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PARK AND CEMETKRY 
H. K. Bush-Brown, chairman of the municipal im- 
provement committee ; League for Social Service, by 
Dr. Josiah Strong, president; National Alunicipal 
League, by Clinton Rog'ers Woodruff, secretarv. 
Other societies also will be represented, the meeting 
becoming a unique national congress on civic im- 
provement. 
Afternoon, 2 130 o’clock : Parallel sessions of the 
Women’s Auxiliary and of the Park Commissioners. 
The Auxiliary will have brief reports from each local 
chapter, followed by discussion, and an address. The 
Park Commissioners will listen to reports on the Bos- 
ton Parks, the Metropolitan System, and on the Cam- 
bridge Parks, given by the presidents of the boards of 
those parks. 
Evening, 8 o’clock ; Address on “Civic Improve- 
ment Work.” Hon. John DeWitt Warner, president 
Art Commission of the City of New York and of the 
New York Municipal Art Society. Address on “The 
Forward Movement in Harrisburg.” J. Horace Mc- 
Farland, secretary executive committee, Harrisburg 
League for Civic Improvement. Brief reports from 
Boston societies. 
THIRD DAY, THURSDAY, AUG. 7. 
Morning, 10:30 o’clock; Parallel sessions of the 
Association and the Auxiliary for election of officers, 
etc. 
Afternoon, 2 130 o’clock — Parallel sessions : The 
School Garden Session, under charge of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, will include the following ten- 
minute addresses : “The School Garden as a Phase of 
Industrial Work,” by W. A. Baldwin, principal State 
Normal School at Hyannis, Mass. ; “Boston Sand Gar- 
dens,” by Ellen M. Tower, Lexington, Mass. ; “School 
Gardens at the Hartford School of Horticulture,” by 
H. D. Hemenway, Hartford ; “The National Cash Reg- 
ister Boys’ Gardens,” by George A. Townsend, Jr., 
Dayton, Ohio ; “Some Neglected Millions,” by George 
Henry Knight, New York City; “How We Reach 
Eighteen Thousand School Children in New York,” by 
J. W. Spencer, supervisor Bureau of Nature Study, 
Cornell Lhiiversity; “Nature Study for Children,” by 
Geo. T. Powell, director School of Horticulture, Briar 
Cliff Manor, N. Y. ; informal discussion in which manv 
whose names do not appear above will take part. 
Park Commissioners’ Session: “Parks and Land- 
scape Gardening,” by Bryan Lathrop, Chicago ; “Poli- 
tics and Parks,” by James Jensen, Chicago ; “Park Ad- 
ministration,” by Calvin C. Laney, Rochester, N. Y. ; 
Park Construction, Drainage, Rockwork, Planting, 
Roads, Water, Park Engineering, practical discussion, 
under these heads, by workers ; “Park Accounts,” by 
J. A. Ridgeway, Minneapolis, chairman committee on 
park accounts; “Park Building in the West,” by S. A. 
Foster, Des Moines, Iowa. 
Evening, 8 o’clock : Address on “Public Beauty 
and Good City Government,” Clinton Rogers Wood- 
ruff, Philadelphia. Address on “Relation of Parks to 
City Plan,” Sylvester Baxter, Boston. Address on 
“What Is Municipal Art?” Charles Mulford Robinson, 
Rochester, N. Y., author of “The Improvement of 
Towns and Cities.” 
CONVENTION OF CEMETERY SUPERIN- 
TENDENTS. 
The sixteenth annual convention of the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintendents will be held at 
the Copley Square Hotel, Huntington avenue, Boston, 
Mass., August 19 to 22, and a program of unusual 
interest has been arranged. It will contain a number 
of papers and practical topics for discussion. 
FIRST DAY, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19. 
The convention will open at 10 a. m. After the 
usual morning business session, the Public Garden, 
Granary, Kings Chapel and Copps Hill Burial Grounds 
will be visited, returning to the hotel, where the even- 
ing session will be held. 
SECOND DAY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20. 
Visit to Harvard Botanic Garden, thence to Har- 
vard College, Adt. Auburn and Newton Cemeteries, re- 
turning to hotel via Commonwealth avenue. Evening 
session of essays, discussions, etc. 
THIRD DAY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21. 
Alorning session : Election of officers, etc. After- 
nooin Visit to Franklin Park, Arnold Arboretum and 
Alt. Hope Cemetery. 
FOURTH DAY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22. 
Visit to Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass. ; Har- 
mony Grove Cemetery, Salem, and “Salem Willows.” 
Return to hotel and adjourn. 
Lrocating^ or £nlarg'in§^ Cemeteries 
.A. New Jersey statute provides “that it shall not be law- 
ful to locate any new cemetery or burying ground, or to en- 
large any cemetery or burying ground, in this state, without 
the consent and approval of the municipal authorities and 
board of health of the city, township, town, or borough in 
which it is proposed to locate or enlarge the cemetery upon 
application in writing for that purpose made;” and “that all 
persons making such application shall accompany it with a 
descriptive map of the premises they propose to occupy.” In 
construing this statute, the supreme court of New Jersey holds, 
case of State against the Mayor and Council of the Borough 
of Fairview, 49 Atlantic Reporter 1029, that the map required 
by this provision need not describe the property shown thereon 
by metes and bounds, but that it sufficiently complies with the 
statute if, from an examination of it, the municipal author- 
ities can readily determine the location, size, and shape of 
such property. It further holds that by granting consent to the 
location of a proposed cemetery the municipal authorities neces- 
sarily approve that location, within the meaning of the statute. 
And it holds that, in order to obtain the municipal consent and 
approval to the appropriation of lands to cemetery uses, it is 
not necessary that the applicants therefor should be the owners 
or occupiers of such lands. 
