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ParK and Cemetery* 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. 
Devoted to the advancement of Art- 
out of Doors, with special reference to 
the improvement of parks, cemeteries, 
home grounds and the promotion of the 
interests of Town and Village Improve- 
ment Associations, etc. 
The regular contributors to Park and 
Cemetery are among the most eminent 
Landscape Architects, Landscape Gar- 
deners and Horticulturists in the United 
States, whose practical articles make the 
journal one of great value to any one 
identified with landscape work. 
John W. Weston, C. E., Editor. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
364 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office: 
J 536 Am. T ract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
Subscription $i.oo a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.35. 
Correspondence solicited on su-bjects 
pertinent to the columns of the journal. 
Officials of Parks and Cemeteries are 
requested to send copies of their re- 
pents . 
Photographs and descriptive sketches 
of interesting features in parks, cemeter- 
ies, home grounds, streets, etc., are solic- 
ited from our readers. 
Association of American Ceme^ 
tery Superintendents. 
Wm. stone, “Pine Grove,” 
Lynn, Mass., President 
GEORGE M. PAINTER. "West Laurel Hill,” 
Philadelphia, Vice-President, 
H. WILSON ROSS, "Newton,” 
Newtonville, Mass, Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Fourteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at Cleveland, O. 
The American Park and Out- Door 
Art Association. 
CHARLES M. CORING. Minneapolis, Minn. 
President. 
WARREN H. MANNING, Tremont Building. 
Boston. Mass. Secretary. 
O. C. SIMONDS. Chicago. Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Chicago, 111 . 
The American Society of Landscape 
Architects. 
JOHN CHARLES OLMSTED, Brookline. 
Mass. President. 
SAMUEL PARSONS. JR., St. James Bldg., 
New York. Vice-president. 
CHAS. N. LOWRIE, 156 Fifth ave., New 
York. Treasurer. 
DANIEL W. LANGTON, 115 East aJrd St., 
New York. Sacretary. 
Second Annual Meeting of the Park Super- 
intendents of New England. 
The pirk superintendents of New En- 
gland held their second annual meeting 
at Providence, R. I., September 12 and 
13, with good attendance, and carried out 
an entertaining and profitable program 
during (he two days exercises. 
The business transacted included 
the adoption of name, constitution and 
by-laws recommended by the committee 
appointed for the purpose at the last 
meeting consisting ol Mr. John A. Petti- 
grew, Supt. Franklin Park, Poston, and 
Mr. G. A. Parker, Snpt. , Keney Park, 
Hartford, Conn. 
The following officers were elected: 
President, John A. Pettigrew, Boston, 
Mass ; Vice-presidents, Joseph D. Fitts, 
Providence, R I.; John A. Holmes, Cam- 
bridge, Mass.; Chas. E. Keith, Bridge- 
port, Conn ; VV. H. Richardson, Concord, 
N. H.; Superintendent of Parks, Port- 
land, Me.; Superintendent of Parks, Rut- 
land, Vt.; Secretary and Treasurer, G. 
A. Parker, Hartford, Conn 
The program was mainly devoted to 
the inspection of the parks and points of 
interest, and the park people of Provi- 
dence entertaii.ed their visitors in a most 
pleasing manner. On the first evening 
the committee had arranged for a sub- 
scription banquet, which was given in the 
new Casino, Roger Williams Park, at 
which Mr. Richard 11 . Deming. president 
of the City Park Co nmissioners presided. 
The building is a handsome structure in 
the Colonial St) le. The following day 
was spent in driving about the city and 
viewing the residential portions of the 
city and the public grounds and parks. 
The pride of Providence is Roger Wil- 
liams Park, abe lutifully undulating tract 
ol land of 432 acres, of which 130 acres is 
covered by chinning waterways. A 
steam launch ride on the lake was an en- 
joyable feature of the visit. The days 
outing terminated with a trolley ride to 
Crescent Park on Narragansett Bay where 
a typical shore dinner was enjoyed. 
Some recent work of Mr. Warren H. 
Manning, land-rape architect, Boston, is 
a new park at Westerly, R. L,upon which 
he has been called in consultation. 
The roads and Park Committee of 
Westmount, Quebec, has Received the re- 
port ol Mr. F. L. Olms'fed, Brookline, 
Mass., on Westmount Park. The reports 
contain valuable suggestions for improve- 
ment and commends the taste already 
displayed in the improvement of this 
park. 
Mr. Hugh C. Risdon, formerly sales 
agent of Northwood cemetery, Philadel- 
phia, Pa., has been appointed in a simi- 
lar capacity to represent Somerton Hills 
cemetery, Philadelphia, recently opened 
and dsdicated. 
Charles W. Hamill, superintendent of 
Mount Olivet cemetery, Baltimore, Md., 
has been relieved of his appointment by 
the board of trustees for alleged irregu- 
larities in his accounts. An accountant, 
was engaged to strike off a trial balance, 
as the trustees desired to make some im- 
provements and wanted to know how they 
stood in regard to money matters. It is 
understood that a considerable shortage 
has been discovered. 
The jury of American and Foreign ar- 
chitects designated to consider the com- 
petitive plans sent in under Mrs. Phoebe 
Hearst’s liberal proposition and sugges- 
tion, for the comprehensive development 
of the grounds and buildings of the Uni- 
versity of California at Berkeley, have 
awarded the first prize to M. Benard, the 
architect, of Paris, France. The ultimate 
cost of the improvements will reach an 
immense sum. M. Benard will receive a 
premium of $10,000 for his plans in addi- 
tion to the customary architect's fees. 
The other prizes as-igned weie as follows; 
Howell, Stokes & Hornbostel of New 
Yoik, $4,000; Des Pardelles & Codman, 
Boston, .f3.oco; Howaid & Caldwell. New 
York, $2,000; and Lord, Hewlett it Hull, 
New York, ¥1.000. 
Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Forester, Division 
of Forestry, Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C , has issued a circular 
inviting co operation in preparing a year 
book containing a resume of the achieie- 
ments of the United States in every 
branch of scienee as related to agricuhui e 
during the nineteenth century, for dis- 
tribinion at ihe Bans Exposition '1 he 
Division of foiestry will contiibule a 
short history of foreUry in the United 
Slates, and also an account of the ifforis 
of private landowners to apply the prin- 
ciples of forestry, and Mr. I’inchoi's cir- 
cular is parlicul.irly directed to obtaining 
information in these flireclioiis, and 
further information may be obtained by 
addressing him. 
'I'he United States Department of 
Agncultuie. Division of Forestry, has just 
issued a pamphlei describing an ofler of 
practical assistance to tree iilanters. es- 
pecially in the treeless regions of ihe 
West, and a section of the division has 
been organized for this purpose Biutiy 
stated, the division proposes to give such 
aid to tree planters that woodlots, shelter- 
belts, windbreaks, and all other economic 
plantations of forest trees may be so well 
established and cared for as to attain the 
greatest usefullness and most permanent 
value to their owners. Applications for 
such assistance will be considered in the 
order of their receipt, but the Division 
reserves the right to give preference to 
those likely to furnish the most useful ob- 
ject lessons. After an application has 
been made and accepted, the superinten- 
dent of Tree Planting, or one of its assis- 
tants, will visit the land of the applicant, 
and after adequate study on the ground’ 
will make a working plan suited to its 
particular conditions. The purpose of 
this plan is to give help in the selection of 
trees, information in regard to planting, 
and instruction in handling forest trees 
after they are planted. Applications 
should be mane as early as November of 
each year, and the pamphlets of informa- 
tion may be had upon request. 
Somerton Hills cemetery, Philadelphia, 
Pa. Opening and Dedicatory Exercises, 
May 25, 1899. Illustrated pamphlet. 
From J. O. Van Zandt, superintendent, 
Oakridge cemetery, Marshall, Mich., a 
number of photographs of prominent fea- 
tures of the cemetery. 
City of Boston, Department of Parks. 
Twenty -fourth annual report of the Board 
of Commissioners for the year ending 
January 31, 1899. Illustrated with half- 
tones. 
The annual report of the State Horti- 
cultural Society of Virginia. 
Oak Grove Cemetery, Delaware, O.. 
Charter, By-laws and Rules, Illustrated 
with full page half-tones. 
