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provided by an ordinance in that city. 
Mr. Prost stood at the head of an 
eligible list of fourteen who passed the 
examination. He is a graduate of the 
Michigan Agricultural College and has 
been connected with the city parks since 
1905. His first duty will be to make a 
report showing where planting should 
begin and the kind of trees that should 
be used. He will collaborate with the 
different park commissioners in his 
work. 
Major Charles S. Bromwell, for five 
years superintendent of public buildings 
and grounds, including parks, in Wash- 
ington, D. C., has been ordered back 
to his regular work in the engineer 
corps of the army, and is going to 
Milwaukee, where he will be in charge 
of the harbor improvements. 
The park commissioners of Buffalo, 
N! Y., at their regular meeting March 
10th last, appointed D. A. Seymour su- 
perintendent of parks. Mr. Seymour 
has been in the department for seven 
years as auditor and paymaster. Pre- 
vious to his engagement with the park 
department he held the position of as- 
sistant city auditor for eleven years. 
Superintendent John L. Brothers, re- 
signed, was also a former park auditor, 
before becoming superintendent. 
Howard Evarts Weed, landscape 
architect of Chicago, will spend July 
and August on the Pacific coast. The 
State Federation of Women’s Clubs 
of Oregon is arranging for a series 
of forty town improvement lectures 
by Mr. Weed in that state. 
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