PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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THE FRANCIS PARKMAN MEMORIAL, BOSTON, MASS. 
BRONZE TABLET ON PARKMAN MEMORIAL. 
The snows of this belated spring hav- 
ing finally cleared away their encumber- 
ing mantle from Mr. French’s impor- 
tant Parkman Memorial in Jamaica 
Plains, Mass., Park and Cemetery 
is enabled to present its readers with a 
photograph of the complete work, just 
received from the sculptor. This monu- 
ment stands on the site of Parkmah’s 
house, overlooking Jamaica Pond, near 
Boston, the historian’s estate now being 
a part of the park system of Boston, and 
his house having been removed to make 
way for this municipal improvement. 
INDIAN. PARKMAN MEMORIAL. 
Daniel C. French, Sc. 
Daniel C. French, Sc. 
The single slab of the monument, very 
just in its proportions, and simple and 
severe in style, rises from the center of 
a long granite bench with projecting 
wings at the ends, to the height of twen- 
ty feet ; set in the niche sunk in its face 
is the heroic figure of an Indian chief, 
draped in his blanket and holding his 
pipe of peace, and below, in a bronze 
medallion, is the profile of Parkman 
surrounded by oak leaves. These two 
sculpturesque decorations are very well 
placed in the center of the severe archi- 
tectural forms ; and in the figure of his 
Red Man the sculptor has married with 
A little over a year ago a coal tar 
preparation called Tarvia was intro- 
duced and broad claims were made 
regarding its dust laying possibilities. 
During the past year a little over 
800,000 square yards of roads have 
been treated with this preparation, 
and the results have been most satis- 
factory. The roads were located in 
thirty different cities in different parts 
of the country and some of it was 
done in Jackson, Tenn., under the 
government supervision. 
Tarvia is a coal tar preparation 
which can be applied to the surface 
of a macadam road in such a way as 
to unite the top dressing into a water - 
proof bonded surface which will not 
disintegrate into dust. 
The method of treatment is as fol- 
lows : 
First, the road to be treated should 
be a well built, firmly bonded ma- 
cadam in fairly smooth condition. 
If the road to be treated is a new 
unusual success the typical traits of the 
savage which lend themselves to art with 
the requirements of good decorative 
sculpture. The bronze tablet was cast 
by Jno. Williams, New York. 
The granite carving was executed by 
McGillvray & Jones, Quincy, Mass., and 
the pink granite chosen blends into the 
surrounding landscape in a remarkably 
impressive manner. Its warm tone 
gives character to the rendering of the 
Indian figure. 
The red man is one of the most suc- 
cessful of the modern Rodinesque fig- 
ures that emerge from a block of stone. 
one, it should be built in the usual 
manner, and, after the road is pud- 
dled, sufficient screenings spread over 
the surface to protect it against rav- 
elling by the traffic; allow the traffic 
to use for two to six weeks or until 
the road is thoroughly dried out, 
when the screenings which are not 
bonded should be removed, leaving 
exposed the inch or inch and a half 
stone forming the wearing surface. 
If it is an old road which is bein.g 
treated, all screenings, dirt, etc., which 
are over the inch or inch and a half 
stone, whichever is used for the wear- 
ing surface, should be removed, citlier 
by sweeping or scraping if the screen- 
ings shall be caked. Many roads are 
maintained by keeping from inch 
to I'A inches of screenings which 
have passed a quarter or half inch 
mesh caked on the surface by con- 
tinually W’etting and rolling, and it 
is absolutely necessary that these 
should be removed in order to make 
TARVIA, THE NEW DUST LAYER 
