PARK AND CEMETERY. 
VII 
ILLINOIS PLANNING OUT- 
DOOR IMPROVEMENTS 
Representative people from all parts 
of Illinois who are interested in a more 
beautiful Illinois met at the University 
of Illinois, March 31, to consider the 
organization of a state society having 
for its primary object the general edu- 
cation of the people of the state in out- 
of-door improvement. Representatives 
were present from Alton, Decatur, 
Bloomington, Cairo, Springfield, Dan- 
ville, Chicago, Neoga, Champaign and 
Urbana. Dr. T. J. Burrill, vice-presi- 
dent of the university, presided at the 
meeting. It was the concensus of opin- 
ion of those present that there is needed 
a state organization which could dis- 
seminate literature, furnish lectures, en- 
courage general school instruction, es- 
tablish public plant collections, promote 
and assist local improvement societies 
and park boards, encourage the preser- 
vation and maintenance of places of un- 
usual beauty and historical interest in 
the state, and be ready to stand back 
of any matter of state-wide interest in 
the way of out-of-door beauty or im- 
provement. The following committee 
on organization was elected : President 
E. J. James, chairman ; Professor A. P. 
Wyman, secretary; Mrs. I. C. Bley, 
Chicago : H. C. Schaub, Decatur, and 
George E. Hooker, Chicago. The chief 
work of this committee will be to per- 
fect a permanent organization and to 
arrange for a state meeting to be held 
next fall or winter. 
PERSONAL 
L. P. Jensen, landscape gardener of 
the Busch estate in St. Louis, recently 
gave an illustrated lecture on “Natural 
Effects in the Planting of Modern 
Parks and Private Places” before the 
Engelmann Botanical Club in that city. 
The cemetery trustees of Malden, 
Mass., have appointed M. W. Carr as 
actiiyg superintendent of cemeteries to 
fill the vacancy left by the recent death 
of Charles A. Stiles until a new super- 
intendent is elected. 
George A. Appleton has been elected 
superintendent of cemeteries at Beverly, 
Mass., to succeed George F. Standley, 
who has resigned after thirteen years 
of service. 
Robert Dye is the new superintend- 
ent of the National Cemetery at Annao- 
olis, Md., to succeed Superintendent 
Menuez, who has been ordered to Can- 
ada. Mr. Dye is from Richmond, Va. 
Jacob H. Prost, a landscape gardener 
in the service of the West Park Board 
of Chicago, was the successful contest- 
ant in a civil service examination for 
the selection of a city forester recently 
From a sand beach to a 
source of permanent 
pleasure and comfort in 
a few months. 
Cemeteries, parks and 
private estates handled 
in all details so as to 
produce quick, pleasing 
and lasting results. 
Write, particu- 
lars. Booklet free. 
H. R. COTTA 
Landscape Architect 
ROCKFORD. ILL. 
Is Your Cemetery Satisfactory? 
Are you caring for it economically? 
Is green grass the leading feature 
with shrubbery to give a proper set- 
ting to the monuments? IF NOT, 
then you need Howard Evarts W eed. 
Landscape Architect, 1715 Railway 
Exchange, Chicago, to modernize 
things for you. 
“The lot owners won’t let us ” you 
say? If so, you have gone at it in 
the wrong way. You need Weed to 
give his stereopticon lecture — “Mote 
Beautiful Cemeteries” — in your 
town to point out the right way. By 
means of the stereopticon pictures the 
difference between the good and bad, 
between the graveyard and the mod- 
ern park cemetery is vividly shown. 
You are wasting your efforts in 
caring for the cemetery under present 
conditions. Get out of the rut. Wake 
up, even if you do have charge of 
dead people. 
Write Weed today and he will send yon 
some interesting literature. 
FRANK H. NUTTER 
Landscape Architect and Engineer 
710 Sykes Bldg., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
Advices, Sketches, Designs or full Work- 
ing Plans for Cemeteries, Parks, and Pub- 
lic or Home Grounds. Surveys made if re- 
quired. Correspondence solicited. City 
Park Engineer. 
F*Iantlng Contracts 
We are among the largest growers of ornamental 
trees, shrubs and plants In America. Hardy va- 
rieties a specialty, We employ a competent land- 
scape gardener for the service of our large patron- 
age. Cemetery and fark Organizations are invited 
to correspond relative to either Planning or Plant- 
ing, or both. We will be pleased to make estimates 
on any proposition. 
THE JEWELL NURSERY COMPANY 
Est. 1868 Lake City. Minn. 1200 Acres 
TarK and Cemetery The best Medium 
' for keeping before 
Park and Cemetery Superintendents. 
SID. J. HARE 
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT 
KANSAS CITY, MO. 
32 24 Campbell Street 
iii' LandscapeArchitect ' 
White Bldg. Buffalo! 
Expert on all matters pertaining to 
the improvement and organization 
of cemeteries. 18 years experience. 
Send for testimonials. 
BRIDGES 
Standard designs for reinforced concrete high- 
way bridges under 50 foot span. References 
and terms on request. 
WILBUR J. WATSON 
Mem. Am. 8oc. C. E. Expert Bridge Engineer 
Citizens Bldg., Cleveland. Ohio 
,000 cemeteries: 
are using our method of keeping their records of Burials, 
Location of Graves, etc. Descriptive Circulars sent on 
request. R. J. Haight, Publisher, 324 Dearborn St., Chicago 
