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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents, 
O. C. SIMONDS. "Graceland,” 
Chicago, President 
G. W. CREESY, “Harmony Grove,'" 
Salem, Mass., Vice-President. 
F. EURICH, Woodlawn, Toledo, O., 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Tenth Annual Convention will be 
held at St. Louis, September, 15, 16 and 
17. 
Publisher’s Department. 
Notice TO Subscribers. If this no- 
tice is marked with a blue pencil it indi- 
cates that your subscription to Park 
AND Cemetery has expired and a renew- 
al of same is solicited. 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
Photographs and descriptive sketches of 
interesting features in parks and cemeter- 
ies are solicited from our readers. 
Park AND Cemetery wants the names 
of every park and cemetery official or em- 
ployee who would be likely to be interest- 
ed in this paper. To the many subscrib- 
ers who have sent in such list of names, 
we return our thanks. There are many 
more that we should hear from. 
Subscibers are again reminded that we 
want brief notes on any feature of park or 
cemetery work that will be of general in- 
terest. Park and Cemetery is the only 
publication of its class and earnestly soli- 
cits the co-operation of subscribers in 
making it a help to all indentilied with 
such work. 
Our correspondent Mr. James MacPher- 
son has been appointed consulting- land- 
scape gardener to the Board of State Hos 
pitals of New Jersey, and is submitting a 
scheme for an Arboretum on substantial- 
ly the same plan as published last Sep- 
tember, page 1 10. 
Mr Bellett Lawson has assumed charge 
of Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona, Minn., 
and is making many changes to improve 
and bring the cemetery up to the stand- 
ard of modern ideas. It is beautifully 
situated, commanding extensive views. 
In many ways it offers excellent oppor- 
tunities for the creation of fine effects and 
the satisfactory results which accrue to 
intelligent work. 
The Boston Herald of July 1 1, contain- 
ed a lengthy article giving the details of 
the recent changes in management of For- 
rest Hills Cemetery, which resulted in the 
resignation of the president Mr. Joseph H. 
Chadwick, the abrupt dismissal of Mr. 
Jno. G. Barker, superintendent, and the 
treasurer Mr. Edward B. Reynolds. The 
violent turn in affairs is deplored by the 
conservative lot owners, and general re- 
gret is expressed at the loss of the presi- 
dent, whose vested interest in the cem- 
etery IS among the largest, and of Mr. Bar- 
ker, whose many friends are anxious for 
his reinstatement. The Herald speaks 
in a highly commendatory manner 
of Mr. Barker’s work in the cemetery, 
with which he had been connected as 
superintendent for ten years, the period 
of the cemetery’s greatest develop- 
ment and prosperity. It is predict- 
ed that an active campaign will be car- 
ried out for the next annual meeting to 
vindicate or condemn the present man- 
agement. 
received. 
First, Second, Third and Fourth An- 
nual Reports of the Park Commissioners of 
the City of Milwaukee, Wis., for the years 
1892, r893, 1894, 1895. 
Report of the Board of Park Commis- 
sioners of Omaha, Neb., 1895. 
Report of the South Park Commission- 
ers of Cook County, Illinois. December 
I, 1894 to December i, 1895. 
Maple Grove Cemetery, Queens Co., N. 
Y., Rules, Regulations, etc. 1896. The 
pamphlet is illustrated and also contains a 
list of lot owners. 
Annual Report of the Street and Park 
Commissioners of the City of Manchester, 
N. H., for 1895. 
Report of the Board of Metropolitan 
Park Commissioners, January 1896, Bos- 
ton. A book of 107 pages handsomely il- 
lustrated with photo gravures, and many 
maps. 
Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the 
West Chicago Park Commissioners for 
the year ending December 31, 1895. Illus- 
trated with half-tones and maps. 
Prize List of St. John, N. B., Horticul- 
tural Association’s Exhibitions for 1896. 
Annual Message of the Mayor, Annual 
Reports of the City Clerk; Comptroller; 
Board of Public Works; City Engineer; 
Chief of Police; Chief of Fire Department 
and Supt. Fire Alarm Telegraph, of the 
City of La Crosse, Wis., for the year end- 
ing December 31, 1895, 
First Annual Report of the Board of 
Park Commissioners of the City of Indian- 
apolis, Ind., 1896. Accompanied by copy 
of City ordinance containing Rules and 
Regulations for the government of the 
Public Parks of Indianapolis, Ind. Ap_ 
proved June 30, 1896. 
Fifth Annual Report of the Board of 
Park Commissioners of the City of St. Paul. 
For the year ending March i, A. D. 1896. 
Illustrated with many half-tones and 
maps. 
Third Annual Report of Board of Park 
Commissioners of the City of Des Moines, 
Iowa, 1896. Illustrated with many half- 
tones. 
Fifth Annual Report of the Board of 
Park Commissioners of the City of Omaha, 
Neb., including recapitulation of Park 
affairs since the organization of the Park 
Board in 1889. Illustrated with a number 
of half-tones. 
Annual Report of the Parks-Commis- 
sion of the City of Worcester, for the 
year ending November 30, 1895. Illus- 
trated. 
Rules, Regulations, etc. , “Mount Oli- 
vet” Cemetery Association, San Francisco, 
August, 1896, accompanying a handsome- 
ly gotten out pamphlet, illustrating and 
describing their new cemetery. 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
Report of the Committee on Gardens, 
for the year 1895 . By John G. Barker, 
Chairman. 
Report of the Commissioners of Lincoln 
Park, Chicago, April i, 1895, to March 
31. 1^96- 
Expressions From Our Subscribers. 
I am very much attached to Park and 
Cemetery and get much valuable inform- 
ation from It. — W. D. Diuguid, Lynch- 
burg, Va. 
Park and Cemetery is a great aid to 
all persons interested in up-to-date cemet- 
ery management. — Aaron Sonneborn, 
President Pueblo Cemetery Association, 
Pueblo, Colo. 
I am much pleased with Park and 
Cemetery, as I believe all cemetery 
officials must be, for it is certainly very 
instructive and useful to us in so many 
ways. — W. C. Rapp, Siipt, Fort Plain, 
N. Y. 
Park and Cemetery improves with 
each issue, and contains much useful in- 
formation on the subjects discussed. ■ J. 
G. A. Boyd, Sec., Cave Hill Cemetery, 
Louisville, Ky. 
Park and Cemetery is doing much 
towards educating us in cemetery lore. — 
Robt Warms! , Tyrone, Pa. 
It IS with pleasure I peruse Park and 
Cemetery. As it grows in age, it is im- 
proving all the time in matters of great 
value to cemetery superintendents and 
others. — He 7 iry Thompson, Mt. Pleasant 
Cemetery, Toronto, Ont. 
I find Park and Cemetery a great 
help to me, and always full of news. — Sid 
J. Hare Supt., Forest Hill Cemetery, 
Kansas City, Mo. 
