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MT. GREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION 
1411 First National Bank Bldg., Chicago 
Telephone Central 5179 
MOUNT GREENWOOD 
Nature did much for beautiful Mt. Greenwood Cemetery — in 
Us ideal location on high and rolling ground, its towering oaks, 
Its wealth of natural foliage. 
Not obtrusively, but with fine care and knowledge, cemetery 
experts, gardeners and florists have preserved and added to the 
woodland charm of Chicago’s most beautiful, best kept cemetery. 
MT. GREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION 
1411 First National Bank Bldg., Chicago 
Telephone Central 5179 
VISIT MOUNT GREENWOOD 
It has a new beauty with each changing season. You will 
admire the perfect supervision that extends to every nook and 
corner of Chicago’s best kept and most beautiful rural cemetery. 
It is simple wisdom and wise forethought to select a family 
burial lot now. when better judgment and clearer reason can be 
brought to bear — than in those hurried, distracted hours when 
the need arises. 
The Mount Greenwood Cemetery Association takes this oppor- 
tunity to offer you whatever help, whatever advice you may 
need. 
Those desiring to visit Mount Greenwood will be furnished 
a guide and their expenses paid, by calling at our city office. 
Let us send you free illustrated booklet showing views in this 
beautiful cemetery. 
MT. GREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, 
1411 First National Bank Building 
Telephone Central 5179 
MOUNT GREENWOOD 
Get our beautiful book and look it over at your leisure, or 
let us send you a guide and transportation to Mt. Greenwood 
Cemetery itself. One visit will prove to you that no other 
can meet your requirements. Decide this question of a cem- 
etery lot now — in a most deliberate, careful, satisfactory way. 
You tvill be glad, some day, that you have attended to this 
matter well. Mt. Greenwood is easily accessible — yet entirely 
outside the city in the quiet country. Expert service in every- 
thing desirable in cemetery management. 
Write, telephone or call, as convenient. 
THE MT. GREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION 
1411 First National Bank Building, Chicago 
Telephone — Central 5179 
Mt. Greenwood has also recently issued a very well- 
prepared and handsomely printed little booklet to pro- 
mote perpetual card from which we quote as follows: 
“What makes the cemetery so beautiful?” Almost as many 
different answers will be given as there are persons answering, 
and all will be right so far as they go, and yet nearly all will 
miss the most important point. 
The grand old oaks, the rare exotic trees in countless variety, 
the endless forms of flower, of foliage, of ornamental fruit, of 
brilliant colored bark; the somber pines, the blue of the wonder- 
ful Colorado spruces, the masses of flowers, the wide stretches 
of green lawn, the beautifully winding drives bordered by artis- 
tically arranged masses of flowers, foliage and trees; the undu- 
lating perfectly contoured sections, the knolls crowned by beau- 
tiful monuments embowered in green, the buildings architectur- 
ally fitting their perfect setting, the massive entrance — all these 
would be mentioned— but what about the perfect care that main- 
tains all these beautiful things? 
The trees decay if not cared for, the flowers perish quickly 
the shrubs, though more lasting, soon dwindle away; disease 
attacks all growing things and insects destroy; the winds and 
the snow and the frost work destruction; noxious plants find a 
foothold, invade the grassy spaces and the beautiful lawns are 
no more. The perfectly made drives must be watered and rolled, 
swept and repaired, the trees and shrubs pruned and fertilized, 
a constant warfare must be waged against destructive insects. 
The grass must be mown, fertilized and re-seeded. The lawns 
must be ever raked and cleaned. New plantings of trees and 
shrubs must replace the constant losses. The fences, the en- 
trances, the buildings, the water system, the greenhouses — 
constant repairs and renewals are in order here too. 
So it is care — intelligent, never ending care — daily, almost 
hourly, through all the years that makes the cemetery beautiful 
and keeps it so. Mount Greenwood Cemetery has had this care 
for twenty-five years — perfect care — it has it today and would 
in any event have it for years to come. The expense has been 
borne cheerfully, but there must come a time when this con- 
stantly increasing expense will be too great and can no longer 
be assumed by the Cemetery Association. 
FUTURE CARE CAN BE ASSURED. 
As the years go by families scatter, those closest in relation- 
ship pass away, other interests eng:age the younger generations 
until finally no one remains who will expend the necessary sum 
annually to keep the family plot from falling into a neglected 
and unkempt condition. Therefore some other method must be 
adopted to insure its care for all time. 
There is only one safe and sure method, and that is by the 
creating of a large fund to be held in trust for the purpose. 
No small amount will suffice. It must be large enough so that 
when the time comes, the income will be sufficient to carry on 
the work. Trust funds safely invested do not yield large in- 
comes. The fund must ultimately reach into the hundreds of 
thousands of dollars. Much thought has been given the sub- 
ject and a plan has been evolved which it is believed will com- 
pletely solve the problem at Mount Greenwood. It insures real 
perpetual care — honest perpetual care — money enough in the 
future to do the work and do it as it should be done — a definite 
contract — a reliable depository — sworn statements pf amounts at 
definite intervals — a chance for the lot owner to interfere and 
change the trustees should the work not be properly done — 
publicity— in fine, an honest contract meant to be executed in 
good faith and capable of being enforced. 
The plan involves much sacrifice of income on the part of the 
Cemetery Association and a very small sacrifice upon the part 
of the present lot and grave owners. 
All lots and graves sold after December 31, 1909, will have 
perpetual care as a part of their purchase contract. The con- 
tract will be printed upon ail deeds for lots in specific form. 
Present lot and grave owners rriay receive these benefits at a 
very small expense. The cost for each individual lot and grave 
will be made known on application. 
Some lots may be placed under perpetual care for as small 
a sum as $15.00. Some single graves for $2.00. 
THE MOUNT GREENWOOD PLAN OF PERPETUAL CARE. 
All lots and graves are now (after December 31, 1909) sold 
with guaranteed perpetual care without additional charge. It is 
real perpetual care — perpetual care which will stand investiga- 
tion now — fifty years from now — one hundred years from now. 
To secure the funds the following amounts are placed in trust; 
20 per cent of the price of all lots sold. 
20 per cent of the price of all single graves sold. 
20 per cent of all interment charges. 
20 per cent of all charges for monument and headstone foun- 
dations. 
These amounts will be invested with other trust funds and the 
interest compounded. Each year will make a greater Increase 
and at no far distant time a half million dollars will be in trust 
to keep beautiful Mount Greenwood forever in perfect condition 
■ — not only the cemetery as a whole — but the individual lots and 
graves as well. 
The custodian of all Mount Greenwood Cemetery Trust Funds 
is the Chicago Title and Trust Co. The great financial strength 
of this Trust ' Company, its conservatism and its honorable 
record leave no room for doubt as to the safety of the funds in 
its care. 
SUPREME COURT ON SAN FRANCISCO CEMETERY LAW 
It will be remembered that the city 
of San Francisco some years ago 
passed an ordinance forbidding inter- 
ments in its city limits and that Lau- 
rel Hill Cemetery fought the ordi- 
nance in the courts. The decision of 
the California Supreme Court upheld 
the ordinance, and the cemetery car- 
ried it to the Supreme Court of the 
United States. The latter body has 
upheld the California Supreme Court 
in a decision recently handed down, 
which reads in full as follows : 
This is an action to restrain the city 
and county of San Francisco and its 
officers from enforcing an ordinance 
forbidding the burial of the dead with- 
in the city and county limits. The 
allegations of the complaint are 
lengthy, but the material facts set 
forth are as follows: The plaintiff 
was incorporated in 1867 as a rural 
cemetery under a general act. The 
land in question had been dedicated 
as a burying ground, being at that 
time outside the city limits and a mile 
or two away from dwellings and busi- 
ness. It was conveyed to the plain- 
tiff, and later a grant of the same was 
obtained from the city in considera- 
tion of $24,139.79, which sum the city 
retains. The land has been used as 
a cemetery ever since; forty thousand 
lots have been sold and over two mil- 
lion dollars have been spent by the 
lot owners and other large sums by 
the plaintiff in preparing and embel- 
lishing the grounds. By the terms of 
the above-mentioned general statute 
the lots, after a burial in them, are in- 
alienable and descend to the heirs of 
the owner, and the plaintiff is bound 
to apply the proceeds of sales to the 
improvement, embellishment and pres- 
ervation of the grounds. There is 
land still unsold estimated to be worth 
$75,000. There now are many dwell- 
ings near the cemetery, but it is al- 
leged to be in no way inj'urious to 
health, or offensive, or otherwise an 
interference with the enjoyment of 
property or life. There also is an al- 
legation that there are within the city 
large tracts, some of them vacant and 
