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to duplicate an old marker on an old lot. 
All letters on new markers must be raised 
letters. 
5. Only one stone can be placed at a 
grave ; both head and foot stones not al- 
lowed. 
6. At the single interment sections no 
monuments or markers of any kind over 
six inches in height will be allowed, and 
must be placed at the head of the grave. 
7. The minimum size for all markers 
shall be 10x20 inches, except for children 
under 10 years of age, the size may be 8x1(3 
inches. 
8. The cemetery will set in place all 
markers delivered on the lot or at the 
grave. The monument dealer will set all 
other stones under the supervision of the 
superintendent. 
9. A uniform price of three dollars will 
be charged for putting in foundations for 
markers. 
10. No foundations of any kind will be 
put in between the 15th of May and June 
1st and between December 1st and March 
1st of each year. 
11. Curbings or stone around graves 
will not be allowed on the cemetery 
grounds. 
12. Only one monument on a lot will 
be allowed, except by permission of the 
board of managers. 
13. In the erection of monuments, 
vaults, tombs or other structures, a place 
will be designated by the superintendent for 
the deposit of the stones, brick or other 
materials, which shall not remain longer 
on the ground than is actually necessary 
for their construction. 
14. All workmen employed in the con- 
struction of vaults, erection of monuments, 
landmarks or any other work, must be 
subject to the control and direction of the 
superintendent, and any workman failing 
to conform to this regulation will not be 
permitted afterward to work on the 
grounds. 
15. The erection of a monument or 
headstone on any lot will not be permitted 
until the lot has been entirely paid for. 
16. No vaults, tombs or mausoleums, 
partly above ground and partly under 
ground, or wholly under ground with an 
entrance above ground, will be permitted. 
Surface vaults, i. e., vaults in the 
ground at the surface, covered by a slab, 
are not recommended but will be permit- 
ted, only on such lots where one or more 
such vaults are now placed, provided plans 
for same are approved by the superintend- 
ent, to whom they must in all cases be 
submitted before the work is begun. 
In any case, such vaults will be required 
to have suitable foundations extending to 
a depth of six feet from the surface, and 
the covers must be of granite of good 
quality not less than eight inches thick. 
The covers shall extend not more than 
six inches above the surface at any point, 
and when an interment is made must be 
set in cement and sealed with an air-tight 
joint. 
Slabs which are not covers for surface 
vaults will not be permitted on graves. 
17. On section 49 no monument will be 
permitted. 
18. Stone benches or seats will not be 
permitted except by special permission of 
the superintendent. 
MAUSOLEUMS. 
The erection of a mausoleum, or a vault 
or tomb above ground, will be permitted 
only upon compliance with the following 
requirements, which are considered essen- 
tial to the best interests of the lot-owners 
and the cemetery : 
A. The lot upon which such a struc- 
ture may be erected shall be a lot set 
apart and designated by the cemetery as 
a “Mausoleum Site,’’ and shall have an 
area of not less than four times the area 
to be occupied by the structure, but in no 
case shall the area of the lot be less than 
1,200 square feet. 
B. The plans, specifications, and posi- 
tion on the lot for such a structure must 
be submitted to the superintendent and ap- 
proved by him ; and the cemetery reserves 
the right to prohibit the erection of any 
structure that is not considered suitable or 
desirable in the cemetery. 
In any case, the material of stich struc- 
ture must be granite of good quality; the 
foundations must be not less than six feet 
deep or less than two feet thick in the out- 
side walls ; the stones of the walls and 
roof of the superstructure must be not less 
than twelve inches thick at any point and 
must be of sufficient size to reduce as far 
as possible the number of exposed masonry 
joints; the roof must be supported on the 
walls of the building without requiring 
intermediate supports; all metal work 
must be bronze of standard quality ; a com- 
plete system of ventilation must be pro- 
vided ; the crypts must each be completely 
inclosed independently of the walls of the 
building and so arranged that each can be 
hermetically sealed after a body is placed 
The park board of Kansas City has let 
the contract for the marble and stone work 
in connection with the memorial to Col. 
Thomas H. Swope in Swope Park to the 
George W. Huggins Construction Company 
at its bid of $32,382. The ornamental and 
inscription work will be let separately to 
other contractors. 
The monument to Perry E. Randall in 
Swinney Park, Fort Wayne, Ind., is now 
in place, but has not been formally dedi- 
cated. It is planned by the park board to 
have a number of those who knew the de- 
ceased speak at the unveiling. 
The annual report of the public parks 
board of Winnipeg, Canada, for 1916 gives 
an interesting account of the activities of 
therein ; and an air space must be pro- 
vided between the crypts and the walls of 
the building. The selection of the position 
on the lot must be made with a proper 
regard for the relation of the mausoleum 
to the adjacent lots and monuments and 
for the general appearance of the grounds. 
C. The perpetual maintenance of such 
a structure, that is to say, the future re- 
pair, preservation and cleaning of the mau- 
soleum, must be provided for in the fol- 
lowing manner : 
When the plans and specifications for the 
mausoleum are submitted, the superintend- 
ent will estimate the probable annual ex- 
pense of the maintenance and cleaning of 
the structure, and report his recommenda- 
tions to the board of managers. 
The board of managers will then fix an 
amount, in consideration of the payment 
of which to the cemetery, the cemetery 
will enter into an agreement with the lot- 
owner to expend a given average sum per 
year in the repair, preservation and clean- 
ing of the mausoleum. In no case, how- 
ever, will this amount be fixed at less 
than one thousand dollars for a mauso- 
leum or tomb wholly above ground. This 
agreement must be executed, and the full 
payment of the sum stipulated therein must 
be made to the cemetery before work on 
the mausoleum is begun. 
An agreement, similar to the one for new 
mausoleums, will be made with owners 
of mausoleums now standing, and they are 
urgently solicited to make such provision 
for the future care and preservation of 
their mausoleums, while those most inter- 
ested are yet living, and to the end that 
these structures shall forever remain in- 
tact as places of sepulture and as orna- 
ments to the cemetery. 
In making such an agreement with ref- 
erence to a mausoleum now standing, it is 
essential that provision first be made for 
putting the building in the best possible 
condition before the cemetery is charged 
with the care of it. 
that department during the year. Tree and 
shrub planting, the erection of a ladies’ rest 
room and comfort station, the enlarging of 
the Elk corral, the construction of a new 
driveway due to enlarging the corral, the 
construction of a surface bear pit, pavilion 
repairs and alterations, and the beginning 
of a handsome entrance gateway at the 
south-east corner of the Assiniboine park, 
constituted the improvenients carried out in 
that park during the year. The smaller 
parks, public squares and grounds sur- 
rounding the city hall, libraries and bath 
houses, were all maintained in good order. 
Brookside Cemetery has become an im- 
portant branch of the administration, and 
for the last two years the receipts show a 
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