PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Park and Cemetery. 
jiSTABLISHED 1890. 
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. 
Devoted to the advancement of Art-out 
of Doors, with special reference to the 
improvement of parks, cei:ieteries, home 
grounds and the promotion of the inter- 
ests of Town and Village Innirovement 
Association, etc. 
The regular contributors to Park .t.ND 
Cemetery are among the mo.st eminent 
Landscape Architects, Land.scape Garden- 
ers and Horticulturists in the United 
States, who.se practical articles make the 
journal one of great value to any one 
identified with landscape w'ork. 
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. 
5 ubscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
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- 
ports . 
Photographs and descriptive sketches 
of interesting features in parks, cemeter- 
ies, ho)ne grounds, streets, etc., are solic- 
ited from our readers. 
Association of American Ceme' 
tery Superintendents. 
Wm. stone. "Pine Grove," 
Lynn, Mass., President. 
GEORGE M. PAI.NTER "West Laurel Hill," 
Philadelphia, Vice-President. 
II. WILSON RO.''S, '-Newton " 
Nevvtonville, Mass, Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Fourteenth Annual Convention will 
be held at Cleveland, O. 
1 lie American Park and Out- Door 
Art Association. 
CHARLES M LORING, Minneapolis. Minn. 
President. 
W \RREN H. M.ANNING, Tremont Building. 
Boston. Mass. Secretary. 
O. C. SIMONDS. Chicago. Treasurer. 
The next meeting of the Association 
will be held at Chicago, 111 . 
! lie Am.-ricin Society of Lan scape 
Ar. hitec's. 
JOHN CHARLES OLMSTED, Brookline 
Mass. President. 
SA.VIUEL PARSONS, JR., St. James Bldg., 
New York. Vice-president. 
CHAS. N. LOWRIE, 156 Filth ave , New 
York’. Treasurer. 
DOWNiNG VAUX, New York. Secretary. 
The Board of Park Commi.ssioners of 
Baltimore, Md., has elected Charles L. 
Seybold, formerly superintendent of Car- 
roll Park, to the position of landscape ar- 
chitect. This office takes the place of that 
of civil engineer, a position which was 
abolished by the board some months ago. 
The .'talary is fixed at 1 1,800 per annum. 
Prof. Charles IL Bessej", Acting Chan- 
cellor of the University of Nebraska, has 
been apixjinted collaborator in the divi- 
sion of forestry in the LL S, Department 
of .Agriculture. Dr. Bes.sey has given par- 
ticular studj’ to the treeless prairies and 
will follow this line in his new work. 
In a note in the last Issue concerning 
the Clark mansolenm erected in Home- 
wood cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa., the cem- 
etery was inadvertently mentioned as if 
.Allegheny, Pa., instead” of Pittsburgh. 
The botanical department of the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska is progressing rap- 
idly with its work on the “Descriptive 
Catalogue of the Plants of Nebraska,” 
which should be a valuable addition to 
botanical literature. 
Cemetery officials in the neighborhood 
of Boston are warned, in a communica- 
tion just received from a victim in that 
vicinity, against a “bunko” man now op- 
erating. His method is to purchase a 
cemetery lot and offer in payment a worth- 
less check for an amount considerably in 
e.xcess of the purcha.se price, expecting to 
get the change. Before putting in an ap- 
pearance a telephone mes.sage is received 
at the sup,erintendent’s office from a local 
undertaker, the undertaker’s name being 
used, saying that a man is on the way to 
the cemetery to select a lot. The man ar- 
rives at dusk after banking hours, and 
represents himself as coming from a dis- 
tance to perform an act of kindness for a 
relative of small means. He pre.sents a 
check upon a well-known bank in the 
town he claims to hail from, made pav’- 
able to himself and he endorses it, ex- 
pressing a hurried desire to catch a train, 
lie has a confederate trying the .same 
game while he is out inspecting lots 
with the superintendent. This is a warn- 
ing which ina} be accepted for any lo- 
cality. 
American Society of Landscape Architects. 
The .American Society of Land.scape 
.Architects held its annual meeting and 
dinner at the Hotel Martin, New A'ork 
City, January 9. .A majority of the mem- 
bers, many from distant cities, were pres- 
ent. The officers elected for the ensuing 
year were: President, John C. Olm.sted, 
Boston; A'ice-president, Samuel Parsons, 
Jr., New \"ork ; Secretary, Downing Vanx, 
New A^ork; Treasurer, C. N. Lowrie, 
New York. William H. Manning of Bos- 
ton was elected a member-at-large to con- 
stitute with the four officers, the execu- 
tive committee. -A feature of the occa.sion 
was a discussion of the relation of the so- 
ciety to Municipal .Art. 
Photographs Wanted. 
' Mr. AA^m. H. Tolman, .secretary of the 
League for Social Service, New York City, 
is desirous of securing photographs of 
country cemeteries “before” and “after:” 
that is photos that will .show a cemetery 
before improvements have been started, 
and the .same cemeterv after improve- 
ment. Park .\nd Cemetery is also 
anxious to obtain such photographs and 
cemetery officials and superintendents are 
earnestly requested to forward, to this 
office if possible dujdicate photos, show- 
ing the conditions mentioned above. 
Knight & Hopkins is now the firm name 
of the Stanwix Kngineering Company, 
Rome, N. Y. This firm which has been 
advertising under the latter name in onr 
colmnns for some time, is engaged in 
municipal engineering, as a general term, 
including landscape work. The firm 
solicits correspondence on all matters per- 
taining to their line of work. 
Kingfisher College, ICingfisher, Okla- 
homa, is working to establi.sh an efficient 
Horticultural department. The college 
itself is planted in this territory on the 
New England plan. .At pre.sent it must 
depend for its development on the friends 
of education and is especially invoking 
the aid of the Eastern horticulturists for 
this new departure. The Rev. C. S. Har- 
ri,son, the well-known horticulturist is the 
financial secretary, with addre.ss for the 
winter 30 Moreland St., Roxbnr}-, Mass. 
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2 Books, Reports, Etc., Received. ^ 
The Empire of the South. Its Resources. 
Industries and Re.sorts. One of the 
most comprehensive and beautifullv got- 
ten up books de.signed to display the re- 
sources of a country is that under the 
above caption, issued by the Southern 
Railway Company. In its nearlv 200 
pages of large quarto and its 500 half' tone 
illustrations, it .sets forth most eloquently 
the re.sources of that wonderful southland 
of ours, in a manner that will impart con- 
fidence in its conclusions, and lead to 
more minute study of the possibilities of 
a broader field for investment and the de- 
velopment of productive activities. There 
is unquestionably a great future for the 
southern states, and it .speaks well for the 
wisdom of the .Southern Railwav Com- 
paii)-, which by the way has always shown 
great enterpri.se in its efforts to develop 
the resources of the territory in which it 
operates, that .such a work .should be 
ready for distribution at this time of pros- 
perity. It is not an advertising venture, 
such a suggestion does not offer it.self 
within its covers, but it is a well written 
and comprehemsive digest, so to .speak, of 
the development of the material interests 
of the southern states, including mineral.';, 
inanufactures, agriculture and all the 
lines of busine.ss activity for the pursuit of 
which the south is so remarkably en- 
dowed. The book maj’ be secured bv re- 
mitting 15 cents to cover cost of postage to 
J. C. Beam, Jr., Northwestern Passenger 
.Agent, 80 .Adams St., Chicago, 111 . 
Rules and Regulations of the AVilming- 
ton and Brandj'wine cemetery, AVilming- 
ton, Del., with the By-laws, constitution 
and act of incorporation, 1899. The prev- 
ious issue of this information was eleven 
years ago, and the pamphlet now distrib- 
uted, which is well illustrated, contains 
all amendments and additions to date, 
and special references to the modern sec- 
tions and perpetual care. 
Annual Report of the Board of Park 
Commissioners of the city of AVorce.ster 
for the j'ear ending November 30, 1898. 
With half tone engravings of some fine 
effects. 
Report of the Public Schools of Car- 
thage, Mo., for the j-ear 1899-1900. By 
courtesy of W. J. Stevens, superintendent, 
.A veiw complete and .sngge.stive report, 
illustrated with manj’half tones of jiromi- 
nent features of Carthage. 
