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The Semet-Solvay Co., Syracuse, N. Y., 
has issued an interesting 36-page booklet 
illustrating many specimens of roads in 
parks and cemeteries that have been treated 
with granulated calcium chloride, and de- 
scribing in interesting text the use of this 
popular dust-layer. 
OHIO CEMETERY CONVENTION. 
The Ohio Association of Cemetery Su- 
perintendents and Officials has planned a 
most interesting annual convention to be 
held at Ravenna, June 24 and 25, with head- 
quarters at the Coit Hotel. 
Following is the program: 
Wednesday Afternoon, June 24. 
Meeting called to order at Cemetery Chapel, 
1 :30 p. m. 
Prayer, Rev. J. W. Dowds ; welcome ad- 
dress, Mayor Walter Lyon ; response, 
Fred I. Sloan, Ironton, Ohio. 
Roll-call; application and reception of new 
members. 
President’s address, R. E. Gifford, Ra- 
venna. 
Reading of secretary’s report ; communica- 
tions ; payment of fees and dues. 
Paper, “Tombstones,” Mr. George F. Titus, 
Norwalk, Ohio. Discussion of same. 
Report of delegate to national convention, 
Mr. George Gossard, Washington C. H., 
Ohio. 
Question box. Appointing of committees 
on auditing, location, resolutions ; inspec- 
tion of grounds. 
Wednesday Evening, June 24. 
Dinner at 7 p. m. by Ladies’ Cemetery As- 
sociation at Foresters’ Temple. 
8 p. m. — Program of special music and 
speeches. 
Thursday Morning, June 25. 
9 a. m. — At Coit House, auto ride. 
10:30 a. m. — Meeting called to order at 
Foresters’ Temple. 
Paper, “Renovating an Old Cemetery,” 
Charles Crain, Tiffin, Ohio. Discussion 
of same. 
Paper, J. R. Florence, Circleville, Ohio. 
Discussion of same. 
New business. Adjourned to 1 p. m. 
Thursday .Afternoon, June 25. 
1 p. m. — Foresters’ Temple. 
Paper. “Horticulture,” Mr. Ernest Muny, 
Cleveland, Ohio. Discussion of same. 
Report of National Committee on Com- 
munity Mausoleum, O. G. Harmon, Ra- 
venna. Discussion of same. 
Report of committees and election of offi- 
cers. Unfinished business. Good-bye. 
This State Association is in a thriving 
condition and much interest seems to be 
manifested in the coming meeting. 
It is the purpose to try and interest all 
cemetery men of the state in this work. 
Much has been done in the past to improve 
the cemeteries of Ohio by this association 
and the interest is increasing more and 
more each year. 
E. A. Sloan, of Marion, is secretary of 
the association. 
Harry Smith, secretary of the Board of 
Park Commissioners, of Louisville, Ky., 
has been flooded with requests of varied 
character since the announcement in a re- 
cent decision by the Court of Appeals that 
the board had supervision of trees along 
streets and sidewalks of the city. The 
board has been asked to cut down dead 
trees and live trees, to trim trees and fur- 
nish and plant trees of specified variety. 
“The board cannot keep a crew of men to 
do this work, though they would like very 
much to,” said Mr. Smith. “Provision is 
made only that the board shall authorize 
the planting or trimming of the trees, or 
condemn them. The individual must have 
the work done and pay for it.” 
Situated at the confluence of four 
streams in the beautiful Miami Valley 
where Stillwater. Mad River and Wolf 
Creek flow into the Miami, and surround- 
ed by picturesque hills. Dayton, Ohio, has 
excellent natural advantages for a fine park 
system, and if the system that has been 
outlined in a recent report by Olmsted 
Prothers is adopted, this city, with its wide 
streets, attractive concrete and steel 
bridges, boulevard system of lighting and 
handsome buildings, will, it is believed, 
rank second to no inland city of 130000 
population. Under the new form of city 
government many Dayton people hope to 
see an interest manifested in parks and 
playgrounds such as they consider in keep- 
ing with its reputation as a manufacturing 
and mercantile center. The new commis- 
sioners are expected soon to have the plan 
of the city beautification printed and to 
enter on a campaign of education to 
awaken Dayton’s citizens to the importance 
of adopting it. If this plan is adopted and 
its provisions carried out, Dayton will have 
twenty-six playgrounds, comprising 230 
acres ; nine small parks, aggregating 216 
acres, and four large parks of 1,060 acres, 
a total of 1,506 acres. In addition to this 
there will be nineteen miles of parkways, 
nine of which will be along the Miami, 
Mad River and Wolf Creek, and ten miles 
of circumferential parkways. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
The Parks and Boulevards Commission 
of Kalamazoo, Mich., has asked the Citv 
Council for an appropriation of $10,574.50 
for the park work for the present season. 
The present recommendation of the board 
provides for extensions of the work on 
every park, grading and beautifying the 
grounds about the water towers, and the 
construction of new greenhouses to replace 
the present ones at Riverside Cemetery, 
which have been condemned. An appro- 
priation of $2,5CO for the new structures 
was asked. 
The City Park Board of Dallas, Tex., 
has decided upon the purchase of a lot 
60x180 feet to be added to the new park 
on Carroll and Worth avenues. 
The Council Committee on Goodale 
Park, Columbus, Ohio, asks for an appro- 
priation of $3,000 to be used in carrying 
out a general improvement scheme in the 
park within the next few weeks. W. A. 
Hogle, assistant in the engineer’s office, 
consulted with members of the committee 
on the contemplated development of the 
park. 
The village of Wood River, 111., is to 
have a public park of fifteen acres. On 
the tract are some oak trees of good size 
and about a carload of trees will be pur- 
chased and set out on the grounds. 
From the Park Reports. 
The annual illustrated report of the 
Park Department of Cambridge, Mass., 
notes that the development of the play- 
ground system is one of the most impor- 
tant problems that will confront the Board 
of Park Commissioners the coming year. 
It is the intention of the commissioners to 
develop six large and up-to-date play- 
grounds. An important event in the his- 
tory of the city was the completion last 
year of the new athletic field, built for 
the use of the school boys of Cambridge. 
Two thousand five hundred private estates 
were cleaned of gypsy and brown-tail 
moths during the winter months. Two 
thousand seven hundred and fifty trees 
were cleaned. Although both these pests 
are on the decline in this city, it is still 
necessary to go over the ground just as 
carefully as heretofore in order to prevent 
a recurrence of the trouble. All the trees 
were sprayed with arsenate of lead in or- 
der to destroy the elm-leaf beetle. This 
treatment has been very successful. The 
leopard moth still continues to spread and 
is doing a great deal of harm to the trees. 
No successful remedy has as yet been 
found to combat it. John F. Donnelly is 
superintendent of parks and B. F. Sullivan 
supervisor of playgrounds. 
The annual report of the Park Com- 
missioners of New Bedford, Mass., con- 
tains a report in detail of the receipts and 
expenditures and an account of the main- 
tenance and improvements during the year. 
The appropriation by the City Council was 
$45,000. The expenditures of the year 
amounted to $45,661.39, exceeding the ap- 
propriation $661.39. Of this amount, $21.- 
927.01 was paid for labor and $23,734.38 
for materials and the maintenance of the 
parks. The purchase of the Howland land 
