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CONTENTS. 
CEMETERY MEMORIALS OTHER THAN GRAVE MONU- 
MENTS 49 
CEMETERIES FROM THE SANITARY VIEW POINT- 
FUNGICIDES 50 
“ANCIENT MONUMENTS— ARTEMISIA AND THE MAUSO- 
LEUM 51 
*OAKWOODS CEMETERY, CHICAGO 52 
“OBELISKS 55 
*THE PATTERSON MONUMENT, CALVARY CEMETERY, 
ST. LOUIS, MO 56 
CEMETERY NOTES 57 
CEMETERY REPORTS.-CREMATION 58 
REFLECTIONS IN GREENWOOD CEMETERY.-THE CEME- 
TERY SUPERINTENDENTS’ CONVENTION 60 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT in 
*Illustrated. 
Cemetery Hemorials other than Grave Honuments. 
“Old things shall pass away; all things shall be- 
come new,” said the old apostle, and while the 
prophetic warning has been working wonders in the 
spiritual life of man for which it was uttered, it has 
been equally potent, during the centuries which 
have passed, in the development of man’s condition 
and Surroundings, though there still remain much 
to be renewed both in his material and moral con- 
stitution. 
No more radical change has been progressing in 
the past few years than in the ideas connected with 
our cemeteries and the disposal of our dead. An 
era of common sense, enlightened study, and a 
keener regard for the rights of our fellow man — 
though this feature will yet admit of considerable 
extension — is upon us, and a higher discernment 
and understanding of nature and her laws, are bring- 
ing us to endeavor to imitate her more closely in 
her methods and results, — and these results are 
harmony and beauty. 
In the matter of our cemeteries this is especially 
apparent; the degree of favor with which the “lawn 
plan’’ is being received, and the rapidity of 
its development is an emphatic endorsement of 
the conclusion that an educated sense is taking the 
helm in cemetery management. That our cemeter- 
ies should be parks, decidedly not for recreation, 
but assuredly for contemplation, is the answer to 
the hitherto silent yearning of our better nature. 
This is a period of evolution in the cemetery, and 
yet not evolution, for the original cemetery was 
nature’s landscape, which as the centuries moved 
along, lost its charm in the eager desire of man for 
improvement, display, and the vain effort to per- 
petuate himself. This resulted in the overloading 
of the cemetery with stone and metal work wher- 
ever room could be made for it, and the display of 
individual taste which created an incongruous var- 
iety of spurious adornment and a lack of harmony 
which invited disrespect arid neglect. The decided 
turn in the tide of public taste, or lack of taste, is 
approaching the point where frequent discussion of 
the individual monument question, is rapidly lead- 
ing the thoughtful and far-seeing mind, to consider 
in what more useful way can one perpetuate the 
memory of himself or those dear to him, than by 
expending large sums in monuments which after all 
only testify to selfish considerations. 
Fortunately to show that there are other, more 
beneficial and praiseworthy means of keeping the 
“memory,” not only green, but revered, many ex- 
amples exist, principally in the way of cemetery 
chapels, to commemorate departed individuals. 
Such a method of “memorial” has this great, 
unqualified advantage, it records for once something 
of benefit done for one’s fellowbeing, while often 
times the costly monument in the owner’s lot is the 
record of what has not been done. 
This idea of erecting useful and necessary ad- 
juncts to the cemetery is worthy of prompt and 
careful consideration. It carries with it the assurance 
of comparative perpetuity to a more comprehensive 
extent than the lot monument. No family compli- 
cations as to heirship and other possible legal diffi- 
culties present themselves to mar the inviting pros- 
pect; on the contrary the fact that, beyond the en- 
larged prospective satisfaction of meeting and mer- 
iting the approval of the community, there will al- 
ways be that indefinable solace which the intuitive 
faculties invariably prescribe for a good deed done. 
Then the idea need not rest with the Me- 
morial Chapel, or the Memorial Window and the 
Receiving Vault. There are other adjuncts of a 
cemetery which in the new order of things will be- 
come necessaries. For instance. Fountains and 
Shelter Houses. 
What more graceful and albeit useful adornment 
