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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
COMPETITIVE DESIGNS FOR A NEW CEMETERY 
The plan of having open competitions 
for designs for new cemeteries and 
parks has been so seldom tried in this 
country as to make the recent competi- 
tion for designs for the new Mission 
Cemetery in San Antonio, Tex., of par- 
ticular interest. 
The competition was under the gen- 
eral charge of the cemetery committee 
of the city council, who were assisted in 
making their selection by members of 
the city building department and local 
engineers and park commissioners. 
The competition was opened in No- 
vember, ]909, and was to have closed 
January 6, 1910. Inasmuch, however, as 
many competitors did not understand 
the full requirements of the committee’s 
plan, particularly with regard to bounds 
— several believing that the cemetery lot 
extended only to the city sewer ditch, 
instead of the Corpus Christi Road— - 
the time for submission of plans was ex- 
tended by the council to March 10. 
Fifteen designs were submitted by 
competitors from all sections of the 
United States — from New York City to 
Tacoma, Wash. Some of the plans 
were elaborately drawn, and many of 
the contestants submitted comprehen- 
sive finished views in water colors. The 
designs suggested are many and vary 
widely, two of the metropolitan com- 
petitors suggesting arrangements mod- 
eled on well-known cemeteries of their 
home cities. 
Chairman Wickeland and Alderman 
Richter of the committee opened the 
sealed plans publicly in the council 
chamber, and several local competitors 
were present. Building Inspectors 
Dielmann and Neumann and Aldermen 
Mauermann, Smith, Menger and Braden 
assisted in considering the plans and 
discussing their merits. 
Several other meetings of the commit- 
tee were held during several weeks fol- 
lowing the formal opening of the de- 
signs. The city engineers and park com- 
missioners were called into consulta- 
tion by the committee. Three plans, in 
the order of excellence, for awards of 
$■500, $300 and $200, respectively, were 
selected, and the design finally adopted 
for Mission Cemetery is planned to 
embody the best details in each. As 
provided by the council, the city will 
own exclusively the three successful 
designs. 
The list of those submitting plans was : 
By Richard Iwerson, Supt. of Parks, La Crosse, Wis. 
