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ments : Grading of South Fitchburg play- 
ground ; the completion of a new plan for 
Coggshall Park; the establishment of a 
workshop for the department; the pur- 
chase of an automobile for the use of the 
superintendent, and the improved arrange- 
ments in the office. The chief feature of 
the work at Coggshall Park was the com- 
pletion of the survey and plan for its fu- 
ture development on plan and recommenda- 
tions made by H. A. Reynolds, of Boston 
Following the recommendation for a con- 
crete dam 200 feet south of our present 
temporary structure, work was started and 
the core wall completed before winter set 
in. Early in the spring a considerable 
amount of work was done on the land cut 
off during the winter. This was the last of 
the land burned over several years ago. 
Twenty thousand white pine seedlings, 
6.000 red pine, 3,000 Norway spruce and 
3.000 Douglas fir were set out. The cost 
of this work, including the trees them- 
selves, was $200.45, or $6,26 per M. Only 
the best plants were used for planting in 
permanent locations. All the culls, amount- 
ing to something over 18,000, were lined 
out in the park nursery. D. S. Woodworth 
is chairman of the board, and William W. 
Calton, superintendent, city forester and 
clerk of the board. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
J. J. Culbertson has had plans prepared 
by a landscape architect for the improve- 
ment of two small triangular parks near his 
residence at Stonewall avenue and East 
Thirteenth street, Oklahoma City, Okla. 
The design calls for a pagoda or shelter 
which will serve as a waiting station, pro- 
vided with a drinking fountain and seats. 
The walks are to be eight feet wide and 
slightly winding, banked with shrubbery 
in the curves, and so bordered with one 
row of trees that the entire length will 
be in the shade from eight in the morn- 
ing until sundown. Seats will be provided 
just off the walk and under the trees. All 
formal planting has been avoided except 
between the street walk and curb, where 
the curbs and border walks are on straight 
lines. 
The Council of Columbus, O., will be 
asked for a $10,000 bond issue to be added 
to the Franklin Park fund, with which to 
construct a $27,000 shelter house and rec- 
reation center in the park. Plans have 
•been prepared by Architect J. A. Jones. 
Two additional lots for Exall Park have 
been purchased by the City Park Board 
of Dallas, Tex. The Kidd Springs prop- 
erty, embracing 19.52 acres, and options 
upon 13.2 acres adjoining, with smallhold- 
ings that may be condemned, constituting 
a parallelogram of thirty-six acres, is also 
being offered to the city for park purposes 
at approximately $2,000 per acre. This in- 
cludes the lake and springs and all im- 
provements on the Kidd Springs property. 
Included in the Kidd Springs property is a 
lake of clear water, covering some four 
acres, fed by large springs. It is esti- 
mated that an artesian well furnishing the 
same flow would cost not less than $25,0C0. 
There also is a natural and beautiful grove 
of trees. 
George H. Hermann is having the deed 
prepared for the 285-acre park site he is 
to give the city of Houston, Tex. The 
Greenwood Cemetery Knoxville, Tenn., 
has issued a very fine series of colored 
post-cards illustrating in natural colors 
some beautiful scenes in the grounds. 
Greenwood recently held its eighth annual 
“Flower Day,” that was celebrated with 
interesting and beautiful exercises. Flow- 
ers were strewn upon all graves by friends 
and relatives. Preceding the strewing of 
flowers a musical and literary program was 
rendered in the cemetery chapel. The fea- 
ture was an address by Rev. Henry Clay 
Risner, D. D., pastor of the Broadway 
Baptist Church, who paid tribute to the 
memories of those who have passed to the 
great beyond. After the singing of the 
hymn, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” Rev. 
French Wampler offered invocation. Miss 
Lillian McMillan Lewis sang a very beau- 
tifully, after which Dr. Risner spoke. 
“Whispering Hope” was sung by Mrs. 
Zemp and Miss Conner. The exercises 
were concluded by the congregation singing 
“Wait and Murmur Not,” and the benedic- 
tion. Those present then strewed flowers 
on the graves. 
Suit to throw the Rosehill Cemetery Co., 
of Chicago, into a receivership, bring about 
an audit of the company’s books and re- 
strain the erection of the mausoleum now 
under construction at the cemetery was 
filed in the Circuit Court May 22 by Wes- 
ley Dempster and a group of stockholders 
in the company. It is alleged that a cer- 
tain fund, known generally as the “care 
fund,” was established to provide for the 
perpetual upkeep of lots in the cemetery. 
This fund, the bill alleges, is approximately 
$700,000, and is invested in certain ap- 
proved securities. It is charged in the bill 
that after May, 1912, certain members of 
the cemetery company purchased approxi- 
mately 2,500 shares of stock for $57,208 and 
conspired to form a company of their 
own. In furtherance of this plan, it is al- 
leged, a wholesale selling of the approved 
securities was commenced for the repur- 
chase, in some instances from themselves 
or from the institutions in which they were 
interested, of securities the value of which 
is questioned. Aside from the injunction 
to restrain construction work on the mau- 
soleum, the petitioners ask for an injunc- 
tion to prevent further selling of the com- 
pany securities. The suit follows that of 
park will be known as the George H. Her- 
mann Park. 
Herbert J. Kellaway, the Boston land- 
scape architect, has prepared an interest- 
ing plan for the development of a civic 
center in Winchester, Mass. It includes a 
plan for the grouping of the public build- 
ings near the Aberjona River and Mystic 
Valley Parkway. 
the Rosehill Company as a corporation 
against the present complainants, asking 
the court to determine whether or not the 
company has a right to construct a mauso- 
leum. The stockholders named are threat- 
ening to appeal to the courts to prevent the 
erection of the structure on the grounds 
that such construction is outside of the 
corporate powers of the company. The 
Chicago Tribune, in commenting on the 
matter said: “Purchasers of crypts in the 
community mausoleum now under construc- 
tion at Rosehill have watched with interest 
the charges of mismanagement by the 
minority stockholders against the managers 
of the company. Some have feared the 
permanence of the mausoleum project 
might be affected by the alleged manipula- 
tion of securities. The petition for a re- 
ceiver for the cemetery company charged 
that the Community Mausoleum company 
was a holding company organized for the 
personal profit of the directors. The fact 
that the managers offered a discount of 10 
per cent for cash to the purchasers of 
crypts last summer and fall and netted a 
considerable sum therefrom is believed by 
some of the crypt owners to be an indica- 
tion that the funds were badly needed. 
The mausoleum is the only large one of 
its kind in the country. That doubts have 
been felt as to the success of the scheme 
is intimated in the remarks of Thomas 
Wallis, one of the directors before the As- 
sociation of American Cemetery Superin- 
tendents. The remarks of Wallis are re- 
ported in the Monumental News as fol- 
lows: ‘We are building a community mau- 
soleum at Rosehill. My personal opinion 
is that if Rosehill had to do it over again 
they would not start to build one.’ Later 
cn in the report of the convention a Mr. 
Laudes is quoted as having said : ‘I would 
like to know what excuse there is for call- 
ing them community mausoleums. They 
should more properly be called promoters’ 
mausoleums. Promoters are not com- 
.munists. * * * They are individuals 
financially interested in a money-making 
scheme.’ ” 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
The East Greenville Cemetery Associa- 
tion, East Greenville, O., has been incor- 
porated by Frank Shaub and others. 
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