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deemed necessary. It was the general 
opinion that effort should be made to elim- 
inate the abbreviated “Annette Kellerman” 
costume which was believed to be too ex- 
treme. It was thought advisable to make 
an effort to standardize bathing suit styles 
throughout the country. 
There was a lively contest for place of 
next meeting between St. Louis, Louisville, 
and Hartford, Conn., St. Louis finally 
winning. The vote stood : St. Louis, 30 ; 
Louisville 14, and Hartford 3. 
In the afternoon, the entire party, guests 
and local committee were taken for an ex- 
cursion of inspection of New Orleans 
harbor on board the chartered tugs, Samp- 
son, of the Dock Board, and Daisy, of the 
Conservation Commission, The trip occu- 
pied the entire afternoon, and was thor- 
oughly enjoyed by all. 
Because of the inability of several of 
the speakers to be present, the evening 
session was not held, and the convention 
was officially closed with the harbor excur- 
sion. 
The following were among those present : 
J. E. Fitzpatrick, Terre Haute, Ind. ; M. L. 
Moore and wife. Toledo, O. ; John W. 
Kernan, Lowell, Mass. ; William S. j\Ian- 
ning, superintendent of parks, Baltimore, 
Md. ; C. L. Brock, Houston, Tex. ; William 
I. Hoch, Reading, Pa. ; L. P. Jensen and 
wife, St. Louis; C. C. Cox, Wichita, Kan.; 
E. D. Philbrick, Virginia, Minn. ; H. S. 
Richards and wife. South Park Commis- 
sion, Chicago: John F. Walsh, Jr., New 
York city; Emmett P. Griffin, East St. 
Louis; O. Grant Forrer. Harrisburg, Pa.; 
Wood Posey, Terre Haute, Ind.; Fred C. 
Steinhauer and wife, Denver, Colo. ; Fred 
C. Green, Providence, R. 1. ; Ernest Kettig 
and wife, Louisville, Ky. ; John Meisen- 
bacher, Tulsa, Okla. ; Edward A. Miller and 
wife. New York; C. W. Davis, Memphis, 
Tenn. ; L. de Sausure, Memphis; H. W. 
Busch and wife, Detroit, Mich.; Ernest 
Strehle, St. Louis; Walter Wright and 
wife, Chicago ; W. S. Rawlings, Vancouver, 
B. C. ; J. N. Lewis, Sioux City, la.; Nelson 
Crist and wife, .Atlanta; .Alexander Stuart, 
Ottawa, Can. ; Edwin .A. Kanst and wife. 
South Park Commission, Chicago ; Emery 
Stuart, Ottawa, Can. ; U. E. Keith, Bridge- 
port, Conn. ; Herman W. Merkel, New 
York Botanical Garden, New York; J. W. 
Thompson, Seattle, Wash.; J. A. Ridgway 
and wife, Minneapolis, Minn.; Conrad B. 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Wolf, Hibbing, Minn. ; John Berry, Den- 
ver ; .Arthur R. Beirchold, Chisholm, 
Minn.; Ralph R. Benedict and wife, Kan- 
sas City, Mo. ; Julius Koenig, St. Louis ; 
.Albert W. Robson, Crestwood, Yonkers, 
New York; Adam Kohanke, Denver; A. A. 
F'isk, Racine, Wis. ; Eugene Goebel, Grand 
Rapids, Mich. ; Theodore Wirth, Minne- 
apolis, Minn.; E. T. Mische, Portland; John 
D. Hyland, St. Paul, Minn.; Fred Nuss- 
baumer, St. Paul ; Charles A. Hausler, St. 
Paul ; Roland W. Cotterill, Seattle, Wash. 
245 
The local committee comprised : W. A. 
Porteous, chairman ; Henry Tharp, H. M. 
Gill, Maurice Picheloup, Rene F. Clerc, L. 
di Benedetto, J. W. Barkdull, Henry H. 
Ortland, Geo. W. Springer, T. P. Thomp- 
son, Jos, Cholana, J. A. Bernard, Chas. 
Pajewski, Otto Pfister, Wm. V. Seeber, 
Edward S, Maunsell, .Alfred Oehmichen, B. 
B. Redman, J, M, .Armbruster, Thos. B. 
Brown, John C. Kerchberg, Chas. Seaner, 
Dr. Chas. Duval, Gustave Oertling, Jos. 
Behrens and William .Allen. 
THE OBITUARY RECORD. 
LATE JOHN AV. GRAHAM. 
John W. Graham, secretary and treas- 
urer of the Philadelphia Lawn Mower Co., 
Thirty-first and Chestnut streets, Philadel- 
phia, Pa., died September 6 at his resi- 
dence. At the time of his death he was 59 
THE MONUMENT AND 
Editor Park and Cemetery; The ques- 
tion of keeping the grass cut about the base 
of a monument is about the simplest thing 
in the whole process of setting. For years 
we have been building our foundations 
from eight to twelve inches larger than 
the bottom of the base. These foundations 
are always of concrete. The top is finely 
finished and the bottom of the base is fine 
jointed. With a margin of from four to 
six inches, and the top of the foundation 
exactly at turf level, a lawn mower cuts 
years old. He was a graduate of the Phila- 
delphia High School. From there he went 
to the Pennsylvania Military Academy at 
Chester, Pa., graduating with honors. He 
immediately became associated with the 
company of which he was secretary and 
treasurer at the time of his death, and of 
which his brother, Walter E. Graham, is 
president. When he died he had been asso- 
ciated with the company for a period of 
39 years. He leaves a widow. Mr. Gra- 
ham had no interests outside of his home 
and his business and was not a member of 
any club or association, but lived the ideal 
home and business life. He was stricken 
with the grippe, from which a form of in- 
digestion developed, which weakened his 
heart. However, under skilled treatment 
he seemed to be recovering, but had a re- 
lapse and died suddenly while sitting in 
his chair. His death was unexpected and 
is a great shock to his family and many 
friends. He was of a particularly loveable 
nature and his sincerity and true friend- 
ship were marked characteristics. The 
business of the firm will be continued as 
heretofore. 
THE LAWN MOWER. 
the grass next to the monument as cleanly 
as anywhere else. This prevents the line 
of stain occasioned by the wind-whipped 
grass ends coming in contact with the 
granite. It also prevents the dirt from 
splashing against the granite when it rains. 
If kept well wet down for a few days after 
the foundation is built, the cement be- 
comes as white as a hammered Barre mon- 
ument and makes a pleasing picture of the 
whole. E. H. Prior. 
Postville, la. 
SEEING CEMETERIES from PITTSBURGH to NORFOLK 
On the Way to Norfolk and Back; Hozu to Get the 
Most Out of Y our Convention. By William Falconer. 
“Why in time go to Norfolk? What can 
we see there?” Such were the questions 
and remarks we often heard before going 
to Virginia. Well, I wanted to go to Nor- 
folk, and I went, and it was to me the 
happiest and most profitable convention I 
ever attended, and I have been to every 
one of them for the last fifteen years. 
It isn’t altogether what one sees at the 
convention city that counts; we must also 
reckon what we see and learn at other 
stopping-off places going to and returning 
from the convention. My expense bill 
reads: “To expenses to. from and at the 
convention.” Our Board of Managers thinks 
that sending their superintendent to these 
conventions at the expense of the cemetery 
is a paying i)iece of business, and so do I. 
.A profitable feature of the convention is 
that we get to know "everybody” in our 
business, and go where we may, we are in 
the hands of actiuaintances and friends, the 
latchstring is out to us, and unreservedly 
our brother craftsmen show and tell us 
everything we want to know as regards 
what they do and how they do it, and he 
must be thick-headed indeed who cannot 
