PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW ENGLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION MEETS. 
The New England Cemetery Association 
held its annual business meeting and elec- 
tion of officers at the Quincy House, Bos- 
ton, February 9. 
The following officers were elected : 
President — Henry S. Adams, superin- 
tendent, Forest Hills, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
Vice-President — William Lord. 
Secretary-Treasurer — Horace A. Derry, 
Everett, Mass. 
The president appointed the following 
committees : 
On Membership: James Warren, Jr., H. 
Wilson Pass. 
On Auditing: Pearl J. Caldwell and G. 
A. Appleton. 
The usual annual banquet was held after 
the business meeting and was much en 
joyed by all. 
Retiring President Edgar King made 
some practical recommendations in his an- 
nual address, from which we quote as fol- 
lows : 
1 beieve it has been suggested in the past, that 
some benefit to our association might be derived if 
undertakers were given the opportunity to meet 
with us, at some meeting to be set aside for that 
purpose. It might mean a getting together on 
some of the many vexed questions requiring a 
common and accepted agreement. For instance, 
take the Sunday funeral, the abolition of which 
“except in cases of infection or contagion when 
burial is imperative,” is so devoutly to be wished. 
How much better we, as superintendents, could 
obtain the various opinions held by undertakers in 
reference to this matter, if we approached the 
subject in a collective rather than an individual 
manner. 
I further believe that we might, with advantage 
to ourselves, devise some plan by which interest in 
the association would become a pleasure and an 
instruction to the trustees of the cemeteries. To 
that end, I would suggest that a committee be 
appointed to organize and introduce some procedure 
having this object principally in view. 
It was voted to hold the next meeting at 
Barre, Vt., June 16 and 17, on invitation 
of Superintendent Alick Hanton, of the 
Barre cemeteries, the Barre Board of 
Trade, the Barre Granite Manufacturers’ 
Association and the Barre Quarry Owners’ 
Association. The members will be guests 
of the Barre people while they are in that 
city and will be under no personal ex- 
pense. The Barre people are making elab- 
orate plans to entertain the members and 
show them the great granite quarries and 
manufacturing plants, where more ceme- 
tery monuments are made than anywhere 
else in the world. More than thirty mem- 
bers have already promised to go to Barre 
and a record attendance is expected. Fur- 
ther details of the meeting will be an- 
nounced later. 
salary. He was a member of the Associa- 
tion of American Cemetery Superintend- 
ents, took the deepest interest in its wel- 
fare, and was always happy to receive any 
of the members who visited him in Ireland. 
Otto Berger was recently appointed city 
sexton of Elgin, 111., to fill vacancy made 
by the death of Albert Marckhoff. 
At recent annual meetings of cemetery 
associations the following officers were 
elected : 
Farragut Cemetery Association, Farra- 
gut, la. : Mrs. Thomas McMahon, presi- 
dent, and Mrs. G. Vansant, secretary. 
Blaine Cemetery Association, Blaine, 
111.: President, J. D. Hayden; secretary, 
J. P. Goodall. 
Fairfield Cemetery Association, Fairfield, 
Mich. : President, Archie Morse ; sexton, 
V. S. Fowler. 
Leland Cemetery Association, Leland, 
111.: President, C. M. Potter; secretary, J. 
E. Amable. 
Wabash Cemetery Association, Wabash, 
Inch: President, Thomas McNamee; sec- 
retary, W. Clare. 
THE OBITUARY RECORD. 
After a long illness, Miss Helen Frances 
Amrhyn, the nineteen-year-old daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Gustave X. Amrhyn, died 
February 15 at her parents’ home, 1150 
Whitney avenue, Whitneyville, Conn. The 
deceased’s father is superintendent of 
parks in New Plaven, and her death brings 
sorrow to relatives and numerous friends 
in the community. Miss Amrhyn is sur- 
vived by her father and two sisters, the 
Misses Elsie and Jeanette Amrhyn. 
PARK AND PLAYGROUND FENCE. 
Those who are interested in the country- 
wide playground and recreation center 
movement, especially park and playground 
superintendents, will be attracted by the 
illustration of heavy iron fence and gates 
shown on the front cover of this issue. 
Approximately 100,000 feet of this fence 
and thirty pairs of gates have been fur- 
nished by The Stewart Iron Works Com- 
pany, Cincinnati, O., to enclose Chicago 
Parks and Playgrounds. Some very recent 
playground installations are Russel Square, 
Ogden and Washington parks and City 
parks, numbers fifteen, sixteen, seventeen 
and eighteen. The exterior fence shown in 
the illustration is five feet high and made 
with J^-inch square pickets, spaced five 
inches on centers. The interior fence 
which sub-divides and encloses the boys 
and girls’ gymnasiums, garden plots, etc., is 
of the same pattern as the playground en- 
closure proper, but made of lighter ma- 
terial. 
A suitable enclosure is a very essential 
part of the equipment of every park and 
playground, consequently the matter of 
fencing should be carefully considered. No 
PENNSYLVANIA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED. 
The organization of the Pennsylvania 
Cemetery Association was perfected in a 
good meeting, February 10, at Harrisburg, 
when about fifty persons interested in cem- 
etery management gathered from all parts 
of the state. 
The object of the association is the gen- 
eral improvement of cemetery conditions 
throughout the state, especially in smaller 
communities where local organization has 
been impracticable. 
The officers elected were : 
President — George M. Painter, West- 
minster, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Vice-President — Edward Gunster, Oak 
Lawn, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 
Secretary — William B. Jones, Highwood, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Members of the Executive Committee 
are : H. M. Barnes, Llarrisburg, Pa. ; W. 
H. Druckemiller, Pomfret Manor, Sun- 
bury, Pa. ; George W. German, Wildwood, 
Williamsport, Pa., and Robert J. Miller, 
Glen Dyberry, Honesdale, Pa. 
The next meeting will be held in Phila- 
delphia during the month of June, on a 
date to be determined by the Executive 
Committee. 
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL. 
Will H. Clark, formerly park commis- 
sioner of Oklahoma City, is now chairman 
of the Civic Committee of the Chamber 
of Commerce and organizing an energetic 
campaign for tree planting and city beauti- 
fying generally. Mr. Clark says in a re- 
cent introductory talk to citizens: “We 
must also look after the alleys, vacant lots, 
weeds and waste paper ; see that every va- 
cant lot not in grass or garden be utilized 
with some crop which will keep it green ' 
and keep down the weeds. I have been 
assured by the mayor that he will support 
us with the police department in our ef- 
fort to protect our trees and lawns ; in 
fact, each department in the city will co- 
operate with us. I desire also to raise a 
fund sufficient that we may offer rewards 
to tenants for the best improved and best 
kept tenement properties by the tenants ; 
nothing can get landlords and tenants 
closer together than this. A few sacks of 
flour or the like should never be offered to 
owners of real property as a prize to in- 
duce them to improve. Prizes to children 
to interest them in flowers is excellent, as 
has been demonstrated in our midst by the 
Civic Committee of the “ ’89rs” organiza- 
tion. Small prizes for adults for less 
display of flowers is good, but substantial 
prizes to land owners to improve and 
beautify their homes is a failure, for the 
few who have the wherewith to buy the 
labor of many men for such work are the 
winners, and the contest resolves itself to 
that class only.” 
Charles Coyle, secretary of the Dublin 
Cemeteries Committee, Dublin, Ireland, 
after a service of over a half century to 
the Dublin cemeteries, has retired on full 
