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PARK 
AND CEMETERY. 
INTERESTING PLAN 
: 
FOR CEMETERY ADDITION 
The plan recently prepared for an ad- 
dition to a cemetery in Eau Claire, Wis- 
consin, is a very interesting problem, be- 
cause of the fact that the present plat of 
this cemetery was laid out fifty years ago 
and the lots are uniformly 10x20, whereas 
the new platting of the tract secures more 
lots and at the same time more open space. 
The location is ideal and the view from 
the bluff of Half Moon Lake is as fine 
as there is in the City of Eau Claire, look- 
ing over the entire Chippewa Valley to 
the opposite hills, about three miles away. 
The plan was made by Charles H. Rams- 
dell, of Minneapolis. 
One of the first problems to be solved 
was to take care of certain public traffic 
which now goes undisturbed across the 
new addition. The next problem to be 
considered was the present unsatisfactory 
entrance road leading North to the Elk 
Creek road and thence to the city. It 
is proposed to take a strip along the top 
of the bluff at Half Moon Lake, making it 
quite a little shorter as well as a most at- 
tractive drive and entrance road. Then, 
too, on the north side of the cemetery 
space should be taken providing for this 
new road, which would give entrance to 
both plats of the cemetery and access to 
the proposed public road on the west of 
both of them. This public road on the 
west will occupy the' most unattractive por- 
tion of the new addition, being on the sides 
of a low valley beyond it. The land slopes 
gently from northeast to southwest, al- 
though it is nowhere very abrupt. 
The problem of the use of the outlying I 
lands which were not available for burial s 
purposes is treated so that the public 
would have access to the shores of Half 1 
Moon Lake, which is likely to become a 
considerable park area of the city. As 
the growth of this new addition will be 1 
rather slow, it is endearvored to make each 
section fairly complete; in other words, 
whenever there is need of an addition to 
the cemetery one section would contain 
large lots, medium sized lots, small lots 
and a small provision for single graves. | 
Then later when the cemetery was well | 
improved and in constant use the largest [ 
area for single graves would be found on ; 
the extreme west boundary of the new ( 
addition. 
Extremely large sections are avoided and 1 
in the case of Section H planting is intro- | 
duced to break up the extreme length of 
the otherwise long section. Border plant- 
ings are provided on the west and north j 
for the purpose of breaking the winds as ; 
well as giving a background for the entire 
cemetery. 
The usual provision is made for park- j 
ing small areas, for chapel sites, for mon- 
ument sites, and for attractive open j 
spaces looking forward to the lawn or 
park-like development of this new addition. 
The roads are laid out 20 feet wide, : 
which would subdivide into two 3-foot 
strips for grass and the necessary trees, i 
and a 14-foot pavement, which would en- | 
able two teams to pass with safety. All j 
the paths are laid out five feet wide, enough ; 
for a one-horse cart to pass everywhere in i 
case of necessity for the moving of soil, j 
leaves, etc. The new addition does not | 
contain more than about twenty trees, 1 
all of which are very good specimens of 1 
Red and Burr Oaks. 
It is intended to lay out at once all the • 
drives according to plan and then to con- 
sistently carry out at once the scheme of 
tree planting and screen planting for this 
new addition, so that while it may be some- 
years before all sections of the cemetery 
are in use the trees will be growing up, 
and it will be in a most attractive con- 
dition in about 15 or 20 years of such 
development. 
It was deemed unwise to modify the 
present plat of Lake View Cemetery be- 
cause of the fact that the lots are now 
all sold and each lot is used almost to 
its fullest capacity. The comparison of 
these two plats will indicate the benefits 
of the development of a cemetery along 
the lines of park-like development as com- 
