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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PARK SUPERINTENDENTS AT BOSTON, AUGUST 12 
This is the last notice of our con- 
vention that can reach you through 
this paper. Do not wait for another 
reminder, but plan at once to be in 
Boston August 12, 13 and 14, to see 
one of the best, if not the best, park 
development in this country. The 
combined systems of Boston and the 
Metropolitan District surrounding it, 
make a system with which every parr!: 
man who pretends to be anything 
should be familiar. Get your com- 
mission to send you as they should. 
If you cannot get them to do it come 
anyway. It will pay you. If you are 
a park commissioner, provide the way 
for your executive officers to come 
and then come too and see if it is not 
money well spent to imbibe some en- 
thusiasm and learn what is being 
done elsewhere. 
Mayor Fitzgerald will give you a 
royal welcome to Boston. Superin- 
tendent Pettigrew will also give you 
a warm welcome and show you a 
beautiful park system. Assistant 
Superintendent Shea is doing every- 
thing possible to make you comfort- 
able. Copley Square Hotel will be 
headquarters. The meetings each 
morning and evening will be at Mas- 
sachusetts Horticultural Society’s 
Building. 
An abundance of good papers have 
PRESIDENT, W. H. Dunn, Supt. 
of Parks, Kansas City, Mo. 
SECRETARY-TREASURER, 
F. L. Mulford, Dept, of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. 
Annual Meeting, Copley Square Hotel, 
Boston, August 12-14, 1912 
been promised. Questions and discus- 
sions will form a portion of the pro- 
gram and will undoubtedly be most 
instructive. Mornings and evenings 
will be devoted to such work, and 
afternoons to inspections of the park 
systems with possibly a boat ride on 
the bay to some of the seaside parks. 
The executive committee recom- 
mend that the Constitution be chang- 
ed by adding . the following clause 
to Article II, Section 2: 
“or such other persons engaged in 
any executive capacity in Park Work 
who may be recommended by the 
Membership Committee.” 
They also recommend that Article 
1 of the By-Laws be changed. In- 
stead of reading “The annual meet- 
ings shall be held between August 
1st and 15th,” it shall be made to 
read “The annual meeting shall be 
held between September 15th and Oc- 
tober 1st.” 
All park executives interested in 
the work are invited to send in their 
applications for membership on the 
blank found elsewhere, or make in- 
quiries about the association of any 
of its officers. 
Applications for active membership: 
John McLaren, superintendent of 
parks, San Francisco, Cal.; Dwight F. 
Davis, commissioner of parks, St. 
Louis, Mo.; Paul B. Ries, superin- 
tendent Rockford Park District, Rock- 
ford, 111. 
Let everyone come and do not for- 
get to bring the ladies. 
F. L. Mulford, 
Dept, of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington, D. C., Secretary. 
W. H. Dunn, 
Kansas City, Mo., President. 
TREE PLANTING ON OUR HIGHWAYS 
An Address Before the Kansas Engineering Society by 
E. F. A. Reinisch, Landscape Engineer, Topeka, Kans. 
As this subject is rather a new one 
with us, you will permit me to say 
a few words about shade tree plant- 
ing in a country where it has been 
practiced for many years and where 
the highways are scientifically con- 
structed and maintained. 
The great highways of Europe were 
constructed before the people of that 
country had any railroads. They were 
built to connect the great centers 
of commerce and industry. They 
were built to carry all state and in- 
terstate freight, mail and passengers. 
They were located on lines of least 
grade and most direct route, though 
with a view of touching as many as 
possible of the smaller cities and 
towns on the way. 
They were laid out liberally and 
generously as to width, about 100 
feet wide, having a ditch on each 
side; along the inside of these ditches 
are planted trees — mostly fruit trees 
— forming a beautiful avenue. 
The roadway proper is divided into 
two roads of equal width, one macad- 
am and one dirt road; the latter 
is top dressed with gravel and is 
called the summer road. This is used 
mostly for light traffic and for heavy 
loads going down grade. 
The highways of less importance, 
connecting smaller cities and towns, 
are laid out without the summer road, 
but with an equally good 30 feet ma- 
cadam. 
The maintenance, the perpetual 
care, is the most important factor in 
the life of a good road and to facili- 
tate this, road keepers are stationed 
certain distances apart to keep the 
road in repair. The equipment of 
the road keeper is a wheelbarrow, 
shovel, spade and such other tools 
necessary for taking care of the road 
surface and the trees. His duty is 
to keep the road clean and free from 
loose stones, to fill forming depres- 
sions with crushed stone, gravel or 
sand, which material is distributed 
along the macadam at convenient 
distances in piles of about a wagon 
load each. 
When tracks or large depressions 
are made by the traffic he places large 
stones at intervals in the track or 
about the large depressions. This di- 
verts the traffic and generally pre- 
vents any further damage. 
Any wearing out of larger portions 
of the road is taken care of by a re- 
pair gang, which is equipped with all 
necessary tools and implements, 
teams, wagons and heavy roller. 
The width of tires is controlled by 
law, a certain width for a certain ton- 
nage, so we find 6, 8 and 10-inch tires 
on the freight carrying wagons of 
different capacity. 
In regard to maintenance of roads 
Mr. Geo. W. Cooley, State Highway 
Engineer of Minnesota, in an address 
delivered at the National Good Roads 
Convention at Oklahoma City, ex- 
pressed himself as follows: 
“Enormous sums are spent each 
year by different states and counties 
