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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
son, with an increase of but two play- 
grounds, the total attendance was 616.133. 
The playgrounds were represented in the 
Fourth of July pageant by thirty floats, de- 
picting American history from the landing 
of the Pilgrims to present day politics. 
Two cups, five medals and eleven flags 
were awarded to the department. On 
Cleveland Day a parade took place in 
which every city department participated. 
The playground had four floats in line, 
showing a model playground, a baby dis- 
pensary, a frame of baby swings, and last, 
Columbia and different nations, symbolizing 
the cosmopolitan nature of our playground 
patrons. In the afternoon the children gave 
a demonstration at Gordon Park, present- 
ing folk dances, drills and marches, fol- 
lowed by races and contests. The girls 
presented a beautiful sight, being dressed 
in costumes made by themselves of ma- 
terial furnished by the Park Department. 
About 30,000 people witnessed the exer- 
cises. 
The officers of the Cleveland Park Board 
are: Fred C. Alber, superintendent; A. J. 
Sindelaer, secretary; Samuel Newman, park 
engineer; John Boddy, city forester. 
REMODELING and MODERNIZING AN OLD CEMETERY 
Walnut Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, 
la., was platted in i860, but has just lately 
been reorganized and about $20,000 spent 
in improvements, to place it under modern 
methods of management. It is now under 
the association, but three years ago, when 
the present officers were elected and took 
over the cemetery, all of the acreage was 
replatted and laid out by the Towle En- 
gineering Co., landscape architects. 
ding necessary, is 5 per cent per annum 
on the perpetual care payment. In other 
words, if the perpetual care on a lot 
amounted to $100, the annual care for tak- 
ing care of this lot would be $5. 
LAWN AND TREES IN WALNUT HILL CEMETERY, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA. 
perpetual care and the rules and methods 
of management have been carefully stud- 
ied to conform to the best modern practice. 
The cemetery is owned by Walnut Hill 
Cemetery Association, a corporation or- 
ganized about 1860, at which time the 
grounds, consisting of about thirty acres, 
were laid out as a cemetery. The officers 
of the association are: Nathan P. Dodge, 
Jr., president; C. L. Dodge, vice-president 
and treasurer; Robert B. Wallace, secre- 
tary; J. F. McCargar, superintendent. 
The grounds are situated in the hills and 
are quite rolling and covered with a beau- 
tiful growth of black walnut trees. The 
first plan of the grounds in the early six- 
ties was made by local men who formed 
The only buildings are a waiting station, 
into which an electric line runs, and the 
superintendent’s cottage, which was built 
about ten years ago. 
The cemetery was put under the perpet- 
ual care plan in March, 1911. All lots sold 
since that time have been sold with the 
perpetual 'care provision, and many of the 
old lot owners have taken advantage of 
the opportunity to put their lots under this 
plan by a payment of 25 cents per square 
foot. The association has an endowment 
fund and a perpetual care fund, the total 
of both funds being about $12,000. The 
lots which are not under perpetual care 
are taken care of on the annual care plan, 
and the price for this, including all sod- 
There were 150 interments in 1913 and 
the total number to date is about 1,300. 
During the last three years the manage- 
ment has spent approximately $15,000 in 
extensions, improvements and purchase of 
additional grounds. 
The following extracts from the book 
of rules recently issued will give some idea 
of the way the grounds are maintained 
and governed : 
Mounds over graves shall not be raised 
over two inches and shall be sodded. The 
planting of flowers on graves will not be 
permitted, and but one, flower bed will be 
allowed on an entire lot ; except where half 
lots have been sold, one on each half lot 
may be planted. 
