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Auto trains, the pleasure transportation- 
system employed at the exposition at San 
Francisco, will be given a thirty days’ try- 
out in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Members of 
the board and employees rode on the first 
train, operated for several miles on the 
sidewalks and streets. The commissioners 
were pleased and announced that if the pub- 
lic approved the train at the end of thirty 
days permission will be given the company 
to operate permanently in the park. Each 
train, which consists of a small automo- 
bile and a trailer, will carry twenty passen- 
gers. A 5-cent fare will be charged. 
Two large stone columns, ten feet in 
height, are to be erected by the Knights of 
Columbus of Illinois at the entrance to 
Starved Rock State Park. The tablets will 
bear the names of Catholic missionaries 
who explored the valley centuries ago, and 
also the names of Catholic laymen promi- 
nent in the early history of the state. The 
plan was presented by Attorney Normoyle, 
of Chicago, at the state convention of that 
order in La Salle recently. 
The West Menominee Advancement As- 
sociation, of Menominee, Wis., has com- 
menced the work of beautifying the 
grounds known as Blahnik-Cook Park. 
Flowers of different kinds will be artistical- 
ly arranged in and out of the park and 
walks of crushed stone will lead to all 
sides. 
Firemen at the Central fire station. Coun- 
cil Bluffs. la., have formally opened their 
Italian garden to the public. Work on the 
miniature garden is as yet uncompleted, but 
has advanced to a point where it is com- 
mencing to take definite form. A statue 
of a fireman, life size, and seen in the dis- 
charge of his duty, is the center of attrac- 
tion in the park. It stands on a pedestal 
placed in the fountain, which contains 
lights of five colors. .All labor made nec- 
essary in the building of the fountain, 
statue and laying out of the garden was 
donated by the members of hose company 
Xo. 3 and their friends, as well as all ma- 
terial used. 
In the annual report of the Park Board 
of L'tica. X. A'., for the year 1915, are in- 
cluded the reports of the superintendent of 
parks, secretary and Playgrountl and Rec- 
reation Association of Utica. The report 
also includes various statistics and tables 
of interest and other information relative 
to the location of the various parks, date 
of acquirement, etc. During the year the 
Park Board secured title to the properties 
ref|uired to extend the parkway westerly, 
and the work was finished before winter, 
which practically completes the Utica Park- 
way. There was as much work done in the 
line of maintenance on walks and roads as 
the continuously wet season would permit 
in addition to the continuous mowing. Con- 
siderable plowing, harrowing and seeding 
was done on the rougher parts of the ad- 
dition to Roscoe Conkling Park as well as 
on Utica Parkway. During the year the 
-Academy .Athletic .Association erected a 
very handsome grandstand on the .Academy 
Field portion of Horatio Seymour Park. 
The Park Board added several pheasants 
to Roscoe Conkling Park and many tame 
rabbits and several other animals were 
added to the zoo. The local ornithological 
society took great interest, as well as the 
Park Board, in establishing “bird refuges’’ 
in the parks, and several small bird houses 
of a type to draw bluebirds, donoted by E. 
J. Maher and the School Board and con- 
structed by boys in the vocational school 
under Prof. Bragdon, were placed in the 
trees. The Park Board erected a fence, 
drinking fountain, and planted a beautiful 
canna bed in .Albany Square Park. The 
playgrounds had a most successful year 
and a vegetable garden, taken care of by 
the children, was started in 1915 near the 
Skenandoah mill. 
High school students at West Chicago, 
111., are working on benches and bridges 
that will soon adorn the new park given 
the suburban city by the Woman’s Club. 
Gardens have already been laid out and 
planted under the direction of landscape 
gardeners. F'or five years the West Chi- 
cago Council has contemplated the pur- 
chase of a park site, 1)ut the city’s finances 
would not permit this. Three acres at the 
intersection of North and Center streets 
were acquired by the women under a long- 
time lease, which contains a clause permit- 
ting purchase at any time, and steps are 
already being taken to effect this purchase. 
PRINTING A. A. C. S. CONVENTION PAPERS. 
It will be necessary, however, to have 
quite a number of contributions of this size 
to meet the expense of this work, and Air. 
Flaherty, who originally suggested this plan. 
The suggestion for printing by subscrip- 
tion selected convention papers from for- 
mer A. A. C. S. conventions made by 
members in our .April and May issues has 
brought offers from two members to con- 
tribute $5 each, namely, Alessrs. Charles T. 
G. Elaherty, of .Albany, X’. Y., and James 
Warren, Jr. If it is decided to print the 
papers in this wa_v, P.\rk .\nd Cemetery 
would gladly be one of the contributors 
and offers its columns to further the work 
in any way possible. 
suggests that all members who are willing 
to contribute to a fund for this purpose to 
send their names to Park and Cemetery 
for publication in our next issue. If mem- 
bers who desire to contribute will advise 
us, we should be glad to give space to the 
publication of the list as suggested. 
NEW ENGLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. 
The annual outing of the New England 
Cemetery .Association will be held Mon- 
day, June 19, 1916, at Bellevue Cemetery, 
Lawrence, Alass., Past President William 
Lord, superintendent. 
.Arrangements for the day’s outing are as 
follows: Meet at Bellevue Cemetery at 
9 :30 a. m. Look over Bellevue Cemetery, 
then take autos and visit West Parish Cem- 
etery; then ^•isit Wood Cotton Alills, one 
of the largest mills in the W'orld. Dinner 
at 3 p. m. at the Alerrimac Valley Count- 
try Club. Air. Lord has made e.xcellent ar- 
rangements for this outing and he expects 
a large party. 
H. .A. Derry, of Everett, is secretary of 
the association. 
CEnETERY NOTES 
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A resolution was recently passetl by the 
Council of Belleville, 111., providing that all 
foundations for monuments in Walnut Hill 
Cemetery be built by the cemetery at the 
expense of the lot owner. 
George Siemantle, who has had charge 
of the cemetery in Aurora, Ind., ff)r the 
past thirty-five years, resigned recently and 
Cust Aloore was elected as his successor. 
Mr. Moore has been assistant there for 
nearly eleven years. 
The trustees of the Odd Fellows’ .Asso- 
ciation of Franklin County have purchased 
a 50-foot lot in Green Lawn Cemetery. Co- 
lumbus, O., and will erect a monument in 
memory of the deceased members of the 
order. 
.At a recent meeting of the directors of 
the Oakview Cemetery .Association, of 
Detroit, Alich., it was decided to construct 
at once a chai)el to cost not less than 
$25.C()f) and to begin within two years the 
