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features contributing to the comfort of lot 
owners and the general public and afford- 
ing every convenience for the officials and 
clerical force of the cemetery. 
The chapel, situated a short distance 
from the entrance and to the left of the 
main avenue, is a handsome building, also 
of Gothic architecture. It was built in 
1891-92. The exterior walls are Lake Su- 
perior brown sandstone, the interior being 
lined with buff-colored pressed brick. 
Conservatories attached on both sides, so 
adapted that a perfect harmony of design 
is maintained, constitute a unique feature 
of this building, contributing very ef- 
fectively to the pleasing aspect of the in- 
terior without detriment to the exterior 
appearance of the structure. These con- 
servatories are filled at all times with 
palms, ferns and other decorative tropical 
plants, which are especially effective and 
pleasing in the winter season. The chapel 
is ready for services at all times and is 
free to all applicants. It also contains a 
public receiving vault and crematory, the 
latter being beautifully finished with pol- 
ished English veined marble side walls, 
marble mosaic floors and ivory woodwork. 
The equipment is the most modern and per- 
fect system of incineration yet devised. 
Here an adult body may be reduced to its 
original elements in the average time of 
one hour, and in the most satisfactory and 
sanitary manner. One hundred and twenty- 
one bodies were cremated in 1913. The 
cost of cremation is $25. This convenience 
for the disposition of the dead suggests the 
thought that no cemetery is complete in its 
appointments without a modern crematory. 
Forest Home is also equipped with a 
greenhouse establishment aggregating 25,000 
square feet of glass, arranged on the most 
approved, up-to-date plan, for the cultiva- 
tion of cut flowers, bedding and other dec- 
orative plants for the embellishment of lots 
and for the planting of the numerous flower 
beds in the general decoration of the cem- 
etery. Approximately 145,000 plants are 
produced annually for that purpose. 
Forest Home, like many other cemeteries 
established half a century and more ago, 
may be said to be unfortunate in respect to 
its multiplicity of monuments and head- 
stones, many of them of poor or mediocre 
designs, which crowd some of the old sec- 
tions to an apparently unwarranted extent. 
But this objection has been materially mod- 
ified in other sections and under a more 
careful and systematic supervision. De- 
signs of all structures must now be submit- 
ted to the superintendent for approval be- 
fore contracts are awarded, all designs and 
particulars submitted being considered 
strictly confidential. The details, artistic 
features and general merits of every monu- 
ment presented are all carefully considered 
with a view to assisting each lot owner in 
procuring a monument individual in style, 
expressive of personal selection and taste, 
pleasing to himself, yet harmonious with its 
environment. Replicas of special designs 
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are not permitted and an effort is made to 
have all monuments different in design. 
There are many very handsome and 
costly monuments in the cemetery, some of 
them being the best examples of the de- 
signer’s skill and sculptor’s art in monu- 
mental architecture. Prominent among 
them are those erected by or in memory 
of the following: Joseph Schlitz, Charles 
G. Pfister, Judge Edward G. Ryan, Henry 
C. Payne, Ferdinand Schlesinger, Julia 
Chaffee, Edward Sanderson, heirs of Sarah 
Wirth, Edward A. Uhrig, John Duncan, 
Peter McGeogh, A. K. Hamilton, William 
Kieckhefer, Sebastian Walter, Paul Asch, 
Senator M. Carpenter, George Brumder, 
Henry Fellows, John B. A. Kern, Benjamin 
Young, S. S. Merrill. A number of these 
were illustrated in our last issue and sev- 
eral more are shown this month. 
Many thousands of dollars are represent- 
ed in these and the numerous other good 
monuments erected in the cemetery. How 
much in the aggregate, it is almost impos- 
sible to guess. Suffice it to say that many 
of them cost from one thousand to five 
thousand dollars each, and a few of them 
much more. 
Mausoleums are not much in favor in 
Forest Home; in fact, they are discouraged 
by the cemetery management ; but they are 
permissible in certain locations, provided 
the plans are approved and a sufficient en- 
dowment is deposited with the trustees of 
the cemetery for maintenance. The only 
mausoleums in the cemetery are the E. P. 
Allis, L. M. Alexander, Val. Blatz, Mat- 
thews Brothers, Mary T. Cameron, G. W. 
Garrett and Alphonse Chaintron. 
All monuments and markers must have 
foundations of solid masonry and of a 
depth and dimensions deemed sufficient by 
the superintendent, and all foundations are 
built by employees of the cemetery. All 
markers and corner posts are set by cem- 
etery employees. No monuments are al- 
lowed in single grave sections, but markers 
not exceeding two feet in height may be 
set at each grave. In certain sections mark- 
ers and corner posts are set flush with the 
surface of the ground. 
Forest Home Cemetery is under the jur- 
isdiction of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 
but in all respects it is strictly non-sec- 
tarian. The corporation is entitled “The 
Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of St. 
Paul’s Church, Milwaukee,” who as trus- 
tees administer all the affairs of the ceme- 
tery. From their number a commitee of 
three, referred to as the Cemetery Commit- 
tee, is annually elected. This committee 
administers the general affairs of the cem- 
etery, subject to the control of the trus- 
tees. Many of the leading citizens of Mil- 
waukee were prominent among the men 
who managed the affairs of the cemetery in 
the early years of its history. No one 
among them all is more deserving of praise 
and appreciation than the late David Fer- 
guson, long associated with Alex. Mitchell 
in the Marine and Fire Insurance Company- 
Bank, now the Marine National Bank. To 
him is unanimously and unstintingly ac- 
corded by all who knew him personally the 
greatest credit for all that was accom- 
plished in the development and improve- 
ment of the cemetery during his long years 
of incumbency as a member and chairman 
of the Cemetery Committee. In later years 
among the prominent men actively engaged 
in the management were : B. K. Miller, A. 
Antisdel, Samuel Chandler, Judge George 
H. Noyes, A. K. Hamilton, Edward Fer- 
guson, George G. Houghton. O. C. Fuller, 
Arthur K. Camp, Howard S. Eldred, Thos. 
Spence, John A. Whaling, Richard H. Nor- 
ris, W. S. Seaman, Edwin E. White and 
Charles E. Sammond. James A. Pirie, fadier 
of William S. Pirie, the present secretary, 
was secretary and treasurer of the cem- 
etery for many years up to the time of his 
death in 1894. 
At present the Cemetery Committee is 
composed of Mr. Grant Fitch, Mr. Wheeler 
P. Bloodgood and Dr. Albert Wm. Myers. 
The trustees of Forest Home, ever fully 
appreciative of the purpose which inspired 
the founding of the cemetery-, have al- 
ways given freely of their time and consid- 
eration to the management of the cemetery, 
and that without compensation, save the 
natural pride and satisfaction derived from 
work well and faithfuly performed in the 
pursuit of philanthropic and unselfish pur- 
poses. 
The terms under which the cemetery is 
held by the trustees require that all receipts 
of whatever nature derived from the cem- 
etery shall be expended for the extension, 
care, improvement and embellishment of 
the grounds. A portion of the receipts 
from the sale of lots and graves, at pres- 
ent being 20 per cent of such sales, is set 
aside as a general reserve fund, the in- 
come of which is to be used and expected 
to be sufficient to properly care for the 
grounds in general after all lots shall have 
been sold. 
Another fund, known as the perpetual 
care of lots fund, provides for the care and 
maintenance of individual lots in perpetuity. 
It consists of gifts, bequests and deposits 
established as endowments, the income of 
which is used for the special care of the 
lots so endowed in accordance with th& 
terms of the contract. In brief, the plan is 
as follows : No amounts are accepted less 
than those stipulated in a fixed schedule of 
prices for given areas, the rates ranging 
from 50 cents to $1 per square foot in in- 
verse ratio to the areas of the lots. All 
amounts are kept in a separate fund and 
invested in best securities. On the first day 
of May each year the total income of the 
fund is apportioned in this manner: One 
per cent is carried into the general reserve 
fund of the cemetery to cover the expense 
of investment, etc., and the balance is ap- 
portioned pro rata to the several amounts 
of the special fund and the pro rata 
amount so apportioned is the amount 
