PARK AND CEMKTERY 
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A VIEW IN ROCK CREEK PARK, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Each stone is attached to the top of the adjacent steel 
girder by a solid steel cramp, cemented for at least two 
inches in a hole in the stone. The outside girders were 
bound together, just before the concrete was put about 
them, by means of four ^-inch wire ropes. A number 
of arch stones were made by splitting boulders in two 
pieces. The bridge was designed under Captain L. H. 
Beach, Engineer Commisioner of the District of Co- 
lumbia. The contract was for $14,890, exclusive of 
steel and royalties which made the total cost $17,500, 
the amount of the appropriation. 
Any Sunday, thousands of stylish equipages cross 
this small span, their occupants enjoying the wild sur- 
rounding scenery, which but a few years ago was the 
resort of the small boy, willing to trample miles to 
enjoy a cool swim in a deep, secluded hole. 
Anxitiai Meeting of tHe American 
The American Society of Landscape Architects held 
its sixth annual meeting at Boston, July 7 and 8, and 
found a rich field for study in the Metropolitan Park 
System and the city’s beautiful suburban towns and 
country estates. 
Headquarters were at the Hotel Somerset, where the 
party gathered for introductions and greeting on the 
morning of the first day. 
Under the guidance of Messrs. Olmsted and IMann- 
ing and other local members, the party was taken for 
a drive in park carriages out Massachusetts avenue. 
Society of Landscape Architects. 
past Soldiers’ Field to Harvard LTniversity, where the 
party stopped at Robinson Hall, the seat of the Univer- 
sity’s new school of Landscape , Architecture. The 
drive was continued to Fresh Pond and the Speedway, 
and came to a pleasant end at the offices of Olmsted 
Brothers in Brookline where luncheon was served. 
The afternoon was spent in viewing the neighboring 
estates of Mrs. John L. Gardner and Prof. Charles S. 
Sargent, Faulkner Farm, the country place of Mrs. 
Edward Brandegee, and the Larz Anderson estate. 
Prof. Sargent’s grounds and the Italian and Japan- 
