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laid in the concrete beam to secure the 
4-inch wall plate. There are six 10-inch 
I-beams with 10-inch by Td-inch bj' %-inci) 
steel bearing plates set over the beams 
above columns for support of the roof. 
Four-inch by 0-inch angle clips are bolted 
to the top flange and provided with two 
%-inch bolts to pass through 6-inch posts. 
The gutters all around the building are 
of 16 oz. cold rolled copper crimped over 
14-inch iron bar on both sides and hung 
to roofs with strong iron hooks covered 
with 12 oz. copper placed not less than 
two feet on centers. The gutters are con- 
nected with sewers with 4-inch square 
down spouts of 16 oz. cold rolled copper 
and secured to walls with plain cleats and 
provided with overflow boxes and pressed 
Lions head. 
The entire roof is laid with Ludowici- 
Celedon heavy butt shingle non-fading 
green tile, with all the necessary hip No. 
102 and ridge No. 213 moulds and plain 
terminals, laid on a two ply ready made 
asphalt roof, put on with 2-inch lap, the 
joints being mopped and nailed. 
The rafters are 2 by 14 inches and have 
4 inch by 14-inch hips and ridges and 4-inch 
by 8-inch wall plates bolted to the con- 
crete walls around building. 
The entire ceiling is lined with %-inch 
by 214-inch matched beaded and single 
dressed clear yellow pine nailed to each 
joist. The ceilings of the center portion 
of main corridor and above the main floor 
have 13/16-inch by C-inch dressed face 
boards with heavy bed mouldings. 
All framing lumber is of sound rough 
yellow pine, and all mill work of clear yel- 
low cypress, dressed, joined and glued to- 
gether in the best manner and thoroughly 
sand papered for natural finish. 
Best Cemetery Monuments of the Year 
(Concluded.) 
The importance of correct lines and per- 
fect proportions is seldom better illustrated 
than in the chaste and graceful little "Mor- 
ris" stele or tablet, erected by Daniel & 
Pancoast, of San Francisco, in Mountain 
View Cemetery, Oakland. The pure lines 
of the Greek stele are here admirably pre- 
served, and with the decorative touches 
added by a little cap of the "Scipio" style, 
and a square-raised grooved letter, make 
a little monument of true elegance. This 
is 4-6x2-6.x at the base and 7-6 high, and 
was executed in blue-white Westerly gran- 
ite by Joseph Newall & Co., of Westerly, 
R. I. 
The “Williams" tablet is a work of rare 
architectural character that is one of the 
most original of the fine types in which 
columns are used as buttresses to a central 
die. The columns are admirably worked 
into the design, and with the subdued ele- 
gance of the Grecian cap, suggest much of 
the character of the classic caryatids. This 
IS one of the finest evolution^ of the "can- 
opy” or columnar type of cemetery con- 
struction. 
One of the simplest, yet at the same time 
one of the most beautiful, small tablet 
types that have been studied from the 
Colonial is illustrated on the opposite page 
in the fine "Ward" tablet, erected in 
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y., by 
McDonnell & Sons of that city. Those 
who have studied the characteristic exam- 
ples of Colonial tablets illustrated in these 
pages some months ago will readily recog- 
nize the effective and beautiful Colo'nial 
suggestion in this decoration and will 
appreciate the skillful manner in which the 
designer has made something distinctively 
beautiful and modern and at the same time 
kept the beauty and spirit of the original 
style. This work was designed by John F. 
Stanley, chief designer for McDonnell & 
Sons, and was executed in Barre granite in 
their plant at Barre, Vt. The thirty-third 
degree Masonic emblem and other carving 
have been adapted very cleverly to the 
shape of the tablet. The rear is also carved 
across the top and bears the inscription ; 
"Francis G. Ward, 18o6-191o; Lieut.-Col. 
2n2nd Regiment, N. Y. Vols. ; Commission 
of Public Works, City of Buffalo, IhOl- 
1915." 
A Year’s Record of Landscape Architecture 
Written by John Nolen for 
the American Year Book, 1916 
ORGANIZATIONS.— A highly special- 
ized four-year professional course in Land- 
scape Architecture, under charge of Philip 
H. Elwood, Jr., as resident professor, was 
established this year at Ohio University to 
meet the demand for better trained men 
in the Middle West. The University of 
Nebraska at Lincoln offered a new course 
in Landscape Architecture. A new travel- 
ing fellowship at Harvard was endowed 
by Nelson Robinson, Jr., of New York, to 
be known as the Charles Eliot Traveling 
Fellowship in Landscape Architecture. 
Benjamin Yoe Morrison was appointed to 
a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship in Land- 
scape Architecture from Harvard to visit 
Japan and China for special study of pleas- 
ure gardens there. A meeting of the 
American Society of Landscape Architects 
was held at Akron, Ohio, in June in con- 
nection with the National Conference on 
City Planning at Cleveland. 
NATIONAL WORK. — Robert B. Mar- 
shall, for 25 years chief geographer in the 
Geological Survey, was transferred to the 
new position of general superintendent of 
national parks. Bill to establish a national 
park service was passed, providing a sep- 
arate service with a director under the 
Secretary of the Interior, to supervise, 
manage and control the national parks and 
monuments. A new national park, the 
Rocky Mountain National Park, 350 square 
miles, 70 miles from Denver, was created. 
The American Civic Association, in con- 
junction with the Bureau of University 
Travel, arranged for a tour of the national 
parks during the summer months. The 
Federal Aid Bill, appropriating $1,000,090 
for construction of roads and trails within 
the national forests, became law. 
RECORD OF PUBLIC WORK.— 
Among the important public works com- 
pleted or in process during 1916, were the 
following; Capitol Park of Iowa, 77 acres; 
Hudson River Park, to run from Fort Lee 
Ferry to Bear Mountain and west to Ram- 
apo Mountains ; outer park belt in Cook 
County, Illinois, outside of Chicago ; Bloody 
Run Parkway, Cincinnati ; improvement 
plan for three-unit playground at Bottineau 
Field, Minneapolis: Weston Field, new play 
field at Scranton, Pa., 7% acres, planned by- 
Ernst Hermann, comprising field house, 
bowling green, tennis courts, shelter house, 
children’s playhouse and apparatus, dia- 
monds, etc. ; field house for McKinley Park, 
Chicago; active developments of streets. 
parks and factory sites at Kingsport, Tenn. ; 
Walpole, Mass., Town Forest, 150 acres, 
dedicated in May ; new town for Mt. 
Lhiion Refractories Co., laid out at Kistler, 
Pa., near Mt. L’nion ; rural roadside plant- 
ing by Massachusetts Highway Commis- 
sion ; highway planting by women’s and 
civic clubs of Calhoun County, Alabama ; 
oil field town of Pemeta, Okla., parked and 
boulevarded before it had a citizen ; Mor- 
gan Park, industrial town at Duluth, Minn. ; 
St. Joseph Manor, Elkhart, Ind. ; recent 
park improvements at Utica, N. Y. 
PRIVATE WORK. — Definite progress 
■was made in domestic landscape architec- 
ture and in the design and development of 
private places. Each year the services of 
the landscape architect are being employed 
more widely to contribute to the conveni- 
ence and beauty of homes that are moder- 
ate in cost, as well as great estates. Among 
the more important private places of the 
year may be mentioned those of Mr. F. A. 
Seiberling, Akron, Ohio; Mr. John E. Lig- 
gett, Sands Point, L. I., N. Y. ; Mrs. F. S. 
Coolidge, Pittsfield, Mass.; Mr. Cyrus H. 
McCormick, Lake Forest, 111.; Mr. John J. 
Raskob, “Archmere,” Claymont, Del.; Mr. 
William Hall Walker, “Brookside," Great 
