PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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The place where Washington refused the 
crown. 
The old stone building, in perfect preser- 
vation, contains many relics of the days of 
his residence there, also the furniture used 
by him. In this house is the celebrated 
room with seven doors and one window. 
In the museum nearby are many authentic 
and valuable relics of Revolutionary and 
Colonial days. 
En route to Washington’s Headquarters 
we pass the Old Town Cemetery, founded 
in 1713. In this plot rest the remains of 
many of the old soldiers of the Revolu- 
tion. Here also a boulder with bronze 
tablet marks the spot where stood the old 
Palatine Church in the heart of the "Glebe” 
land granted by the Crown to the early 
settlers. Near the cemetery on Liberty 
street a bronze tablet marks the site of 
Weigand’s Tavern, a resort of Revolution- 
ary soldiers and Newburgh’s first post- 
office. 
A short distance from here another tab- 
let marks the birthplace of General Wood, 
who saw active service in three wars — 1812, 
the Mexican and the Civil. 
12 Noon. 
We take automobiles for 25-mile ride 
down the beautiful Ramapo valley to the 
residence of Mrs. E. H. Harriman, which is 
located on one of the high mountains along 
the river. Here Mrs. Harriman will enter- 
tain the commissioners at luncheon, after 
which we drive through Tuxedo Park, the 
most beautiful residential spot in the coun- 
try, containing suburban homes of many of 
our most prominent citizens. 
Returning to Newburgh, we pass by Gen- 
eral Knox’s headquarters on Quassaick 
avenue, erected in 1754 by Colonel Thomas 
Ellison. Mrs. Knox was the leader of 
army society and many balls were given at 
this house, General Washington often at- 
tending. 
We also pass Temple Hill, marked by a 
monument of field stone. At this spot, in 
Revolutionary times, was a building known 
as the “Temple,” erected in 1782 for public 
meetings of all sorts. The Masonic Lodge 
that followed the army held its communi- 
cations here. 
Of Temple Hill it has been written that 
while national independence was declared 
at Philadelphia in 1776, the Republic had 
its birth on the camp ground of the Con- 
tinental Army at this spot. 
Evening — Entertained by the city. 
Wednesday, August 26. 
On the River. 
By Boat — As guests of George W. Per- 
kins to West Point, site of the Military 
Academy of the United States, the most 
beautiful and picturesque spot on the whole 
river, whose wide spreading plain and no- 
ble buildings are the admiration of all. 
Just opposite here is Constitution Island, 
the home of the aged author, Miss Warner, 
the author of the “Wide, Wide World.” 
Then to the Interstate Park. This park 
comprises lands in New York and New 
Jersey, 10,000 acres being the gift of Mrs. 
E. H. Harriman, who also most generously 
gave the sum of $1,000,000 for development. 
Some 18,000 more acres have been given 
by the states of New York and New Jer- 
sey. A grand boulevard, to be known as 
the “Hendrik Hudson Boulevard,” is now 
being constructed from Fort Lee ferry, on 
the New Jersey shore, opposite the upper 
part of New York City, to Newburgh, a 
distance of about sixty miles. 
On the way down the river from West 
Point we come to “Stony Point,” where 
Mad Anthony Wayne made his gallant and 
successful attack on the British forces. 
This spot is now a state reservation, open 
to the public for rest and recreation. 
Further down the river we have on our 
right the rocky ramparts known as the 
“Palisades,” opposite which on the eastern 
bank are to be seen the homes of many 
prominent men, including John D. Rocke- 
feller, F. W. Vanderlip, the well-known 
banker; Greystone, the former residence of 
Samuel J. Tilden, once Governor of New 
York state. 
Below here appears the tomb of General 
U. S. Grant, also the sailors’ and soldiers’ 
monument, and continuing on past the 
docks of the transatlantic liners and coast- 
wise steamers and countless ferries, we 
come to the Battery Wall, the rounding 
point of the city, the junction of the North 
and East rivers, with Governor’s Island 
right ahead of us and Bartholdi’s colossal 
Statue of Liberty on our right. 
From here the party will proceed to the 
Hotel Astor, the headquarters in New York 
City of the convention. The remainder 
of the evening will be at their disposal, no 
special program having been arranged. 
Thursday, August 27, 
New York City. 
By automobiles, 9 a. m., through the park 
system of New York City, passing through 
Central Park, Riverside Drive, Van Cort- 
landt Park, Moshlau Parkway, to the New 
York Botanical Gardens, reaching the 
Zoological Gardens about noon. View the 
Zoological Gardens for an hour and then 
luncheon. Leave the Gardens at 2 :30 p. m., 
passing through the following points : 
Thomas Jefferson Playgrounds, East 101st 
street playground to the 102nd street en- 
trance of Central Park, through the park 
down to Fifth avenue, passing the mu- 
seums and public library, Madison Square, 
Union Square and Washington Square 
parks to the Tompkins Playgrounds; 
thence to Hamilton Fish Playgrounds, 
through Delancey and other streets on the 
East Side to Seward Playground ; thence 
to Mulberry Bend and Chinatown, over the 
Manhattan Bridge past McLaughlin Play- 
ground to Prospect Park Plaza; thence up 
the Eastern Parkway past the Museum, 
through the Botanic Gardens into Pros- 
pect Park by way of the Willinck entrance. 
In Prospect Park the automobiles will pass 
down the West Drive, stopping at the Vale 
of Cashmere, Rose Garden and the main 
entrance, up the East Drive past the Litch- 
field Mansion, through the center drive to 
the Flower Garden and thence along the 
South Lake drive leading by the Ocean 
Parkway entrance, along Ocean Parkway 
to Coney Island, where the rest of the 
evening will be spent seeing Luna Park 
and other places of amusement. 
IMPROVING VEGETATION IN BOSTON COMMON 
By Hans J. Koehler. 
The moribund condition of the trees on 
the Common has been due to the combina- 
tion of a number of conditions, chief of 
which are lack of sufficient moisture, a 
poor or insufficient soil, compacting of the 
same by trampling by people, insect pests, 
and bad atmospheric conditions. It was 
reasonable to suppose that all of these con- 
ditions, excepting the last, could be rem- 
edied by means within the reach of those 
in authority on the Common. The idea in 
mind was both to prevent a recurrence of 
the present state of affairs in trees now 
young or to be planted in the future, and, 
so far as possible, to reinvigorate the older 
trees and save them from premature death. 
IRRIGATION. 
One of the first systematic steps, taken 
in the winter of 1909 to 1910, was to in- 
stall an irrigation system. Since there are 
no very unusual features about this, it 
needs only the briefest description. 
The mains are 6-inch, the laterals 4-inch 
and the hose connections 2p2-inch. The hy- 
drants are somewhat over 200 feet apart, 
distributed throughout the Common. The 
pressure is strong enough to keep, say, 
one-half dozen 2j4-inch hose going at the 
same time. 
This irrigation system has been quite lib- 
erally used, especially during the summer 
of 1913. 
INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS. 
During the summer of 1910 a number of 
investigations and experiments were made 
with sub-irrigation, soil improvement and 
leopard moth work, also forty-eight me- 
chanical analyses of soils were made. 
As a result of these investigations and 
experiments it was decided not to attempt 
