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Associate Members: Park commission- 
ers or secretaries, landscape architects, for- 
esters or other persons identified with hor- 
ticulture or arboriculture. 
Sustaining Members: Park commissions 
or other governing bodies or individuals 
who may contribute to the support of the 
association at $10 per year, having no vote, 
but being entitled to the information serv- 
ice and publications of the association. 
The president and secretary were au- 
thorized to enroll sustaining members at 
any time, all other applications to be sub- 
mitted at the annual convention. 
Power to set the date for holding the 
annual convention was vested in the Ex- 
ecutive Committee. 
Senior members , only to be eligible to 
hold office, but junior members and asso- 
ciate members may serve on committees, 
vote on all matters and participate in con- 
ventions. 
Provision made permitting nominations 
for office on the floor of the convention in 
addition to names submitted by nominating 
committee. 
Provision for suspension or expulsion 
of members for unprofessional conduct or 
conduct unbecoming a member. 
Fixing admission fee for new members 
at $10, which shall also cover first year’s 
dues. 
Invitations for the 1916 convention were 
received from the following cities : Cin- 
cinnati, Columbus, Buffalo, Boston, St. 
Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, the last 
three named being accompanied by urgent 
invitations from the park authorities hold- 
ing membership in the association. 
The Executive Committee recommended 
the selection of New Orleans, and it was 
so voted, the understanding being that the 
convention will be held during the last 
week of September or the first week of 
October. 
The two days of sightseeing and inspec- 
tion tours were spent most profitably. 
Thursday, August 19, the party crossed 
San Francisco Bay and became the guests 
of the Board of Park Directors of Oak- 
land, luncheon being served at Mosswood 
Park, followed by an auto tour of Oak- 
land and Berkeley. 
Friday, the 20th, an all-day auto tour was 
made of San Francisco Peninsula, lunch- 
eon being served at Spring Valley. 
Practically the entire party remained in 
San Francisco until Tuesday, the 24th, vis- 
iting the Panama-Pacific Exposition, then 
proceeding south to Los Angeles and San 
Diego, where a special program of enter- 
tainment was provided by. the local park 
authorities. 
John McLaren, of San Francisco, was 
honored by the association in the election 
to the office of honorary president, in rec- 
ognition of his splendid work in the San 
Francisco park system and in the land- 
scape work of the exposition grounds. 
Following were among those present at 
the convention : 
Berry, John, Bellingham, Wash. 
Boehler, Oscar W., Hoboken, N. J. 
Buschke, A., Noroton, Conn. 
Bush, Henry W., wife and daughter, De- 
troit, Mich. 
Champion, Geo., Winnipeg, Canada. 
Cotterill, R. W., Seattle, Wash. 
Ellis, Daniel H., Saginaw, Mich. 
Fohn, Carl W., Colorado Springs, Colo. 
Forbes, Jos. C., New Bedford, Mass. 
Goebel, Eugene V., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Green, Fred C., Providence, R. I. 
Griffin, Emmet R„ East St. Louis, 111. 
Haible, Chas., Newburgh, N. Y. 
Hill, Geo. D., Tacoma, Wash. 
Jensen, L. P., St. Louis, Mo. 
Karlson, O. W., Riverdale, N. Y. City. 
Keith, Miss Una, Bridgeport, Conn. 
Lyle, Mr. and Mrs. E. C., Bellingham, 
Wash. 
McEvven, John D., and wife, Queens, N. 
Y. City. 
Meisenbacher, John, Tulsa, Okla. 
Merkel, Herman W., Zoological Park, N. 
Y. City. 
Mische, Emil T., Portland, Ore. 
Pierson, Wallace R., Cromwell, Conn. 
Prost, J. H., Chicago, 111. 
Reader, Wm. R., Calgary, Canada. 
Roy, David A., and wife, Marion, Mass. 
Schomberger, John, Madison. N. J. 
Stuart, Alexander, and daughter, Otta- 
wa, Canada. 
Thompson, J. W., Seattle, Wash. 
Walsh, John J., Borough of Bronx, N. Y. 
City. 
Williamson, Robert, Greenwich, Conn. 
Wirth, Theo., and wife, Minneapolis, 
Minn. 
Wolf, Conrad B., Hibbing, Minn. 
Wright, Walter, Chicago, 111. 
CREMATION ASSOCIATION IN CONVENTION 
The Cremation Association of America 
held an interesting and well-attended meet- 
ing at Buffalo, August 26 and 27. 
At the first session, after hearing an 
address of welcome by Mayor Fuhrmann, 
President Dr. Hugo Erichsen, of Detroit, 
gave his annual address. He noted that 
the nucleus of cremation literature in the 
John Crerar Library at Chicago has grown 
from 17 titles to 161, and recommended 
an appropriation of $20 to the book fund 
and the appointment of a book committee. 
References were made to the new booklet 
on “Religion and Cremation” and the 
Lange-Davis medal competition. The pres- 
ident recommended a revision of that part 
of the ritual of fraternal societies which 
pertains to the last rites. He also suggest- 
ed an effective and cheaper method of 
propaganda by means of printed postal- 
cards and then commented extensively 
upon the communication he had received 
from the superintendent of the Gardner- 
Earle Crematory, Troy, N. Y., which was 
given in full. Lie scored the medical press 
for not paying more attention to crema- 
tion and drew its attention to the British 
Medical Journal, which has been an advo- 
cate of the reform for many years. An- 
other practical suggestion that he made 
was that of the establishment of a propa- 
ganda fund by means of legacies of 1 per 
cent of the estates of deceased members. 
In the absence of the author, S. Frank 
Balcom, of Indianapolis, his paper on “The 
Ascendant Influence Now Making for 
Cremation” was read by the secretary. Mr. 
Balcom briefly reviewed the history of cre- 
mation in the United States, commented 
upon the statistics published last year, and 
advocated the establishment of crematoria 
at Memphis, New Orleans, Mobile and 
Jacksonville. 
At 2 p. m. the members boarded the 
private car “Ondiara,” which transported 
them to Niagara Falls and thence to Lew- 
iston, via the celebrated Gorge Route, 
whence the return trip to Niagara Falls 
was made on the Canadian shore. At the 
conclusion of the afternoon’s outing the 
members of the asscociation were the 
guests of the Buffalo Cremation Co., Ltd., 
at the Cataract Llotel, which overlooks the 
Falls. 
The first regular business meeting of the 
convention was held Friday morning, Au- 
gust 27, at 9 a. m. Under the head of reso- 
lutions a very important resolution was 
offered that indorsed the petition of Dr. 
Stefan Ulbrich, a Catholic physician of 
Reichenberg, Austria, who has memorial- 
ized the congregation of the inquisition at 
Rome to abrogate the decrees of that body 
forbidding the incineration of Catholics 
under certain conditions. A copy of this 
resolution will be sent to the Most Rev. 
Archbishop John Bonzano, Apostolic Dele- 
gate at Washington. The appointment of 
a book committee and a committee on the 
revision of the rituals of fraternal socie- 
ties followed. 
The address on “The Planting and Care 
of Small Crematory Grounds,” by J. 
Franklin Meehan, is printed on another 
page of this issue. R. C. Schwarz present- 
ed a paper on “The Use of the Pyrometer 
for the Regulation of Crematory Fur- 
naces.” 
The afternoon session opened with an 
address on “How to Conduct a Cremation 
Funeral,” by Frank Bates Flanner, of In- 
dianapolis. W. Ormiston Roy, of the Cre- 
matorium Ltd., Montreal, gave a history of 
the progress of cremation in Canada. 
Thereupon the following were elected offi- 
cers for the ensuing year: Hugo Erich- 
sen, president; E. P. Lamson, treasurer, 
and A. T. Roever, secretary. 
The committee on the next place of 
meeting reported in favor of Cincinnati 
and suggested September, 1916, as a suit- 
able date. 
