PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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ParK and €?m:icry. 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. 
l 3 evoted lo the advancement of Art- 
out of Doors, with special reference to 
the improvement of parks, cemeteries, 
home scroll nds and the promotion ot the 
interests of Town and Village Improve- 
ment Associations, etc. 
The regular contributors to I’ARK AND 
Cemetery are among the most eminent 
Landscape Architects, Landscape Gar- 
deners and Horticulturists in the United 
S ales, whose practical articles make the 
j lurnal one of great value lo any one 
ideniitied with landscape work. 
John W. Weston, C. E., Editor. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office: 
1 536 Am. T ract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
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Correspondence solicited on subjects 
pertinent to the columns of the jojirnal. 
Officials of Parks and Cemeteries are 
requested to send copies of their re- 
ports . 
Photoitraphs and descriptive sketches 
of interesting features in parks, cemeter- 
ies, home grounds, streets, etc., are solic- 
ited front our readers. 
Association of American Cemec 
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. LORING, 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 OLM.STED, 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 23rd St.. 
New York. Secretary. 
The committee of the new Lowell Street 
cemetery, Wakefield, Mass., has offered 
a prize of $ioo for the best plan for laying 
it out in lots, the contest to close Jan. ist. 
There has been considerable shaking up 
in progress in relation to the park affairs 
of Baltimore, Md., resulting in a com- 
plete reorganization of the executive force. 
The office of engineer and general super- 
intendent which was held by the well- 
known engineer, Mr. Chas. H. Latrobe, 
has been aboIUhed, and in the place of 
the one official under the double head, two 
will be appointed a general superinten- 
dent and a laud-cape garde l er. 1 he new 
general superintendent will be the super- 
visor of all park work anil the landscape 
gardener, viill look after the work of 
beautifying the grounds and caring for the 
floweis, plants, etc. There will be a local 
superintendent at each parkas at present. 
The new plan also provides specific duties 
for the various officials, which has never 
been the case before. There will be a 
small clerical force and the entire depart- 
ment will be run from the main offices. 
Mr. Fr.mcis H. Walters has been elected 
to the office of general superintendent at 
a salary of $2 ockd per annum. The sala- 
ries of the landscape gardener will prob- 
ably be $i,8co per annum. Further econ- 
omyisto be accomplished by a reduction 
of the number of employes, concentration 
ot the purchase of supplies in the hands of 
one committee, and the supplying of most 
of the shrubs, plants and flowers needed 
from the various park conservatories in- 
stead of securing them by purchase. In 
preparation for this change the Board is 
now enlarging the conservatory at Carroll 
Park, and will also increase the capaciby 
of those at Druid Hill and Patterson 
Park. The merit system is to be applied 
to the selection and retention of employes. 
Mr. David Z. Morris, for sixteen years 
superintendent of Mount Hope cemetery, 
has resigned the office, and Mr. John W. 
Keller, his assistant has been appointed 
to succeed him. At a meeting of the 
commissioners of the cemetery, on motion, 
the resignation was accepted with regret 
coupled with a eulogistic review of his ser- 
vices in the development of the grounds. 
Mr. Morris has assumed the management 
of Brown’s Nurseries, Ontario, Canada. 
Obituary. 
It is with sincere regret we have to an- 
nounce the death of Mr. Burritt Chaffee, 
for twelve years superintendent of Oak- 
wood cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y. At the 
New Haven convention in which he took 
active interest he appeared to be in good 
healtti, and no one would have anticipated, 
for him so early a call from the dread 
messenger. A month ago however symp- 
tons of severe illness presented themselves 
which calmorated in typhoid fever, from 
which he could not rally, and he died 
Wednesday evening, October 11, at the 
comparatively early age of 49 years. His 
death will profoundly affect his many 
friends to whom his many good qualities 
bound him in a warm regard. His son 
Cuy, who has been his assistant is now in 
charge of the cemetery pjnding action by 
the board. He leaves a widow, one daugh- 
ter and three sons. 
The board of trustees of Mount Olivet 
cemetery. Baltimore, Md., have appointed 
Mr. A. H. Reiter superintendent of the 
cemetery, in place of Mr. Charles W. 
Hamill. 
Mr. MaxS. Retter, lately superinten- 
dent of the Barrancas. La., national ceme- 
tery, has relieved Wm. Dillon, superin- 
tendent of the cemetery at Fort Leaven- 
worth, Kan. Dillon has been transferred 
to Mound City, 111 . 
The Park Commissioner of St. Louis, 
Mo., has appointed Mr. Frederick W. 
Pape, general supcrintei d r.t of public 
parks, to succeed his father, William C. 
Pape, « ho Was cruelly murdered on Sep- 
ttinbcrS. The son IS 23 years ol age. a 
llonst by trade, ai d the c|ue£.ti n 01 his 
qualiticatii ns for the position is being dis- 
cussed. V\ bile sentiment had muthlo do 
with the appoii tment, ;ind perhaps de- 
seiaedly so, politics would seem to have 
had more. 
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J BOOKS. REPORTS. ETC., RECEIVED. < 
Report of the Board of Metropolitan 
Park Commissioners, Commonwealih of 
Massachusetts, January 1, 1899. Illus- 
trated with maps and photogravures. The 
reports of Messrs. Olmsted Bros., the 
landscape architects, are instructive fea- 
tures of this report. 
Transactions of the Massachusetts Hor- 
ticultural Society, Part II, for the year 
1898, contains some interesting committee 
reports. That of the committee on Chil- 
dren’s gardens, which is illustrated, shows 
remarkable progress in Uie work. Part 
III of this annual report gives a list of the 
accessions to the library for the year. 
Superintendent Leavitt of Wyoming 
cemetery, Melrose, Mass,, has forwarded 
us an account of the improvements which 
have been prosecuted at that cemetery 
during the past season . 
“Information Regarding Cremation as 
a Method of Disposing of the Bodies of 
the Dead.” Boston, published by the New 
England Cremation Society, 1899. This 
pamphlet contains particulars concerning 
the New' England Cremation Society, and 
a large amount of information touching 
the present status of this important and 
growing question. 
From Department of Agriculture; Di- 
vision of Forestry, Washington, D. C.— 
Bulletin No. 25. Notes on the Forest 
Conditions of Porto Rico, by Robert T. 
Hill. An interesting and fully illustrated 
pamphlet giving a clear statement of the 
forest resources of Porto Rico, and de- 
scriptions of the physical features of the 
island bearing on the question of the for- 
ests and their products. The illustrations 
of the sections of woods are from repro- 
ductions of impressions made by the 
woods themselves by a process thought to 
be used for the first time in this pamphlet. 
The Agricultural Experiment Station. 
U m verst ty of N ebraska, Lincol n has issued 
a Bulletin No. 59, on the Homemade 
Windmills of Nebraska, by Erwin Hinck- 
ley Barbour, a very interesting description 
of the homemade windmills of the farmers 
of that state. It is fully illustrated and as 
the author says, it brings together views of 
a number of mills and presents facts about 
their uses, construction, cost and durabil- 
ity which will undoubtedly be of use to 
prospective builders. This is one of the 
timely and instructive practical efforts 
tending to endorse the wisdom of the es- 
tablishment of the experimental stations 
of the United States. 
Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board 
of Park Commissioners ot the city of Hat t- 
ford, Conn., for the year ending April 30, 
1899. This report is profusely illustrated 
with views in the several parks of the city, 
