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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
It has no points or obstructions sticking 
out of the ground to endanger children or 
stock. It extends only five inches above 
the ground and seven inches in the ground. 
It is recommended for hot-beds, as it will 
not interfere with the glass cover. It does 
not have to be dug out to remove the mole. 
All that is necessary is to draw the trap 
out of the ground when sprung. The mole 
comes out with trap, which does not deface 
the lawn or injure plants. 1 he first thing 
to do is to find the mole's runway, which 
usually starts from a building, a fence or 
a piece of ground not often disturbed. 
They pass through these runways regu- 
larly about 6 a. m., 12 m. and 6 p. m. Set 
your trap on one of these runways. As 
many as thirty moles have been taken from 
one of these runways by a Heartley mole 
trap. Press the runway down firmly with 
the foot, then grasp the levers and force 
the points of the jaws through the mole’s 
runway until trip rests firm on the ground ; 
then force levers apart until locked with 
trip, as shown in the illustration. Care 
should be taken to see that the trap is in 
line with the mole’s runway, so mole can 
enter between the jaws and force the trip 
up, thus springing the trap. When trap is 
sprung, simply grasp the levers and pull the 
trap up and the mole will come as shown 
in the other picture. The joints should be 
kept well oiled. 
Motor Trucks in Cemeteries. 
Editor Asked and Answered; Refer- 
ring to the use of motor trucks discussed 
in your February issue, it would be best 
for me to confine my remarks to our ex- 
perience in West Laurel Hill. 
At the present time we are using two 
motor carriers, an Autocar, one and a half 
ton capacity, and a Mack two ton truck 
with an automatic dumping body. About 
four or five years ago we put in operation 
a small light motor wagon (Dart) for 
the use of the greenhouse department ; 
the purposes of this wagon were chiefly 
hauling bedding plants from the propa- 
gating houses to the various sections : while 
it did the work we found that we were 
overtaxing it, and decided to continue 
using the motor truck, but disposed of 
the Dart and in its place purchased an 
Autocar which we are still using. 
We found that we could dispose of one 
horse all the time, and in the spring, sum- 
mer and fall season about three horses in 
this department. The chief advantages 
are the time and expediency with which 
the work can be handled. 
Having a motor-driven lawn mower, we 
naturally have no use for horses in this 
respect, as we can do three times the 
amount of work we could with horses. 
Our experience with the lighter cars sug- 
gested trying a truck of heavier tonnage, 
and in consequence we added a Mack two- 
ton automatic dumping body truck, which 
gives us the equivalent in work of about 
four horses. 
This truck is principally used for haul- 
ing coal, crushed stone, cement, sand and 
brick, also for removing dirt from the 
roads to the various cuts and fills, and we 
Alden W. Campbell, member of the East 
Sacramento Improvement Club, has been 
chosen by the Park Board of Sacramento, 
Cal., to obtain signatures of plot owners in 
Helvetia Cemetery who are willing to agree 
to the beautification plans for the cemetery. 
The Park Board proposes to park the cem- 
etery. Lhider the plan the city agrees to 
care for all plots where owners sign, and 
to permit the removal of gravestones, 
fences and copings. The Park Board will 
plant grass and shade trees. 'I'he city also 
agrees to mark each grave with a cement 
slab, on which will be inscribed the name 
of the occupant of the grave. These im- 
provements will be paid for by the city if 
the property owners will agree to allow 
them to be made. 
It has l)een suggested a bridle path be 
built in connection with the Paseo e.xten- 
sion of Kansas City Mo., now being graded 
from Swope Parkway to the southern city 
limits, and George E. Kessler, landscape ar- 
chitect for the Park Department, will pre- 
pare a plan for this purpose. 
Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the In- 
terior, has recommended for passage the 
bill to make a park of Huron Cemetery, 
Kansas City, the old Wyandotte Indian 
burial ground on the Kansas side. He 
recommends that $25,000 be expended for 
this purpose. The bill requires the city to 
build walls around the cemetery. 
An addition to Powderhorn Park, Minne- 
apolis, Minn., of two blocks lying between 
the park and Lake streets is proposed by 
the East Lake Street Commercial Club, of 
that city. The club also proposes to erect 
a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the center 
of the addition. 
The City Commission of Sacramento, 
Cal., recently adopted the ordinance offered 
by Commissioner Coulter providing for the 
transfer of the control of the City Ceme- 
tery from the Department of Public Health 
and Safety to the Department of Education. 
The cemetery will be administered by the 
Park Board and funds of that department 
will be used to run the place. 
It was proposed recently at the eighty- 
experience practically no trouble in the 
work imposed. 
As to entirely dispensing with horses, I 
might say that it would require quite a 
change in equipment which is costly when 
you have been using horses, but I am con- 
vinced that the time is not far distant when 
it will become a great factor in our require- 
ments. Owen C. Miller, 
Supt., West Laurel Hill Cem. 
Pencoyd, Pa. 
second annual meeting of the Washington 
National Monument Society that the 
grounds surrounding the base of the Wash- 
ington monument be beautified still further 
by the setting out there of a screen of ever- 
greens and other shrubbery, and members 
of the society will confer with Colonel W. 
W. Harts, Lh S. A., in charge of public 
buildings and grounds, to see whether he 
can have placed a screen of shrubbery out- 
side of the driveway around the base of the 
monument. 
Final steps in the consummation of the 
legal organization necessary to proceed -at 
once with the creation of the forest pre- 
serve district adjacent to Chicago were 
taken at a meeting of the commissioners 
in the office of President Peter Reinberg, 
of the County Board. Oscar F. Mayer, 
5727 Sheridan road, was elected permanent 
treasurer and Peter Ellert permanent sec- 
retary. 
The Park Commissioners of Holyoke, 
Mass., have issued their seventeenth an- 
nual report for the year 1915, which con- 
tains a financial statement and a review of 
the work accomplished during the year. 
No new work was done on the roads and 
paths this year, but many of the older 
trails have been widened by cutting out 
the encroaching underbrush, and in some 
sections old culverts and water courses re- 
placed and paths resurfaced. A number 
of seats were placed in desirable locations 
along the easterly side of the pond. With 
the assistance of various town officials ef- 
forts were made to provide places for 
skating and sliding for the younger folks. 
For several years the chestnut trees in 
this park have shown the effects of the 
chestnut bark disease, and, acting on the 
recommendations of nation and state, the 
cutting of the trees was decided upon. 
The removal of so many trees left some 
spots more or less bare, but this will be 
overcome by natural seeding and planting 
next season. Seven thousand one hundred 
and three people took advantage of the 
bathing facilities during the summer. 
