A GOOD PLAN THE FIRST NEED OF A CEMETERY 
There are times and occasions in 
business, when a dollar well spent 
brings 440 per cent on the investment. 
laid out to fit the topography of the 
ground after the site has been carefully 
studied. 
Plan No. 2 has 12,000 feet 
- - less road than Plan No. 1. 
This item alone saves $12,000 
on cost of roads in construc- 
as the width of roads 
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NO. 1. CIVIL, ENGINEER’S PLAN FOR CEMETERY AT SEDALIA, MO. 
This was the recent experience of the 
Cemetery Board of Managers of Crown 
Hill Cemetery, Sedalia, Mo., after they 
had secured the services of a landscape 
architect to replat a 25 acre addition to 
their cemetery. 
Plat No. 1 shows the plan as it was 
laid out by a civil engineer, and by 
which some lots had been sold, and 
burials made on them, when the city 
council appointed a board of managers, 
and the cemetery was turned over to 
them to improve upon the old methods. 
To carry out its intentions, this board 
secured the services of Mr. Sid. J. 
Hare, landscape architect, Kansas City, 
Mo., to replat the ground and to make 
plans for beautifying it. 
Plan No. 2 shows Mr. Hare’s plan. 
Outside of the fact that all the roads 
in the new plan are laid out to secure 
perfect drainage and easy grades, and 
have the effect of making the sections 
look higher, the cost of grading is re- 
duced to a minimum as the roads are 
in plan No. 1 was 20 ft., with several 
of 25 ft., the square feet of ground thus 
saved from roads and placed in sections 
to sell would be 12,000x20 or 240,000 
sq. ft., at the price of 50c per square 
foot, which is low for cemetery lots 
with perpetual care, this ground would 
sell for $120,000. Thus, the city of Se- 
dalia will make $120,000 in land, and 
with $12,000 saved dn roads, it will 
mean $132,000 to the credit of the cem- 
etery board whose good judgment led 
them to call upon a landscape architect 
and profit by his advice and experience. 
The amount above stated is 440 per cent 
profit on the cost of the new cemetery 
plans. 
Such results emphatically answer the 
question : Does it pay to employ a land- 
scape architect to lay out the park or 
cemetery, before or after an attempt 
has been made at it by incompetent ad- 
visors. Many times the local engineer, 
with little ' experience in these lines, 
starts out by destroying all the natural 
features and then proceeds to substitute 
his own crude ideas in direct opposition 
to what landscape art demands. It is 
a necessary economic fact that the de- 
signing and planting of ceme- 
tery grounds, great or small, 
should be the work of the 
properly qualified landscape 
designer. 
NO. 2. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT’S PLAN FOR THE SAME GROUND. 
Sid. J. Hare, Kansas City, Mo., Landscape Arch. 
