PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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When platting the sections into lots, a grass 
border of at least four feet is always left between 
the drive and the front line of the lot; in this space 
the water and drain pipes are laid, thus obviating 
the necessity of tearing up the roadways for repairs 
and connections, save when crossing from one sec- 
ENTRANCE TO RECEIVING VAULT, REAR VIEW OF CHAPEL. 
tion to another. The water pipe is laid only six in- 
ches below the surface and follows the contour of 
the ground. At every low place a drip valve is put 
in, by means of which the system is thoroughly 
drained in late fall when the frosts become severe. 
Owing to the lack of a perfect system of drain- 
age it ha’s been found necessary to sink catch basins 
in the sand in numerous places and allow the sur- 
face water to drain into them and seep away through 
the sand. By cleaning these frequently, this sys- 
tem answers fairly well and will be continued until 
such time as a more perfe t one is found. 
The water supply comes from two connections 
with the city mains, and from a well in the low 
ground, from where it is forced by wind power to a 
52,000 gallon tank on the highest point in the 
grounds. The windmills and tank will supply 
'sufficient water for use except during the ex- 
treme hot weather. At present the water is used 
exclusively forcare of lawns and flowers and sprink- 
ling the drives, but the plan is to have eventually 
several small lakes or pools, which will draw from 
the same sources. 
Fortunately the grounds are naturally wooded, the 
native trees being red, black and burr oak, linden, 
ash, elm, hickory and hard maple on the high 
ground, while the birch and tamarac cover the low 
places. There are also growing wild large numbers 
of thorns, dogwoods, high bush cranberries, snow 
berry, hazel, red berried elder and other shrubs 
_which are transplanted to the nursery and after a 
year or two planted out permanently in thegrounds. 
Success has attended the planting of shrubbery, and 
it has done away to a great extent with the necessity 
for show beds and has reduced the annual bill for 
flowers to a small amount. Quite a number of an- 
nuals are raised in hot beds and cannas are started 
in the same manner. 
From about November 15th, to April 1st, there 
are but few burials made at Lakewood, the heavy 
snows and deep frost making it exceedingly difficult 
and unpleasant to open graves and attend funerals. 
All bodies brought to the cemetery during this time 
are taken to the chapel, which is heated and ready 
for use at all times, and where the concluding por- 
tion of the burial service is conducted the same as 
it would have been at the grave. After the depar- 
ture of the friends, the cemetery employees take 
charge of the remains and lower them into the vault, 
where they are numbered and registered for identifi- 
cation and burial in the spring. The receiving 
vault has a capacity of about five hundred bodies, 
but so far not more than 325 bodies have been 
cared for in one season. 
At the annual meeting in 1895 the Board passed 
a rule prohibiting mounds over graves, this has been 
strictly enforced and is accepted without question. 
Lots in section 14 (the latest platted) are sold 
only with the proviso that but one stone, (the monu- 
ment)'may be erected above the sod level, all grave 
marks being set level with the ground, and no flow- 
ers to be planted except in vases. 
Nowhere in the grounds are tombs allowed to 
be built except in the hill side, which is reserved 
for this purpose. 
A VIEW IN LAKEWOOD. 
We are indebted to Mr. Arthur W. Hobert, sup- 
erintendent, for the particulars concerning Lake- 
wood, and for photographs from which the illustra- 
tions are produced. 
