PARK AND CE-ME-TE-RY 
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Keney, Goodwin, Pope, Elizabeth, Barnard and River- 
side parks. 
OFFICEKS ELECTED. 
At the business meeting, held at the rooms of the 
Connecticut Horticultural Society, the following offi- 
cers were elected : 
President — John A. Pettigrew, Boston. 
Vice-Presidents — Maine, A. D. Smith, Portland ; 
New Hampshire, W. H. Richardson, Concord; Ver- 
mont, A. D. Farwell, Montpelier; Massachusetts, W. 
D. Whiting, Cambridge ; Rhode Island, J. D. Fitts, 
Providence; Connecticut, Theodore Wirth, Hartford. 
Secretary — G. A. Parker, Hartford. 
Treasurer — J. H. Hemenway, Worcester. 
The second day of the convention was devoted to 
driving through the parks of Hartford, under the 
guidance of the park officials of that city, and at the 
Hartford; D. H. Sheehan, superintendent of parks, Brook- 
line, Mass. ; George C. Flynt, president park board, Monson, 
Mass.; B. Worthan, superintendent of parks, Manchester, N. 
H.; H. P. Kelsey, Boston; Amos Stillman, superintendent of 
parks, Salem, Mass. ; A. C. Sternberg, secretary Connecticut 
Horticultural Society; Christopher Clark, president park 
board, Northampton, Mass. ; Chas. S. Anthony, secretary of 
park commission, Taunton, Mass.; J. W. Duncan, assistant 
superintendent of parks, Boston ; A. W. Smith, superintendent 
of parks, Portland, Me. ; Robert Schrivener, superintendent. 
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford; W. H. Richardson, superin- 
tendent of parks. Concord, N. H. ; Herbert D. Hemenway, 
director Horticultural School, Hartford; T. J. McRonald, 
president of Hartford Florist Club; Henry Frost, superintend- 
ent of parks, Haverhill, Mass. ; H. J. Koehler, forester, Keney 
Park, Hartford; Thomas B. Meehan, Philadelphia; William 
J. Stewart, secretary Association of American Florists, Boston, 
Mass.; Gustave X. Amrhyn, superintendent of parks. New 
Haven ; Karl Robert Karlstrom, forester public parks, Hart- 
ford ; J. B. Shea, assistant superintendent of parks, Boston ; 
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS IN CONVENTION AT HARTFORD, CONN. 
conclusion of the inspection, the visiting superintend- 
ents were unanimous in their praise of Hartford’s 
parks, which are under the control of a self-perpetuat- 
ing board, entirely free from politics. 
Those present at the banquet were as follows : 
John A. Pettigrew, president of the association, and superin- 
tendent of parks, Boston; Hon. Alexander Harbison, mayor of 
Hartford; Rev. De Loss Love and Hon. Patrick Garvan, park 
commissioners, Hartford; Judge J. H. White, Rev. Francis 
Goodwin, George E. Tainter, and H. H. Goodwin, Keney 
Park trustees, Hartford; John C. Olmsted, Brookline, Mass.; 
T. W. Cook, superintendent of parks. New Bedford, Mass. ; 
W. S. Egerton, superintendent of parks, Albany, N. Y. ; 
Charles E. Keith, superintendent of parks, Bridgeport, Conn. ; 
James Draper, secretary park commissioners, Worcester, 
Mass. ; Nathaniel Morton, president park commissioners, Ply- 
mouth, Mass. ; Joseph D. Pitts, superintendent of parks. Provi- 
dence, R. I. ; John H. Hemingway, superintendent of parks, 
Worcester, Mass.; F. G. Whitmore, secretary park commis- 
sioners, Hartford ; Chas. E. Mackintosh, president park board, 
Holyoke, Mass. ; A. J. Sloper, president park commissioners, 
New Britain, Conn. ; Thos. McClunie, landscape architect. 
Theodore Wirth, superintendent of public parks, Hartford; H. 
C. Puller, superintendent of parks. New London; R. N. Clark, 
engineer public parks, Hartford; Herbert A. Hastings, former 
superintendent of parks, Springfield ; A. P. Capen, superintend- 
ent of parks, Holyoke, Mass.; H. G. Clark, engineer Keney 
Park, Hartford; Mr. Mullen, assistant to R. N. Clark; G. A. 
Parker, superintendent Keney Park, Hartford. 
The forty-first annual treasurer’s report of the Union 
Cemetery Association, Manchester, N. H., shows the fol- 
lowing financial condition of the association: Deposits in 
savings banks, $4,486.49; mortgage notes, $8,938.32; prom- 
issory notes, $657.37; due on lots sold and selected, $2,878; 
total assets, $20,773.80; perpetual care fund, $3,391.02. 
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The officials of the Catholic cemetery at Fort Scott, Kas.. 
are considering a proposition to consolidate with the lead- 
ing Protestant cemetery by removing all bodies to a plot 
which the Protestant cemetery will set aside exclusively for 
Catholic burials. There are 275 bodies in the Catholic ceme- 
tery and the proposed prices for moving them have been 
placed at from $7 to $10 each; monuments, $25 each; tomb- 
stones, $10 to $15 each, and headstones from $2 to $3 each. 
