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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
SWAN POINT CEMETERY. 
“Another vacancy in the Board was 
caused by the resignation of Mr. William 
Wanton Dunnell occasioned by his removal 
from Rhode Island. Mr. Dunnell had served 
as a director for sixteen years, and during 
that time rendered valuable service as a 
member of the Committee on Grounds. 
The directors filled these two vacancies 
ad interim, by the election of Mr. Knight 
C. Richmond and Mr. Edward F. Ely. 
“The routine work of the cemetery has 
been carried along as usual, quietly and 
faithfully. The improvement of the ave- 
nues by regrading and macadamizing has 
been continued as opportunity offered, re- 
sulting in the addition during the year of 
about thirty-eight thousand square feet of 
this work as well as of about two thousand 
lineal feet of tarvia gutters in connection 
therewith. We have also begun the stak- 
ing out and building of avenues in the por- 
tion of the cemetery west of the Old Swan 
Point road in accordance with the recently 
adopted Olmsted plan, and we are now 
grading and preparing a portion of this 
new section for burial lots — a work which 
must be pushed, as but few unsold lots 
remain to the east of that road. 
“A large addition has been made to the 
trees and shrubs in the cemetery. About 
fifteen hundred were placed along the 
wall of the Alfred Stone road, which 
forms the north boundary of the new part 
of the cemetery, and some four hundred 
more were set out at various locations 
through the cemetery. In addition to the 
above, some forty-seven hundred evergreen 
Pachysandras were planted in the borders 
of drives just outside the entrance gates 
and elsewhere. All of these trees and 
shrubs were raised in our own nurseries. 
We continue to keep in repair the waiting- 
room at the street car line and to beautify 
its surroundings with flowers and shrubs, 
although this land does not belong to us. 
“The systematic and persistent care of 
trees and shrubs begun a few years ago 
has been continued during the past year. 
This included pruning, repairing and 
spraying as well as the destruction of 
browntail moth nests. The extensive 
pruning of the large trees has now been 
completed and will not have to be done 
again for some years, but the spraying and 
nest hunting must be continually followed 
up. Our superintendent reports that, not- 
withstanding the destruction of these nests 
last spring and the spraying done later in 
the year, there were gathered some ten 
baskets of them during December from the 
shrubs and smaller trees by our own men, 
while the Everett Forestry Co. worked 
on the larger trees, from which they gath- 
ered many more. It is an uphill fight owing 
to the fact that the trees beyond our north- 
ern border are badly infected so that the 
occurrence of a strong northerly wind dur- 
ing certain seasons spreads the infection 
among our trees again. However, it is a 
fight worth making and we intend to keep 
it up, hoping that in time a good example 
will prove to be contagious also. 
“The Boulevard sewer referred to in 
our last annual report is now practically 
completed as far as Hope street, and we 
have taken advantage of it to drain the 
section of swamp land to the west of the 
boulevard, arranging with the city to build 
at our expense two catch basjns with drains 
running to this sewer. Not only will this 
put our land in better condition for use 
when it is needed in the future, but it will, 
we trust, be of immediate advantage to the 
community by reducing the mosquito pest. 
“The wise methods in caring for and 
beautifying the grounds adopted years ago 
by our former superintendent, Mr. Mc- 
Carthy, have been ably followed out and 
expanded by the present superintendent, . 
Mr. Thurber, and while there is perhaps 
the greatest wealth of color in the spring — 
when, following the April glory of the 
forsythia, come in quick succession lilacs, 
magnolia, spirea, wistarea, rhododendrons, 
azaleas, deutzias, peonies and laurel, hand- 
ing on the glory to the very end of June — 
yet at all times, winter and summer, the 
cemetery presents a quiet beauty that is 
very satisfying. The artistic grouping of 
evergreens of different shades and forms 
is particularly noticeable in winter and the 
gorgeous foliage of autumn must not be 
forgotten. 
“The directors take this opoprtunity to 
express their appreciation of the way in 
which the various officers and employees 
have performed their duties, 
“Respectfully submitted for the Directors, 
“Prescott O. Clarke, 
“Committee.” 
The statistics of the year’s work are as 
follows : 
Average number of men employed.. 56 
Interments, including 34 at Receiving 
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