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PARK AND CEMETERY 
The report of the Board of Park Com- 
missioners of Wilmington, Del., presents 
a statement of work done by this depart- 
ment, together with a report of the re- 
ceipts and expenditures for the year end- 
ing December 31, 1916. Following are 
some items taken from the financial re- 
port: Receipts — Balance of $11,923.77; 
current appropriation from city council for 
maintenance, improvement and care of 
$27,000 ; transfer from city council from 
the special fund for purchase and improve- 
ment of park lands of $1,412.99 for im- 
provement ; receipts from rentals, swim- 
ming pools, interest, etc., of $3,000.33; 
from Irenee duPont for Center Scjuare 
competition, $4,324.75 ; from Alfred I. du 
Pont for work on Alapocas road, $2,360.88; 
from Wm. P. Bancroft for work on Ala- 
pocas road, $2,371.45. Total receipts, 
$52,394.17. Expenditures for maintenance 
— Guards, $10,445.42 ; engineering and su- 
perintendence, $2,837.45; lighting, $1,151.85; 
repairs to roads, $1,227.77 ; swimming 
pools, $1,134.47 ; playgrounds, $2,224.77 ; 
maintenance, $3,186.72; grass cutting, 
$2,080. Total maintenance, $33,958.72. Ex- 
penditures for improvement — Conrad Wall, 
$2,607.67 ; grading, $902.42, Alapocas road- 
way, $5,120.83. Total improvement, $10,- 
491.82. Total maintenance and improve- 
ment, $44,450.54. Balance December 31, 
1916, $7,943.63. Total, $52,394.17. Among 
the improvement work was the construc- 
tion of a cinder foot path in South 
Brandywine Park along the hillside from 
near Van Buren bridge to near Clayton 
street ; the grading of 4,000 feet of drive- 
way in Alapocas woods along the eastern 
boundary and the building of retaining 
walls in Madison and Conrad playgrounds. 
The Parks Department of Calgar3^, 
Canada, has issued its fourth annual re- 
portlcovering the work of this department 
accomplished , durin'g 1916, with recom- 
mendatfens for the ensuing year. The de- 
velopment of the city’s park system made 
very good progress during the past year. 
This is due, to a great extent, to the fact 
that the department is getting gradually 
better equipped, that much of the founda- 
tion work, which, though making very lit- 
tle show, is often the most costly part of 
an undertaking, was done in the preceding 
years, and that the effect of improvement 
in methods of administration is now begin- 
ning to give tangible results. The depart- 
ment is also now beginning to get results 
from the large stocks of plants, etc., that 
had been raised and were in course of 
development during the earlier period. 
Summary of planting for the season, ex- 
clusive of nursery and bedding, is as fol- 
lows : Trees, 8,588; shrubs, 1,620; vines, 
499; perennials, 24,484; bulbs, 5,589; 21,690 
trees and 7,011 shrubs have been planted 
during the past four years. The routine 
work in all parks consisted of cleaning up 
refuse, cleaning out buildings, mowing 
and trimming grass, weeding, digging and 
cultivating paths and borders, raking and 
rolling lawns, paths and driveways, dis- 
tributing and storing furniture, and patrol- 
ling. Considerable repairs were done to 
the water services in all parks. The sys- 
tem of paths and driveways in Riley Park 
was considerably extended by construction 
of 620 lineal yards of 6-foot walk and 75 
yards of 12-foot walk, the good loam be- 
ing removed from these and used in grad- 
ing the lawn areas. Among the improve- 
ments in the parks was the erection of a 
pavilion at Shaganappi Park and water, 
sewer and light connections were extended 
to this. Four buttresses were built by the 
Engineer's Department for protection 
along south shore of St. George Island, at 
a cost of approximately $2,000, but these 
have proved inadequate, erosion still going 
on. Fencing was placed at dangerous 
points on the shores of the island and 
barbed wire placed on the buttresses, there 
Following are some statistics taken from 
the sixty-third annual report of the com- 
missioners of Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, 
Mass., for the year ending December 30, 
1916. General fund, receipts: Receipts of 
Pine Grove Cemetery paid to city treas- 
urer — Sale of lots, $8,912.50 ; interments, 
$3,758; foundations, $1,980.48; plants, 
$3,013.20 ; interest from perpetual care 
■fund, $10,428.59. Total, $30,303.96. Gen- 
eral fund — Appropriation by the city of 
Lynn for Pine Grove Cemetery, $42,000 ; 
transferred to, $106.60. Total, $42,106.60. 
Expenditures : Salaries, pensions, labor, 
$35,715.65 ; loam, dressing, fertilizer, 
$1,283.11; tools and supplies, $925.13; coal, 
$590.80 ; auto and auto supplies, $775.31 ; 
total, $42,106.60. The total perpetual care 
fund is $270,296.65, and the permanent 
fund, $20,514.30 ; 779 feet of drain pipe 
were laid in connection with which twelve 
catchbasins have been built. In addition 
to this work, 3,535 lineal feet of concrete 
gutter have been laid. Sixteen old lots 
were placed under perpetual care during 
the year. The number of interments dur- 
ing the year was 741, making a total num- 
ber in the cemetery to date of 29,326. 
Included in the annual report of the 
Parks Department of Calgary, Canada, is 
a summary of the work accomplished in 
the cemetery in that city which is under 
the supervision of that department. Seven 
thousand cement lot markers were made 
during the year and placed in the sec- 
tions ; 89 monument bases constructed ; 
two new sections plotted, and 14,200 an- 
nuals were planted in the flower borders. 
Digging, grading and reseeding of the sec- 
tions was continued throughout the season. 
The work of constructing cobble-stone 
watercourses was continued and this has 
brought about a marked improvement in 
the condition of the roads. The water 
being a tendency for children to follow the 
dangerous practice of congregating on 
these to fish. The bridge on the main 
driveway was refloored and widened, rus- 
tic fences were built across this bridge, 
and the pedestrian walk separated from 
the driveway. The revenue of the depart- 
ment totaled $12,207.15. 
The thirteenth annual report of the 
Shade Tree Commission of Newark, N. J., 
is in the form of an interesting story of 
the history of all the parks and different 
memorials in them. It also contains some 
very helpful information on the proper 
method of planting, trimming and doctor- 
ing trees and some data on fighting insect 
pests. The Shade Tree Commission was 
established in 1904 and has under its care 
sixty-.five thousand trees. 
main was extended to the south end of the 
cemetery. The total number of grave plots 
sold was 436 and the total number of in- 
terments was 565. 
Mrs. Mollie Gaddis was elected presi- 
dent and Miss Sadie Snively, secretary, of 
the Cemetery Association at Prescott, la. 
Virgil Cemetery Association of Avon, 
111., was incorporated recently by E. K. 
Carr, L. A. Carr and E. L. Bangham. 
Mount Olive Cemetery Association of 
Mayview, St. Joseph, 111., has been incor- 
porated by John C. Meyer, G. C. Gordon 
and James T. Stanner. 
At the annual meeting of the Chippewa 
Cemetery Association, Chippewa Falls, 
Wis., George P. Jenkins was elected sec- 
retary in the place of J. O. Watson, who 
resigned recently, and August Flug was 
elected vice-president in place of Henry 
Bartlett. H. J. Goddard was re-elected 
president and T. M. Cary was re-elected 
treasurer. 
The Fairmount Cemetery Association, 
of Davenport, la., has elected the follow- 
ing officers for the coming year : President, 
P. A. Reimers ; vice-president, A. Peter- 
sen ; secretary, E. C. Struck ; treasurer, 
H. J. Paarmann. 
Addy Cemetery Association of Addy, 
Wash., has been incorporated for $5,000 
by John Brunner, William Koerner, W. R. 
Goss, J. W- Walker and others. 
Tobacco Valley Cemetery Association 
of Eureka, Mont., was recently incor- 
porated by Mary Quirk, Samuel F. Mc- 
Carty and Albert Kuchenski. 
West Point Cemetery Asscjciation of 
White county. West Point, Ind., was in- 
corporated recently. The directors are 
Alexander L. Teller, George F. Baker, 
Albert Plummer, Joseph Chamberlain, 
Lavina Irion, Fred T. Wilson and William 
E. Van Voorst. 
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