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PARK AND CEMETERY 
New England ParK Superintendents in Convention. 
The sixth annual convention of the New England 
Association of Park Superintendents was held at Al- 
bany, N. Y., June 23, 24 and 25. 
The first day, Tuesday, was devoted to the election 
of officers and new members and other official business 
of the association. About thirty superintendents were 
in attendance when the meeting was called to order 
at the rooms of the Historical and Art society. Mayor 
Cans welcomed the visitors to the city and President 
Joseph D. Fitts of the association responded. 
Officers for the ensuing year were then elected as 
follows : President, G. A. Parker, of Hartford ; sec- 
retary, J. W. Duncan, of Boston; treasurer, J. D. 
Hemingway, of Worcester ; vice-president, Gustave 
X. Amrhyn, of New Haven, Conn. ; J. W. Thompson, 
of Watertown, N. Y. ; Thomas Cook, of New Bedford, 
Mass.; Byron Worthen, of Manchester, N. H. ; R. H. 
Warder, of Chicago, and W. S. Manning, Newark, 
N. J. 
A constitution was read and adopted and reports of 
officers heard. The treasurer's report showed a cash 
balance of $44.61. In the evening a banquet was ten- 
dered the members at the Hotel Ten Eyck. Papers 
were read bv Superintendent W. S. Egerton, of the 
Albany Park System, and G. A. Parker, of Keney 
Park, Hartford. 
The following new members were received : F red 
W. Clark, of Boston; R. H. Warder, of Chicago; 
W. J. Zartman, of Brooklyn ; James Wilson, of Niag- 
ara Falls; John F. Cowell, of Buffalo; Jacob V. Fos- 
ter, of Chicago; John Chambers, of Toronto; Robert 
Cameron, of Cambridge, Mass.; John Dunbar, of 
Rochester; Thomas V. Welch, of the state reserva- 
tion at Niagara Falls. 
On Wednesday the visitors were driven through the 
parks and boulevards of Albany under the guidance 
of the local park and city officials. The first stop was 
at Beaver Park, where the party was particularly 
pleased with the beautiful ravine drive and with the 
park swings. Passing on through the Pine Hill Sec- 
tion and Manning Boulevard, the chief attraction of 
the day was found in Washington Park, which was 
much admired by the visiting members. Luncheon 
was served 1 at the home of Superintendent Egerton, 
and the greater part of the day spent in viewing the 
beauties of Washington Park. As some of the mem- 
bers wye obliged to leave that day, the formal pro- 
ceedings of the meeting were closed with a vote of 
thanks for the handsome manner in which they had 
been entertained. 
The next day the majority of the party took the 
boat down the Hudson to Newburgh. They were met 
by the board of commissioners and driven to Cedar 
Hill Cemetery, where memorial exercises were held 
at the grave of Andrew Jackson Downing, the father 
of American landscape gardening. A wreath from the 
association and a sprig of laurel from each member 
were placed on the grave. The party then drove to the 
old Downing homestead and through Downing Park, 
fire Caldwell lawn-mower factory was visited, and 
dinner was served, after which the convention ad- 
journed, voting this the most successful meeting in 
the history of the association. 
The following were in attendance at the convention : 
Joseph D. Fitts, Providence, R. I. ; J. W. Duncan, 
Boston, Mass.; John D. Hemingway, Worcester, 
Mass. ; Theodore Wirth, Hartford, Conn. ; W. S. 
Egerton, Albany, N. Y. ; J. A. Pettigrew, Boston, 
Mass. ; G. A. Parker, Hartford, Conn. ; G. X. Am- 
rhyn, New Haven, Conn. ; C. E. Keith, Bridgeport, 
Conn. ; James Draper, Worcester, Mass. ; Henry 
Frost, Haverhill, Mass. ; H. G. Clark, Hartford, Conn. ; 
John F. Cowell, Buffalo, N. Y. ; Charles W. Ross, 
Newton, Mass.; J. F. Huss, Hartford, Conn.; Byron 
Worthen, Manchester, N. IT.; J. W. Thompson, Wa- 
tertown, N. Y. ; H. D. Goodale, Watertown, N. Y. ; 
Charles Haible, Newburgh, N. Y. ; Isaac Kelly, Law- 
rence, Mass. ; Amos Stillman, Salem, Mass. ; J. J. 
Hartigan, Salem, Mass. ; Wm. J. Stewart, Boston ; 
Carleton R. Ball, Washington, D. C. ; C. J. Malloy, 
Rochester, N. Y. ; W. E. Tuttle, Niagara Falls ; H. H. 
Hindshaw, Albany. 
THE LATE CHARLES NICHOLS, 
Mr. Charles Nichols, of Newark, N. J., widely 
known as the Father of the Association of American 
Cemetery Superintendents, died at the home of his 
son-in-law in New- 
ark Feb. 6, 1903, 
although the news 
of his passing to 
the higher life did 
not reach the office 
of this paper until 
recently. Mr. Nich- 
ols' had passed his 
85th year and was 
apparently in the 
best of health 
when he returned 
from his usual 
daily visit to the 
cemetery in the af- 
ternoon. Within a short time after retiring his body 
was found in a room adjoining his bed-chamber, 
death evidently having come suddenly and been 
caused 1 by heart disease. Mr. Nichols was superin- 
tendent of Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, for thirty 
years, having recently been succeeded bv S. C. 
Hulbert in the active duties imposed by the office, but 
