Mill Creek Park has an area of 485 
acres. It is now all within the corporate 
limits of Youngstown, and we claim there 
is no city park in our country that excels 
it in natural beauty or which affords to 
the people of any citj- better opportunities 
for healthful recreation and enjoyment. 
We have in our city also a number of 
other fine parks. 
Wick Park, given to the public by a 
generous family for whom it was named, 
contains thirty-four and one-tenth acres, 
e.xclusive of a street one hundred feet 
wide which surrounds it. This property is 
an open, beautifully wooded tract of large 
value. 
There is a condition in the grant to the 
public for this park, that it is dedicated for 
a public park and for no other purpose ; 
also, that if used for an\' other purpose, 
the property shall revert to the donors or 
their heirs. 
It is a regretable fact, as all park peo- 
ple know, that unless park authorities are 
watchful, and too often when they are, 
park properties are encroached upon and 
subjected to other uses. If the above con- 
ditions were in all grants for public parks, 
exploiting them for commercial purposes 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
or diverting them to other uses would be 
prevented. 
We have Lincoln Park, fifty-nine and 
one-tenth acres, an excellent reservation 
with a stream passing centrally through it, 
and wooded hills on each side of the 
stream. Good bathing facilities are fur- 
nished, as well as excellent playgrounds. 
The development of this park is along nat- 
ural lines. 
We have Crandall Park, named for a 
beneficent donor, containing forty-two and 
five-tenths acres, a very picturesque, wood- 
ed ravine surrounded by five boulevards. 
Also Pine Hollow Park, twenty and two- 
tenths acres ; Dewey Park, nineteen acres ; 
South Side Park, eight and five-tenths 
acres, and a number of other spaces and 
playgrounds, totaling for all parks, open 
spaces and playgrounds within the city si.x 
hundred eighty-five and seventy-four one- 
hundredths acres. 
In addition to the above we have outside 
of the city limits, but of convenient access 
by street car and vehicles. Yellow Creek 
Park, dedicated by the executors of the 
late Thomas Struthers. This park is a 
very rugged, picturesque gorge: a fine 
stream flows through it between high cliffs 
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adorned by beautiful native trees, shrubs 
and indigenous wild beautiful plants. It 
contains about fifty acres. 
Last, but not least, we are to have by 
the will of the late Henry K. Wick the fine 
stone mansion built by him with four hun- 
dred acres surrounding it as an art gal- 
lery and park, which you will see while on 
your way to our Country Club. After cer- 
tain other l)equests are satisfied, the re- 
mainder of this most generous gentle- 
man’s estate, which is large, is set apart 
as a sustaining and endowment fund for 
the art gallery and park. The trustees 
under the will are especially instructed to 
develop the artistic, to collect works of 
art and to maintain the buildings and 
grounds in good artistic taste. 
We thus have in and near our city elev- 
en hundred and thirty-five acres of public 
parks and open spaces. 
With the e.xception of two small squares 
in the central part of the city, these parks 
and playgrounds have been acquired re- 
cently, and we offer these facts as evi- 
dence that Youngstown is well to the 
front in providing beautiful public recrea- 
tion grounds for the health and happiness 
of its people. 
OHIO CEMETERY ASSOCIATION AT YOUNGSTOWN 
The annual convention of the Ohio As- 
sociation of Cemetery Superintendents and 
Officials held at Youngstown, June 27 and 
28, was in many respects one of the most 
successful meetings the organization has 
ever held. The attendance was the best 
in the history of the association. Much 
enthusiasm was shown in the discussion 
of the papers on the program, and many 
useful and practical points were brought 
out and discussed at length. 
Ten new members were added to the 
rolls, making the total membership seventy- 
five in good standing. Si.xty of this num- 
ber registered at the Youngstown meeting. 
The following officers were elected : 
President — Luther L. Kline, Asst. Supt. 
Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. 
V'^ice-President — Karl Kern, Asst. Supt. 
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Secretary-Treasurer — E. A. Sloane, Supt. 
Marion Cemetery, Marion, Ohio. 
Executive Committee — John Finke, Supt. 
Elm Grove Cemetery. St. Marys, (i)hio ; S. 
J. Parrott. Supt. Fern Cliff Cemetery, 
Springfield, Ohio; Cyrus Metzgar, Supt. 
Wapakoneta Cemetery, Wapakoneta. Ohio. 
St. Marys, Ohio, was selected for the 
1917 convention, the dates to be fixed later. 
I he first session opened in the Ohio 
Hotel. Fred I. Sloane, of Youngstown, 
chairman of the general committee, 
opened the convention, and iTitroduced Rev. 
A. L. Fraser, who delivered the opening 
prayer. 
Remarks of welcome were made by Jud- 
son Brenner, of Belmont Park Cemetery, 
who was active in making arrangements 
for the convention, on behalf of Mayor 
Carroll Thornton, and by Clarence Strouss, 
vice-president of the Chamber of Com- 
merce. J. C. Dix, of Cleveland, president 
of the organization, presided at the meet- 
ing. 
George F. Titus, of Norwalk, delivered 
the response to the remarks of welcome on 
behalf of the association. After the read- 
ing of the president’s address and the 
secretary’s report there was an address by 
J. O. Schell, of Clyde, who spoke as fol- 
lows : 
Interesting the Small Cemetery. 
By J. O. Schell. 
The subject to -wbich your attention is invited is; 
“The Contrast between Larjte and Small Cemeteries, 
and How to Interest the Men of Small [*laces in 
The Ohio Association and Its Work.” 
With repard to the first part of the subject, our 
pupfiose is to present such tboujjbts as will lead to 
a closer relationship of the men of the difl’ermt 
cemeteries. It is (piite common and rather natural 
for us to think that it is the other fellow who 
has the snap. There should l>e no jealous feelinKs, 
misunfierstanOinffs, or mis^ivinjfs of any kind amonj; 
us. So let us reason together. lof>k at the bright 
and dark side of each. In on1(*r lo do this most 
easily, w<* will foni* .some eontrasta iK'twecn the 
two. 
The first point of contrast that appeals to me and 
the one from which most others proceed is size. 
The size of a cemetery determines the cnlil>er of the 
men to be at the head of it; it fixtures largely in 
deterrnlninn the kinds and amount of lalK.r and 
finanfos necessary for its maintenance and adds 
much in making its rare easy or dittlcult. We say 
the size detennines the caliber of the men at tlie 
head of a e«*metery: in a larue one. you are well 
financed and must have men of Intelligence and 
experh'iice for officers, and for superintendent, a 
man of mnul Juditment. edn<‘atij>n and experience. 
He must lie a JiuIlo' of all kinds of labor, and of 
human nature as well: andi should possess an abun- 
dance of tact and patience. 
It seems that the principle requirement for an 
officer of a small cemetery is that a man be able to 
say NO when it comes to making expenditures; 
for superintendent, not much is thought of but that 
lie be able and willing to work. lie is looked upon 
by some people, and sometimes by officers them- 
selves, as a common laborer; is expected to work 
for common wages or frequently less. No account 
is made of tlie time spent in looking after inci- 
dentals. making burial n'cords, paying telephone 
bills, conducting Sunday burials, etc. He is more 
than a ('omnion lalMU’cr. He is his own machinist, 
stone-cutter and mason, his own tlorist, horticult- 
urist and Ian lsc;ip(‘ artist, his own carpenter, 
plumber, painter and grave digger. 
We have said that the size of a cemetery figures 
largely in determining the kinds and amount of 
labor and finance necessary for its maintenance. 
It is a well-known fact that large enterprises of 
any kind can, be operated cheaper proportionately 
than small ones can. Lange concerns can drive out 
small ones. It is because of the practicability of 
using labor-saving devices and of having skilled 
workmen for tlie different lines of ’work. 
I believe on account of this grasping and oppres- 
sive disposition extant, some men of small ceme- 
teries imagine that the same thing exists in the 
cemetery business; but I am sure it is not true that 
men of large cemeteries wish to kill or cripple 
small ones; but since they are more or less handl- 
^;apped by their size, they would probably not en- 
courage bringing small ones into existence. 
We say too that tlie size adds much In making 
its care easy or (Ulllcult. You will agree with me 
that it is more difficult to beautify where space is 
scanty. In the large cemetery many more places 
too. may be found that will allow and demand orna- 
mentation. Thi*n* are more lots of such size and 
shape tliat monuments may be so placed as to add 
beauty to the whole surroundings. So much then 
for the first part of onr subject. 
Tlie second part Is a knotty old problem. Yes. an 
old one that staggered men bmg. long ago. as 
we know by tbe parable of tlu‘ man who made a 
feast and bad bis servants go out to Invite guests. 
If lie falb'd to Interesl men iMiongb to eonie In and 
eat. what may we expect ns to results? 'I'he sub- 
ject Implies a desire on tbe part of men from large 
eemeterles to have men of small places join In tho 
