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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
Object; To advance 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 Improvement Associations, 
etc. 
Contributions : Subscribers and 
others will materially assist in dissemin- 
ating information of peculiar interest to 
those engaged in landscape gardening, 
tree planting, park and cemetery devel- 
opment, etc., by sending early informa- 
tion of events that may come under their 
observation. 
Discussions of subjects pertinent to 
these columns by persons practically ac- 
([uainted with them, are e.specially de- 
sired. 
Annual Reports of Parks, Cemeter- 
ii-s, Horticultural, Local Improvement 
and similar societies are solicited. 
Photographs or sketches of specimen 
trees, new or little known trees and 
•shrubs, landscape effects, entrances, build- 
ings, et'., are solicited. 
John W. Weston, C. E., Editor. 
R, J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
Eastern Office: 
J 538 Am. Tract Society Bldg., New Y ork. 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.15 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEMETERY 
Superintendents; President. Geo. M. Painter, 
"West Laurei Hiil,” Phiiadelphia; Vice-Presi- 
dent. Frank Eurich, "Woodward Lawn," Detroit, 
Midi.; Secretary and Treasurer, H, Wilson Ross, 
Newton Centre, Mass. 
The Fifteenth Annual Convention will 
beheld at Pittsburg, Pa., September, 1901. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR ART 
AssociatiojH President, L. E. Holden, Cleve- 
land O,; Secretary. Warren H. Manning. Tre- 
mont Buiiding. Boston. Mass.: Treasurer. O. C. 
Simonds, Chicago. 
The Fifth Annual Convention of the 
Association will he held at Milwaukee, 
Wis., June, 1901. 
Personal. 
The commissioner of parks, for the 
Borough of the Bronx, New York, has 
appointed Peter Geeks superintendent of 
parks for that borough at a salary of 
1:3,000 per annum. 
Mr. lidward B. Bolton, landscape 
architect, New York City, has been en- 
gaged to make plans for a considerable 
addition to the Hillside cemetery, Mid- 
dletown, N. Y. The plans are now in 
course of preparation and will be ready 
for construction work in the spring. 
We have to thank Mr. E R. Roberts, 
superintendent of parks, Tacoma, Wash- 
ington, for a unique calendar. It is a 
most appropriate souvenir. A photo- 
graphic view in Point Defiance park is 
mounted on wood which is decorated 
with a burnt-in design and is furnished 
with a calendar. In the centre is a 
hunch, loosely mounted, of Washington 
Fir cones and smaller cones are used to 
appropriately complete the design. 
Mr. C. iM. Doring, Minneapolis, Minn., 
late president of the American Park and 
Outdoor Art Association, has been elected 
president of the Minnesota State Forestry 
As.sociation. 
Mr. John G. Barker is now in South 
Bend, Ind., superintending some park 
work, and awaiting the opening of spring 
for further operations. 
Superintendent Judson of St. Agnes 
cemetery, Albany, N. Y , has had an 
annoying experience with his mail matter 
for some months past; a number of let- 
ters containing remittances having failed 
to reach him. This condition of affairs 
was brought to his attention by those 
remitting. The matter was becoming 
serious and investigations and decoys were 
started, finally resulting in the arrest of 
the local letter carrier, who was detected 
passing a marked bill. 
Among the newspapers giving pub- 
licity to the paper read by Rev. Geo. F. 
Houck on “The Sunday F'uneral,” at 
Cleveland, O , at the convention of the 
Association of American Cemetery Super- 
intendents, is the Mankato (Minn.) Daily 
Review. It also published a communi- 
cation from the Episcopal clergyman of 
that place, the Rev. Geo. H. Davis, en- 
dorsing the views presented. 
Obituary. 
Mr. Geo. H. Scott, superintendent of 
Elmwood cemetery, Chicago, died at his 
home in River Grove, 111 ., on Dec. 28, 
aged 59 years. He had been .sick with 
pneumonia for a week. Mr. Scott was 
born in Roxburghshire, Scotland. He 
was a well-known active member of the 
. 4 .ssociation of American Cemetery’ Super- 
intendents and a life-long member of the 
St. Andrews .society. For fifteen years 
Mr. Scott was superintendent of Rose- 
hill cemetery. He leaves a widow ar.d 
seven children to mourn his loss. 
Mr. George W. Bechel, a trustee and 
superintendent of Riverside cemetery, 
Defiance, O., died Nov. 2, 1900, in the 
63d jear of his age. He was born in 
Canton, O., June 13, 1838, but had made 
Ills home in Defiance since quite a young 
man, becoming prominent in municipal 
affairs and a highly respected citizen. 
He was a member of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents. 
His funeral was largely attended, the 
final ceremonies being conducted by the 
Scottish Rite Ma.sonsfrom Toledo. 
Mr. D. J. Wilhelm of Defiance. O., 
also connected with the above cemetery 
as trustee, died suddenly in December 
last. 
Mr. John C. Wise, a member of the 
board of trustees and treasurer of the 
Mankato, Minn., cemetery association, 
died in November last. He was one of 
the original incorporators of the cemetery 
association in 1S69. Charles E- Wise, a 
son of the deceased, was unanimously 
elected liy the board to succeed his father 
in both offices. 
Mr. John T. Mcllor, a well-known 
citizen of Jer.sey City, N. J., and for many 
years superintendent of the Jersey City 
Cemetery, died at his home in Hacken- 
sack, in January, in his 8ist year. He. 
had been a member of the Association of 
American Cemeterj’ Superintendents 
since 18S8. He leaves three soils and tv\ f) 
daughters. 
The Board of Managers of Oak Ridge 
Cemetery, Springfield, 111 ., recently 
passed resolutions on the death of Obed 
Lewis, who had served as an active mem- 
ber of the board since the year 1S64. He 
was 88 years of age. 
BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC.. RECEIVED. 
Report on Forestry in Sweden by Gen- 
eral C. C. Andrews, U. S. Minister at 
Stocktohn, 1869-77. New and revised 
edition. Washington, Government Print- 
ing Office, 1900. 
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment 
Station, New Haven, Conn. Bulletin 131. 
The Protection of Shade Trees in Towns 
and Cities. This is one of the most 
practical and comprehensive discussions 
of the question of care and protection of 
sheet trees yet issued and should be in 
the hands of every city official in the 
country charged with the care of the 
public trees. A summary of the con- 
clusions in the way of recommendations 
is given on another page. 
Rules and Regulations, Los Gatos 
Cemetery Association, Los Gatos, Calif. 
These rules are quite comprehensive and 
are based on the lawn plan of cemetery. 
Copies will be sent to applicants. 
“Saratoga Sunshine,” facts about the 
Foot-hill region of the Santa Cruz moun- 
tains and the warm belt of the Santa 
Clara vallej-, Calif. An illustrated pam- 
phlet puhli-shed bj’ the Saratoga Improve- 
ment Association, Saratoga, .Santa Clara 
Co., Calif., 1900. Copies can be obtained 
by addressing the association. 
Public Advertising, Report by Fred- 
erick Law Olmsted, Jr., to the American 
Park and Out-door Art Association, read 
at the annual convention held in Chi- 
cago, June 5-7, 1900. 
Hampstead Heath Protection Society, 
London, England. First, second and 
third annual reports, and a report by 
William Robinson. This society was 
formed to protect and maintain Hamp- 
sted Heath, London, one of the historic 
spots in the vicinity of London, which 
together with its landscape beauties 
should be preserved. The society is 
meeting with marked success. 
Hubbard Park, Meriden, Conn. A 
heautifullv illustrated pamphlet, descrip- 
tive of Hubbard Park, a gift to the city 
by Mr. Walter Hubbard, to whom we 
are indebted for the copy to band. 
Short Account of the Big Trees of 
California. Prepared in the Division of 
I'orestry. Gifford Pinchot, Forester. L. 
S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, D. C. Illustrated with many half- 
tones and large map. 
The Annual Report of the Board of 
Regents of the Smithsonian Institute for 
the year ending June 30, 1S9S, contains 
the regular reports of operations, expen- 
ditures and conditions of the institution 
and a valuable appendix containing a 
selection of miscellaneous memoirs of 
great interest to those engaged in the 
promotion ot knowledge. Those con- 
tained in the present volume have no 
immediate bearing on botany and Land- 
scape development, with the exception of 
an article on “The Economic Statu.s of 
Insects as a Class,” by L. O. Howard. 
