PARK AND CEMETERY. 
D evoted to Art Out-of-Doors,- Parks, Ceme- 
teries, Town and Village Improvements. 
R. J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
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R. J. HAJGHT, 
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Vol. VII. CHICAGO 
DEC., 1897. No. 10. 
CONTENTS. 
EDI TORIAL— Small Parks— Funeral Reform— Two Aspects 
of the Public Monument Question 223 
RESIDENCE STREETS, IV 224 
‘SUPPLY WAGON FOR FOUNDATION WORK IN CEME- 
TERIES 225 
WHAT ARE THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN LAND- 
SCAPE GARDENING? 226 
“ACTUAL COST OF CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 226 
THE INFLUENCE OF BEAUTIFUL STREETS UPON PUB- 
LIC HEALTH 227 
‘‘CASCADE PARK, NEW CASTLE, PA. 22 S 
“A MODEL RESIDENCE STREET 2 3o 
‘BATTERSEA PARK, LONDON. ENGLAND 232 
ROAD MAKING 233 
‘SOME REFLECTIONS UPON MEXICAN BURIAL PLACES. 234 
‘GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXIV 236 
COMMERCIAL TREES 238 
PARK NOTES 239 
CEMETERY NOTES 240 
CORRESPONDENCE 24i 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT 242 
‘Illustrated. 
HE development of the magnificent park sys- 
tems in large cities and their patronage by 
the general public, has drawn more em- 
phatic attention to the fact that they do not fill the 
entire bill of needs of the people. The poor and 
struggling communities still lack, in most places, 
the opportunities for fresh air and recreation, which 
the large park affords for those more comfortably 
situated. It therefore becomes the duty of our city 
governments to make provision for small parks in 
their crowded sections and, in reason, the more the 
better. In what ever light we may consider the 
small parks in the thickly settled districts of our 
cities, they suggest good results. Boston, New 
York and Philadelphia have entered with vigor into 
a solution of this great question, and in the near fu- 
ture, Chicago promises to follow suit. A word of 
advice to all city governments is this: Provide for 
sufficient small park area, while land is reasonable 
in price, and avoid the oversight which is now cost- 
ing the tax-payers of many other cities such large 
expenditures. 
F UNERAL reform is rapidly becoming a pro- 
gressive fact. The pomp and oftimes mum- 
mery of the funeral and burial, which has be- 
come so conspicuous by reason of the growing 
common sense of the people, seems to have reached 
its limit, for there is a well-defined feeling pervad- 
ing society that it is time to call a halt to the use- 
less expenditures accompanying these last sad rites. 
It is gratifying to note that the cemeteries are tak- 
ing a prominent part in the reform, many of them 
already forbidding the decoration of graves by ar- 
tificial accessories, thus presenting a barrier against 
the perpetuation of really inconsistent sentiment. 
The fact that simplicity, which is the marked char- 
acteristic of educated taste, is gaining force, points 
to the advantages of denuding funeral ceremonies 
ot all pomp and costly ceremonial, and instead 
thereof, investing the sad rites with such simple 
details as will suggest to mourning relatives and 
friends thoughts that bear fruit in a higher appre- 
ciation of man’s duty and destiny. The beauty of 
the modern cemetery under the new order of devel- 
opment has for its keynote simplicity; fewer, but 
more artistic monuments, set in landscape pictures 
elaborate only to the extent of the genius brought 
to bear in assisting nature to make them, but sim- 
ple in the majesty of that nature, which while en- 
trancing, comforts and consoles with the music of 
her harmonies. Then, why load the funeral with 
meaningless encumbrances, or the grave with in- 
harmonious furbishings? If money needs to be dis- 
pensed for form’s sake, until a wiser spirit prevails, 
let it be expended in some worthy object — some 
object that would benefit the living and pay ever- 
lasting tribute to the dead. 
M ONUMENTS as memorials for both public 
and private purposes may be studied in two 
phases from recent New York dispatches, 
and both in preparation for that city. The long 
expected soldiers’ and sailors’ monument is now in 
a fair way of some day being erected, for the com- 
mission has practically determined upon a design, 
after a public exhibition of a number submitted in 
competition. But the question has been raised 
whether an amount of $250,000 is sufficient to 
produce a public memorial of so important 
a character, to be located on so splendid a 
site as is promised for it, and in such a me- 
tropolis as New York City. It would seem con- 
sistent to believe that the men called upon to de- 
cide the important questions involved are equal to 
