warbler. 
Yellow Warbler. 
Myrtle Warbler. 
Magnolia Warbler. 
Chestnut - sided 
Warbler. 
Bay-breasted Warb- 
ler. 
Black-poll Warbler. 
Blackburnian Warb- 
ler. 
Pine Warbler. 
Palm Warbler. 
Oven-bird. 
Grinnell’s Water- 
Thrush. 
Maryland Yellow- 
throat. 
Wilson’s Warbler. 
Canada Warbler. 
Redstart. 
Catbird. 
Brown Thrasher. 
House Wren. 
Short-billed Marsh 
Wren. 
Long-billed Marsh 
Wren. 
Brown Creeper. 
White-breasted Nut- 
hatch. 
R e d-breasted Nut- 
hatch. 
Chickadee. 
G o 1 d e n-crowned 
Kinglet. 
Ruby - crowned 
Kinglet. 
Wood Thrush. 
Willow Thrush. Vee- 
ry. 
Gray-cheeked 
Thrush. 
Olive-backed 
Thrush. 
Hermit Thrush. 
Robin. 
Bluebird. 
