PARK 
AND CEMETERY. 
Devoted to Art Out-of-Doors, — Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
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R. J. HAIGHT, 
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Vol. VII. CHICAGO, SEPT., 1897. No. 7. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— Convention of A. A. C. S. -Small Pakks and Pi. ay 
Grounds— Village Improvement Societies -Public Monu- 
ments 1 i 5 i 
‘RESIDENCE STREETS, I 152 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENT 1 53 
‘THE CHAPMAN MONUMENT, MILWAUKEE, W1S 155 
‘THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN 
ASSOCIATION OF CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENTS i 56 
*A GLIMPSE AT FINSBURY PARK, LONDON, ENG 160 
*STATUE OF GEN. LOGAN, LAKE FRONT PARK, CHI- 
CAGO 161 
‘PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN 162 
♦LAKEWOOD CEMETERY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN i 64 
'GARDEN PLANTS; THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXII 166 
‘THE ROSTRUM, NATIONAL CEMETERY, GETTYSBURG i69 
THE CREMATORIUM, FOREST HOME CEMETERY, MIL- 
WAUKEE, WIS 171 
S'lME NATIVE PLANTS ...... 172 
PARK NOTES 173 
CEMETERY NOTES r 174 
PUBLISHERS DEPARTMENT 176 
‘Illustrated. 
T HE Eleventh Annual Convention of the Asso- 
ciation of American Cemetery Superintend- 
ents, held at Cincinnati this month, passed off 
in a manner highly satisfactory to all concerned. In 
point of numbers it was the largest gathering in the 
annals of the association, and was especially grati- 
fying from the fact that among those attending were 
many trustees and other cemetery officials. To get 
the work of the association properly understood by 
the cemetery organizations it has been the aim of 
its officers so to impress its objects upon the man- 
aging officials, that they might see the necessity of 
attending the meetings, if not joining its member- 
ship, so that by the mutual exchange of experience 
and knowledge and the discussion of pertinent mat- 
ters, progress in all departments of cemetery work 
might be made more positive and effective. In this 
direction the Cincinnati meeting promises better re- 
sults than any previous convention, and we doubt 
not but the coming year will witness its beneficial 
effects in many directions. A condensed report of 
the meeting will be found elsewhere in this issue. 
T HE small park and playground idea is rapidly 
assuming an unforeseen development in New 
York City, a development as interesting to 
all overcrowded districts, wherever they may be 
found in our large cities. By an act of the legisla- 
ture one million dollars per annum may be expended 
in New York City in creating small parks and open 
spaces where the crowded conditions of population 
make it necessary. In one park recently opened the 
children of the neighborhood claimed it for them- 
selves, practically demonstrating the imperative re- 
quirements of the little ones in their unfortunate 
surroundings. The wh©le question of the duty of 
the people to these little folks has become a burn- 
ing one, and not only is it decreed that school- 
houses shall have ample space for playgrounds, if 
not on the ground level at any rate in the buildings 
and on the roofs, but it is probable that the present 
situation may be relieved by some co-operation be- 
tween the Park board and School board looking to 
the better provision of playground facilities for the 
children. The whole question is a pertinent one 
for our cities generally. It is especially so in Chi- 
cago. According to Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, 
of New York, the school houses should be allowed 
to fulfill a further limit of usefulness, when not in 
use for their primal object, that of providing a pub- 
lic meeting house for the neighborhood, for all pur- 
poses where the people have a common interest, 
politics and religion being barred. Truly we are 
living in a growing age. 
I j* VERY town should have an active village 
j, improvement society” is the opening sen- 
tence of a Massachusetts contemporary, 
and it is a statement that can be sincerely endorsed. 
There is work enough in every community for such 
an organization, and its existence is always a de- 
terrent to common abuses. Its activities can well 
be turned to the care of the village park plot, should 
there be one, or to the burial ground, and these two 
objects of necessary care will repay a hundred fold 
in the respect of the community for its environments, 
to say nothing of the benefits returned in the in- 
creased value of holdings and the higher educational 
sentiment aroused. The trees of the village require 
continual care for their proper development, and 
nothing repays such care to better advantage. The 
Tree Planting Association of Brooklyn, N. Y., has 
proved itself a boon to the whole country by the 
intelligent way it has perfected its organization, and 
the zeal and activity it has succeeded in bringing 
into play to protect and care for the trees of that 
beautiful city. It may be addressed for informa- 
tion, and its literature will create a boom in favor of 
the trees in any Improvement Society securing it. 
The varying conditions governing our communities 
will suggest at once the most needful line of endea- 
