PARK AND CEMETERY. 
99 
The following officers were elected for the year 
1899 -igoo : 
President, Chas. M. Loring, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Secretary, Warr«n PI. Manning, Boston, Mass. 
Treasurer, O. C. Simonds, Chicago, 111. 
Vice-Presidents, Thomas H. MacBride (R. H. 
Warder, retiring), Iowa City, Iowa; I.ouis Wool- 
verton (P. PI. A. Balsley, retiring ) , Grimsby, Ont.; 
J. C. Olmsted, Brookline, Mass.; E. J. Parker, 
Quincy, 111.; Lewis Johnson, New Orleans, La.; 
M. L. Moore, Toledo, O. 
The next meeting will be held in Chicago. 
The following resolutions were adopted : 
Resolved, That a committee of three persons be appointed 
by the President, to take into consideration the matter of 
offering prizes, in our different cities, for the improvement of 
grounds about manufactories and homes — both front and back 
lots — and especially about the homes of artisans; to formulate 
rules governing the distribution of prizes, and to offer suggest- 
ions for planting. 
Committes : Prof. W. J. Beal, Agricultural College, Mich- 
igan; E. L. Shuey, Dayton, O.; Dr. W. W. Folwell, Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 
Resolved, That a standing committee of five persons be 
created to consider the best way of checking abuses of public 
advertising ; to recommend to the members of this Association 
such national, state and local legislation as may correct this 
abuse and to prepare and distribute, from time to time, printed 
matter, to intluence the public opinion in this direction. 
Committee; Dr. P. M. Woodworth, Chicago; P. W. Kel- 
sey, New York; Charles W. Gartield, Grand Rapids; J. C. E. 
Hanford, Detroit, Mich.; F. L. Olmsted, Jr., Boston. 
It is a well known fact, that Spain is the only European 
country which has not made some public provision, either at 
home or in her colonial p issessions, for the protection and 
restoration of her forests. The hillsides and mountains of Spain 
have been so denuded of native timber and growths as to impair 
the value of her lands for agriculture, thus placing Spain at a 
disadvantage with other European countries, which have made 
provision, by scientific planting, for restoring the losses of their 
forests occasioned by natural forces and commercial uses. 
Whereas, The United States has recently acquired, by 
treaty and purchase, possessions from Spain, and has occupied 
the island of Cuba ; therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the attention of our citizens generally, 
should be called to the importance of creating forest reserves on 
the islands of Cuba, Porto Rico, the Phillippine Archipelago, 
and also in the Sandwich Islands; and. be it further 
Resolved, That the Secretary of this Association be and he 
is hereby instructed to send a copy of this resolution to the 
American Forestry Association. 
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Following are the names of those attending the convention: 
John C. Olmsted, Mrs. John C. Olmsted, F. L. Olmsted, 
Jf., Brookhne, Mass.; C. M. Loring, Mrs. C. M. Loring, Harry 
W. Jones, J. A. Ridgeway, Minneapolis; Warren H. Manning, 
George R. King, H. P. Kelsey, J. Woodward Manning, Bos- 
ton, Mass.; M. L. Moore, J. D. Robinson, Wm. Beatty, Toledo; 
R. H. Warder, Wm. Salway, Cincinnati; Lewis Johnson, Mrs. 
Lewis Johnson, S. VV. Clark, Mrs. S. W. Clark, New Orleans; 
W. W. Parce, C. C. Laney, Rochester, N. Y.; C. D. Zimmer- 
man, Wm. Scott, Buffalo; W. A. Sinclair, E. L. Shuey, Dayton, 
O. ; Cyrus Peck, Newark, N. J.; R Brinkerhoff, Martin B. 
Bushnell, Mansfield. O.; O. C. Simonds, P. M. Woodworth, M. 
D., 1. J. Bryan, R. J. Haight, Park and Cemetery, Edwin 
A. Kanst, Wm. A. Peterson, M. Schrader, J. D. Brownell, 
Chicago; Charles W. Garfield, Mrs. Charles W. Garfield, Grand 
Rapids; John L. Bennett, Philadelphia; Thomas B. Meehan, 
Germantown, Pa.; Nelson Bogue, Batavia, N. Y.; Lyman R. 
Love, Kalamazoo; Frederick W. Kelsey, Mrs. A. B. Stanard, New 
York City; Edward J. Parker, Quincy, 111.; W. J. Beal, Michi- 
gan State .Agricultural College; Henry C. Fruck, Grosse Pointe 
Farms, Mich.; L. E. Holden, Cleveland, 0.; John P. Fiske, 
Frank Eurich, Will W. Tracy, Mrs. H. A. Cleland, J. C. Eaton 
Hanford, Edward C. Van Leyen, R. J. Coryell, P. H. A. Bals- 
ley, M. P. Hurlbutt, F. W. Higgins, A. W. Blain, Detroit. 
THE RELATION OF RESERVOIRS TO PUBLIC PARKS.* 
A considerable part of the waste in the management 
of municipal undertakings is due to lack of proper co- 
operation between different departments of a city gov- 
ernment. It is to the lack of such co-operation between 
those in charge of parks and those in charge of a reser- 
voir that I wish to draw attention. The value to the 
public of a sheet of water with a proper setting is well 
recognized and is evinced by the sums of money spent 
on park lakes. All reservoirs have the sheet of water, 
but most of them lack the proper setting to the manifest 
depreciation of their recreative value. A building stone 
may be beautiful in color and texture, yet it will give 
greater enjoyment if its color and texture are absorbed 
in the general effect of a well designed building. In the 
same way if the water surface of a reservoir be given an 
outline and setting such as to bring out its full recrea- 
tive value the reservoir and its enclosures may act as a 
park as well and thereby give a double return upon the 
tax payers investment. One of the greatest obstacles 
to the pleasing treatment of distributing reservoirs li^s 
in the fact that they are often perched on narrow hill 
tops so that any breadth of framing landscape is impos- 
sible. In such cases any attempt to simulate a natural 
pond is foolish and a frankly architectural treatment 
should be adopted. 
Where the space is not so restricted, and where the 
ground rises above the water on some sides, the choice 
of treatment is wider and the chances for going astray 
are more varied. The outline of such a reservoir is de- 
termined in its general features by the topography but in 
detail by numerous engineering considerations. These 
were illustrated by a typical example in several stages of 
development. The resulting outline is almost always 
irregular in its general form but is bounded by a series 
of straight lines and circular arcs so hard, formal and 
precise in character as to call attention to the lack of 
any formality or symmetry in the outline making a disa- 
greeable combination of formal execution with informal 
plan. 
The combination of tangents and radial curves is 
apt to produce an outline ugly in itself as well as more 
conspicuous than an outline of irregular lines. 
The formal paving of reservoir banks to protect 
them from waves is in some cases an unnecessary ex- 
pense as well as being ugly and serving furthe' to render 
precise and definite a shapeless outline. The bottom 
must rise steeply to the water curb because vegetable 
impurities grow in shallow water, but in cases where the 
water level of the reservoir remains nearly constant, as 
happens in many distributing reservoirs this steep slope 
^Summary ot a paper read by Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., be- 
fore the Detroit Convention of the American Park and Out-door Art 
Association, June 25, 26, 27, iB99. 
