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PARK AND CEMJiTER} 
FINE MODERN CROSS-SLAB. PURE TYPE OF GREEK STELE. 
McIntosh Granite Co., Toronto, Contractors. Kensico Cemetery, New York. 
ONE OF THE ‘’PALMS” FAMILY". 
Harsha iMomnnent Co., Hillsboro, O.. 
Contractors. 
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Best Cemetery Monuments of the Year 
The anntial review of tlie best speci- 
mens of cemetert" monumental work 
erected during the year, begun by AIonu- 
.MENTAL News two years ago, has devel- 
oped into a very interesting illustrated 
record of progress in monumental art. 
Each year shows a greater predominance 
of distinctly better designed monuments. 
There is a better general average of work 
shown each year and a much smaller ntim- 
lier of specimens that are recognized at a 
glance in any cemetery as poor types of 
design or hackneved stock forms that 
have persisted from year to year from 
the “hickey” age of monumental art. The 
high average of work must be judged not 
only by the specimens we illustrate but by 
those which we did not get in our collec- 
tion this year. Some of the old types 
that would have been in the majority in 
any collection of this kind ten years ago 
are now entirely absent. The “old reli- 
able" cap “job" with one foot of die and 
four feet of overgrown cap and rock- 
faced base, and the elongated "cottage” 
job of about the same proportions do not 
appear in our collection of best work. Of 
course there are still some of these being 
erected, but the trade is sufficiently edu- 
cated now to know that these forms are 
not to be pointed to with pride as speci- 
mens of our best work. 
This year's record collected from some 
three hundred leading firms in different 
parts of the country shows some very 
fine specimens and records a development 
of some really new and artistic types. The 
newest and most promising development in 
cemetery memorial stjles we believe is 
represented b\' the new garden or vase 
type of memorial which made its appear- 
ance about two years ago and has been 
developed into some very fine standard 
architectural treatments. The upright or 
tall tablet in the form of a truncated pyra- 
mid, the low horizontal tablet in either 
one or two pieces, and the small tablet 
with the suggestion of the colonial style 
about it. are probably our commonest and 
most practical cemetery forms for small 
monuments of ordinary cost. The 
"Palms" design as it appeared in the de- 
UNIQUE MARBLE URN MEMORIAL. 
Howard Gresniey, Architect. 
W. W. Leland Co., Contractors. 
sign of plates of A'Ionumental News in 
January 1915, has been the progenitor of 
a most interesting family, and many cop- 
ies, variations and adaptations of this 
have been wrouglit into very fine ceme- 
tery monuments. This is probably the 
most popular single form that has made its 
appearance among our simple cemetery 
stones in quite a number of years. 
New architectural variations of the e.x- 
edra and sarcophagus types are making their 
appearance and the sarcophagus tablet ap- 
pears in a great many fine forms. The 
unusual and original sculptured and elab- 
orate architectural forms produced where 
expense is not limited are of course of 
great importance as individual examples, 
although so rare as to be less valuable as 
de\'eloping standard cemetery types. A 
number of these special examples are il- 
lustrated and described. 
Several fine examples of the newest de- 
velopment in cemetery memorial art, the 
“Garden” memorial, a type that utilizes 
the urn or \ase in a variety of interesting 
architectural compositions, are among the 
most original specimens of the best mon- 
uments of the year. 
Two of the most refined and distinctive 
examples of cemetery architecture of re- 
cent years are the "Percy” memorial illus- 
trated on another page of this issue, 
and the "Peper" shown in an accompany- 
ing picture. These were both designed 
and erected by McDonnell & Sons, of Buf- 
falo, N. Y., and executed in Barre gran- 
