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PARK AND 
CEMETERY. 
TWO RUSTIC SHELTER HOUSES IN THE VALLEY. 
Valley Cemetery, Manchester, N. H. 
bricks are as good as new. Cement 
blocks, as a rule, not only look cheap, 
but are unsatisfactory. A cheaper con- 
struction yet would be wood, covered 
with wire lath and plaster. This is fair- 
ly satisfactory for a long time, but is 
not so permanent as the first men- 
tioned construction. 
The rustic shelter is one of the 
cheapest and easiest types to con- 
struct with cemetery labor, and may 
be so covered with vines and made 
attractive with planting as to become 
an ornament to the landscape if it is 
placed in appropriate surroundings. 
Mr. W. H. Foord, superintendent of 
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. 
Can., sends us photographs of two 
simple rustic structures that he built, 
of which we illustrate one. The first 
one was built two years ago just op- 
posite the entrance to accommodate 
people waiting for the cars. It was 
so much appreciated that they erect- 
ed another one of the same kind in- 
side the cemetery grounds. This one, 
shown herewith, has protective cur- 
tains that may be drawn down to the 
seats in stormy weather. As may be 
seen, Mr. Foord has planted ever- 
greens to hide the building that 
shows a rather unprepossessing wall 
behind the shelter. 
A small rustic shelter that is little 
more than a seat is illustrate.d in a 
recent issue of the Craftsman. It is 
illustrated here, and the following di- 
rections for its construction will be 
comparatively easy for any “handy 
man” to follow: 
The design shows a covered seat made in 
the form of a hexagon, with one of the sides 
left open to serve as an entrance. It is 
large enough to seat several people comfort- 
ably. As illustrated here the proportions of 
this design should approximate S or 10 feet 
wide, 8 feet high under the eaves, and the 
roof should have about a 4-foot pitch. Six 
uprights should be set on rocks and con- 
nected with frame at top and bottom. The 
frame at the top should set on top of the up- 
rights, and the roof on top of this. Then 
strips should be extended from the top frame 
of one upright to another. These strips 
should be halved in the center,, thus keeping 
all the uprights in place, so that the weight 
of the roof will not cause them to separate. 
These corner-pieces extend from the top 
point of the roof past each corner upright. 
The under parts of these corner strips in the 
roof are notched, and fit over the tops of 
the strips that connect with the tops of the 
uprights. Holes should be bored in the up- 
rights and the strips, and wooden pins 
driven through. The point of the roof is 
connected to a finial. Strips should then be 
extended from the corner roof pieces to the 
lower frame of the roof. These strips should 
be made of branches of trees split in half. 
Underneath is another set of branches split 
in half, set so as to allow the top branches 
to overlap the under ones in the same man- 
ner that shingles on a roof are laid. The 
seat should then be built around the inside, 
about 17 inches high and 15 inches deep. The 
supports for the seat extend back at an 
angle from the front of the seat to the floor, 
and should be fastened to the lower strips. 
The ends of these supports are gouged out 
in a concave shape, so that they will fit 
firmly over the round surface of the strips 
to which they are connected. 
.\nother of our illustrations shows 
a rustic shelter of somewhat similar 
design that has been made more at- 
tractive by planting. 
Quite a different type of shelter is 
the classic pavilion recently erected 
in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, 
Va., illustrated in a recent descriptive 
book issued by that cemetery, from 
which we reproduce it. 
The pavilion, which was completed 
last August, commands a splendid 
view of the grounds. It is severely 
plain, the design being pure Greek, 
and it is a fine bit of architecture. 
To the back is a group of Italian 
marble figures, two male and two fe- 
male, which represent the seasons, 
spring, summer, autumn and winter. 
These were given by Mrs. C. M, 
CRAFTSMAN DESIGN FOR SMALL SMALL RUSTIC SHELTER IMPROVED BY PLANTING. 
RUSTIC SHELTER. 
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