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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION OF THE A. A. C. S. 
The 25th annual Convention of the 
Association of American Cemetery 
superintendents is to be held in Phil- 
adelphia, September 12-15, 1911, and 
it is scarcely necessary to expatiate 
on the appropriateness of the “City 
of Brotherly Love” for such a meet- 
ing, nor the many matters of inter- 
est the historic city can offer to the 
members of the Association and its 
guests. As will be seen by the fol- 
lowing program, the committee in 
charge has laid out a strenuous round 
of business and pleasure, and this 
annual opportunity of . making ac- 
quaintance and gathering information 
and experience should be seized upon 
under any pretext that will admit of 
the trip. Philadelphia is a splendid 
city to visit, full of interest in its 
civic assets and historic associations 
to cemetery men and the surrounding 
country, in which several excur- 
sions will be made, will impress those 
unacquainted with that locality as 
they have never been impressed be- 
fore. 
Special attention is requested to the 
following communication from the 
chairman of the Executive Commit- 
tee ; 
“It is the desire of the Executive 
Committee having in charge the ar- 
rangements for the 25th Annual Con- 
vention of American Cemetery Super- 
intendents, to be held at the Contin- 
ental Hotel, Philadelphia, September 
12-15, 1911, to provide for an exhi- 
bition of models, tools, records, 
photographs, planting and improve- 
ment plans, sectional plans or maps, 
plans of receiving vaults and chapels, 
office and entrance plans, or photo- 
graphs or anything else that may be 
of interest to the members. 
“You are therefore requested to 
send or bring something that may be 
placed on exhibition. 
“If you can arrange it we would 
like to have your exhibit here not 
later than September 10th, so as to 
allow time to have them properly 
marked and arranged. 
“Trusting that you will favor us 
with something in this line and that 
we will have the pleasure of seeing 
you on the above dates, and for fur- 
ther information regarding hotel ac- 
commodations or other matters per- 
taining to the meeting, please ad- 
dress the undersigned; 
Geo. iM. Painter, 
Chairman Executive Committee. 
Mr. Painter’s .address is; 1-109 
/\rch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
The following is the program so 
far as it is arranged to date; 
TUESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1911. 
Opening session at Continental Ho- 
tel. 
10 a. m. Convention called to order. 
Prayer. 
Address of welcome by Hon. John 
E. Reyburn, mayor of Philadephia. 
Response by W. C. Grassau, Pres- 
ident of the Association. 
Annual address by the president. 
Annual report of Secretary-Treas- 
urer, Bellett Lawson, Jr. 
Communications. 
Appointment of Committees. 
Half-Hour with the Secretary- 
Treasurer. 
Recess for Lunch. 
2;00 p. m. Business Session Conti- 
nental Hotel. 
Paper— Cemeteries 25 Years Ago 
and Now, Geo. W. Creesy, Salem, 
Mass. 
Discussion. 
Question Box. 
Paper — Rearranging an Old Ceme- 
tery, E. H. Rutherford, Hamilton, On- 
tario. 
Discussion. 
3;30 p. m.. Visit Eernwood Ceme- 
tery, Delaware County, Pa. 
Tuesday evening in the hands of the 
Executive Committee. 
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1911. 
Take automobiles at 9 a. m. at 
Continental Hotel to visit Fairmount 
Park, Laurel Hill, Mt. Peace and 
Northwood Cemeteries, Ardsley Bur- 
ial Park, Thomas Meehan & Sons 
Nurseries and the Andorra Nurseries 
and West Laurel Hill and Westmin- 
ster Cemeteries. 
Luncheon en route. 
8 p. m. Evening session. Continen- 
tal Hotel. 
Nomination of officers. 
Address — Road Construction and 
Maintenance, John Dunn, C. E. 
Discussion. 
Question Box. 
Paper — Cemetery Records, Thomas 
Wallis, Ravenswood, Chicago, 111. 
Discussion. 
THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1911. 
9;30 a. m. Business Session, Con- 
tinental Hotel. 
Paper — Motor Trucks in the Ceme- 
tery. Edward G. Carter, Chicago, III. 
Discussion. 
Question Box. 
Address — Oglesby Paul, Esq. 
Paper — Community Mausoleums, 
Bellett Lawson, Jr., Chicago, 111. 
Discussion. 
Recess for Lunch. 
On the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 
14, the Wilmington members of the 
Executive Committee invite the con- 
vention to take the train for Wil- 
mington, Delaware, as their guests. 
FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 1911. 
8;30 a.m. Leave the Continental 
Hotel to enjoy a boat ride on the 
Delaware river, visiting the Henry A. 
Dreer nurseries and greenhouse es- 
tablishment at Riverton, N. J. 
12 m. Leave Riverton, N. J., by 
boat for Trenton, N. J., to visit the 
Wm. H. Moon Co. nurseries at Mor- 
risville. Pa., thence to inspect River- 
view Cemetery, Trenton, N. J., as 
guests of the Trenton members of 
the executive committee. 
4 p. m. Afternoon session at Riv- 
erview Cemetery. 
Paper — Calcium Chlorides, R. K. 
Pierce, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Election of officers. 
Unfinished Business. 
Reports of Committees. 
New Business. 
Adjournment. 
Return to Philadelphia by boat. 
The rates at the Continental Hotel 
are as follows; Room with bath, $2 
and upwards; room without bath, 
$1.50 and upwards. 
The cemetery readers of this 
journal who have not identified them- 
selves with the Association of Amer- 
ican Cemetery Superintendents will 
be cordially received at the Phila- 
delphia meeting. The object of the 
association is the betterment of cem- 
eteries and in the words of Prof. L. 
H. Bailey, “it is one of three national 
societies conserving the landscape 
gardening and rural art of the coun- 
try.” It is largely due to the influ- 
ence of this association that the lawn 
plan and numerous other reforms in- 
cemetery management have been so- 
generally adopted.. 
The conventions of this association 
bring together many of the most ex- 
pert cemetery superintendents and' 
secretaries in this country whose 
addresses and discussions are 
always helpful to those seeking 
instruction. Any person connected 
with a cemetery in any official 
capacity is eligible to membership; 
The membership fee is $1.50 and the 
annual dues $3. Every cemetery 
corporation in the United States and 
Canada should be members of this^ 
