PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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MAIN BUILDING AND SMALL GRAVE SECTION. BRESLAU MODEL CEMETERY 
EXHIBIT. 
“A strange effect is produced by the 
! blood-red Scandinavian granite. It is really 
1 somewhat too gay. 
“Unfortunately, into this otherwise beau- 
i tiful exhibition artificial stone, or rather 
1 cement productions, have found their 
j way. In a life-size, very well designed 
; group it has even been attempted to closely 
. imitate shell lime with the cement. It is 
j impossible to avoid the question: Was 
I not this design and the model worthy of a 
piece of genuine stone? If the artist h ; m- 
| self does not feel that it is a degradation 
' of his capability that his work shall be 
; executed with a few barrels of cement 
I mortar and deprived of the value they 
| would have if carried out in stone, he is 
| himself helping to bury art. Who attaches 
any great value to a plaster cast of a work 
of art? Suppose it is broken — a new one 
is bought for a small sum, because dozens 
of them can be cast. But with what care 
a marble bust is guarded ! It is a real, 
original piece of work. There are quite a 
number of cement monuments there. A 
part of them are very well hidden, at the 
side. The larger objects, placed in the 
open space, obtain the attention they de- 
serve of the public — everyone passes them 
without comment. 
“Shell lime is all very well for large 
monuments, for instance, sepulchral urns, 
but they must have a large open space for 
themselves, with suitable vegetation. Used 
for small objects it has a poverty-stricken 
appearance. It would have been at once 
interesting and instructive if the Associa- 
tion of German Granite Workers had al- 
lowed a few shell-lime monuments to be 
set up in the separate division in the midst 
of the granite monuments. Certainly some 
of the flatterers and praise-singers of shed- 
lime monuments would have been silenced.” 
ASKED AND ANSWERED 
An exchange of experience on practical matters by our readers. You 
are invited to contribute questions and answers to this department 
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Eitulithic Pavement for Park Roads. 
Editor Asked and Answered : I wish to 
ask you if the Sheridan road in Lincoln 
Park is capable of enduring the heavy au- 
i tomobile and motor truck use, and is this 
form of road pavement as used in your 
city capable of sustaining this heavy traffic? 
I should like to have an authoritative state- 
ment to put before our city government 
that is now considering the matter. — C. C., 
Mass. 
Nearly all of Sheridan road has been 
provided with a bitulithic pavement, which 
varies in age from one to eight years. The 
oldest portion, which was put down by 
Warren Bros., is still in good condition — • 
apparently as good as when first laid. This 
road was intended for pleasure vehicles 
only, and is not subjected to heavy through 
traffic, unless automobiles may be consid- 
ered as such. The crossings, however, have 
to bear heavy teaming, so that there are 
places where coal wagons carrying five 
or six tons cross at frequent intervals. One 
such place put down two years ago is just 
as good today as when first laid. Thou- 
sands of automobiles pass over Sheridan 
road each day. and the fact that it has 
borne this traffic without injury for from 
one to eight years, shows that it is a good 
serviceable pavement O. C. Simonds, 
Landscape Architect. 
Regarding the bitulithic and asphalt 
macadam pavements on Sheridan road, 
Chicago, would say that the “bitulithic” 
pavement was laid between Grace street 
and Evanston avenue, a distance of about 
one-half mile, in 1906. It has been sub- 
jected to constant and excessive through 
traffic, amounting to 5,000 vehicles of dif- 
ferent discription, mostly automobiles and 
light pleasure rigs. 
The cross traffic, however, has consisted 
of the heaviest kind of teaming. 
The pavement is today in practically as 
good condition as when put down, and 
has only been repaired where openings 
were made for gas pipe or other installa- 
tions. 
The asphalt macadam on Sheridan road 
was laid by park forces during the sum- 
mers of 1911 and 1912. This pavement is 
comprised of graded limestone, course and 
fine sand, bonded with a native ready 
fluxed asphalt of about 180 degrees melt- 
ing point. 
It was mixed and laid similarly to street 
asphalt on an old macadam pavement 
previously scarified and graded. The pave- 
ment cost less than 70 cents per square 
yard, is being subjected to the same traf- 
fic conditions as the bitulithic pavement re- 
ferred to, and is standing the wear thus 
far with no signs of deterioration, while 
similar pavements laid in other parts of 
the Lincoln Park system during 1907-’8-’9- 
'10 are giving no signs of failing under 
excessive traffic either of a longitudinal or 
transverse nature. 
Properly laid, these pavements are ad- 
mirable for light traffic business streets, 
residential districts, parks and cemeteries. 
Like all other pavements, however, their 
integrity depends not upon their names, 
but upon the adoption of proper specifi- 
cations and rigid inspection. 
M. H. West. 
We have very little motor truck traf- 
fic on our boulevards. However, we have 
had bitulithic pavement down for eight 
years with no appreciable wear whatever, 
and it is my opinion that this type of pave- 
ment will withstand motor truck traffic 
without any detrimental effect on the pave- 
ment. A. S. Lewis. 
Correspondence Study of Landscape 
Gardening. 
Editor Asked and Answered Dept. : Can 
you refer me to any place or person from 
whom I can obtain a correspondence 
course in tree surgery and landscape 
gardening? — W. C., Ark. 
The Home Correspondence School, 
Springfield, Mass., offers correspondence 
courses in landscape gardening and for- 
estry, and the Davey Tree Expert Co., 
Kent, O., advertise a correspondence 
course in tree surgery. J. J. Levison’s re- 
cent series of loose-leaf manuals, “Studies 
of Trees,” reviewed at length in our Jan- 
uary issue, will also offer valuable practical 
assistance to any one desirous of studying 
the care of trees by correspondence. 
Following is a communication from the 
Home Correspondence School, of Spring- 
field, Mass.: “We have made a specialty 
