PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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At the convention of the Association of Ameri- 
can Cemetery Superintendents, held at St. Louis 
two years ago, the bicycle loomed up for considera- 
tion in the course of the proceedings, and an ani- 
mated discussion ensued as to the desirability of ad- 
mitting it into the precincts of the cemetery. To 
obtain the sense of the meeting on the question a 
ballot was taken which resulted in a very large ma- 
jority in favor of the wheel. Since that time how- 
ever, with more extended experience, and with a 
possible better understanding of human nature in 
combination with a bicycle, there appears to be a 
decided bias setting in against it. 
The regulation of its use must of course be a 
matter of exceeding great delicacy, for the line has 
to be drawn between the rights of the man owning 
a carriage and the one using a wheel. This must 
be said however in favor of the carriage, that re- 
strictions on its use are easily controlled, while the 
ubiquitous wheel has given frequent offense in pub- 
lic places by the flagrant disregard of its rider of 
al*l rules and regulations when the official eye is not 
in evidence. Again the very popularity of the wheel 
leading to its acquisition by all classes of society, 
gives a much lower average of responsibility, morally 
and physically, to the frequenter of the cemetery 
on the bicycle. 
The following expressions from many leading 
cemeteries will show the sentiment now prevailing: 
“We do notallow bicycles in our cemetery at all under any 
circumstances.” — Matthew P. Brasill, Supt., Calvary Cemetery, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
‘Bicycling on the grounds, is not allowed. Wheels must be 
left at the gates. — J.B.Gaszam, Sec’y., Bellefontaine Ceme- 
tery, St. Louis, Mo. 
“We do not admit bicycles to our cemetery, we keep racks 
at the entrances where riders may leave their wheels and visit 
the grounds in our cemetery conveyance, or on foot as they pre- 
fer.” — F. IV. Chisletf, Supt., Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapo- 
lis, Ind. 
Chicago cemeteries generally have no restrictions against 
the decorous use of bicycles in their grounds. 
“Our superintendent at the cemetery by tacit consent pro- 
hibits bicycle riding in the grounds on Sundays and holidays, but 
permits it at any other time, under conditions that save other 
visitors and the grounds from injury. We have no written or 
printed rule on the subject however, as we have not on many 
other subjects in which the superintendent’s general police 
powers are regarded as sufficient to deter visitors from doing any 
act that will injure either the grounds or visitors.” — Edward 
Ferguson, Sec'y. and Treas. , Forest Home Cemetery, Milwau- 
kee, Wis. 
“We have no rules or restrictions on bicycle riding.” — J. C. 
Dix, Supt., Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, O. 
“A few years ago the trustees of Oakland decided to restrict 
the use of bicycles to lot owners only and issued tickets to that 
effect, good for one season. This was continued for two or three 
years by which time the public was pretty well educated in re- 
gard to the use of bicycles in the cemetery. For the last two 
seasons the rule has not been enforced and unless the use of the 
bicycle becomes much more aggravated in the future than it has 
been during this time it is not likely to be again. The extra 
trouble in looking after those that are not lot owners is much 
more than offset by the labor and worry saved from issuing 
tickets and looking after them.”— John M. Box ell, Supt., Oak- 
land Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn. 
“We have no written rules concerning bicycles, but do not 
permit the public to ride them through the grounds. Some of our 
men who are the heads of the different departments ride wheels 
in performing their duties. We fear if the lot owners were per- 
mitted to come on wheels, our grounds would be over run with 
them and if once permitted would be difficult to stop. ” — IVm. 
Salway, Supt., The Cemetery of Spring Grove, Cincinnati, O. 
“We have adopted no special rules as regards bicycles in 
the cemetery. The only one we have is that in our old rules — 
No bicycle or tricycle allowed in the cemetery.” — IV. J. Har- 
graves, Supt., Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Mass. 
“Our restrictions for bicycle riders are, that we issue a pass 
for lot owners only to enter the cemetery on bicycle.”—//. J. 
Diering, Supt., Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. 
“Bicycle riding is not allowed in our cemetery .” — F. A. 
Sherman, Supt., Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, Conn. 
“We furnish all lot owners with a permit for the bicycle, 
and no outsiders are allowed to ride a wheel in the cemetery.” — 
A. W. Hohert, Sec’y and Supt., Lakewood Cemetery, Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 
“Swan Point Cemetery has no restrictions or rules about 
bicycles, presumably because I never asked for any. To prevent 
people from riding to their own lot, or to friends lots, seems to 
me very harsh, and imposes unnecessary hardship on proprietors 
or admirers of the cemetery, and as no complaints have come 
from these or any other source, I did not feel like depriving our 
people of this mode of conveyance unless we furnished a substi- 
tute.”— Timothy McCarthy, Supt., Swan Point Cemetery, 
Providence, R. I. 
“We allow lot owners only with a special season ticket to 
pass the gate with bicycles.”— Robert Scr ivener, Supt., Cedar 
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. 
“St. Agnes Cemetery allows no bicycle riding within its 
grounds.” — B. D. Judson, Supt., St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, 
“We do not restrict bicycles except that they must keep to 
the roads and go at a moderate speed.”—/?. Z. Morris, Supt., 
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester. N. Y. 
“Bicycle permits are issued only to lot owners and their 
families in this cemetery — Eugene Cushman, Supt., Green- 
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
“We allow bicycles at all times, except Memorial Day, the 
30th. of May and the following Sunday, that is Memorial Sun- 
day with us. On these two days of the year we exclude bicycles 
and vehicles of all kinds.” —John J. Stephens Asst. Supt., Green 
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, O. 
“We do not restrict bicycle riders as yet. How soon we may 
do so I cannot say.”— Geo. M. Painter, Supt., West Laurel Hill, 
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. 
The following is the vote of our Trustees governing the ad- 
mission of bicycles. 
Voted: that the secretary under the direction of frhe Presi- 
dent, be authorized to issue yearly passes to proprietors of lots, 
to enter the cemetery upon a bicycle, under the following condi- 
tions: 1. The bicycle to be used upon avenues only. — 2. The 
rate of speed not to exceed 5 miles an hour. — 3. No “coasting” 
to be indulged in. — 4. The rider in no case to pass a funeral 
procession or near to any lot where funeral exercises are taking 
place, unless he shall be dismounted. — 5. The pass to be shown 
whenever used. — 6. The pass to be cancelled upon a violation 
of any one of the above conditions. 
So many pleasure seekers pass the cemetery that the gen- 
eral admission of those on wheels would prove an annoyance to 
lot owners. John C Scorgie, Supt., Mt., Auburn Cemetery, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
