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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
LAWN AND FOUNTAIN, RIVERCLIFF CEMETERY, RAVENNA, O. 
cost about $25,000. Ground for this 
has been granted and roads and ap- 
proaches completed. 
The rules and regulations are those 
found in the leading modern cemeteries 
of our country with an additional re- 
striction in regard to monumental work. 
Granite alone is allowed above the 
ground and all head markers must be 
set level with the lawn. No feature 
mars beautiful landscape more than the 
long rows of markers of various sizes 
and shapes, and as there are an average 
of ten markers to each monument 
erected it is easy to see how this rule 
would do much to prevent the ceme- 
tery from being transformed from a 
beautiful landscape into a stone yard. 
The work has all been done under 
the direction of T. N. Campbell, the 
superintendent, who has manifested re- 
markable ability and interest in his 
Rivercliff Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, O., 
has had a busy season of improvement 
work on the grounds. The rustic foun- 
tain shown in the view herewith was 
completed last summer. It has a basin 
fifteen feet in diameter and was built 
by Superintendent C. W. Modie and 
the cemetery employees. The basin is 
fifteen inches deep, built of concrete 
and brick, about six inches thick with 
a three inch tile drain into the bottom 
which drains it for the winter. The 
Rockery of porous stone is built around 
the pipe which is five feet high. The 
fountain and the rest of the cemetery is 
supplied with water from the city 
tower in the background at 25 cents 
per thousand gallons. 
They have also built 330 feet of 
macadam road, put in 100 feet of hitch- 
ing rail, besides the regular work of 
maintenance. The latter includes the 
mowing of grass , on all lots alike about 
work and who has followed closely the 
plans of the landscape architect, Sid. 
J. Hare, of Kansas City, Mo. 
every ten days during the season. The 
dry leaves are burned on the driveways 
and when wet are dumped into a pit 
to rot for leaf mould. 
Rivercliff contains 30 acres. The 
graves have a two-inch crown which 
Mr. Modie says offers no difficulty 
to the lawn mowers. They are consid- 
ering the matter of excluding fences 
and copings about lots. 
Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, 
O., also built a lily pond and foun- 
tain last summer which is illustrated in 
one of the accompanying pictures. 
Maple Grove is a city cemetery of 75 
acres of which 45 are in lawn. A fine 
growth of maples which are the pre- 
dominating tree gave it the name it 
bears, and four lakes and fountains 
give character and variety to the land- 
scape. The ground is partly rolling 
and partly level. 
The tract was opened in 1813 and 
has a total of 5,000 interments with a 
yearly average of 100. 
The handsome little chapel seating 
125, shown in one of our pictures, was 
erected at a cost of $3,300. It is .of 
pressed brick with stone trimmings and 
has a memorial window. The public 
receiving vault, not connected with the 
chapel, has a capacity of 32. City water 
supplies the fountains and grounds. 
The cemetery build? all foundations 
and sets all headstones, and has a per- 
petual care fund of $1,000. 
R. E. Gifford is superintendent. 
City Engineer Ammerman, of lola, 
Kan., has completed the surveying of 
a new cemetery there and the work 
of improvement will begin in the 
spring. 
The Crown Hill Cemetery Associa- 
tion of Denver, Col., has been incor- 
porated at $1,000,000 to establish a 
cemetery on the old Henry Lee 
Ranch, a tract of 500 acres in North 
Denver, Among the incorporators are : 
Delos Chappell, president of the Capi- 
tol National Bank ; Julius C. Gunter, 
former justice of the Supreme Court, 
and G. W. Olinger, undertaker. 
The Drummond Cemetery Associa- 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
Receiving Vault. 
Lily Pond and Fountain. 
VIEWS IN MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY, RAVENNA, O. 
