PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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of the high knob west of Centennial 
Park for park purposes. New benches 
and swings are to be placed in Chero- 
kee Park. 
Dublin", Ga., will begin October 1 the 
improvement of Stubbs Park, a gift of 
the Stubbs estate. The improvements 
planned are to cost $9,000. 
The ball grounds at Lestershire, N. 
Y., are being transformed into a city 
park under the supervision of Village 
President C. Fred Johnson. 
At a special election in Ludington, 
Mich., it was voted to issue $50,000 in 
bonds to purchase a lake front park 
site. 
The grounds of the Old West Penn 
hospital in Pittsburg are to be con- 
verted into a public park of 17 acres.- 
Superintendent J. H. Bigger is in 
charge of the work. 
Charles Griggs, of Topeka, the en- 
gineer of the Santa Fe Railway, is in 
charge of the improvement of the park 
to be made on the company’s station 
grounds at Lawrence, Kas. 
The Civic League of St. Louis is cir- 
culating petitions preparatory to induc- 
ing the legislature and the municipal 
assembly to make St. Louis and St. 
Louis County into a public reservation 
district for park and parkway purposes. 
The league is planning a great park 
system to cover the entire county and 
to cost $10,000,000. 
The local board of the Seventh Ward, 
Norfolk, Va., has presented to the city 
the parks in Old Dominion Place. 
Superintendent John H. Flemingway, 
of Worcester, Mass., is planning to 
build new shelters and add playground 
equipment to Lake Park. 
The Old Riverside Cemetery of 
Dowagiac, Mich., is being transformed 
into a park. George J. White and N. J. 
Walker are the contractors in charge 
of the preliminary work of renovating 
and clearing the grounds. 
Sprinklers Built Especially for Use in Parks 
and Cemeteries. 
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Addre.ss H. J. SMITH, Hinsdale, Mass. 
John Reid, Detroit, Mich., Snpt. Mt. Elliot and Mt. Olivet Cemeteries, has used thg 
Device 3,600 times without an accident. 
Folding Device Works, Ovid, Mich. Detroit, Mioh., Oct. 4,-1906. 
Gentlemen— In justice to the perfection and safety of the mechanism of your Casl^t 
Lowering Device as well as its neat appearance when in use, I wish to state that In the 
cemeteries under my charge we have nine of your Devices in use and used them at least 
3,fiOO times for lowering caskets of all sizes and weights without a single .accident 
or mishap. John Reid, Superintendent Mt. Elliot and Mt. Olivet Cemeteries. 
Buy the best — There is none just like it 
A Ivowering" Device is not only important in lowering a casket, 
but is essential in softening the appearance and beautifying the 
grave, in keeping with modern funeral furnishings. Forty sold 
to cemetery officials in city of Detroit, Mich.; 300 sold in Mich. 
The above photo shows Device and Dining over the grave. The 
Border and Dinings are fastened together, thereby covering the 
walls of the grave and the plank. When the casket is placed on 
the webbing and you are ready to lower the same, loosen the brake 
until the desired speed is obtained, and then step back. It lowers 
the Casket safely and noiselessly without anyone touching the 
Device. The casket can be raised as well as lowered. A child’s 
3 feet 3 inches, as well as an adult 6 feet 3 inches case or grave 
vault can be lowered. 
Our Patent Casket Guides are also shown. These keep the 
Casket from catching on the rough box and for directing the 
Casket squarely into the grave when on sloping ground. 
This Device is absolutely safe, easy to handle and elegantly 
finished. Also manufacturers of Dittle Giant Telescoping Device. 
The entire i-veight of device 75 founds. 
E.R.Butterworth, Seattle,Wash., Ex-President of the Washington 
Funeral Directors Association, sends the following: 
Folding Device Works, Ovid, MJch. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 10, 1906. 
Gentlemen — I desire to say that I do not see where it would be possible to 
Improve on your Lowering Device. We are using three at this time { all your 
make) and out of three thousand interments made where your device was 
used I have yet to have the first accident. 
Most respectfully, E. R. Butterworth & Son. 
Folding Device Works, Ovid, >Iich. 
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