PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Devoted to Art Out-of-Doors, — Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO- 
R. J. HAIGHT, 
JOHN W. WESTON, C. E., 
Editors. 
Subscription Si.oo a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
Vol. VII. CHICAGO. OCT., 1897. No. 8. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— Electric Cars in Cemeteries— The Fall Sea- 
son— The Need of Art Commissioners 177 
THIS VALUE OF IMPROVEMENT 178 
"RESIDENCE STREETS-II 179 
GROUP OF CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENTS AT CIN- 
CINNATI -DR. LIVINGSTONE’S AFRICAN GRAVE 180 
TOMB OF THE ORLEANS FAMILY 181 
"A VIEW IN RIDGEWOOD PARK, BROOKLYN i83 
'•"DEPOT GROUNDS AT LAKE CITY, MINN 184 
•"CEMETERIES IN THE OZARK MOUNTAINS r86 
"OFFICE OF THE RIVERSIDE CEMETERY, CLEVELAND, O. 1 8 
*A CHURCH IN RURAL ENGLAND 189 
"GARDEN PLANTS; THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXIII 190 
A HALF HOUR WITH INSECTS, INJURIOUS AND BENE- 
FICIAL IC2 
"THE LOVEJOY MONUMENT AT ALTON, ILL i9j 
PUBLIC GARDENS AND SQUARES i96 
FALL FLOWERING SHRUBS 197 
"A SIDE HILL VAULT r 9 8 
PARK NOTES 199 
CEMETERY NOTES 200 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 202 
"Illustrated. 
W E confess to some leaning to utilitarianism 
in relation to some things so long as it 
serves our best interests and does not 
threaten the principles and ideas firmly established 
by precedent, custom and sentiment; but we think 
a line should be drawn against the admission of the 
electric trolley car within the precincts of our ceme- 
teries. There is no doubt of its, to some extent, 
convenience, and its advocates undoubtedly bring 
many plausible arguments in the effort to convince 
of its advantages, but the cemetery is a sacred 
spot, which should be kept free of any and every 
suggestion of sordid business life. So far as our 
present civilization goes, it would seem altogether 
incompatible to expend so much effort and argu- 
ment to bring about perpetual care and the devel- 
opment of the cemetery to the ideal of the Elysian 
fields, and at the same time open it to business op- 
portunity under the plea of convenience. Neither 
the trolley poles, wires or car tracks should have 
any place within our cemeteries. These are sancti- 
fied by the presence of the dead, and the hallowed 
memories of the living; they are the holy ground 
upon which we should pass with reverence; within 
their confines untold lessons await the willing 
learner, and rest, peace and beauty are the hand- 
maidens to wait on the intelligence that seeks the 
wisdom the modern cemetery imparts. Let us en- 
courage all possible facilities without the walls, but 
let us not trespass on the sacred prerogatives within. 
T HE season is once more upon us which pro- 
duces an entire change in our landscape ef- 
fects, draws to a close the outdoor gardening 
work of the park and cemetery superintendent, and 
provides the needed rest for plant life. There is no 
actual rest, however, for the progressive superin- 
tendent; while rest, as far as the park official goes, 
is practically a thing of the past, and even for the 
cemetery superintendent who is keenly alive to the 
demands of landscape art, the fall provides ample 
opportunity for extensive preparations for the fol- 
lowing year's improvements. For art out of doors 
has opened up such wonderful possibilities for 
beautiful effects throughout the entire year that just 
so long as frost keeps out of the ground the way is 
open for touching up the nature studies that the 
landscape gardener has provided in his planting out 
systems. The ever varying pictures always sug- 
gest a touch here or a little change there, and while 
the permanent features are such as will require 
years to develop to their prime, the details require 
constant attention and make nature’s canvasses a 
continual delight to work upon. So that besides 
the business details of the superintendent’s office in 
a modern cemetery, art out of doors requires an 
active intelligence pretty much throughout the year, 
for even the frost-bound weeks simply serve to di- 
vert thought from one activity to another. The 
public demand for winter recreation and sports in 
our parks nowadays necessitates the maintaining of 
a constant force of help, which keeps the superin- 
tendent actively employed, but yet he must find 
opportunities to keep pace with the development 
of his landscape, a never ending study. 
T HE need of a commission in every considera- 
ble city to determine upon its public monu- 
ments is a subject often discussed in these 
columns, and it is a subject which will admit of ex- 
pansion to take in the public parks and their acces- 
sories, and, in fact, any other features of municipal 
improvement which calls for high professional skill 
to produce satisfactory results. For a long period 
of time the development of landscape art was con- 
fined to a few men of marked ability, but the great 
results they produced have neither been matters of 
general knowledge or general benefit, being largely 
confined to royal gardens and private estates. Their 
practical ideas have been copied and reproductions 
attempted here and there, it is true, but their works 
were exclusive in a certain sense. The rapid devel- 
opment along all lines, however, which distinguishes 
this epoch is not more marked in anything, per- 
haps, than in the demand for public parks and mu- 
