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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
could be found for them, but never with 
reference to their use as features of any 
comprehensive scheme, have largely been 
supplemented, if not to a considerable ex- 
tent supplanted, by consideration for the 
larger aspects of the subject which the 
need of such schemes, comprehensive 
enough to include not only certain selected 
localities, but the city itself, inevitably sug- 
gests. It is a source of much gratifica- 
tion to your board that the prominent part 
which a dignified and attractive treatment 
of the city's water fronts, and especially 
the redemption and beautification of the 
banks of the Schuylkill below Fairmount, 
must play in any adequate system of civic 
development, is at least so generally recog- 
nized as to figure prominently in all current 
discussion of this subject. Edgar T. Stotes- 
bury is president of the association, and 
Leslie W. Miller, 320 S. Broad street, sec- 
retary. 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION. 
A very massive and imposing iron fence 
and gateway entrance for parks and play- 
grounds is shown on the front cover of this 
issue. It is a print from a photograph of 
the entrance gates and fence erected to 
Owls’ Nest Park, Madison Road, East Wal- 
nut Hills, Cincinnati. The readers of Park 
and Cemetery interested in this design of 
fence and gates can get specifications and 
blueprints by writing The Stewart Iron 
Works Co., Cincinnati, O., who have erect- 
ed the iron fences enclosing many of 
America’s largest and most beautiful parks. 
The product of the great Stewart fac- 
tory is known for its high quality and the 
efficient service rendered by their engineer- 
ing department is of much value to park 
commissioners contemplating the erection of 
an iron fence. With floor space of approx- 
imately 350,000 square feet, and every mod- 
ern factory equipment, they are in a posi- 
tion to handle orders promptly, even for 
special designs to be made up from archi- 
tects’ drawings. 
This is the season of the year when the 
improvement of parks should be considered, 
and this part of the planning should be 
given first consideration. 
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL. 
S. Herbert Hare, of the firm of Hare & 
Hare, landscape architects, Kansas City, 
Mo., is giving a series of ten lectures at 
the University of Kansas on landscape ar- 
chitecture. The lectures are given each 
Thursday and are attended by about sixty 
students, mostly from the botany, archi- 
tectural and art departments. 
The American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science is a national body of 
several thousand members, practically all 
of whom are engaged in scientific work. 
At each annual gathering of the general 
association a few of the members are se- 
lected for fellowship in the association in 
recognition of their scientific work. At 
the recent annual meeting in Atlanta, How- 
ard Evarts Weed, of Portland, Ore., was 
elected a fellow of the association. 
Borough President Douglas Mathewson, 
of the Bronx, has appointed John G. Bors- 
tede as Commissioner of Public Works for 
the Bronx. Mr. Borgstede is president of 
Ferncliff Cemetery, New York. 
Louis Chaudoin has been appointed sex- 
ton of Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsboro, 111., 
to succeed J. A. Page, who served in that 
capacity for ten years. 
At recent annual meetings of cemetery 
associations the following officers were 
elected : 
The New England Cemetery Association 
announces that its annual midsummer out- 
ing will be held in Barre, Vt., June 16 and 
17, and Alex Hanton, superintendent of 
cemeteries in Barre, the Barre Board of 
Trade, the Granite Manufacturers’ Asso- 
ciation and the Quarry Owners’ Associa- 
tion have started their plans for entertain- 
ing the superintendents. It is expected that 
a delegation of 100 cemetery men will 
come to Barre. The entertainment features 
here will resemble the reception accorded 
the monument retailers on the occasion of 
“Barre Day” last August. Special accom- 
modations will be provided for transport- 
ing the superintendents to the quarries. 
There will also be automobile acommoda- 
tions for trips to the different cutting 
plants. Possibly there will be a barbecue 
at some of the parks near the city. Com 
mittees from the local organizations are 
co-operating heartily on the entertainment 
arrangements. 
The city of Denver was sustained in its 
order prohibiting burials in the old Hebrew 
and Mount Cavalry Catholic cemeteries 
east of Cheesman Park by a decision of 
Judge Sheafor, of Colorado Springs. The 
decision was the result of the injunction 
suit brought by Augustus J. Bradleigh to 
restrain the city from enforcing the prohi- 
bition. The Jewish people agreed to the 
edict of the city, but Bradley introduced 
his case to test the right of the city to 
forbid burials in the Catholic cemetery. A 
bill of exceptions will be filed by Bradley’s 
attorneys and the fight may go into the Su 
preme Court, 
Judge Weir, of the Superior Court at 
Indianapolis, recently denied the petition 
for a receiver for the Cemetery Company 
filed by Willard E. Cary, a stock salesman, 
and three stockholders of the company. 
The Cemetery Company and William F. 
Heinig, its promoter, were named defend- 
ants in Cary’s petition. In the opinion 
handed down by Judge Weir he rules while 
the company mlay have been too liberal in 
its grant of stock, bonds and cash to 
Viola Cemetery Association, Viola, Minn. : 
Mrs. M. Campbell, president, and Mrs. R. 
Palmer, secretary. Clarence Wooley was 
appointed caretaker of the cemetery. 
Mishawaka Cemetery Association, Mish- 
awaka, Ind. : Mrs. Rose Grimes, president, 
and Mrs. George Shobe, secretary. 
Fair Plains Cemetery Association, Grand 
Rapis, Mich. : William K. Munson, presi- 
dent, and A. W. Morgan, superintendent. 
Altona Cemetery Association, Altona, 
111.: President, A. L. Roby; secretary, F. 
D. Anderson. 
Heinig, the cancelling of that contract 
places the company on a substantial finan- 
cial basis. It was shown at the beginning 
of the hearing that the assets of the com- 
pany were $74,583, with liabilities of $83,- 
203.75, but the return of $15,000 worth of 
stock to the company by Heinig brought 
the liabilities down to $68,000. In a review 
of the evidence Judge Weir pointed out 
that Heinig had secured executory con- 
tracts for real estate east of Irvington for 
$34,450, and that on October 15 he en- 
tered into a contract with the company 
wherebv he agreed to turn over the land 
for $150,000, of which $80,000 was to be 
in stock, $30,000 in bonds and $40,000 in 
cash. He was also to promote the com- 
pany, supervise the necessary construction 
and receive a commission of 20 per cent on 
the stock sold. The stock sold represented 
19,770 shares, on which $55,000 was real- 
ized. Of this amount Heinig received 
$13,000. The suit was originally brought 
by Cary, who wished a receiver to protect 
a claim of $2,196 against the company for 
the sale of stock. 
The annual report of the Cemetery Com- 
missioners of New Bedford, Mass., notes 
that the past year has been marked with a 
notable improvement in the reconstruction 
of roadways and general expansion of the 
cemeteries. Particularly is this in evidence 
in the completion of the new entrance to 
Pine Grove Cemetery; the new macadam 
avenue leading from the entrance in a 
beautifully curved line and following the 
contour of the land around the first group 
of tall pines and intersecting the macadam 
avenue in the south section ; the large area 
of main avenue in both Rural and Oak 
Grove cemeteries, which has been rebuilt 
with macadam. In opening up a new cem- 
etery, which is what the board is now do- 
ing at Pine Grove, substantial progress has 
been made during the year past. A massive 
stone entrance has been permanently con- 
structed covering 205 feet frontage. The 
land receding from this to the cemetery 
proper for a distance of nearly 600 feet. 
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