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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
CELTIC CROSS SLAB IN CROWN 
HILL CEMETERY, INDIANAPOLIS. 
filling up with a “family name.’’ Let us 
note that the designer studiously refused 
to balance the ornament in the lower right- 
hand corner with a similar detail on the 
left side — a trait of the Celtic stone-carver. 
This memorial was carved for the Leland 
Company by Correll and Burrell of Odon. 
Ind. It was done in limestone and meas- 
ures 4-0 X 1-9 X 7-0. 
The WALES Design ; This sketch by 
the writer may suggest how an added in- 
terest can be given our more common form 
of upright tablets by introducing some 
simple Celtic detail and giving a slight 
SUGGESTION FOR UPRIGHT SLAB 
WITH SniFLE CELTIC ORNAMENT. 
entasis to the outline. The ornament used 
in this drawing was based on a key-pattern 
motif adorning an erect cross-slab at Pen- 
Arthur, Pembrokeshire. No other decora- 
tion adorns the Pen-Arthur stone. The 
Wales design should be given one of the 
tooled finishes. When used, these chiseled 
surfaces make it necessary to avoid the 
small incised letter. Either the record let- 
ters must be raised in a sunken panel, or a 
fine hammered surface in the form of a 
panel may be utilized for the ordinary 
sunken letters. The sizes are as follows : 
Die, 2-4 X 0-8 x 5-0 ; base, 3-0 x 1-10 x 1-2. 
OLCOTT HEADSTONE. 
The die tapers to 2-0 x 0-6 at the top. The 
ornament is 1-5 in diameter and is equi- 
distant from the top and sides. 
The “Tappan” cross-tablet illustrated on 
page 113 of this issue, while not purely 
Celtic in its decoration, seems properly to 
belong among the upright cross-tablets, and 
a number of interesting stock types have 
been developed from this form. It is of 
Westerly granite and stands in Mt. Auburn 
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. It was erect- 
ed by the Westerly Granite Co., of Boston, 
and is of the following dimensions; Base, 
3-0x1-114x0-5 high. 
From the Cemetery Rule Books 
Extracts from Rules of Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala. 
Lots are sold for no other purpose than 
for the burial of human bodies of the white 
race. 
When there are two or more persons in- 
terested as owners of lot, no dividing lines 
within same will be recognized by the Cem- 
etery Corporation, all owners having equal 
rights of interment. 
Joint deeds to lots will be given, although 
the Cemetery Corporation seeks to dis- 
courage this practice as much as possible, 
as one that often gives rise to disputes and 
disagreements. 
No lot owner shall have the right to have 
a body interred within the bounds of his 
or her lot, for any renumeration, sale or 
hire of space. 
Should there be an interment on a lot 
not paid for, the Cemetery Corporation has 
a right to disinter the body and remove 
the same to the single grave block, when 
the option expires. 
The Cemetery Corporation may refuse 
to allow interment on a lot against which 
there is a charge over three months old for 
previous interment, or on which an option 
has expired and not being fully paid for. 
No inclosures of any kind will be al- 
lowed around any lot, neither coping, curb- 
ing, fencing, hedging, flowers or borders. 
However, the Cemetery Corporation al- 
lows the owner to outline the lot by plant- 
ing a small shrub at each corner. Never- 
theless, the Cemetery Corporation neither 
solicits or encourages this practice, as it 
tends to give the lawn a stiff, checker-board 
effect, and thus mars the general beauty of 
the section. 
If a planting on a lot is desired, same 
may be allowed after consulting the super- 
intendent, and with the consent of the 
Cemetery Corporation. But in no case 
shall the work of planting or preparing 
the beds be executed except by employes 
of the cemetery, and under the supervision 
of the superintendent. For such services 
a nominal charge may be made. 
No walks of brick, chert, cinders, stone, 
marble or terra cotta, tiles, sand, cement, 
concrete, gravel or wood shall be allowed 
on any lot. 
No trinkets, toys, shells, artificial flow- 
ers, glass cases, pickle jars, tin cans, etc., 
or brick, sand or other artificial material 
will be allowed on any lot; and such arti- 
cles and material will be removed without 
further notice. 
Only wire settees, iron and wooden seats,, 
when painted and in repair, potted plants, 
cut flowers, and cut flower vases will be 
allowed on lots. Broken and unpainted 
seats will be removed. 
Flowers will be allowed on graves or in 
beds onh', but not to scatter over lots. 
The superintendent shall have the right 
to remove all unsightly and forbidden ob- 
jects, and to destroy all diseased or un- 
sightlj' trees, shrubs or plants, or, if for 
some reason they have become detrimental, 
undesirable or inconvenient. 
While the Cemetery Corporation in ex- 
ecuting planting guarantees the work to 
be done in a thorough and first-class man- 
ner, under no circumstances will it guaran- 
tee that the plants shall live, nor will it 
replace any that die at its expense. 
Vaults. — For the benefit of those who- 
desire vault graves, we wish to say that 
there are several kinds of vaults in use, 
such as those made of brick, steel, slate, 
stone and concrete. Of these various kinds, 
the Cemetery Corporation recommends 
those made of concrete, above all others. 
