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studied j'our ground. You should not think 
for a moment of attempting to lay out a 
cemetery without having an expert report 
and plan on your own proposition, as 
every one is different and every one sub- 
ject to the local conditions. The firms ad- 
vertising this service in Park .\nd Ceme- 
tery could give you advice and assistance 
in this matter and plan and estimate the 
cost of your work. 
Residents near McKinley Park, Chicago, 
and others from the Fifth W'ard appeared 
before the South Park commissioners re- 
cently to ask for a field house and other 
buildings in the park. The commissioners 
voted to expend $125,000 for improvements, 
including separate buildings to house gj'm- 
nasiums for men and women. 
The Farmersville Civic League, F^rm- 
ersville, Tex., has recently bought a plot 
of ground between the Santa Fe Railroad 
and the Missouri, Kanas & Texas Road, 
and have turned it over to the city for a 
park. Local Daughters of the Confederacy 
will erect a large Confederate monument 
in the park. 
A committee from the Ottawa (111.) 
Woman’s Club is trying to interest the citi- 
zens of Illinois in their patriotic duty to 
have all the small state parks and state 
monuments put under the state commis- 
sioners, where they will be properly cared 
for. Another important matter that is be- 
ing given consideration by the club is the 
building of a Woman’s Club Memorial 
Gateway at the main entrance to Starved 
Rock State Park. 
J. E. Freudenberger, landscape architect, 
of Dayton, O., has just completed an elabo- 
rate plan for a park system in Hamilton, O. 
The plan calls for the beautification of the 
land as far north as Dayton street, for two 
squares. The old Hamilton hydraulic will 
pass through the land proposed to be beau- 
tified, but this will be in part covered by a 
handsome bridge. A pergola is to be built 
at the north end of the park with a band- 
stand between it and the hydraulic bridges. 
Attractive walks will lead from High 
street and also from Monument avenue, 
into the park, and shrubberj', flowers and 
grasses will add to the general decorative 
scheme. At the intersection of High street 
and Monument avenue a wide, attractive 
entrance will lead into the park, which is 
almost two acres in extent. 
A series of symbolical statues illustrat- 
ing American history is the principal fea- 
ture of the splendid memorial to Ellen 
Phillips Samuel planned by the Fairmount 
Park Art .\ssociation, of Philadelphia, 
which will grace the river embankment in 
We have printed, of course, from time to 
time many articles on various features of 
cemetery development and management 
and have something of this nature in al- 
most every issue of Park and Cemetery. 
Probably the matter that would be of 
most assistance to you is the series of arti- 
cles that ran from January to October of 
last year on the complete development of a 
modern cemetery. 
Fairmount Park, below the Girard avenue 
bridge, if approved by the park commis- 
sioners. Such famous characters as Co- 
lumbus, the Cabots, Cortez, Hudson, Penn, 
Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, depict- 
ing every period of the country’s history, 
are included in the statues planned. Funds 
for the memorial are provided for in the 
will of iMrs. Samuel, who was an active 
member of the association. Pavilions, la- 
goons, artistic walks and shrubbery will 
add to the attractiveness of the scene. 
The Austin-Western Road Machinery 
Co., of Chicago, have recently issued a very 
handsomely illustrated book entitled, “The 
Road Builder’s Guide.’’ This book contains 
illustrations and descriptions of the com- 
plete line of road machinery manufactured 
by that concern and is a very practical aid 
to anyone contemplating road building. 
O. D. Arp, superintendent of parks of 
Sioux City, la., for the last eight years, 
resigned his position on March 1. Mr. Arp 
will join his father in the management of 
a landscaping and nursery development 
company at Mobile, Ala. During his period 
of service Mr. Arp developed the plans for 
the landscaping of Stone Park. He also 
developed the Grand View Park nursery 
and a number of other park improvements. 
The board of commissioners of Tower 
Grove Park, St. Louis, have submitted their 
annual report for the year ending Decem- 
ber 31, 1915. Following are some statis- 
tical items of interest: — Receipts: From 
City of St. Louis for maintenance, $25,0(X); 
from coupons and interest, $4,976.42; from 
sales of surplus hay, old metal and useless 
hor.se, $S06,.30; total, $.10,482.72. Expendi- 
tures: Labor, $15,738.74; salaries, $2,100; 
concert music, with programs and lighting, 
$l,422..SO; macadam, gravel, sand, oil, etc., 
for driveways, $1,522,54; hardware, tools 
and implements, $61 5.. 17 ; stable expenses: 
horses, feed, shoeing, harness, etc., $1,152.- 
11; total, $25,953.37. Constant effort was 
made to imjjrove the drives of the park 
and to make them safer and cleaner. Dur- 
ing the year past, the south drive, ,10 feet 
wide and approximately a mile long, was 
brought into serviceable condition. Changes 
during the preceding year had eliminated 
several sharp and dangerous curves, and in 
the early part of 1915 the resurfacing of 
the driveway throughout its entire length 
was begun, and by midsummer the work 
was completed. Bridges and gutters were 
repaired during the progress of this work, 
and the surroundings generally brought 
into harmonious neatness. During the year 
all of the principal drives received one coat 
of oil, and some portions were treated 
twice. The total quantity of oil applied 
during the season was 19,045 gallons, near- 
ly 2,000 more than in the preceding year, 
and the cost of spreading this oil by the 
use of the city’s facilities was $612.12, in 
addition to the cost of labor and material 
supplied by the park force. Extensive car- 
pentry repair work was done upon the 
roofs of some of the greenhouses and the 
superintendent’s residence, and the iron- 
work of the north conservatory was given 
thorough overhauling. The copper roof of 
the office building, with its famous natural 
patina, was also repaired. Much painting 
was also done during the last year, for 
the preservation of iron fences at the gate.s, 
pla3'ground apparatus, conservatories and 
similar structures. Concerts of band mu- 
sic on Sunday evenings, during the sum- 
mer, constituted an innovation for Tower 
Grove Park. Formerly they were held in 
the afternoon. 
The Massachusetts Forestry Association 
recently issued their eighteenth annual re- 
port, which contains a report of the work 
accomplished during the year and several 
illustrated articles on forestry of practical 
interest. This year has been one of un- 
usual interest in forestry in this state. The 
policy of state forests has been established 
by the purchase of lands for that purpose 
by the state forest commission and the first 
town forest in Massachusetts has been 
created by the city of Fitchburg. The 
Newton Branch was the only one organ- 
ized this year. The policy of the associa- 
tion of forming branch as.sociations received 
a .severe setback due to lack of funds. 
When the .system was started, a part of 
the plan was to keep at least one field sec- 
retar\' who would devote his time exclu- 
sively to helping the branches and to keep 
ing them at work upon local problems. This 
arrangement worked successfully for a 
couple of years, but this year the associa- 
tion was forced to di.scontinue the work 
of the field secretary. The .second contest 
in tree planting was conducted by the as.so- 
ciation during the year. There were four 
prizes offered to the cities and towns of 
the state, which were divided into four 
groups. .Ml the towns of l.OOO population 
or less were included in the first group. 
Tho.se between 1,000 and .3,(XX) in the sec- 
ond; all of the places between 3,000 and 
10,000 in the third; and all the cities and 
towns over 10,(XX) in the fourth group. 'I'hc 
I)rize for each group consisted of the fur- 
nishing and planting of 100 trees on the 
public streets, for the place which properly- 
planted the greatest number of shaflc 
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