PARK AND CEMETERY. 
top of the chamber, so that the flames do’not strike 
directly upon the body. The secondary burner in 
PREPARING ROOM, CREMATORY, MILWAUKEE. 
the combustion chamber is placed at one end, so 
that its flames shoot down the chamber and across 
the openings from which the gases from above are 
received. 
The flues for carrying the gases from the retort 
are arranged along one side at the bottom of the 
wall and under the row of burners previously de- 
scribed, the design being to keep the gases swirl- 
ing and prevent their too rapid escape into the 
combustion chamber. In the lower chamber the 
same swirling is kept up to consume the gases as 
completely as possible. The fumes pass through 
a series of openings between the bricks of the cham- 
ber floor into the chimney flue, and the openings 
VIEW FROM PREPARING ROOM, SHOWING REPORT DOOR 
AND WAITING ROOM. 
have been so arranged as to prevent any consider- 
able volume of smoke or gas escaping at any single 
point. The drafts can be so regulated that incinera- 
tion can be accomplished without a particle of 
smoke issuing from the chimney. 
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The lighting of the rooms is effected principally 
by electricity, but two small windows filled with 
colored glass admit light from the outside and 
create some spectacular effects in the illumination. 
The services and routine adopted in the carry- 
ing out of an incineration have already been de- 
scribed in these columns, and they vary little except 
in detail at the several crematories of the country. 
The effort on the part of those intrusted with the 
establishment and operation of a crematory is to se- 
cure conditions the least harrowing and suggestive 
to the mourners, and to approach as closely as 
RETORT ROOM, CREMATORY, MILWAUKEE. 
possible to an ideal consignment of departed man 
to the realms of nature. 
Foresight in Gardening. — One of the misfortunes 
of garden lovers is that they frequently plan to do more 
than can be carried on successfully. Almost every one 
who builds a house thinks he would like to have a nice 
garden, and the nice garden is consequently arranged. 
But when it is found, as it too often is found, that it re- 
quires a number of men, running up an expensive sal- 
ary bill, to keep the place in good order, what was ex- 
pected to be a pleasure becomes an annoyance and a 
bore. A small place well cared for and everything kept 
nice and orderly gives far more satisfaction than an 
overgrowrj place that is a diag on the means of the pro- 
prietor. We know of a number of places, beautifully 
designed in the first instance, and which require some 
half a dozen hands to care for properly, dragging along 
with only one regularly employed, with perhaps an as- 
sistant, and even the money for this grudgingly be- 
stowed. There is no comfort in seeking pleasure in this 
fashion. In all our operations we are too apt to think 
we can do more than we really can. In gardening 
matters, it is especially so. — Meehan's Monthly for July. 
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Sig. Crispi has had his own monument erected in a 
Naples cemetery. Its only inscription is “Crispi.” 
