PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Our associate partner, Mr. Gallagher, has 
been engaged for some time on an inter- 
esting matter of park design, namely, the 
redesigning of League Island Park in Phil- 
adelphia, for the Bureau of Highways of 
the Department of Public Works. Ibis 
park has not been turned over to the Fair- 
mount Park Commission, which handles 
most of the parks of Philadelphia. It was 
partially improved by the previous adminis- 
tration, but for various reasons the new 
reform administration has deemed it ad- 
visable to stop grading and construction 
and have a new design of the park pre- 
pared. The landscape is to be entirely 
created, as the area was originally salt 
marsh and has to be filled mainly by ma- 
terial obtained in the dredging of the chan- 
nels of the Delaware River. The park is 
cut in two as a matter of design by the 
extension of South Broad street as a wide 
parkway on a straight line. This will have 
a rapid transit route in it according to 
present plans, and if not, there will be a 
surface electric railway for the purpose of 
providing transportation, not only to the 
park and its surrounding territory, but also 
for League Island Navy Yard. The steam 
railroads are to unite in a freight belt line 
which crosses Broad street extension at the 
south border of the park, and the Broad 
street parkway is to be filled to a height 
sufficient to carry it over this freight rail- 
road. Advantage is to be taken of the 
height as a means of commanding the 
views to create an ornamental plaza, where 
there would ordinarily be simply a bridge 
over the railroad. The west half of the 
park will be improved in the ordinary park 
landscape style, with an irregular lake, 
curving drives and walks, gently undulating 
lawns, masses of shrubbery and border 
plantations. The east side of the park will 
be developed more simply into a great 
meadow for ball games and the like, and 
surrounded by walks, drives and border 
plantations. 
I am myself engaged on a preliminary 
report for a comprehensive system of park- 
ways in Essex County, N. J., there being 
ASKED AND 
a recognized need of pleasure driving con- 
nections between the various parks and 
reservations which have already been pro- 
vided at a cost of over $5,000,000. The dif- 
ficulties and expense incident to securing a 
complete system of parkways are such that 
it may well be doubted whether the county 
can afford to go very extensively into the 
matter within the next few years, and some 
portions are very likely to become impos- 
sible of acomplishment later owing to the 
increase of private improvements. 
John C. Olmsted. 
Brookline, Mass. 
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The Park Board of Utica, N. Y., has the 
last two years extended the boulevard one 
mile and three-quarters further easterly to 
connect all the parks in the eastern end of 
the city and to connect with Rutger boule- 
vard, the main artery for auto trafficing 
between the extreme eastern end of the 
city and the center of the business district. 
The board has accomplished a vast 
amount of ground work in Roscoe Conk- 
ling Park, including the installation of san- 
itary closet and sewage system in the beau- 
tiful Bronx-like woods of said park; the 
construction with gravel of three miles of 
the drives of park having the worst 
grades; a vast amount of native planting 
and also some natural planting of nursery 
stock and trees, such as black walnut, ca- 
talpa and elm and Norway maple. A great 
deal of underground draining has also 
been done, and band stands and shelter 
houses, children’s play fields and tennis 
courts have been constructed. 
The board has done much to create in- 
terest in trees and in tree protection by in- 
stituting an Arbor Day for all- the school 
children, by letters to the papers on the 
subject of insect pests, etc. 
Land values have increased enormously 
along the boulevard, in some cases at least 
600 per cent in three years. 
E. M. Swiggett, 
LTica, N. Y. Supt. of Parks. 
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ANSWERED 
An exchange of experience on practical matters by our readers. You 
are invited to contribute questions and answers to this department 
Price of Lodge Burial Plots. 
Editor Asked and Answered: We are 
trying to get a lodge here to make a con- 
tract with our cemetery to use a certain 
block as their burial plot, but some of 
the lodge members think that our price, 50 
cents per square foot, is too high. Please 
quote us prices of different cemetery lots 
that you may be familiar with. — M. B., Tex. 
We would not sell a lodge or secret so- 
ciety a lot in Crown Hill Cemetery, large 
or small, for any less than the individual 
at the minimum price of 50 cents, our max- 
imum being $2. At my old home some 
three years ago, I sold the Order of Elks 
a lot 1,200 square feet at 60 cents per foot 
(that was at Columbus, Ohio). If the 
cemetery is a well-kept, modern one, I 
think that ground at 50 cents is very rea- 
sonable. J. J. Stephens, 
Supt., Crown Hill Cemetery. 
Indianapolis. 
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Our lowest price for lots is 50 cents per 
foot. Our neighbor, Bellefontaine, charges 
$1 per foot as lowest price. In the eastern 
cemeteries the price is still higher. The 
price of ground in cemeteries depends a 
good deal on location and other circum- 
stances. M. P. Brazill, 
St. Louis. Supt. Calvary Cemetery. 
There are certain conditions governing 
all cemetery lots, whether for lodges or 
private use, that should be considered. One 
of these conditions, which is the most im- 
portant of all, is the future care of the lot. 
This future general care does not neces- 
sarily mean special care, such as watering, 
planting flowers, etc., but only such items 
as cutting and trimming the grass and 
keeping the lot in a clean and respectable 
appearance, the filling and resodding of 
graves, etc. A purchase price of 50 cents 
per square foot will not permit this. Some 
years ago Cave Hill Cemetery sold lots at 
50 cents per square foot, but experience 
has forced up our minimum priced lots to 
$1 per foot, and 20 per cent of this is laid 
aside in a sinking fund. We now sell 
lodges lots on the same basis as private 
purchasers, the Elks purchasing a lot of 
2,306 square feet recently at $1.10 per square 
foot. This price insures perpetual general 
care for this plot, just as all private lots 
receive. Such institutions as are of a 
purely eleemosynary character are given a 
special low price on lots and nothing is 
charged for interments. We see no reason 
why a fellow member of a lodge should be 
buried in a cheap lot any more than a 
member of one’s family. All lots should 
receive perpetual general care, and if your 
correspondent can give this for 50 cents 
per square foot he must be located in an 
ideal place, as Cave Hill Cemetery could 
not do it. However, the price of labor will 
have a decided bearing on the cost of care. 
Our lots are sold for $1, $1.10, $1.25 and 
$1.75 per square foot, and this we con- 
sider a reasonable price for Louisville, Ky. 
Robt. Campbell, 
Supt., Cave Hill Cemetery. 
Louisville, Ky. 
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Constitution and By-Laws. 
Will you kindly inform me where I may 
be able to secure a copy of the constitu- 
tion and by-laws of some cemetery associa- 
tion? — P. K., 111. 
The best way to get a form that would 
suit your state laws, your size and local 
conditions, would be for you to write to 
several cemeteries in your state in towns of 
about the same size as yours, and study 
their forms. No doubt any of the superin- 
tendents would be glad to send you copies 
of their constitutions and rules. 
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Elks’ Monuments. 
Editor Park and Cemetery: We have 
cuts taken from your magazine showing 
monuments erected by the Elks in different 
parts of the country and find they have 
been very useful in selling lots to lodges. 
We write to ask you if you ever published 
a magazine showing cuts of monuments 
erected by other orders, namely, Eagles, 
Moose, Masonic, etc.? If you have, we 
wish you would send us either the maga- 
zine or the cuts. — R. H. Cem. Co., Pa. 
We are sending you copies of our other 
