PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Devoted to Art Out-of-Doors, — Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, R* J- HAIGHT, 
TOHN W. WESTON, C. E., 
334 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Editors* 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25 
VOL. VII. CHICAGO, JULY, 1897. No. 5. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— Fairmount Park Art Association— Perpetual 
Care -A Proposed Mausoleum Co. -Public Monuments— 
Soldiers Monuments 9 g 
THE INFLUENCE OF TRAVEL ON THE GARDEN 100 
FORMING STATE ASSOCIATIONS OF CEMETERY OFFI- 
CIALS 101 
*A MEMORIAL FLOWER SERVICE 102 
‘WASHINGTON PARK. ALBANY. N. Y 103 
DISPOSING OF THE DEAD IN THE FRENCH CONGO 104 
'NATIONAL CEMETERY. GETTYSBURG. PA io4 
OLD KING SOLOMON ic6 
♦MEMORIAL SCULPTURE ic7 
‘GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY XX 108 
THE TWO FOUNDERS OF MODERN GARDENING, II io9 
‘THE SCOTCH THISTLE 112 
CEMETERY TOPICS 113 
‘PLAZA, ALAMEDA AND PASEO IN THE CITY OF MEX- 
ICO, HI n5 
THE IDEAL PARK SUPERINTENDENT 116 
MICHIGAN'S EARLY WILD FLOWERS II 118 
'THE OLE BULL MONUMENT, LORING PARK, MINNE- 
APOLIS, MINN 120 
PARK NOTES 12 1 
CEMETERY NOTES 122 
CORRESPONDENCE i*3 
PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT 124 
illustrated. 
F the true measure of a community is the meas- 
ure of the things for which it cares, the record 
of which is perpetuated in its art, so as Leslie 
W. Miller also says, no better service can be ren- 
dered to the community than the promotion in every 
possible way of those forms of culture, and the 
cherishing of those ideals, which find expression in 
art. This thought appears to be the moving spirit 
of the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadel- 
phia, whose recent acquisition of the group of 
“Dickens a*d Little Nell” adds another pleasing 
work to the many that have been provided through 
the instrumentality of the association, for Fair- 
mount Park and the city of Philadelphia itself. 
Other large cities of the country taking the above 
thought as a text, and it is true if history be true, 
might well organize a like association and endeavor 
by righteous emulation to do for their communities 
what the Philadelphia Association has done. 
T HERE is one portion of the majority of cem- 
eteries which, in a certain sense, is looked 
upon as a stumbling block to perpetual care 
— that containing the single graves, the Potter’s 
Field, or perhaps both — and especial care is usu- 
ally taken to advise lot owners or would-be pur- 
chasers that such a portion is exempt from the pro- 
vision. The conclusion is as repugnant to modern 
ideas as perpetual care and the lawn plan are har- 
monious therewith. The age demands as careful 
consideration of one class of human beings as an- 
other, and every progressive thinker experiences 
the truth of this in his own reasoning. Put, how- 
ever cemetery corporations or officials may desire 
to deceive themselves as to the due and proper at- 
tention necessary for such portions of a cemetery, 
nature herself works to destroy the harmony of the 
plan unless equal care is bestowed upon rich and 
poor sections alike. It may be safely asserted that 
much harm will be done to the future of any ceme- 
tery, should any portion of it be left to take care of 
itself ; and not only in a material way, but as gen- 
eration after generation becomes wiser, as truly 
they will, the ignorance and neglect of this genera- 
tion will be reflected back upon it in measures that 
will surely upset the plans of the present day pro- 
moters. On the face of it, it would appear that in 
the effort to promote a general interest in perpetual 
care, it should be forcibly maintained that provis- 
ion will be made for the care of the entire ceme- 
tery. To have a suspicion that certain portions will 
be left uncared for, for from whatever cause, will 
help to lead thinking people to doubt the ability of 
the present generation to perpetuate a tract, part of 
which is beautiful and part a jungle, or worse. 
T HE Board of Health of New York City has ap- 
proved the plans of a new mausoleum com- 
pany, which proposes to establish a Sanitary 
Mausoleum near High Bridge, with a capacity of 
from ten to twelve thousand bodies. The idea is to 
seal up the dead in cement receptacles, after expos- 
ing the bodies for several months to a current of air 
made chemically pure by passing it over sulphuric 
aoid and afterwards by fire. When the body is 
thoroughly dessicated the receptacle is to be made 
air tight. The sanitary authorities are reported to 
be well pleased with the proposed scheme, which 
avoids so many of the objectionable features of earth 
burial. It is proposed to erect a building 270 feet 
long, 75 feet deep and three stories high. The re- 
ceptacles will be formed of concrete, four inches 
thick and jointless, in size a little larger than an 
