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JUNE, 1914 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXIV No. 4 
Model Cemetery Expositions 
An inspiring lesson is told on another page of what can be 
done for cemetery art and that of the small cemetery monument 
by the co-operation of all the organizations and industries that 
have to do with cemetery art as practiced in the model cemetery 
expositions in German. There is evidence in the pictures shown 
that artistic, well-proportioned forms for small cemetery monu- 
ments can be produced at prices no higher than at present paid 
by the average lot holder, if real art be applied to the designing 
of them. There is also evidence of the kind of co-operative 
effort that might be utilized in the development of such an 
exhibit in this country. Leading organizations in every art and 
industry pertaining to the development and adornment of the 
cemetery and public officials whose work is in any way related 
to cemetery or memorial art co-operate in the laying out of 
model cemeteries and in the placing of artistic monuments exe- 
cuted in the final material in fitting relation to their landscape 
surroundings. Nearly every great national exhibition of horticul- 
tural and gardening art has a cemetery section, and the exposi- 
tions cf architecture and the building trades give prominence 
j to specimens of monumental art executed in practically all of the 
} materials commonly used in that country. The Germans have 
led the world in the application of real art to small cemetery 
memorials, and it ought to be possible to produce expositions of 
this character in this country if the right individuals and organiza- 
Innovations In 
In the association department in our last month's issue were 
presented two interesting communications from Seattle which 
present ideas that are calculated to set park men to thinking. 
Mr. Cotterill’s plan of advertising the parks by stereopticon lec- 
tures before commercial and civic organizations is one that could 
be pursued to good advantage in any community. When the 
people are thoroughly acquainted with their parks they are in- 
variably interested in anything that pertains to park betterment 
and extension. The handsomely illustrated annual reports pub- 
lished by many park systems also serve the excellent purpose 
of advertising the parks to the people. Such methods will always 
win friends for park work, and the four million dollars of exten- 
sion funds secured for the parks in Seattle show that live pub- 
licity methods result in more and better parks. The plan of 
tions will take hold of the work. If the city building inspector, 
the cemetery director, the building trades organizations, the asso- 
ciation of German granite workers, and the association for home 
protection, combine their efforts to produce a model cemetery 
exhibit in Germany, why is there not enough artistic talent and 
executive effort to produce a similar exhibit in this country some- 
where in the ranks of any or all of such organizations as the 
National Sculpture Society, American Institute of Architects, 
National Retail Monument Dealers’ Association, National Asso- 
ciation of the Granite Industries, Association of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents, American Civic Association, Architectural 
League of New York, American Society of Landscape Architects, 
American Federation of Arts, and others. We have annually in 
Madison Square Garden in New York and the Coliseum in 
Chicago, our automobile shows, our business shows, household 
shows, cement shows, flower shows, forest products expositions, 
and we have even had in Chicago two very successful outdoor 
sculpture shows. The public attends these shows in large num- 
bers, patronizes them, and forms its ideas from them. Why not 
a model cemetery exposition for the public, that shall show 
what modern cemetery art and modern monumental art should 
be? Park and Cemetery believes that expositions of this char- 
acter can be held in this country, and that the not very distant 
future will see some substantial artistic advance in interest in 
model cemetery exhibitions. 
Park Methods 
using city prisoners as laborers in extensive park improvements, 
as practiced in Seattle, is another innovation that will, however, 
not meet with the approval of park men everywhere. Superin- 
tendent Thompson, however, makes a good argument for the 
employment of the prisoners. For the preliminary work of clear- 
ing and grading large tracts in the outlying districts, where the 
prisoners are not brought into close contact with park visitors 
or the regular park labor, Seattle’ has found her experience very 
satisfactory, and there is possibly a suggestion here that could 
be utilized elsewhere under similar circumstances. It is, of course, 
not recommended that prisoners be used for regular park main- 
tenance, but merely for extraordinary labor in opening new ground 
in unfrequented districts. Whatever we may think of these meth- 
ods of work, they are at least worthy of consideration and study. 
Summer Conveniences In The Cemetery 
The summer season that brings large numbers of people to 
the cemetery calls to mind the need for outdoor comforts for the 
cemetery patrons. Rest houses, waiting rooms, comfort stations 
and plant watering accommodations are necessary in every well- 
conducted cemetery, and the best managed cemeteries have re- 
cently begun to do even more for the comfort of their patrons by 
providing bubble fountains, where visiting lot holders may quench 
their thirst. The lot owner comes regularly to the cemetery, and 
comes as a patron, not merely as a visitor. Looking after the 
family lot often is delegated to the women of the household, 
and they are especially appreciative of the convenience of a neat 
bubble fountain that relieves them of the necessity of drinking 
from the watering cans or from the rude faucets provided for 
watering lawn and plants. Openings for the water supply must 
be placed at frequent intervals throughout the grounds, and it 
would not involve much additional expense to combine bubble 
drinking fountains with some of these. The need for this simple 
summer comfort is strikingly in evidence in the vicinity of any 
large city cemetery by the patronage of the neighboring saloon 
or refreshment stand. Needless to say, the cemetery would like 
to discourage the establishment of these places, and one of the 
surest ways is to provide more comforts within its own grounds. 
