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ment of the trees. As a means of upholding the high- 
est professional standards the American Academy 
of Arborists was formed. It is our aim to maintain 
the highest professional standards. We invite men 
of thorough technical training to unite with us in 
this worthy endeavor. I thank you again for your 
welcome and I thank the City of Newark, especial- 
ly the Shade Tree Commission and its Secretary 
and Forester for the good work they have done, 
but also for the manner in which they have pointed 
out the way for a better city and for a more 
loyal citizenship. 
The following program of addresses and 
entertainment was carried out : 
Paper — "The Ministry of Trees,” Secre- 
tary Carl Bannwart, Newark Shade Tree 
Commission. 
Paper — "The Tree Fakir,” Hermann W. 
Merkel, Chief Forester New York Zoolog- 
ical Park. 
New Business — Discussions. 
1 p. m. — Luncheon. Host, President Au- 
gustus V. Hamburg, Newark Board of 
Trade. 
Inspection of arboricultural work in the 
City of Newark under the guidance of 
Messrs. Carl Bannwart and James H. 
Walker, Secretary and Forester, respect- 
ively, of the Shade Tree Commission. 
5 p. m. — Meeting at the City Hall. 
Address — “The Training of the Profes- 
sional Arboriculturist,” Prof. J. W. Tou- 
rney, Director Yale University Forest 
School. 
Paper — “Arboriculture as a Profession,” 
J. J. Levison, M. F., Forester, Brooklyn 
Park Department. 
Paper — “Fungus Problems of Interest to 
Arborists." R. Brooke Maxwell, Forester, 
Baltimore, Aid. 
6:30 p. m. — Banquet. Host, Newark 
Shade Tree Commission. President Frank 
L. Driver presiding. 
Addresses by Commissioner Louis V. 
Aronson, Commissioner Charles G. Tits- 
worth, Mr. Augustus V. Hamburg, Presi- 
dent of the Board of Trade. 
The officers were all re-elected, as fol- 
lows : 
The appointment of Robert Bradford 
Marshall, chief geographer of the United 
States Geological Survey, to the responsi- 
ble position of Superintendent of National 
Parks, is an illustration of the progressive 
spirit of the new administration of the na- 
tional parks. This places in administrative 
charge a business man of ability in Mr. 
Stephen T. Mather, and in executive charge 
the man who personally surveyed the 
Yosemite and later, as chief geographer, 
superintended the surveying and map mak- 
ing of all the other national parks. 
Mr. Marshall, who imbibed his first love 
of the wilderness from the wilderness it- 
self, was for years the warm personal 
friend and sympathetic disciple of John 
Muir. He shared Muir’s devotion to 
mountain tops and became the earnest stu- 
dent and steadfast advocate of our na- 
President — Hermann W. Merkel, Chief 
Forester, Zoological Park, New York City. 
Vice-Presidents — William W. Colton, 
Forest Commissioner, West Newton, Mass. ; 
R. B. Maxwell, City Forester, Baltimore, 
Md. 
Secretary — J. J. Levison, Arboriculturist 
Park Department, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Board of Directors — James H. Walker, 
City Forester, Newark, N. J. ; George A. 
Cromie, City Forester, New Haven, Conn. ; 
Harold J. Neal, City Forester, Worcester, 
Mass. 
Following is a list of members of the 
Academy : 
Fellows — Herman W. Merkel, Chief For- 
ester, New York Zoological Park, Bronx, 
N. Y. C. ; Prof. J. W. Tourney, Director 
Yale University Forest School ; William W. 
Colton, Forest Commissioner, West New- 
ton, Mass.; J. J. Levison, Arboroculturist, 
Park Department, Erooklyn, N. Y. ; Harold 
J. Neal, City Forester, Worcester, Mass. ; 
R. B. Maxwell, City Forester, Baltimore, 
Md. ; Geo. A. Cromie, City Forester, New 
Haven, Conn.; James H. Walker, City For- 
ester, Newark, N. J. ; H. B. Filer, City For- 
ester, Buffalo, N. Y. ; A. T. Hastings, City 
Forester, Jersey City, N. J. ; Geo. H. Hol- 
lister, Assistant Superintendent of Parks, 
Park Department, Hartford, Conn.; Dr. 
George Stone, Amherst University, Am- 
herst, Mass. ; Ernest F. Braunton, City For- 
ester, Los Angeles, Cal. ; William J. Cole- 
man, Forester Shade Tree Commission, 
Newark, N. J.; Albert R. Robson, Forester, 
Bronx Parkway Commission, Penn Ave., 
Chestwood, N. Y. ; Allan Oakley Smith, 
City Forester, 70 Valentine St., Mt. Vernon, 
N. Y. ; John A. Anderson, Forester and 
Secretary Shade Tree Commission, Mont- 
clair, N. J. ; Harry J. Mueller, City Forester 
Harrisburg, Pa. 
Honorary Member — Carl Bannwart, Sec- 
retary Shade Tree Commission, Newark, 
N. J.' 
tional parks. It is certain that there is no 
one else so familiar with their history, 
their development, their topography, and 
their intimate practical conditions. His 
technical knowledge of woodcraft is unsur- 
passed. 
Mr. Marshall, a Virginian by birth, en- 
tered the United States Geological Survey 
in 1889. As a topographer his record is 
extraordinary. He mapped 34 sheets in IS 
years of this service. Much of this work 
was especially difficult in character, cover- 
ing lofty mountain regions in the Sierra. 
In 1907 he was appointed geographer in 
charge of the Pacific division. The year 
following he reorganized the topographical 
service and was placed in charge of the 
whole with the title of chief geographer. 
In 1904 he was made a member of the 
Yosemite National Park Commission to 
change the boundaries of the park. In 1909 
he was sent to Hawaii to inaugurate topo- 
graphical surveys. 
Such a career fits such a man pre-emi- 
nently for dealing with the technical ques- 
tions constantly arising in the practical 
management of a scattered scenic wilder- 
ness involving highly diversified conditions. 
He is a man of much personal force, quiet, 
sure, and convincing. He is a prompt ex- 
ecutive and knows mountain men. 
Upon the threshold of the important de- 
velopment which necessarily must follow 
the people’s “discovery” last summer of our 
national parks, Secretary Lane was for- 
tunate in having at his disposal a practical 
executive so ably fitted for the big task. 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION. 
The main entrance to Cedar Grove Cem- 
etery, Flushing, Long Island, is illustrated 
on the front cover of this issue. 
The illustration shows the double drive 
gates, on either side of which is a walk 
gate. These gates, as well as the fence, 
are of wrought iron of a particularly 
pleasing design that harmonizes nicely with 
the general landscape effect. There is a 
broad macadamized approach to the main 
gate entrance, the piers of which are of 
natural finish Barre granite, with well bal- 
anced caps and bases of the same material. 
A better idea of the detail and symmet- 
rical proportions of the wrought iron work 
will be obtained from the following de- 
scription of the fence and gates, which 
were built by The Stewart Iron Works 
Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. The double drive 
gates are 16 feet wide and 8 / feet high 
in center, made of j4-i n ch square pickets 
carried by four steel channel rails heavily 
framed, with 2xljj-inch hinge and strike 
bars, braced as shown, and fitted with im- 
proved brass flat tumbler locks. Walk gates 
are of the same pattern and similarly built. 
They are 4 feet wide. The fence is 7 feet 
6 inches high, of the same design as gates, 
with j4-inch square forged tipped pickets 
spaced 6 inches apart, with short 18-inch 
pickets spaced between the regular pickets 
at the bottom, all carried by a set of four 
patent “three-ribbed” rails, the same as 
the gates. 
In carrying out the wishes of the own- 
ers, the central idea of rigidity of con- 
struction and simplicity of design was 
maintained, and the severity very nicely 
relieved by beautiful panel posts, spaced at 
regular intervals. 
The necessary protection to a cemetery 
is quite as important as the beautifying of 
the grounds. One is dependent on the 
other. Both are involved in a suitable en- 
closure. 
THE OBITUARY RECORD. 
Gordon Stuart Roy, twin son of Mr. and 
Mrs. W. Ormiston Roy, superintendent of 
Mt. Royal Cemetery, Montreal, died Janu- 
ary 13 at the Montreal General Hospital, 
at the age of 14 years. 
NEW SUPERINTENDENT OF NATIONAL PARKS. 
