PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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ed black or dark green, should suffer 
the same fate, and be replaced by a 
few artistic stone ones that would be 
in harmony with their surroundings. 
Some philanthropic person would un- 
doubtedly take pleasure in erecting 
a fountain in memory of the City’s 
dead, and the City could provide for 
proper paths and roads through the 
grounds. Jill Menkey. 
[The writer of the above is to be 
warmly commended for her effort in 
the cause of the rural cemetery; 
nevertheless her ideas suggest the ab- 
solute necessity of consulting the 
landscape gardener, in order to de- 
cide upon the proper planting ma- 
terial and the most attractive and 
useful manner of disposing of it. To 
explain a few reasons for this criti- 
cism: It would not be desirable to 
have too many trees of one kind, and 
moreover the white poplar is a short 
lived tree, as are all the poplars in 
certain degrees. The checker-board 
plan of most country cemeteries does 
not lend itself comfortably to the 
modern lawn plan, and there would 
be tedious monotony in the entire 
absence of monuments and markers 
in spite of the grass plats, unless an 
adept in landscape art should design 
the decorative planting. 
Tablets as suggested would be an- 
other monotonous feature that even 
the numerous flower beds, which 
would be unsightly spots the greater 
part of the year, would utterly fail to 
relieve. The improvement of the 
country cemetery is one of the cry- 
ing questions of the day, and the 
above pointers are offered as an en- 
couragement to all contemplating a 
movement toward better conditions in 
the burial grounds, which are now 
demanded of every self-respecting 
community. But to make a begin- 
ning upon which to build in order to 
secure anything like satisfactory re- 
sults, anyone undertaking to improve 
rural cemeteries must first become 
reasonably familiar with what has 
been done in this direction, and then 
should have a knowledge of plants 
and their arrangements, as well as 
some idea of the principles of land- 
scape gardening. To enthuse the lot 
owners and others in the work will 
also help the cause. — Ed.] 
FIRST AUTO FUNERALS 
The first two funerals to be con- 
ducted with automobile hearses and 
motor cars for mourners recently 
took place in Chicago. H. D. Lud- 
low, 659 E. 47th St., had the first 
-auto-hearse and funeral on January 
15, 1909, and is using nothing else 
ever since, unless he is requested. 
Mr. Ludlow is affiliated with the Coey 
Auto Livery Co., who can furnish 
him with as many limousines as he 
ever will use in any funeral. He 
claims to make the same charges as 
for horse-drawn vehicles, saving one- 
half the time; thereby eliminating the 
roadhouse with the disagreeable sur- 
roundings of the saloon, as drivers 
have to stop to feed the teams as well 
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