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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A. A. C. S. CONVENTION IN ST. LOUIS. 
Editor Park and Cemetery : I want to 
let you know for the next issue of Park 
and Cemetery what the Convention Com- 
mittee has decided on for the next conven- 
tion in St. Louis. The convention will be 
held on the 6th, 7th and 8th of October, at 
the Planters’ Hotel. As that week will be 
the Festival Week in St. Louis, there will 
be a large number of visitors in the city to 
see the Veiled Prophets procession and to 
attend the Veiled Prophets ball at night. 
It will be necessary for our members to 
make early application for rooms, etc. 
Matthew P. Brazill, 
Chairman Convention Committee. 
St. Louis, Mo. 
ANNUAL CONVENTION OF 
The sixteenth annual convention of the 
American Association of Park Superintend- 
ents will be held at Newburgh and New 
York City, N. Y., August 24, 25, 26 and 27, 
1914. Headquarters : Newburgh, Palatine 
Hotel; New York City, Hotel Astor. The 
program : 
Monday, August 24. 
3 p. m. — Meeting of the Executive Board. 
Registration. 
7 :3'0 p. m. — Annual business meeting at 
headquarters, Palatine Hotel, Newburgh, 
PLANTERS' HOTEL, ST. LOUIS. 
PARK SUPERINTENDENTS. 
N. Y. Address of welcome, Mayor of 
Newburgh; addresses by the Park Commis- 
sioners of Newburgh ; response, President 
H. S. Richards. A brief sketch of the life 
and works of Mr. Andrew Jackson Down- 
ing, by Prof. F. A. Waugh. “The Preser- 
vation of Natural Woodlands Under Park 
Conditions,” illustrated lecture and discus- 
sion led by Ogelsby Paul, landscape gar- 
dener, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Tuesday, August 25. 
7 to 10 a. m. — Visit to Mt. Beacon, one 
of the highest points in the vicinity and fa- 
mous in Revolutionary times. 
10 a. m. — Start by auto from headquar- 
ters at Newburgh to see the important points 
of interest in the city, visit the Downing -j; 
homes, Washington's headquarters, and 
Nev'burgh parks and playgrounds; thence 
through Tuxedo Valley to Tuxedo Park. 
The association will then be entertained at 
luncheon by Mrs. E. H. Harriman on her 
estate at Arden. Return to Newburgh 
early in the evening. 
Wednesday, August 26. 
10 a. nr. — Through the courtesy of Hon. 
George W. Perkins, president of the Inter- 
state Park Commission, the association will 
leave Newburgh by boat on a trip down I 
the Hudson River to West Point, stopping 
at the different points along the Interstate 
Park river front, where the members and I 
their guests will be conveyed through the 
Interstate Park. The trip by boat down 
the Hudson will then be continued, view- 
ing the Palisades, the New York river j 
front and the New York bay, arriving in 
New York City early in the evening. 
Thursday, August 27. 
9 a. m. — Meet at heaquarters, Hotel As- 
tor, New York City. Address of welcome, 
Mayor of the City of New York; address, 
Hon. Cabot Ward, president of New York 
Park Board ; response, President H. S. 
Richards. 
THE BOSTON GIANT PARK SPRINKLER 
Designed for watering 
large areas, suck as Parks 
and Cemeteries, Golf 
Courses, Baseball Grounds, etc. 
Water spread in a fine, dense 
ram-like spray over an area 
having a diameter of from 80 
to 150 feet, at 30 lbs. pressure 
per square incb. 
Endorse d by Public Park De- 
partments of many of tbe 
largest cities of tbe United 
States. 
Spray Engineering Co. 
ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURERS 
Dept. P 201, Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. 
Send for Bulletin No. 25. 
Offices or agents in nearly all 
tke large cities. 
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