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A. A. C. S. CONVENTION ECHOES 
Frank Enrich, Detroit, Mich., and 
Geo. W. Creesy, Salem, Mass., still 
maintain their unbroken record of 
having attended every convention 
since 1887. John Reid, i^Ir. Enrich 
and R. J. Haight were the only oth- 
ers present at Philadelphia who were 
at the Cincinnati meeting when the 
association was organized. 
Robert D. Boice, Geneseo, 111., took 
as lively an interest in the conven- 
tion as ever, despite his 82 summers. 
His winters do not seem to make 
much of an impression. i\Ir. Boice 
wishes to thank all of his convention 
friends "for their kindly care and at- 
tention.” 
T. Donlan, superintendent, Oak- 
dale cemetery, Wilmington, X. C., 
wore a handsome gold badge in the 
form of a cross encircled with a 
laurel wreath, suspended from a bar, 
of which he had just cause to be 
proud. The badge was a present 
from the ladies of Wilmington and is 
inscribed as follows: “Timothy Don- 
lan, 1862, Fidelis 1910, presented by 
Cape Fear Chapter, U. D. C., May 10, 
1910.” Accompanying the badge was 
a testimonial letter beautifully ex- 
pressive of the appreciation of Mr. 
Donlan’s long years of service. 
William Falconer had recently re- 
turned from a trip to England, Scot- 
land and France. In a recent issue 
of the Florists Exchange he says: 
“The style of flower gardening over 
there has changed a good deal from 
what it was in my time, forty years 
ago. Then ribbon borders and mass 
and pattern beds were much in evi- 
dence, and the herbaceous borders 
were more spotted with individual 
plants than paneled in clumps as they 
now are. Nowadays, the prevailing 
taste seems to be for large panels of 
one variety in the borders, and in the 
beds, high plants stuck into carpets 
of lesser ones. Some carpet bedding 
Serious opposition confronts the 
promoters of a non-sectarian ceme- 
tery, to be known as Valhalla, and to 
embrace an 82-acre tract adjoining 
Glen Echo Club, St. Louis, Mo., which 
it is said, may cause the project to be 
withdrawn. The tract was recently 
bought for $73,000. 
is yet attempted and it is well done, 
too, but nowhere did I see anything 
to compare with that at Schenley 
Park here in Pittsburgh. The grot- 
esque and ridiculous in designs there, 
as well as here, have disappeared and 
pretty little scroll or pattern plans 
are given instead. While at Kew 
Gardens Air. Falconer had the pleas- 
ure of seeing a big patch of lilies, 
N'ymphaea William Falconer, his 
namesake, in full bloom. 
Under the direction of Rev. J. P. 
Harrington, superintendent of Cath- 
olic cemeteries in that city and vicin- 
ity, reforms are being introduced for 
the regulation of grave mounds and 
the restriction of stone work that are 
decidedly in advance of many of the 
best known lawn plan cemeteries of 
today. A contribution on this sub- 
ject is promised Park and Cejietery 
in the near future. 
Ex-president James Currie, Alil- 
waukee, who was prevented by ill- 
ness from attending the meetings on 
the last day, has expressed his pleas- 
ure at the selection of his city for 
the 1912 meeting. There is more 
than a muchly advertised beverage to 
make Milwaukee “A Bright Spot” as 
it is so widely advertised. Mr. Cur- 
rie, it will be remembered, is a mem- 
ber of the board of park commission- 
ers, as well as superintendent of For- 
est Home cemetery. He will have 
the co-operation of a progressive 
business men’s organization in enter- 
taining the visitors. 
Cemetery officials who did not re- 
ceive a copy of the souvenir program 
of the Philadelphia convention, may 
have one by addressing Chas. B- Jef- 
ferson, West Laurel Hill cemetery, 
Pencoyd P. O., Pa. It contains in 
addition to the programme and a list 
of the members of the A. A. C. S., 
a historical sketch of Philadelphia, 
views of parks and cemeteries and 
other matter. 
The overflow of a neighboring ir- 
rigation ditch recently caused some 
heavy washes in the Union Cemetery, 
La Grande, Ore. Mr. J. H. Hutch- 
inson, owner of the ditch, has agreed 
to make repairs. 
It is not generally known that gyp- 
sies of the United States have one of 
their few burial grounds near Ponca 
City, Okla. These wandering people 
maintain these and send their dead 
long distances for burial. Last 
month the body of a 15-month old 
child of John Bryler, a gypsy, was 
sent to Ponca City from Fayette- 
ville, Ark., where it died. 
The proximity of the proposed 
Frisco railroad switch yards to the 
Fairview Cemetery, Joplin, A'lo., 
promises to become the main card 
of the West Joplin club in its fight 
against the switch yards ordinance. 
Captain I. B. Robinson, of Browns- 
ville, Tex., has received the appoint- 
ment to the position of superintend- 
ent of the National Cemetery, Spring- 
field, A'lo., made vacant by the recent 
death of Superintendent Joseph Dod- 
son. The removal of the cemetery 
from Brownsville was the immediate 
cause of Captain Robinson’s transfer. 
Among several ordinances intro- 
duced at a recent regular meeting of 
the city council, of Racine, Wis., was 
one to provide for establishing a per- 
manent maintenance fund for the 
public cemeteries. The lot owners of 
Mound cemetery have been anxious 
for some tiine to have a permanent 
fund provided for its perpetual care. 
Under the present arrangement the 
city council sets aside a certain sum 
each year to be used for cemetery 
purposes, but under the new plan 
the fund will be given a good start 
by receiving the moneys from the 
sale of 100 or more lots in Alound 
addition. 
At a meeting of St. Vincent’s 
Church congregation held recently in 
Plymouth, Pa., it was decided to 
abandon the present cemetery and 
accept the proposition submitted by 
the Kingston Coal Co. for the pro- 
posed new cemetery on the mountain 
back of the D. & H. No. 4 breaker. 
The suit contemplated by the heirs 
of Z. B. Job, of Alton, 111., pertains to 
acquiring the oldest burial ground 
in Illinois, the Milton Cemetery, for 
conversion into residence property. 
The site in controversy was once the 
Village of Alilton, which was turned 
into a cemetery when an epidemic 
killed all of the inhabitants. Milton 
Cemetery antedates the famous Kas- 
kaskia burial ground and it was dur- 
ing the life of the village of Milton, 
that a great Indian massacre oc- 
curred. A monument rises on the 
ground where the white population 
were scalped by the Indians. It is 
quite close to the old cemeterj'. 
Although standing for 140 years in 
the heart of what is now a congested 
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