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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
1887 and was the first of its kind west 
of the Mississippi River. From time 
to time, as occasion required or in- 
creasing patronage demanded, it has 
been enlarged and improved. 
A chapel free to all patrons of the 
crematory or cemetery is a feature 
that has been much appreciated. 
The most pretentious structure of 
the Cemetery Association is the re- 
ceiving vault — of Grecian Doric arch- 
itecture, massive, imposing and per- 
fect in its lines. It is situated in 
one of the most beautiful parts of the 
grounds, and is a structure of great 
architectural beauty. It is construct- 
ed of reinforced concrete and steel, 
and improvements have recently been 
made which have more than doubled 
its capacity. Ornamental bronze and 
iron work, mosiac tiling and art glass 
work give beauty and elegance to the 
interior. 
The columbarium is also in this 
building. 
The officers of the Association are: 
George R. Crow, president; George 
I. Cochran, vice-president; Simpson 
CREMATORY, ROSEDALE CEMETERY, LOS ANGELES. 
M. Sinsabaugh, secretary-treasurer; tary, and J. H. C. Von der Loire, su- 
CVilliam R. Durbin, assistant secre- perintendent at the cemetery. 
OILING THE PARK ROADS IN KANSAS CITY 
Paper by S. W. Benedict, Asst. Supt. of Parks, Kan- 
sac City at Convention or Cemetery Superintendents) 
It is unfortunate that the dates of 
the annual meetings of Park Super- 
intendents and Cemetery Superin- 
tendents of America should fall in 
the same week, for had they not oc- 
curred at the same time you would 
have had the privilege of listening to 
a very interesting talk on “Oiled 
Roads’’ by our Superintendent of 
Parks, Mr. Dunn, as your committee 
planned that you should, instead of 
having a poor substitute palmed off 
on you. He either had a fear that 
he would get into a cemetery and 
couldn’t get out again, or else it was 
the water about Minneapolis that ap- 
pealed to him ; anyhow, at the last mo- 
ment he left for the convention of 
Park Superintendents now being held 
in Minneapolis, and asked me to ex- 
press his regrets for having disap- 
pointed you, and to open the discus- 
sion on oiled roads, and, if necessary, 
take the witness stand for them. 
The initial cost of park and boule- 
vard work in purchase, shaping, grad- 
ing, planting, building of drives and 
so forth is a heavy one, and the aver- 
age taxpayer feels when that is set- 
tled he has paid it all. But the cost 
of maintenance is never ended. And 
after all, it is the efficiency of mainte- 
nance of the work completed that 
makes friends and fosters park and 
boulevard sentiment. A good, smooth 
road, neither dusty nor muddy, we 
must have at all times. 
How can we best accomplish this 
result ? 
It is believed that through a liberal 
use of oil on well-built macadam 
roads a step forward has been taken, 
securing thereby not only the most 
economical but also the most satis- 
factory dustless drive. 
In our early experimental days with 
oil we had public opinion against us. 
One didn’t need to keep an ear very 
close to the ground to know how 
the people felt about it. They didn’t 
want it, and they didn’t hesitate to 
tell us so. Our files show letters and 
petitions asking us not to put that 
“nasty oil’’ on the boulevards, follow- 
ed later by ones from the same peo- 
ple asking for it. Today you would 
have to search diligently in Kansas 
City to find opponents to our use of 
oil on the roads. Like the original 
“park kickers” they, too, have passed 
away, passed away even beyond the 
confines of our county, for the farm- 
ers know a good thing when they see 
it ‘and are demanding oiled roads, so 
that when they come to the city with 
wagon loads of produce or with their 
families in their automobiles, it is not 
to travel in a cloud of dust but to 
make a pleasant journey over smooth, 
dry, dustless roads. Our county com- 
missioners show that they are pro- 
gressive and up to date in giving to 
their rock roads the treatment of oil. 
Until last year we sprinkled with 
water, which we found cost us ap- 
proximately two and one-half cents 
per square yard, over $14,000 a year, 
and this meant either mud or dust — 
often both at the same time. Com- 
plaints were numerous. Sprinkling 
with water did not give us satisfac- 
tory roads. We wanted something 
better. Our landscape engineer, Mr. 
Kessler, endorsed and advised the 
use of oil. 
In the fall of 1906, our first experi- 
ment was made with light residuum 
oil. This not only proved of value as 
a dust layer, but as a protection to 
the macadam from water through the 
winter and spring months. ■ 
The test was so satisfactory that 
our President, Mr. Hudson, w'ho is 
and has been an oil advocate from the 
first, together wdth our superintend- 
ent, Mr. Dunn, not only talked oil 
but early in the spring of 1907 got 
out and hustled for the best and most 
available road oil. In this rich em- 
pire of the West, it is not necessary 
to go far from home to find anything 
you want. If it’s not on the surface. 
