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out leaving the car, was a novel experience. An 
inspection of the famous Rookwood Pottery, a visit 
to the beautifully situated Art Museum, Eden Park, 
and last but not least the well stocked Zoo afforded 
more than enough pleasurable sight seeing for the 
limited time. 
To escape the heat of the city the evening ses- 
sion was held on the balcony of the Pavilion at 
Chester Park, an amusement resort in the suburbs. 
The novelty of an open air meeting in the evening 
was much enjoyed. Two papers of unusual interest 
were read by non-members. “A Half Hour with 
Insects Injurious and Beneficial,” by Mr. Charles 
Dury, an active member of the Cincinnati Society 
of Natural History, was replete with interest. Mr. 
Albert McCullough of Cincinnati read an instruc- 
tive p iper on “Grasses and Weeds.” The third day 
A QUIET NOOK IN SPRING GROVE. 
of the convention was devoted entirely to a visit to 
the neighboring city of Dayton, O. Directors of 
the Woodland and Calvary Cemeteries met the 
party at the railroad station. The morning was 
spent on the grounds of the National Home for Dis- 
abled Volunteer Soldiers, which comprise approxi- 
mately 600 acres on a plateau overlooking the city 
of Dayton some three miles distant. The grounds 
and buildings erected to date have cost $1,500,000, 
and amply repay a visit to see how Uncle 
Sam cares for his wards. After dining at the “Home 
Hotel” the party next visited the factory of the Na- 
tional Cash Register Company, situated in the sub- 
urbs of Dayton. The plant covers nearly nine acres 
of floor space, and the excellent system of manage- 
ment that dominates every department justly places 
it among the model factories of the world. Car- 
riages transported the visitors to Calvary and Wood- 
land Cemeteries, but rain prevented more than a 
drive through the grounds. 
Supt. Cline gathered his guests upon the roomy 
balcony of his modern residence, and intro- 
duced Mayor Linxweiler of Dayton, who welcomed 
the superintendents and their friends to the “Gem 
City” in a very pleasing address. In the temporary 
absence of President Creesy Mr. Scott of Chicago 
responded in his most happy vein. Refreshments 
were served and a social hour enjoyed until nearly 
nightfall, when the party returned to Cincinnati, 
grateful to the Daytonians for their hospitable en- 
tertainment. 
The programme for the fourth and last day of 
the convention provided rare enjoyment, well calcu- 
lated to impress upon each of the favored ones that 
it was well for him to have been 
there. By courtesy of the Funeral 
Directors’ Association of Cincin- 
nati, twenty-five carriages were 
provided for a morning ride 
through the winding drives of 
beautifully undulating Burnett 
Woods Park to aristocratic Clifton, 
where the lamented Strauch first 
gave play to his genius. The 
ample grounds surrounding the 
residences of the elite of Cinc'n 
nati were viewed from the car- 
riages until reaching Oak woods , 
the home of Mr. Henry Probasco, 
Cincinnati’s foremost citizen, and 
for a quarter of a century the hon- 
ored President of Spring Grove. 
Mr. and Mrs. Probasco met their 
visitors at the gateway and con- 
ducted them through the grounds. 
The visitors were very cordially 
entertained in Mr. Probasco’s palatial residence, 
where he read them the following address: 
Ladies and Gentlemen: You have already been cordially 
welcomed to Cincinnati, as the representatives of our sister cit- 
ies. to your Annual Convention, in which we rejoice to possess a 
common interest. You do not meet to promote personal, poll 
tical, financial or religious interests, important as they may be 
in their place, but nevertheless they are of high importance to 
each community o: which you are the honored members here, 
in a body, that ten years ago had scarcely an existence as a body 
of men, who determined to advance their profession for the pub- 
lic good. 
And so to day you possess the conscious pride of being sup- 
erintendents not only of lawn and park cemeteries, but also the 
improvement of city and village grounds that are surely develop- 
ing also fot the living, who, thus alike, honor the dead. You 
unite, with your fellow men, in noble efforts, as well as with art- 
ists, lovers of nature and religion, to make the last resting places 
of those once dear to the living, homes where each soul holdS 
communion with those who were their loved and dearest on earth. 
It is true that this country now ranks with other nations in 
its cemeteries, in their monuments, their rules and regulations 
and their freedom to adopt whatever is admitted to be an ad- 
vance and which exalts their spiritual nature. 
