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are as many different kinds of buildings of 
this class as there are residences and their 
cost depends entirely upon the type of 
building desired. They range all the way 
from simple, serviceable structures, cost- 
ing in the neighborhood of $5,000, to elabo- 
rate works of architecture, sometimes cost- 
ing as much as $200,000. 
Practically every cemetery of any con- 
sequence has at least an office and an ad- 
ministration building, and most of them 
have receiving vaults and many of them 
have imposing chapels. Any one desiring 
to build a structure of this kind should be 
advised that the first thing for them to do 
is to secure the services of an architect 
capable of preparing designs for this class 
of work for any sum that they might have 
available to spend. 
Labor Saving Machinery 
Editor Park and Cemetery : I have been 
a subscriber to “Park and Cemetery’’ for 
many years and always look forward to its 
coming each month with great interest, as 
there are always some good ideas and sug- 
gestions carried with it. 
In my twenty-six years of cemetery su- 
perintending I have always tried to get the 
latest and best equipment possible, and I 
believe it would be a mighty good idea if 
the superintendents in different localities 
who have something in the line of im- 
proved machinery whereby labor might be 
saved, in these times of labor scarcity, that 
they let it be known through your columns. 
I do not mean by this to advertise some 
one’s else goods, but to let us know that 
such and such a piece of machinery will be 
a labor saver and that they have tried it 
out. 
I have purchased two such labor-saving 
devices this past season. One is a four- 
wheel scraper for moving dirt. I first pur- 
chased one on trial and it gave such good 
satisfaction that I purchased the second 
one four months later. These scrapers 
carry a full one-half yard and are oper- 
ated by one man and are easy on a team 
of horses, and will move more dirt than 
two of the old slush scrapers. The other 
device I spoke of is a road plane. This 
frame is 18 ft. long and 4 ft. wide with a 
center blade 6 ft. long, and is operated by 
a lever from the rear of the machine. 
I have used many different makes of 
road levelers, also home-made ones, but 
this beats everything I ever used. 
J. A. Wendorph, 
Supt. Roseland Park Cemetery. 
Birmingham, Mich. 
The Cover Illustration 
The handsome entrance to Walnut Grove 
Cemetery, Booneville, Mo., illustrated on 
the front cover of Park and Cemetery this 
month, was built a few years ago by The 
Stewart Iron Works Co., Cincinnati, O. 
The piers are Missouri stone and gates 
wrought iron, 16 feet wide, 5 feet high in 
center, and 7 feet 6 inches at the sides, 
made of %-inch square pickets. The hinge 
bars are 2 inches square and the very ar- 
tistic scroll work is %xl4 inch. Although 
Booneville's population is not more than 
5,h()0, it has one of the most progressive 
cemetery associations in the entire state. 
Improvements are constantly being made 
Antoine Wintzer, one of the leading rose 
growers and propagators, says of the new 
Box-Barberry : “The Box-Barberry is in 
the opinion of the writer one of the best 
hardy plants introduced in many years, and 
will become a great popular favorite when 
its many good points become known. Ex- 
treme hardiness, clean graceful habit of 
growth combine to make it one of the most 
desirable and useful hardy plants in culti- 
vation. I can well imagine a block of it 
clothed in its regal glowing fall coloring 
at this season. It will be desirable in 
many ways; as an individual plant it is 
more beautiful than the Boxwood, more 
graceful and less formal ; in groups also it 
will be charming in its natural form; as a 
hedge plant it will have no superior, as it 
will require less care and attention to keep 
The Ogden Cemetery, Warren county, 
R. E. D. No. 1 from Monmouth, 111., was 
recently incorporated by Wilson Welch, 
Chris H. Wallace and Oscar Curtis. 
Roselawn Cemetery, Inc., of San An- 
tonio, Texas, was recently incorporated 
with a capital stock of $50,000. Incorpora- 
tors are H. E. Dickinson, L. B. Haines and 
Kenneth Wimer. 
Mount Harmony Cemetery Association, 
Pennsboro, W. Va., was recently incor- 
porated by Bert Bradford, J. L. Fordyce, 
J. A. Woodell, H. L. Broadwater and E. E. 
Wells. 
The Tahoka Cemetery Association, Ta- 
hoka, Lynn county, Texas, has been incor- 
porated by Mrs. W. D. Nevels, Mrs. M. L. 
Dunn, Mrs. J. B. Walker and others. 
The Pine valley cemetery of Halfway, 
Ore., is to be improved by the installation 
of an irrigation system. 
Mount Rest Cemetery Association of 
Brooksville, Mass., was incorporated re- 
cently with a capital of $10,000 by Charles 
W. Grindle, Brooks W. Grindle, Alden B. 
Blodget, C. Roy Tapley, Maude L. Cotton, 
Laura H. Jones and O. L. Tapley. 
The Wadena Cemetery Association of 
Wadena, Minn., has elected W. H. Benson 
president and Edith M. Irwin secretary. 
Bass Lake cemetery of Winona, Ind., 
as necessity requires, in keeping with mod- 
ern ideas in cemetery practice. The attrac- 
tive entrance and well-kept grounds are not 
only a credit to the members of the ceme- 
tery association and its superintendent, but 
the entire community. 
it in good form than the majority of plants 
used for that purpose. I think it will prove 
highly satisfactory and an advertisement in 
itself wherever planted." 
Governor Brumbaugh of Penns.\ Ivania 
recently approved plans locating places on 
the proposed mall to be laid out in Capitol 
Park extension, Harrisburg, for a tree to 
be dedicated to each of the cities of Penn- 
sylvania. The plans call for the placing 
of every tree not only in the present Capi- 
tol Park, but in the extension as well. The 
inauguration of a “girdle of trees” about 
the whole park, one to be dedicated to each 
governor, will take place on Arbor Day. 
.A.!! of the new trees, as well as the shrub- 
bery to be planted in the^park, will be of 
Pennsylvania species. The first tree to be 
planted will be named for William Penn. 
was recently incorporated by Warren S. 
Terry, John F. Vergin, Thomas Cleave and 
Frank Hay. 
The Ladies’ Cemetery Association of 
Walcott, la., subscribed $1,000 to Liberty- 
bonds. 
Improvements to cost in the aggregate 
over $250,000 are being carried out by the 
American Security and Fidelity Company 
in Forest Lawn Memorial Park of Los 
Angeles. The company is now completing 
a little Gothic chapel in the cemetery and is 
starting a very fine combined mausoleum 
and columbarium. A crematory and re- 
ceiving vaults are now being finished imme- 
diately adjacent to and connected with the 
chapel. 
The Agency Cemetery Association, of 
Agency, Mo., was recently organized and 
incorporated for the perpetual care and 
enlargement of the cemetery in that city. 
They have taken over an old cemetery and 
also purchased a tract of land adjoining, 
140 by 260 feet, which they will develop 
along modern lines. The entire cemetery 
contains about three and one-half acres, in- 
cluding the new portion. The cemetery 
association is strictly benevolent, support- 
ed by a trust fund which they hope to in- 
crease to $3,000, only the interest being 
used. Dr. J. C. Smith is president of the 
association and A. A. Bartick secretary. 
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