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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
FIFTEEN FOOT ROAD JUST AFTER TRIMMING WITH SODDING. 
tage should be taken to any available op- 
portunity to give the cemetery the charac- 
teristics of a park. 
fore an advantage, but it would be a seri- 
ous mistake to have any of the roads form 
a distinct short-cut from one highway to 
another; this would lead to an undesirable 
kind of traffic, contrary to the dignity and 
repose that should govern the cemetery. 
The general plan of the North Arlington 
Cemetery, which appeared in the February 
issue of Park and Cemetery, shows how 
the problem was handled in this instance. 
The main entrance from Kearney avenue 
has two parallel drives, each 18 feet wide, 
besides 10-foot sidewalks, and back of the 
entrance the roads spread out with a main 
system of drives 15 feet wide supplemented 
with paths seven feet wide, the paths wide 
enough and substantial enough to serve as 
drives, but intended in the main to be re- 
served for pedestrians. The alignment of 
the roads was influenced by the rolling 
character of the ground, but, as mentioned 
before, a careful topographical survey 
formed a reliable guide, with the result 
that a 7 per cent grade is an exception 
and a two-foot cut or fill equally so ; in 
general the grades are very much flatter 
END VIEW 
TYPICAL DESIGN OF CULVERT, NORTH 
ARLINGTON CEMETERY. 
and the cuts and fills insignificant. The 
alignment as designed — curves and straight 
lines — was strictly adhered to during con- 
struction, and in order to preserve it, even 
though less careful trimming of grass 
edges might tend in the course of years to 
have a disturbing influence, stone bounds 
were set at each change in curvature, one 
The cemetery, although in a sense a pub- 
lic service undertaking, must be at least 
self-supporting, and the designer should 
aim to make as much of the area as possi- 
ble useful for burial purposes and in every 
way enhance the value of each lot. Hence 
the roads should be designed close enough 
together to leave only a short walk over 
grass paths to the rear tiers of lots and 
with the minimum length that will accom- 
plish this purpose. They should be built 
on graceful lines, and other means, such 
as planting and special features that may 
suggest themselves, should be employed to 
give the grounds a park-like appearance. 
This will attract others besides just the 
lot owners, and the pleasing surroundings 
and generous attendance of visitors will 
add to the sales value of the land. Such 
an attendance of visitors, passing through 
the cemetery in a leisurely fashion, is there- 
BUILDING FIFTEEN FOOT ROAD; FIRST COURSE OF STONE LAID; BINDING 
GRANITE BEING SPREAD. 
