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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
: 
STOCK CEMETERY MONUMENTS OF POOR DESIGN 
WITH ROCK-FACED WORK. 
In all complete monuments there must 
be a complete sense of harmony of parts 
HORROR; AN ABORTION IN DE- 
SIGN THAT OUGHT TO BE RE- 
TIRED. 
in their individual forms. They should be 
so related to each other as to convey the 
TOO MUCH BASE, BAD DEC- 
ORATIONS, POOR PROPOR- 
TIONS AND AN OVERDOSE 
OF ROCK WORK. 
ONE OF THE JAGGED IMITA- 
TIONS OF WAVES ; SELDOM 
WELL-CUT, NEVER ARTISTIC 
AND MUCH OVERWORKED. 
agreeable impression of harmonious lines 
and masses. There must also be a fitness 
both in form and in function of the vari- 
ous parts. 
The faculty of understanding and appre- 
ciating beautiful forms and lines can be 
cultivated by study. In designing monu- 
ments the different parts can often be 
made more beautiful by a little alteration 
in proportions or in the curves. 
One of the worst types of monument is 
seen in Fig. 1. There does not seem any 
excuse for such proportions as these. The 
die is the only member that has a good 
contour, and that is spoiled by adding the 
columns at each end. The cap is wholly 
abnormal in every measurement, and to 
make the appearance much worse parts are 
left rock-faced. Both bases are nothing 
more than inside wall building stones of 
entirely wrong proportions for monumental 
use. See how much different this can be 
designed by slight changes and by discard- 
ing the rock face. It is always much bet- 
ter to represent beauty than bigness and 
cheapness. 
Fig. 3 shows another just as bad. No 
part of this could be called beautiful. The 
hideous die was cheapened by leaving the 
wide rock-face margin around the edges. 
A REVISED FORM OF FIG. 1. 
A LITTLE EXAGGERATED, BUT 
NOT MUCH WORSE THAN 
SOME OF THE “WHAT-IS-ITS” 
THAT DISGRACE THE POL- 
ISHED BALLS THAT SUR- 
MOUNT THEM. 
Note the building blocks under it, just 
about as they were quarried. No ceme- 
tery association should allow such an abor- 
FIG. 12. A REVISION OF FIG. 11, 
FINISHED AS IT SHOULD BE. 
tion to enter the grounds. This, of course, 
can be arranged to look a little better by 
BAD PROPORTIONS. 
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