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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
many, and was employed in the Im- 
perial gardens at Berlin and Potsdam. 
Axel Pharo-Gagge, a landscape 
architect of Columbus, O., has recent- 
ly lectured in that state on “The Care 
of a City Lot.” 
George S. Babcock has been elected 
superintendent of the city cemetery 
at Plainville, Conn., to succeed F. A. 
Tinker. 
Edward B. Strong, for 33 years sex- 
ton of the Bridge street cemetery at 
Northampton, Mass., has resigned, 
and is succeeded by James McCallum, 
who has been his assistant. 
Fred E. Zeissig has been appointed 
Tree Warden at Ware, Mass., to suc- 
ceed Elmer L. Barnes. Mr. Zeissig 
is also superintendent for the suppres- 
sion of the moth pest in that section 
of the state. 
OBITUARY 
Charles A. Stiles, superintendent of 
city cemeteries, Malden, Mass., died 
March 29, after an illness since last 
November. Mr. Stiles had been iden- 
tified with Malden institutions for 
many years. He was born in Lynn 
about 69 years ago, and was a de- 
scendant of colonial and revolution- 
ary stock. When Everett was made a 
separate town, he was given charge of 
the new Malden town farm, and con- 
tinued in that position until 1880, 
when he went to Wilton, N. H., to 
take charge of the Hillsboro county 
farm. He returned to Malden 10 
years later and became superintend- 
ent of cemeteries. Mr. Stiles was a 
member of a number of local organi- 
zations, .being a director and at the 
time of his death president of the 
Malden co-operative bank. He was 
also a member of Mt. Vernon lodge, 
F. and A. M., Middlesex lodge and 
encampment, I. O. O. F., the local 
lodge of the A. O. U. W., and post 
40, G. A. R. He was a member of 
the Association of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents and the New 
England Cemetery Association. The 
latter organization attended the fu- 
neral in a body. 
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