PARK AND C EM ET ER Y 
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LOOKING OVER THE CITY FROM A HIGH POINT ON THE 
SCENIC PATH AT GLENV.'OOD PARK, MINNEAPOLIS. 
the valleys and climbs hills again, and in its 
winding course ofifers an endless variety of 
glimpses through the glens, groves, and 
woodland meadows. From a promontory 
one obtains a magnificent \iew over the 
nearby city, and from another a bird’s-eye 
view of Glenwood Lake and the hills and 
country to the north. 
After the path reaches the spring at the 
foot of the north slope, it branches out 
in three directions ; one leading through 
the north end of the wild garden to the 
old spring near the parkway, another across 
the meadow toward the new bathing beach, 
while the third, climbing more hills, ends 
at the car terminal on Western Avenue. 
This path is very rich in picturesque nat- 
ural park scenes, has been a revelation to 
every visitor, and is one of the most popu- 
lar features of the park system. The path 
is eight feet in width and sixty-three hun- 
dred and forty feet in length. It follow’s 
the natural contour of the land, and the 
liase consists of the natural soil, on which 
was laid and rolled a single la3'er of one 
inch washed gravel. A coat of tarvia was 
then applied, at the rate of about one and 
one-half gallons to the square yard, on w'hich 
a liberal covering of washed pea gravel was 
immediately spread. The hand roller was 
then used and a splendid finished surface 
was the result. The almost neutral color 
of the gravel blends harmoliiously with the 
natural colors of the surroundings. This 
method of construction wdll prevent w'ash- 
outs and the growing of weeds, and will re- 
duce the cost of maintenance to a minimum. 
The paths are ver_\- pleasant to walk on, 
and they wdll undoubtedh’ last a number of 
years wdthout repairs. 
The Pricing of Cemetery Lots 
Address Before the Barre Convention of the A. A. C. S. by 
VV. N. Rudd, President Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, Chieago 
The natural tendency of our work car- 
ried through a long period of years is to 
get us into a rut and to induce us to work 
along the lines of least resistance — to keep 
on doing things in a certain way because 
they have been done that w'ay for a long 
time. Oftentimes certain methods are 
adopted, not because careful consideration 
shows them to be the best methods, but 
because they are the easiest. 
One of the most striking examples of 
this old method, or perhaps better, this 
entire lack of method, is the question of 
the pricing of cemetery lots. An arbitrary- 
price was fixed per square foot for all the 
lots in a certain section and they were sold 
at this price, regardless of desirability and 
regardless of size. Possibly a higher price 
was fixed on the lots fronting the drives 
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than on inside lots, but that was about as 
lar as it went. 
We then had the spectacle of the sales- 
man traveling around the cemetery with a 
bundle of plats or a big bound book of 
them generally’ drawn to a forty-foot scale, 
a pad of paper and pencil and going 
through a mathematical calculation before 
answering any of the questions of the 
buyer. 
The writer for years tramped the 
grounds of his cemetery, his personality 
decorated and loaded down in this way 
and very' nearly acquired mental strabismus 
trying to keep his customer's attention 
and interest while pawing over his plats, 
holding them against the wind, protecting 
them from rain, doing his little sum in 
arithm.etic and pointing out the advantages 
of the lot and of the cemetery at one and 
the same time. The customer was quite 
generally looking over his shoulder, ask- 
ing to be shown some other lot on the 
plat and disregarding the one laboriously^ 
figured out as to price and the one which 
the salesman was particularly anxious to 
show him. 
Mistakes in prices were frequent and it 
became evident that these crude methods 
veere costing unduly in money, in time and 
in general effect. 
The plan here suggested involves the 
pricing and listing of each lot on sale 
separately. It may look like a big job 
to undertake, but I am sure no one who 
once tries the condensed book price list 
which can be conveniently slipped into the 
pocket and kept there most of the time. 
