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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Nothing is above the level of the grovind except 
flowers and monuments. Although many of the mon- 
uments are costly, none are elaborate, and generally 
considered they are said to be in very good taste. A 
monument that is steadily gaining popular favor is 
the huge granite boulder with a smoothly flnished 
surface for inscriptions. Several are overgrown with 
ivy, which adds to their natural efifect. Everything 
tends toward simplicity. The arrangement and the 
taste in keeping up the grounds, the broad low stones 
devoid of artiflce, the absence of unsightly mounds, 
corner posts and fences ; every detail speaks for a 
seeking after simplicity and natural expression. 
IMPROVEMENT OF THREE NEW SECTIONS 
IN HOMEWOOD CEMETERY. PITTSBURG 
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburg, has opened up and 
developed three new sections, making improvements 
that involved some interesting work of grading and 
construction, and an expenditure of $55,000. 
The area graded shown in the accompanying pic- 
ture, included 21 acres, with a lake of 27,500 square 
feet, fed by city water, and 4,100 feet of macadamized 
roads, eighteen feet wide, all properly sewered. The 
excavating and grading necessitated the handling of 
88,000 yards of earth. 
The three sections are laid out in strict conformity 
to modern lawn principles, with reservations for or- 
namental planting about the lake and along the drwe- 
ways. There are to be no gravel walks, grass paths 
giving access to the lots. These are of different sizes 
to suit requirements, 25x25, 20x20, 12x16, etc. There 
are 515 lots in one of the sections. The other two are 
not yet staked out. 
The planting about the lake and along the drives 
includes the following trees : Oriental plane, silver 
maple, red and white horse chestnut, Salisburia, sweet 
gum and birch. Other planting will be made as 
growth and development make desirable. 
The tract is well located near the boundary of the 
cemetery, the wooded area seen in the background 
being outside its boundaries. 
Homewood has a total area of 176 acres, and has 
been for many years under the able direction of 
Superintendent David Woods. About 79 acres are 
now improved. 
NEWLY IMPROVED SECTIONS IN HOMEWOOD CEMETERY, PITTSBURG 
etery associations may accumulate a fund for maintenance 1 
and escape taxation on the money thus accumulated. The 
case was an outgrowth of the work of a tax ferret several ' 
years ago, who listed the cemetery association’s surplus. 9 
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Mrs. H, H. Benedict has offered to Ft. Plain Cemetery, ^ 
Ft. Plain, N. Y., a gift of $10,000 for a memorial chapel in . 
memory of her mother. It is to be known as the Benedict 
Memorial Chapel. Ft. Plain is beautifully located on an 
elevation overlooking the Mohawk valley and contains about 
forty acres, with perhaps g,ooo interments. The perpetual J 
care fund amounts to $20,000 and the entire grounds are 
under perpetual care. The cemetery is beautified with great 
care and no outsiders are allowed to work on the grounds.^ 
An excellent city water system is well distributed through-®, 
out the cemetery and two handsome fountains have been® 
erected. ■ 
Annual reports or extracts from ihemy historical sketchesy 
descriptive circtilarSy photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department* 
In overruling the demurrer of the defendant in the case 
of the Greenbush Cemetery Association, Lafayette, Ind., 
against William E. Beach, county treasurer. Judge DeHart, 
of the Circuit Court, has given it as his opinion that cem- 
