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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
plants, common in New England, but which 
were practically unknown in Spokane ; these 
added to the native flora, give a wide 
range for decorative planting. 
The total park fund, credits and receipts 
for 1914 was $122,504.48, and the expendi- 
tures, $108,986.71. 
During the past year the playground 
work was in a very creditable condition. 
“Sports in the parks are what make them 
more attractive to the public,” says Super- 
intendent Duncan, “and further experience 
has convinced me, more and more, that the 
ideal playground is the park playground; 
that is, where it is immediately within or 
adjoining a park. From an economical, from 
an esthetic and from a play point of view 
it is unquestionably the most desirable.” 
They have now in the department 19 
baseball diamonds, six football fields, and 
35 tennis courts. 
Spokane is peculiarly fortunate in the 
possession of some of the most picturesque 
park lands in America, and in having them 
under the care of such enthusiastic and 
eminently qualified men as H. L. White, 
president of the Board of Park Commis- 
sioners and John W. Duncan, Superintend- 
ent of Parks. 
OHIO CEMETERY ASSOCIATION 
MEETING. 
The fourteenth annual meeting of the 
Ohio Association of Cemetery Superin- 
tendents and Officials was held at the Phil- 
lips house, Dayton, O., June 9 and 10. lhe 
meeting was called to order by President 
J. A. Reed, of Canton, O., at 1 p. m., W ed- 
nesday, the ninth, in the assembly room of 
the Phillips house with 50 members answer- 
ing to roll call. 
The secretary made his annual report, 
showing a good balance in the treasury. 
The association has a membership of 55, 
and eight being admitted at this meeting 
makes a membership of 63. 
The first paper on the program was a 
talk by Mr. Click, assistant landscape gar- 
dener, at the Cash Register Works, taking as 
his subject a general discussion of things 
beautiful for the cemetery, in the way of 
shrubbery, trees and hardy herbaceous stuff. 
Mr. Click gave a very interesting talk, and 
one much enjoyed by those present. 
The second on the program was an ad- 
dress by Dr. Garland, chairman of the 
Welfare Committee of Dayton. This 
proved to be a very excellent talk and left 
no one in doubt when Mr. Garland was 
through as to why Dayton was called the 
Gem City. 
The question box was then taken and 
many perplexing questions pertaining to 
the cemetery were discussed, such as eradi- 
cating dandelions ; removing algae from 
water areas, and many others. 
At the Thursday morning meeting some 
sixty answered to roll call, ten more having 
arrived since the opening session. 
The first paper was by Mr. Woodward. 
THE RUSTIC BRIDGE, DOWN RIVER PARK, SPOKANE, WASH. 
park or playground within fifteen minutes 
walk of every residence in the city. 
The wisdom of having a well defined 
plan in advance of actual work, has re- 
sulted in saving many of the most desir- 
able sites for park purposes, and, thanks 
to the public-spirited citizens, hundreds of 
acres of valuable property has been given 
to the city. These include many river bank 
sites, which afford far-reaching views of 
city, country, and snow capped mountains 
in the distance. 
The pallisades of basaltic rock, and the 
rim-rock drive, with its peculiar rocky for- 
mations and magnificent views, will be at- 
tractive features of Indian Canyon park. 
This will be an ideal site for the proposed 
Zoological garden. The red man still loves 
the spot and often pitches his tepees here. 
The parks are now in such condition 
that in many cases improvement work could 
be better done now than some years hence ; 
especially is this so in the planting of many 
of the banks and slopes along the river 
and driveways. There are available in the 
nursery some 75.000 plants that are now of 
planting size. 
The park nursery now contains many 
valuable trees and shrubs. In its estab- 
lishment in the Up River park there is 
room for the growing of many trees and 
shrubs which are to be of great value in 
the making of plantations which are so 
much needed on some of our park lands. 
Altogether the nursery contains 750,000 
plants, most of which have been raised 
from seed and cuttings from native and 
already established plantings. 
Superintendent Duncan has introduced a 
large number of ornamental shrubs and 
THE LAKE, CANNON HILL PARK, SPOKANE, WASH. 
