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introduction of the next question viz., 
“How Can the Maintenance of Mauso- 
leums, Monuments, etc., be best Provided 
for by Lot' Owners?” The president re- 
quested F. R. Diering to open the dis- 
cussion. He said there were probably 
one hundred mausoleums in Woodlawn, 
for which the owners had provided for 
special care. His board is now con- 
sidering the proper course to pursue. 
The question of whether compulsory 
rules regarding the amount of deposits 
necessary to provide future care would 
affect lot sales must be considered. 
Frank Eurich favored adopting a slid- 
ing scale of percentage on the cost of 
the building. In several instances in 
his cemetery 15 per cent has been used 
as the basis of cost. Something should 
be done to provide for proper care of 
such structures but whether compulsory 
rules were advisable was a question, 
W. C. Grassau regarded a percent- 
age basis as impractical owing to the 
difference in construction, and com- 
pulsory care might be disastrous. It 
was a matter for serious consideration! 
W. H. Harrison, of the Harrison Gran- 
ite Co., said there are many men who 
do not recognize the physical difficul- 
ties of making a mausoleum a perma-' 
nent structure. A cheap mausoleum is 
so undesirable as to be a menace to a 
cemetery. There should be rigid speci- 
fications for mausoleum construction. It 
would be an excellent plan, he thought, 
if cemeteries could establish a minimum 
price for mausoleums and also provide 
a fund for their future care. 
The next question considered was : 
“How Can We Influence Legislation so 
as to Require Executors or Trustees to 
Provide for the care of Lots When an 
Estate is Ample to do so. Even Though 
Heirs are not Interested?” Geo. W. 
Creesy said the laws of Massachusetts 
allow an executor to take from an es- 
tate a sum sufficient to endow a ceme- 
tery lot. T. McCarthy said a similar 
law is in effect in Rhode Island. Swan 
Point Cemetery has it printed in their 
annual reports and a copy is mailed to 
all executors of estates whose testators 
are buried in that cemetery. The law 
is not compulsory but some benefits 
have resulted from it. 
O. C. Simonds, chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Inspection of Cemeteries, sub- 
mitted a report setting forth reasons 
why this commitee should be abolished. 
The report was adopted. 
The Membership Committee reported 
favorably on all of the applications for 
membership and the following new 
members were elected; 
Thos. Wallis, Supt., “Rosehill,” Ravens- 
wood, Chicago, 111.; J. T. Yates, Supt. and 
Treas., “Spring Hill,” Lynchburg, Va. ; Wm. 
H. Minor, Pres., “Rosehill,” Chicago, 111.; 
Wm. Boon, Secy, and Treas., “Oakwood,” 
Syracuse, N. Y.; J. W. Broughton. Supt. of 
Cemeteries, Norfolk, Va. ; Robt. S. Franklin, 
Pres., Island Cemetery, Newport, R. I.; Ed- 
ward W. Werick, Secy, and Treas., “Ridge 
Lawn,” Pine Ridge, Buffalo, N. Y. ; M. C. 
Kellogg, Pres., “Riverside,” Mt. Vernon, N. 
Y. ; Dwight B. Snow, Asst. Supt., Grove St. 
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; Wm. M. Carr. 
Supt., “Forest Dale,” Malden, Mass.; Fred 
W. Allen, Supt., “Old Gray,” Knoxville, 
Tenn. ; Wm. B. Jones, Supt., “Highwood,” 
Pittsburg, Pa.; Sydney Yoder, supt., “Union 
Dale,” Pittsburg, Pa.; H. M. Barnes, Supt., 
“Harrisburg,” Harrisburg, Pa.; W. N. Kie- 
fer, Supt., Ardsley Burial Park, Glenside, 
Pa.; Wm. J. Quigley, Supt., “Riverview.” 
Wilmington, Del.; Andrew D. Smith, Supt.. 
“Mountain View,” Oakland, Cal.; Edward 
J. Marsden, Comptroller, “Graceland,” Al- 
bany, N. Y.; E. B. Wilhelm, Asst. Supt. & 
Engr., “Grand Lawn,” Detroit, Mich.; Lu- 
ther Cline, Asst. Supt., “Woodland,” Dayton, 
O. ; Walter H. Wheeler, Asst. Supt., “Crown 
Hill,” Indianapolis, Ind.; Richard Meade, 
Secy, and Mgr., “St. Mary’s,” Muskegon, 
Mich.; Leroy Christie, Secy, and Supt., “Ot- 
tumwa, Ottumwa, la.; John G. Kline, Supt., 
“Feriiwood,” Philadelphia, Pa.; F. L. How- 
ard, Supt., “Rosehill” Cemetery and Crema- 
tory, Linden, N. J. 
Second Day. 
At 9 :30 a. m. on the second day a 
procession of sight-seeing automobiles 
carrying one hundred and eighty or 
more persons left the Hotel Ast'or for 
Woodlawn Cemetery. The route trav- 
ersed was up Fifth avenue past palatial 
residences and famous hotels, through 
a portion of Central Park, Riverside 
Drive, past Grant’s monument, the 
Speedway, Van Cortlandt Park to the 
Jerome avenue entrance to the ceme- 
tery. There the party left the autos 
and began a tour of inspection which 
terminated at the new entrance near the 
Woodlawn station on the New York 
& Harlem R. R. Woodlawn is a ceme- 
tery of large lots and numerous costly 
memorials. It comprises over 400 
acres of rolling land, of which about 
one-half has been improved. The first 
interment was made in 1865, the total 
number to date approximating 77,000. 
There are 12,000 lot holders and a spe- 
cial care or endowment fund of $300,- 
000. An average of about $40,000 a year 
is added to this fund. Special endow- 
ment is provided for the care of some 
of the mausoleums, of which there are 
a large number of elaborate structures. 
The Huntington mausoleum represents 
an outlay of nearly a quarter of a mil- 
lion dollars. Jay Gould’s Grecian 
temple on a large circular lot and the 
tombs of many other multimillionaires 
are to be seen here. Landscape garden- 
ers of national reputation are employed 
to furnish planting plans and do the 
planting on many of the lots. Rhodo- 
dendorns, paeonies, viburnum, hydran- 
geas and other hardy flowering shrubs 
are used profusely as are the evergreens 
in great variety and effective massing. 
Several full page illustrations of views 
in this cemetery have appeared • in re- 
cent issues of Park and Cemetery. 
N’early two hundred guests sat down . 
to luncheon at the Hopewell Masonic 
Temple, near the cemetery, after which 
a business session was held in the hall. 
Herman W. Merkel, Chief Forester 
of the New York Zoological Park, ad- 
dressed the meeting briefly and pre- 
pared the visitors for some of the sights 
they were to see on their visit to Bronx 
Park and Zoological Garden which fol- 
lowed. 
Bronx Park comprises 662 acres, of 
which 250 have been given to the New 
York Botanical Garden and 261 to the 
Zoological Park. The latter is un- 
equalled by any similar institution in the 
world. The animals, birds, reptiles, etc., 
are houge^, caged or otherwise en- 
closed in ways as closely approximating 
their natural condition as it is possible 
to have them. The time was too limited 
to give either the “Zoo” or the Gardens 
more than a hasty glance. Some 
of the nature fakirs in the party 
dallied so long at the cages trying to 
trace their lineage according to the Dar- 
winian theory that the local committee 
of arrangements despaired of ever get- 
ting the party together. The return 
trip by automobiles concluded the pro- 
gram for the day. Roof garden sup- 
pers, theatre parties, midnight trips to 
Chinatown and other forms of diver- 
tisement according to individual fancy 
rounded out a well filled day. 
The program for the third and last 
day of the meeting opened with an au- 
tomobile ride that took the visitors 
through the Ghetto of New York, just 
as the residents of that interesting sec- 
tion of the city were beginning to cele- 
brate their New Year. Thence across 
the Williamsburg bridge, through 
Brooklyn to Prospect Park and Green- 
wood Cemetery. Sight-seeing autos are 
not allowed in Prospect Park ordinarily, 
but through the courtesy of Supt. W, 
J. Zartmann, of the Brooklyn Park Sys- 
tem, a special permit was obtained and 
the ride through this beautiful park was 
greatly enjoyed. 
Greenwood was entered at the eastern 
entrance and after a ride over many 
of the avenues in this picturesque and 
historic cemetery, the new receiving 
vault was reached and inspected. This 
building was illustrated and described 
in Park and Cemetery for August. It 
occupies the site of the old receiving 
tomb and is a vault and columbarium 
combined. There are 412 crypts and 
niches for 340 vases or cremation urns. 
Modern systems of heating, lighting and 
ventilating have been used. The in- 
