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where lunch was served and the party photographed. 
At the evening session Mr.William Falconer, super- 
intendent of Schenley Park, read an instructive paper 
on “Cemetery Planting,” which is published else- 
where in this issue. Mr. Falconer’s suggestions will 
be found of peculiar interest to superintendents in 
their fall planting. Mr. Sid J. Hare, Kansas City, 
Mo., entertained the convention with a paper entitled 
“Before and After, or the Evolution of the Grave- 
yard,” illustrated with upward of seventy-five stereop- 
ricon views : The single grave in the forest, the old 
family burying ground, the farm and churchyard bury- 
ing ground, the city cemetery with its thousands of 
single graves, the cemetery with its aggregation of 
tombstones, and the park-like modern cemetery with 
its beautiful lawns and lakes and naturalistic planting 
were all shown and described as the process of evo- 
lution through which cemeteries had passed in the 
last hundred years. 
Mr. Frank Enrich, Detroit, Mich., submitted in the 
form of a paper and tabulated report a^ resume of 
the replies received from nearly two hundred ceme- 
teries from all parts of the union, concerning their 
general practices. Mr. Eurich’s running comment on 
many of the practices afforded valuable suggestions. 
The report as a whole will make one of the most 
valuable contributions to the cemetery literature that 
has resulted from the efforts of the Superintendents’ 
Association. 
Officers elected for the following year were : Presi- 
dent, Frank Eurich, “Woodward Lawn,” Detroit, 
Mich.; Vice-President, H. Wilson Ross, “Newton,” 
Newton Center, Mass.; Secretary and Treasurer, J. 
FI. Morton, “City Cemeteries,” Boston, Mass. William 
Salway and O. C. Simonds were elected as members 
of the Advisory Committee, and J. C. Scorgie, William 
Stone, George W. Creesy and T. McCarthy as mem- 
bers of the Executive Committee. Boston was chosen 
as the next place of meeting. 
The outing for the third and last afternoon gave 
the visitors a delightful ride through residence streets 
and boulevards to Highland Park, the Zoological 
Gardens, Allegheny and St. Mary’s cemeteries. In 
the evening a complimentary banquet was tendered 
the members of the association by the local cemetery 
associations. The tables were beautifully decorated 
and sweet music was discoursed while full justice was 
being done to the tempting menu. Mr. W. S. Woods 
officiated as toastmaster, and the speeches that fol- 
lowed brought to a happy close the fifteenth annual 
convention of the A. A. C. S. 
Among those present were John Applebee, Ashtabula, O.; 
R. D. Boice, Geneseo, III.; J. M. Boxell, St. Paul, Minn.; 
Henry Bresser, Toledo, O.; E. G. Carter, Chicago; G. J. 
Chaffee, Syracuse, N. Y. ; J. S. Cline, Dayton, O.; George 
W. Creesy, Salem, O.; T, Donlan, Wilmington, N. C. ; B. 
H. Dorman, Hartford, Conn.; W. H. Druckemiller, Sun- 
bury. Pa.; Frank Eurich, Detroit, Mich.; Wm. Falconer, 
Pittsburg; Wm. Crosbie, Washington, Pa.; D. D. England, 
Winnipeg, Man-; Emsfie, Ravenna, O.; John Butts, San- 
dusky, O.; L. L. Mason, Perry, L. Goodwin, Jamestown, 
N. Y.; A. J. Graves, Bloomington, 111.; G. Gossard, Wash- 
ington, O.; Sid J. Hare, Kansas City, Mo-; Wm. Harris, 
Allegheny, Pa.; Mrs. E. E. Hay, Erie, Pa.; A. W. Hobert, 
Minneapolis, Minn.; M. Jensen, Oberlin, O.; E. L. Kimes, 
Toledo, O.; J. W. Keller, Rochester, N. Y. ; Bellett Lawson, 
Paxtang, Pa.; Bellett Lawson, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y.; C. L. 
Leesly, Chicago; T. McCarthy, Providence, R. L; A. B. 
McGrew, Des Moines, la.; A. Marckhoff, Elgin, 111.; W- H. 
H. Montgomery, Portsmouth, O.; J. H. Morton, Boston, 
Mass.; J. E. Miller, Mattoon, 111.; C. G- Nailor, Wilmington, 
Del.; Geo. M. Painter, Philadelphia; H. Hulme, New 
Brighton, Pa.; Philo L. King, Butler, Pa.; R. Gohlke, Find- 
lay, O.; John A. Moore, D. J. Robinson, H'. Sampson, 
Thomas Wightman, David M'^oods, James A. Devlin, Pitts- 
burg; A. L. Snyder, M. D., Bryan, O.; L. B. Root, Kan- 
sas City, Mo.; Clarence B. Scott, Topeka, Kan.; H. Wilson 
Ross, Newton Center, Mass.; Wm. Stone, Lynn, Mass.; A. 
H. Sargent, Akron, O.; J. J. Stephens, Columbus, O.; John 
Reid, Detroit, Mich.; W. O. Roy, Montreal, Can.; J. H. 
Shepard, Syracuse, N. Y. ; W. N. Rudd, Chicago; Wm. Sal- 
way, Cincinnati, O.; G. Scherzinger, Fond du Lac, Wis.; 
E. A. Sloan, Ironton, O.; A. E. Silcot, Washington, O.; 
George Fan Atta, Newark, O.; T. H. Wright, Covington, 
Ky. ; Jos. Bomgardner, Cleveland, O.; Mr. Voorheis, Ovid, 
Mich.; Mr. Matheis, Toledo, O.; R. J. Haight, Chicago. 
CEMETERY PLANTING, 
A pap«*r read by William Falconer, Superintendent of Schenley Park, 
Pittsburff, before the Convention of Cemetery Superintendents. 
It ill becomes me who is in no way connected with 
a cemetery to speak to you professional men about 
matters concerning’ your business, but I do so to 
satisfy my good friend and neighbor, Mr. David 
Woods, the superintendent of our Homewood Ceme- 
tery. The intimate relationship, however, between 
park and garden work, with which I have been asso- 
icated all my lifetime, and your work, may be some 
excuse for my presumption. But please remember 
that I do not pretend to dictate to nor advise you in 
anything. What I have to say is simply the voice or 
idea of an outsider or layman. 
The cemetery can never be a recreation park nor 
a lounging playground for the indifferent or hilarious; 
it must always be a sacred field. At the same time 
it should never present or suggest the appearance of 
gloom, mourning, horror or desolation. It should 
be an Edened garden, beautiful, dignified, inviting, 
lovely; a place that we should desire to visit; a spot 
to gladden our hearts that the remains of our de- 
parted friends are resting there. And it devolves 
upon you to make it so. 
A new cemetery should be laid out according to a 
well-studied plan of the whole, when its every feature, 
present and future, should be considered. This should 
include driveways, shelter, the grounds to be used 
for burial purposes now and in the time to come, and 
the parts to be reserved for landscape planting alone 
and lawns and flower gardens, also office and other 
buildings. Then stick to your plan. It may be that 
you can only do a little at a time, but be this ever so 
small, let it conform to the plan of the whole. 
I believe in the new cemetery, the burial ground 
where the park or garden effect is required and main- 
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