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PARK AND C EM ET ER Y. 
ment of the exposition. And when, at 
the opening of the exposition, in the 
presence of the notables of the city, 
the president related the difficulties 
which had to be overcome and the tre- 
well erected l)y Building Inspector 
Stahl. Immense baskets of hydrangeas 
decorated the stairway to the main hall, 
while the lawns were dotted with dark 
blue lieliotropes. White benches of 
Among tile many photograiihs, mod- 
els, drawin.gs and sculptures e.xhibited in 
the side halls, was a collection of draw- 
ings and photographs of the cemetery 
of the City of Munich from City Archi- 
riROUP OF LOTS IN THE STETTIN MODEL CEMETERY EXHIBIT. 
Tablets of Good Design and Unifoi-m Planting of Graves. 
mendous amount of work which had to 
be done in order that this undertaking 
might be accomplished, he could well 
say that the greatest part of the burden 
had been borne by the general manager. 
The detailed plans of the exhibition 
were prepared by Superintendent Han- 
nig, while the management of the cem- 
etery furnished the labor necessary for 
the gardening work. The entrance por- 
tals and the main exposition hall were 
built in accordance with the plans of the 
chief building inspector of the city, Herr 
Stahl. The stately trees on the expo- 
sition grounds add greatly to its adorn- 
ment. Nearly every tree was utilized 
in creating the landscape effects. From 
the entrance of the exposition to the 
main hall there was a roadway lined 
on both sides by rows of tall evergreen 
hedge and beds of heliotropes. The 
place in front of the hall was encirled 
by yoke-elm hedge and shadowed by 
beautiful old trees, through the leaves 
of which the glimmering rays of the 
sun pour in on the golden gravel. The 
saintly peacefulness of the place is dis- 
turbed only by the murmuring of the 
fountain, the work of the sculptor Cohn 
of Charlottenburg, and of a drinking 
stately and dignified lines, furnished by 
the management of the cemetery, in- 
vited visitors to rest and peaceful con- 
templation of the surroundings. 
In the center of the exhibition hall 
was a marble statue, the work of Pro- 
fessor Kusthardt of Hildesheim. It 
represented a woman winding garlands, 
beautiful masses of sweet perfumed 
flowers being strewn at her feet. At 
the suggestion of the journal “The Art 
of Festooning,’’ the management of the 
exposition had consented to add to the 
exposition a section devoted to festoon- 
ing. Since the Stettin gardeners, how- 
ever, refused to take any interest what- 
ever in the undertaking, a single local 
firm, W. Blume, Artistic Gardener, un- 
dertook the decoration of this section 
with artistically wound flower wreaths. 
Besides two models, one of the burial 
urn of the city of Lubeck, and one of 
the Stettin burial urn, epitaphs from 
the church in Eventin, in the District 
of Schlawe, decorate the central hall. 
These epitaphs are interesting exam- 
ples of the rustic art of the 18th cen- 
tury, the painting and inscriptions being 
remarkable both for their form and con- 
tent. 
tect Grassel, and also hundreds of pho- 
tographs of historical and modern mon- 
uments exhibited by the library of the 
royal arts museum in Berlin. 
The historical section was one of the 
most interesting of all. While in past 
years many cities have had similar ex- 
positions devoted to the art of cemetery 
design, none of these has had a histori- 
cal section of the character and scope 
of this one. 
The management of this exposition 
deemed it useful to show that in this 
province of Pomerania, often character- 
ized as devoid of art, there once ex- 
isted the “art of cemetery-arrangement,” 
which, like many other arts, has been 
destroyed by the victorious inroads of 
industry. The greatest portion of the 
material which is rich in the history of 
monuments, has been laboriously gath- 
ered from the rural cemeteries of Pom- 
erania by Superintendent Hannig, and 
Architect Hufert. 
The Oberlausitz Arts Association of 
Gorlitz also provided twenty-eight 
wrought-iron crosses from cemeteries 
of Oberlausitz. 
There were shown here examples of 
the simple peasant art, the creations 
