PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PARK NEWS. 
As a result of discussion of plans for 
additional city parks in Manitowoc, Wis., 
William Bock has offered to sell a tract 
of thirty-seven acres of land south of the 
city, suitable for park needs. The property 
extends from the Lake Shore road to 
Lake Michigan, is wooded and contains 
gravel beds. Silver Creek runs through 
the land and the property is ideal for the 
city’s needs. 
Humboldt, Garfield and Douglas parks, 
Chicago, are to have farms this summer, 
according to President William F. Grower, 
of the West Park Board. Lots 100 feet 
square will be set aside for raising vege- 
tables. Gardeners at the different parks 
will have supervision of the farms. It is 
an experiment to show the public what can 
be raised. 
Mrs. John C. Kimmel has given a large 
tract of land in the west part of Mid- 
lothian, Tex., to be used as a public park. 
The citizens have named it Kimmel Park 
A. A. C. S. CONVENTION IN TWIN CITIES. 
The annual convention of the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintendents will 
be held in the Twin Cities, August 24 to 
28. The first three days will be given up 
to meetings and sightseeing in Minneapo- 
lis and the fourth day to St. Paul. 
I do not believe the committee has made 
definite arrangements on the program, ex- 
THE OBITUARY RECORD. 
John Hopkins Shepard, a prominent land- 
scape architect, died February 1 at his 
home in Syracuse, N. Y. Death was due 
to heart disease. Mr. Shepard had been 
ailing for nearly five years and had been 
confined to his home since last summer. 
Mr. Shepard was born in Connecticut, but 
had been a resident of this city for a num- 
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CEflETERY NOTES 
in honor of the donor. Extensive improve- 
ments are now being made on the prop- 
erty. 
Harry Adams, of San Antonio, general 
landscape gardener of the Sunset Central 
lines, is assisting the ladies of the Civic 
League of Bryan, Tex., in the work of 
beautifying the Civic League Park which 
adjoins the railroad station. 
South Lincoln Park, of Greeley, Colo., 
will be greatly improved this summer by 
the building of cement gutters and curbs. 
Complete surveys for the proposed Den- 
ver National Park, in the Mt. Evans re- 
gion, will be commenced at once by the 
Department of the Interior, at a total cost 
to the department of more than $20,000, 
if the city commissioners will contribute 
$10,000 toward that cost from the mountain 
parks fund, or any other fund at their dis- 
position. The proposed park will consist 
of an area of 128,000 acres surrounding, 
and including Mt. Evans. The center of 
this national park will be within thirty 
miles of Denver and it will be linked up 
by a series of fine roads with the Denver 
mountain park system and the Rocky 
Mountain National park in the Estes Park 
region. 
cept that the headquarters will be at the 
West Hotel. President Thomas Wallis, 
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, will be pleased 
to receive any suggestions from members 
in reference to papers. These will have to 
be in by July 1. Bellett Lawson, Jr., 
River Grove, 111. Secretary. 
her of years. He drew the plans for Morn- 
ingside Cemetery, this city; Riverside Cem- 
etery, Rochester, N. Y., and Oakwoods 
Cemetery, Chicago, and was at one time 
superintendent of this cemetery. Fie leaves 
two sons, Charles, of this city, and Stan- 
ley Shepard, of Springfield, Mass., and one 
daughter. 
The Civil Service Board of the West 
Chicago Park Commissioners will hold 
an examination April 30 at the Garfield 
Park Pavilion for gardeners, Class G, 
Grade 1 1, Division Z. Pay, 2&V&C to 
37jZc per hour. Open to men between 
the ages of 21 and 50 years. Applica- 
tions must be filed in the office of the 
board in Union Park before 5 p. m. of 
April 29, 1915. Application blanks may 
be obtained at the office of the board in 
Union Park or at the West Park Play- 
grounds. Fred G. Heuchling, Superin- 
tendent of Employment, is in charge of 
the matter, and will give any further in- 
formation. 
Owing to the depleted condition of its 
treasury the Park Board of Joplin, Mo., de- 
cided recently that it would not employ a 
park superintendent to succeed the late Joel 
T. Livingston. Supervisory work, instead 
of being in charge of a superintendent, will 
be directed by three members of the board, 
who will serve without pay. 
The Aboricultural Association of South- 
ern California held its tenth semi-annual 
convention in San Diego, Cal., March 11 
and 12, 1915, at the Panama-California Ex- 
position. The membership of the associa- 
tion is composed of mayors, park superin- 
tendents, county and city foresters, land- 
scape gardeners, nurserymen and laymen 
interested in town and country beautifica- 
tion. An excellent program was profitably 
discussed and the beautiful grounds of the 
exposition afforded every opportunity for 
studying the possibilities of creating 
charming landscape effects in that favored 
climate. J. M. Paige, park superintendent, 
Pomona, was re-elected president; Jacob 
Albrecht, Pasadena, vice-president, and W. 
B. Hadley, Redlands, secretary-treasurer. 
The next meeting will be held at Redlands 
September 15, 1915. C. M. Loring, known 
at home as the “Father of the Minneapolis 
Park System,’’ whose winter residence is 
at Riverside, Cal., is an active member of 
this association. 
New Parks and Improvements. 
The Council of Youngstown, Ohio, has 
authorized a bond issue of $35,000, and Su- 
perintendent of Parks Lionel Evans plans 
tr. make extensive improvements in the city 
parks and playgrounds. At Crandall Park 
a lake and bath house will be built, also 
tennis courts and walks and drives. At 
South Side Park a bath house will be 
erected. Further development of the Hall’s 
Hollow Park on the West Side is planned. 
Considerable improvement at the Walnut 
street grounds is included and a play- 
ground will be erected here. 
The City Council and the trustees of 
Woodland Cemetery, Van Wert, Ohio, are 
discussing the question of prohibiting Sun- 
day burials. 
Members of the new Country Club of 
New Orleans, Lta., are opposing the es- 
tablishment of a cemetery by the Gulf Re- 
alty Co. in Metairie road, opposite the en- 
trance to the Country Club. 
'The Ladies’ Cemetery Association, of St. 
Charles, III., elected Mrs. W. H. Bishop 
president and Mrs. McCluskey secretary at 
a recent meeting. 
Members of the Cemetery Commission 
of Racine, Wis., re-elected Andrew Han- 
son president and IT. R. Ticknor secretary 
at a recent meeting. They also inspected 
the plans and specifications for the new 
entrance to Mound Cemetery at the south- 
west corner of the cemetery. The plans 
call for modern iron gates, with concrete 
posts on each side, nine feet high. The 
roadway will be paved with macadam and 
have a curve to the north, so as to connect 
with the old driveway leading across the 
Sylvan Dell lake. 
