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PARK SUPERINTENDENTS’ ANNUAL CONVENTION 
The Executive Committee of the Ameri- 
can Association of Park Superintendents 
has fixed the date for the holding of the 
eighteenth annual convention of that or- 
ganization at New Orleans on Oct. 10, 11 
and 12. 
A program of lectures and papers is be- 
ing prepared, to be presented by numerous 
eminent men connected with the park and 
recreation movement. 
LAST CALL for 
LAST CALL!! 
NORFOLK, VA., AWAITS YOU. 
August 22, 23, 24, 1916. 
To Members, Prospective Members and 
Ladies of the Association of American 
Cemetery Superintendents : 
ALL RAILROAD AND WATER 
LINES LEAD TO NORFOLK, VA., 
THE CONVENTION CITY FOR 1916. 
Secure your transportation and hotel 
accommodations now ! 
Plenty of papers. 
Plenty of discussion. 
Plenty of questions. 
Plenty to learn. 
Plenty to interest you. 
Plenty of hotel accommodations. 
Plenty to eat. 
Plenty of goodfellowship. 
Plenty to see and sea. 
Plenty of old friends. 
Plenty of new friends. 
Plenty of other good things to be ar- 
ranged by President Warren and Secre- 
tary Lawson at the meetings. 
HEADQUARTERS, 
MONTICELLO HOTEL. 
Rates: Single room, without bath, $1.50 
per day and up. 
Double room, without bath, $2.50 per 
day and up. 
Single room, with private bath, $2.50 
per day and up. 
Double room, with private bath, $4.00 
per day and up. 
IMPORTANT. 
It is the desire of the Convention Com- 
mittee that members and prospective mem- 
bers advise the chairman as early as pos- 
sible their intention of attending and if 
accompanied by ladies, so that arrange- 
ments for their entertainment can be made. 
J. M. Broughton, Chairman, 
J. R. HofJPER, 
Geo. M. Painter, 
J. H. Sta.nton, 
Convention Committee for 1916. 
Following is an outline of the education- 
al features of the program : 
J. C. Scorgie, superintendent. Mount .Xu- 
burn Cemetery, Boston: “Perpetual Care 
There will also be numerous social fea- 
tures, outdoor demonstrations and inspec- 
tion trips and inasmuch as this will be the 
first convention of the organization in a 
city south of Washington, D. C., it is 
e.xpected that it will be a record-breaker 
in the matter of attendance, because the 
trip to the South will be a popular one 
in October and there will no doubt be a 
large attendance of park executives of 
cities of the South which have been ad- 
of Monuments and Other Structures.” (Il- 
lustrated by lantern slides.) 
Bellet Lawson, Jr., Elmwood Cemetery, 
Chicago : “Commercialism of Cemeteries.” 
E. G. Carter, superintendent, Oakwoods 
Cemetery : “Experience with Motor Trucks.” 
R. N. Kesterson, Greenwood Cemetery : 
"Starting and Operating a Modern Ceme- 
tery.” 
William Allen. Homewood Cemetery, 
Pittsburgh : “A Few Shrubs and Peren- 
nials.” 
A. L. Kimball, of Kimball & Combe Co., 
Providence, R. I. : “The Relations of the 
Monument Man to the Cemetery.” 
Sid J. Hare, of Kansas City : “An Eve- 
ning w'ith the Stereopticon.” 
O. r. Smith, Secretary, Oakland Cem- 
etery, Freeport, 111.: “Cemeteries Oper- 
ating in the Smaller Cities.” 
vancing rapidly in recent years in the way 
of park development. 
Mr. Wm. .Allen, secretary of the New 
Orleans .Association of Commerce, is chair- 
man of the local committee on arrange- 
ments. .Announcement will be made later 
of the convention program in detail. The 
officers of the organization are : Emil T. 
Mische,' president, Portland, Ore.; Roland 
W. Cotterill, secretary, Seattle, Wash. 
Mr. Hoff, of the .Alphano Humus Co.: 
Lantern slide talk on Humus as a soil 
builder, and how to get the best results 
with lawn trees, flowers and shrubs. 
I'he committee has arranged a most in- 
teresting program of sight-seeing and en- 
tertainments that will cover the many his- 
toric places in the vicinity of Norfolk. 
It has been arranged to take an auto 
trip to the cemeteries and parks, stopping 
at Ocean View to have a view of Nor- 
folk and the broad expanse of Chesepeake 
Bay. 
.Another afternoon, the visitors will take 
a boat ride, visiting the navy yard, Ports- 
mouth, and many other points of interest 
too numerous to mention, 
.Another afternoon will be spent at Vir- 
ginia Beach, where there will be served one 
of Virginia’s famous fish dinners. 
THE OBITUARY RECORD. 
Dr. D. E. Bushnell, secretary and man- 
ager of Forest Hills Cemetery, Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn., a leading citizen of his com- 
munity and one of the best-known ceme- 
tery men in the South, died July 19, follow- 
ing an illness of several months. He had 
been ailing for some time with anaemic 
trouble that finally developed seriously, and 
by reason of his advanced age of 76 could 
not be arrested. Every aid that medical 
science could provide was supplied here 
and he was taken to Baltimore in the 
hope relief might be given there. He re- 
turned somewhat improved, but the better- 
ment proved but temporary, for he began 
failing again within a week. Dr. and Airs. 
Bushnell celebrated their golden wedding 
artniversary February 17 last. On that date 
Dr. Bushnell was 75. Beside Mrs. Bush- 
nell, he is ’survived by Aliss Emma Bush- 
nell and Herbert Bushnell, vice-president of 
the Citizens’ National Bank. Dr. Bushnell 
has preached continuously, always ably sup- 
portefl by his wife in all church work, in 
various widely separated communities, in 
all of which they still retain circles of 
friends. Soon after their marriage they 
took charge of the church at Sensim, Cal., 
and after living there for six years re- 
moved to San Jose, where they organized 
and built the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church. Dr. Bushnell throughout this time 
was engaged in editorial work in San Fran- 
cisco and San Jose and in lecturing 
throughout the state. After a pastorate of 
twelve years at San Jose, Cal., he accepted 
a call to the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church and the chair of moral science in 
the college at Waynesburg, Pa., and the 
eutire family removed there, where they 
resided for three years. In the fall of 1889 
Dr. Bushnell took charge of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church at Chattanooga, con- 
tinuing in this charge for si.x years, after 
which he and Airs. Bushnell served suc- 
cessively the churches at St. Joseph, Alo. ; 
Pittsburgh, Pa.; Warrensburg, Mo., and 
.Alton, 111., with one year in St. Louis, 
where he was associate editor of the Cum- 
ber/and I’rcsbytcrian. In 1907 Dr. Bush- 
nell resigned at .Alton. 111., and with Airs. 
Bushnell returned to Chattanooga to be 
with their son. Dr. Bushnell was made 
secretary and manager of I'orest Hills 
Cemetery, in addition to acting as pastor 
of Park Place Presbyterian Cluirch. He 
received the degree of doctor of divinity 
from Lebanon University in 1878 and that 
of rloctor of laws from Missouri Valley 
College, the successor to the old AIcGec 
College, attended in his boyhood. 
A. A. C. S. CONVENTION at NORFOLK 
