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then conducted to Concord, Mass., where 
historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery was vis- 
ited. After this visit the gathering ad- 
journed to Colonial Inn, Concord, where 
an enjoyable banquet was held. 
Rev. Mr. Walker, of the Concord Re- 
formatory, and Mr . Gilmore and Mr. 
Keyes, street commissioner, were the 
guests, and made interesting talks. 
OHIO CEMETERY CONVENTION. 
The annual meeting of the Ohio Asso- 
ciation of Cemetery Superintendents and 
Officials was held in East Liverpool and 
Steubenville June 25th and 26th. About 
fifty delegates were present, representing 
nearly all parts of the state. 
Many very interesting questions pertain- 
ing to cemetery work and management 
were discussed and the enthusiasm was 
at a high pitch. All present agreed to 
do some personal work before the next 
meeting and increase the membership. The 
following officers were elected : 
R. E. Gifford, president, Ravenna, O. 
J. A. Reed, vice-president. Canton, O. 
E. A. Sloan, secretary and treasurer, 
Marion, O. 
The retiring secretary and treasurer, 
Mr. G. C. Anderson, of Sydney, O., who 
had so faithfully served as secretary and 
The city of Toronto, Canada, has been 
offered twelve acres of fine park land, all 
laid out, by the Cemetery Trust at Pros- 
pect Cemetery. The land is valued at ap- 
proximately $10,000 an acre. In return for 
this land the trust desires the city to di- 
vert the proposed parallel road from North 
Toronto to the heart of the city, so that 
it will skirt the eastern boundary of 
Mount Pleasant Cemetery instead of going 
through it. 
The Park Commissioners of Minneapo- 
lis, Minn., recently decided to turn 
“wreckers,” and tear down the buildings 
on the site of the new Gateway Park 
themselves. The low price, $3,100, offered 
by the best wrecking company bid, sug- 
gested that there was considerable profit 
in the job, which the commission might 
just as well secure. 
The fortunate and public-spirited resi- 
dents of Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, 
and its vicinity, who have subscribed $40,- 
000 for its improvement, are setting a 
splendid example to citizens in all parts 
of Philadelphia as well as for the country 
at large. It will redound not only to their 
own gratification, but to the 1,600,000 other 
people of the city, who have equal rights 
in the pretty park. 
For the second time: in the administra- 
tion of Park Commissioner Stover, of New 
treasurer for twelve years, declined to 
serve again on account of failing health. 
Mr. Anderson is nearing his eightieth 
birthday. 
Through Mr. J. C. Cline, of Dayton, on 
behalf of the association, Mr. Anderson 
was 1 presented with a solid gold watch 
fob with his name engraved on it and the 
letters O. C. S. and O., 1913. 
Ravenna, O., was chosen as the meet- 
ing place in 1914, time to be set by the 
executive committee. 
The first session was held at the Car- 
negie library, in East Liverpool, when 
several important addresses were made. 
This was followed in the afternoon by 
an inspection of the Riverview Cemetery 
and a meeting held in the G. A. R. chapel. 
Later in the afternoon the visitors were 
taken in an automobile sightseeing trip 
over the city. 
At 8 o’clock the cemetery superintend- 
ents and officials were given an elaborate 
banquet at the Kenilworth Country Club. 
A pleasing musical programme was ren- 
dered. 
The visitors left on the 9 :50 car over 
the Tri-State Railway and Electric Com- 
pany’s line the next day for Steubenville, 
where the closing sessions of the conven- 
tion were held. 
York City, the Park Department has lost 
the services of a landscape architect with 
the recent resignation of Charles Down- 
ing Lay. Mr. Lay, it is reported, gave 
up because he did not have adequate help 
for the work he deemed necessary to pro- 
tect the natural beauties and save the soil 
in the city’s parks. 
Citizens of South Nashville, Tenn., are 
bringing pressure to bear upon the au- 
thorities for a solution of the park ques- 
tion in that locality. The matter of re- 
opening the proposition to create a public 
park out of the plague spot of Black Bot- 
tom was successfully debated, and the Park 
Commissioners will again take it utx 
When Joseph Wharton, the wealthy 
ironmaster, of Philadelphia, died two years 
ago, it was found that his will gave some 
25 acres of beautiful land to the city for- 
ever as a park. However, there was a 
proviso. He wanted the place to be ac- 
cessible. So he demanded that the city 
open two streets leading up to and run- 
ning through the property, so that all the 
people could get there easily. He stipu- 
lated that this must be done within three 
years after his death, and as the time is 
rapidly passing, the citizens of Branch- 
town and Fern Rock are moving energet- 
ically to push the matter in the Council. 
Transportation service to the parks of 
Pittsburgh, Pa., is a very serious question, 
and the Pittsburgh Press is vigorously 
urging the City Council to show some in- 
terest and energy in order that the parks 
may fulfill their usefulness. 
Mr. John Nolen, landscape architect, 
Boston, Mass., has recently been in Little 
Rock, Ark., for the “City Beautiful Club” 
in preparation for the plans for making 
extensive improvements of the parks and 
boulevards of that city. He will also study 
the improvements of the property adjoin- 
ing the 25-acre park on which the $5,000,- 
000 new state capitol is erected. 
Some question on the inappropriateness 
of the name Mildred Park, given to one 
of the later parks of Springfield, 111., has 
finally resulted in the name being changed 
by the park board to Bunn Park, the name 
being selected in honor of John W. Bunn, 
secretary of the park board, for his great 
services in the park and city’s interests. 
Secretary of War Garrison has noti- 
fied the South Park Commission of Chi- 
cago that the southern portion of Chi- 
cago’s lake shore must not be converted 
to park purposes until definite assurance is 
given that provision will be made for outer 
harbor facilities in some section of the 
lake front. This should hasten some posi- 
tive action on this important question. The 
War Deportment has indicated that the 
proposed outer harbor north of the river 
will afford an adequate safeguard for nav- 
igation facilities, but it must be definitely 
settled upon. 
Mr. F. W. Fitzpatrick, of Washington, 
D. C., is in New Orleans consulting with 
the city authorities on the layout of the 
proposed Southern States and Pan-Ameri- 
can Exposition grounds and buildings. 
A definite movement for the establish- 
ment of a city park has been launched 
at Pine Bluff, Ark., and an organization 
formed which will invite offers of land 
from properly owners. No bi.ds will be 
considered where tracts are less than 80 
acres or more than 120 in area. 
Local patriotic societies in the neighbor- 
hood of Philadeplhia have been urging the 
state legislature to make an appropriation 
for the purchase of land on the Pennsyl- 
vania side of the Delaware for the pur- 
pose of establishing there a joint park with 
the state of New Jersey. It is pronounced 
to be quite a desirable location for such a 
park apart from the historical associations. 
Baltimore, Md., parks had their incep- 
tion practically a century ago. It was in 
the historic year of 1815 that two spaces 
of ground of a little over two acres were 
donated to the community by public-spir- 
ited citizens. These tracts became the now 
famous Mt. Vernon and Washington Place 
Squares. Three years later the city ap- 
propriated the then large sum of $15,000, 
with which to purchase an additional acre, 
on which was laid out the Eastern City 
Spring Square. Nine years later, in 1827, 
came the purchase of one hundred and 
