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OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS 
JAMES B. SHEA, Boston, Mass., President 
AND CONTRIBUTIONS 
J. J. LEVISON, Brooklyn, N.Y., Sec.-Treas. 
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS 
Ask Questions. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1912. 
To the Members of the American 
Association of Park Supts.: 
If you have a park problem to solve, 
wheter it be relative to roads, trees 
or anything else connected with your 
work, enlist the aid of your fellow 
members by using t',he Secretary’s 
office as the medium for exchange of 
opinions. If our fellow members can- 
not answer your question satisfactor- 
ily, the Secretary will seek further ad- 
vice from experts especially qualified 
to answer your question. 
This association stands for mutual 
aid, and the Secretary’s office stands 
ready to serve as a bureau of infor- 
mation for park men. 
Your question will be printed in 
Park and Cemetery (without your 
name, if you so designate), and the 
replies will appear in the following 
issue of the same magazine. 
Getting New Members. 
Our association has broadened out 
in many new lines of activities, all 
tending to benefit the individual mem- 
bers and the cause of park develop- 
ment as a whole. 
Our annual and local meetings, our 
monthly, periodic and annual publica- 
tions, our Tree Committee’s work and 
our Information Bureau are full of 
suggestions indispensable to everyone 
associated with park work. We are 
conscious of this and, therefore, want 
to reach every man in this and other 
countries whose interests are common 
with ours. It will do him good, and 
it will do us good. 
Will you, then, fellow-member, pre- 
sent these facts to your friends who 
are qualified to enter our ranks and 
show them that they need us as well 
as we need them. 
Membership blanks are being sent out 
in circular letters from the Secretary’s 
office and members may have as many 
more as they can use. Ask for them, 
and help increase the membership of 
the association. 
J. J. Levi son, 
Secretary-Treasurer. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
How to Interest People in the Parks. 
The secretary is confronted with sev- 
eral requests for information relative 
to methods of park utilization. Many 
cities have devised unique methods of 
fostering popular appreciation of trees 
in parks. The Boston Park Department, 
for instance, is using its automobile 
trucks on Saturdays, Sundays and holi- 
days for the purpose of taking the peo- 
ple around the parks at a reasonable 
charge. Rochester has instigated peri- 
Forms for Park Accounting. 
Your favor of November 1st re- 
ceived, and am pleased to note the 
contents. Some years ago we sent 
on to you our system of bookkeeping, 
and we understood at that time that 
there was a movement on foot to de- 
vise a general scheme of keeping ac- 
counts for the parks in the United 
States. If such a system has been 
adopted, and you have perfected it, 
we would like very much to secure 
a copy, particularly the system of 
odic celebrations or carnivals in one of 
its large parks. In Brooklyn we have 
labelled the trees, issued “guides to the 
trees” and organized tree clubs among 
the school children. Other cities have 
probably done better and we all want 
to know it. 
It would therefore be of mutual in- 
terest to compare replies from differ- 
ent cities and see by what means their 
parks are brought in closest touch with 
the people and thus used to the great- 
est advantage. In view of this will you 
kindly state what you and your city are 
doing towards this end. Please send 
in your reply as early as possible. 
timekeeping and the checking of sup- 
plies. 
(Signed) JoH' r McLaren, 
Supt. of Parks and Squares. 
The accompanying forms from the 
accounting department of the Brook- 
lyn Parks are offered as suggestions 
in answer to the above inquiry. These 
forms are contributed by Leo Umanoff, 
chief clerk of the Brooklyn, N. Y., park 
department, and embody carefully stud- 
ied blanks for recording many details of 
time keeping and store house records. 
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS 
BOROUGHS OF BROOKLYN AND QUEENS 
Invoices Entered in Stores Ledger 
During Month of 
Date of Date 
Invoice Entered 
NAME OF VENDOR 
Amount of 
Invoice 
Fo that no difference may occur between the general 
ledger control in the accounting office and the etcres 
ledger in the store house, all invoices are listed on 
this sheet and signed by the storekeeper as an acknow- 
ledgment that the entry has been made on the stores 
ledger. This check is made monthly. 
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I hereby certify th<%t the above invoices have been entered in the stores ledger 
under their proper classification. 
Storekeeper. 
RECORD OF INVOICES INTERED IN STORES LEDGER. 
This is a white sheet 8 by 12 y 2 inches, with rulings in red andblue; only top 
and bottom of sheet reproduced. 
THE ASSOCIATION QUESTION BOX 
