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which may be expended during the cur- 
rent year on the lot for which the en- 
dowment has been made. Any amount un- 
expended in any year is credited and added 
to the amount allowed the following year. 
No guarantee is given except that the ap- 
portioned income shall be expended on the 
lot in doing work specified or such work 
the present number may ultimately be 
doubled. It is estimated that at the present 
average rate of sale the unsold area of the 
cemetery will be ample to supply all de- 
mands for lots for a period of sixty years 
or more. 
The new tract of thirty acres recently 
purchased, adjoining the old grounds on the 
time worn the cliff down to its present 
condition. The opening as shown is a 
cave, in the back of which is a spring, a 
small stream meandering into the larger 
stream in front. This has been a veritable 
curiosity shop to visitors in the cemetery. 
Hundreds of names are written and en- 
graved on the stones. The stone with which 
TWO BEAUTIFUL, LAWN VIEWS IN FOREST HOME CEMETERY, MILWAUKEE. 
as may be deemed necessary so far as such 
income will allow. 
Lots in Forest Home are sold at the rate 
of 75 cents, $1 and $1.50 per square foot, 
according to location, plus the perpetual 
care charge in some sections. In 1909 a 
resolution was adopted introducing compul- 
sory perpetual care in the sale of all un- 
sold lots in certain sections, based on the 
scale of prices for perpetual care already 
referred to. The plan has proven so pop- 
ular and promised such satisfactory results 
that the trustees contemplate its general 
adoption at an early date, so as to include 
all unsold lots in the cemetery and all sec- 
tions yet to be improved within its pro- 
visions. As watering the lots in unsold im- 
proved sections is included in this plan, the 
effect is very pleasing, contributing much 
to the general appearance of the cemetery. 
The lot owners of the cemetery now num- 
ber 7,745, who have contributed of their 
families a number which, together with 
those interred in single grave sections, 
make the “population” of this “silent city” 
approximately 39,000, a number which is 
increased at the rate of about 800 each 
year. In this connection it may be inter- 
esting to note that no Sunday funerals have 
been permitted in the cemetery since June 
30, 1907, an innovation which was approved 
without dissension by all lot owners in the 
cemetery, with much satisfaction to the man- 
agement. How many more persons may yet 
be accommodated with lots within the pres- 
ent limits of Forest Home may only be 
conjectured, but as only about one-half of 
the total area available for burial purposes 
has been sold, it may safely be assumed that 
east, affords a splendid opportunity for the 
development of this addition to the ceme- 
tery to equal, if indeed it does not surpass, 
the best of the present grounds. The trus- 
tees of the cemetery have already deter- 
mined to include all of this tract in the 
compulsory perpetual care plan. All of the 
objectionable features so prominent in 
many parts of the older sections of the 
cemetery will be eliminated and only the 
best of modern ideas introduced, conform- 
able with the basic principles of cemetery 
development, maintenance and management 
on the lawn plan so far as that can be 
reasonably and consistently accomplished. 
* * * 
We show in this connection some inter- 
esting views of Forest Home and its mon- 
uments taken especially for Park and Cem- 
etery by E. T. Hindman, the Milwaukee 
monument photographer. 
The Blatz mausoleum seen in one of 
our illustrations is one of the most elab- 
orate structures of the kind in the country. 
It was designed by Architect Charles A. 
Fink and erected in 1895 by Lohr & Boyle, 
then operating under the firm name of the 
Milwaukee Monument Co. 
The vine-covered wall that may be seen 
in the background of the water view shown 
is a unique piece of rock work. It is 
r L s -V ne d to represent the face of a cliff, 
along the base of which the stream winds 
into the lake. In the construction of this 
Superintendent Currie drew on his imag- 
ination to the extent of trying to make it 
appear that the stream had in course of 
this rock work is constructed is weather- 
worn limestone, all carefully selected, many 
of the stones being very interesting speci- 
mens because of their shapes and perfora- 
tions. This stone was obtained at Iron 
Ridge, Wis., about fifty miles north of 
Milwaukee. 
The entrance and office building at For- 
est Home are not only interesting in them- 
selves as well planned and handsomely 
built structures, but constitute a valuable 
lesson in the relative arrangement of en- 
trance and administration building. 
It is a landscape problem of no mean 
importance to get the building conveniently 
located to the entrance and yet allow of a 
good landscape effect that will not be too 
much dominated by the building. 
The building at Forest Home is set back 
for quite a distance from the entrance 
proper to the grounds. The wide, curved 
driveway goes some distance within the 
grounds before the gate is reached. The 
building immediately beyond the gate is 
well set off by the planting and is one of 
the finest of modern cemetery structures. 
One of our pictures shows a near view 
of the building, and another shows more 
clearly the location of the building with 
reference to the entrance or driveway. 
The building is located about 30 feet in- 
side of the fence. The view is from the 
outside, showing a good view of the ap- 
proach from the street, the gates being lo- 
cated approximately 200 feet from the street 
line. 
