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complete uniformity in this department of 
work. 
As a valuable assistance in the work of 
improvement, an example should be pre- 
sented yearly by the judicious planting of 
public portions of the cemetery of what 
ordinary good taste would produce, and the 
superintendent, no matter how inexperienced, 
will find this department one of the most 
interesting studies, as well as one of the 
greatest pleasures, in connection with his 
work. 
And now, when all plans are laid, the one 
great effort should be to give to these own- 
ers, who are supporting the efforts of the 
managers, full, and more than full, value 
for their investments. 
Good workmen are necessary and (at the 
risk of contradiction) the division of the 
cemetery into sections and the placing of 
groups of these men, with some recognized 
head in each section, seems to be the most 
reasonable method. 
In this way a visitor would always be 
able to find an employee near by to whom 
his or her troubles may be told, so that, 
even without telephone connection, these 
troubles may be forwarded promptly to the 
office, thus enabling the superintendent to 
supply a remedy when the section foreman 
is unable to to so. 
Again, by this plan, it is possible for the 
foreman, under the guidance of the super- 
intendent, to gain an intimate knowledge of 
each lot, eventually learning the peculiar 
condition attached to each, and (especially 
in the case of the class of cemetery under 
consideration) knowing just the kind of 
care to which each lot is entitled, for we 
believe that there should be a marked dis- 
tinction made between the care given to the 
special care lots and that given to the or- 
dinary or rough care portions, and as an 
aid to this, marked maps might be placed in 
each section, which would result in a more 
intelligent interest being’ taken in the work 
of the assistants. 
The foregoing ideas, the result of many 
educative disappointements, touch in not 
the most complete nor clearest way upon 
some of the questions involved in under- 
taking the reclaiming of a neglected burial 
ground, the adding to a municipality of an- 
other creditable institution, and the reliev- 
ing of the lot owner of much of the sorrow, 
so necessarily connected with a cemetery, 
however beautiful. 
VARIED ATTRACTIONS OF GOLDEN GATE PARK 
Golden Gate Park of San Francisco still 
holds a unique place among park crea- 
tions for its remarkable variety of attrac- 
tions, both natural and artificial. Apart 
from the sense of delight that views of 
foliage, meadow, woodland, lake, ocean and 
mountain range confer, the fact is still sig- 
nificant in this age of progress materially, 
that the investment is the best that San 
Francisco ever made. All that the city 
appropriates annually for the maintenance 
of the park is but a small proportion of 
the taxes laid on lots and tracts of land 
that have become immensely valuable by 
reason of the park development. More- 
over, the value of adjacent property will 
continue to increase until the ocean front- 
age near Golden Gate Park will really be 
the front of San Francisco. 
The increase in value of land is not 
limited to the territory which may be desig- 
nated as the park zone, but extends to all 
sections of San Francisco and the Bay 
region. Golden Gate Park is a field of re- 
creation, and a source of delight for all 
Californians. 
As early as 1888, Frederick Law Olm- 
sted predicted that “Golden Gate Park was 
to have a unique and incomparable char- 
acter.” Fie regarded its development as an 
interesting problem to be studied in a care- 
ful and sustained manner. It is the judg- 
ment of the Park Commissioners, and of 
John McLaren, Superintendent, that the 
time has now arrived for a serious study 
of the problem. Since 1906, much of the 
money allowed by the Supervisors for the 
parks has been expended to restore Golden 
Gate Park and the small squares and 
CYPRESS. BUENA VISTA PARK, SAN FRANCISCO. 
