PARK AND CEMETERY 
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ENTRANCE TO ROSEDALE AND lANDEN PARK CEMETERIES, IJNDEN, N. J, 
Cemetery Entrances. 
The necessity for improved entrances to our ceme- 
teries is now being recognized more clearly than 
ever before, chiefly, perhaps, because the contrast 
between poor appearing gateways and the well cared 
for grounds beyond them is detrimental to the ceme- 
tery interests. Another reason for the improvement 
to be observed in this direction is the fact that many 
well-to-do lot owners and public-spirited citizens 
realize that no more appropriate or more permanent 
memorial can be erected than a handsome cemetery 
entrance. The landscape beauty of a modern ceme- 
tery is also in itself another powerful demand for 
well designed and appropriate boundaries and gate- 
ways, and, much more than the recreation parks for 
the people, it requires that there should be elements 
of beauty, repose, appropriateness and permanency in 
all designs for these purposes. Furthermore art must 
always enter into the work, and the entrance sur- 
roundings will always suggest to the artist’s eye, a 
certain proportion and style adapted to the particular 
conditions. 
Hence, cemetery gateways should never be hap- 
hazard selections. The site, surroundings and de- 
velopment must all. be taken into consideration, and 
it is gratifying to note that where the subject has 
been studied on its merits, the gates and gateways 
especially, of which many examples have been erect- 
ed in the last few years, show a distinct attention 
to the controlling features, and it may readily be 
expected that as art enters more fully into the de- 
signs of such structures, the future will witness 
even more pronounced progress. 
Ornamental iron work has been a constantly im- 
proving branch of our constructive industries since 
the great international exhibitions stimulated produc- 
ers, and the several enterprising manufacturers who 
now make a specialty of this class of metal work, 
offer an attractive array of designs and patterns to 
induce cemetery corporations to supplement their 
landscape effects by the erection of imposing and ar- 
tistic gateways. 
The sentiment that God’s Acre should be enclosed 
will probably survive when many another deep rooted 
idea has been swept away by the march of progress, 
so that the boundaries should also be considered as 
a permanent and important part of all cemetery 
grounds and should receive due and positive atten- 
tion. 
