PAR K AND C EM ETER Y. 
357 
Area treated — Length 14,625'=2.77 miles; width 
IS' — 0 "=263,250 square feet=29,250 square yards. 
Depth — Vi -inch. 
COSTS. 
Per 
Total Sq. Yd. 
Loading, hauling and placing stone $861.05 2-90 cts. 
Loading, hauling and placing tarvia 353.71 1.19 
Placing and removing plant...... 5G.50 .19 
$1,271.24 4.28 cts. 
MATERIALS. 
Vo" stone— 487.5 tons at $1.30...$ G33.75 2.14 cts. 
Tarvia “A”— 14,307 gals, at 10c. 1,430.70 ( . _ 
Freight, $188.35; Demurrage, $32.00 220.33 J 
Soft Coal for heating and operating 
roller SS.90 .30 
$2,373.70 S.02 cts. 
Total $3,644.94 12.30 cts 
2.77 miles cost . $3,644.94 
1 mile cost 1,300.00 
1 square yard cost 12.30 
This was a carpet treatment undertaken 
with refined tar, known as Tarvia “A.” 
The material was shipped in tank cars to 
the nearest railway siding, and heated by 
means of a steam boiler to a temperature 
of 100° F., when it was forced by steam 
pressure into the distributing apparatus, 
and then hauled to the site of the work, 
where it was attached to the steam roller. 
Connection was here made with the boiler 
and the material further heated to a tem- 
perature of between 175° and 200° F. 
Steam pressure at thirty-five pounds was 
then applied to spray it onto the road 
surface. The apparatus used is supplied 
at the rear with nozzles so constructed 
that upon the application of pressure the 
hot material is forced to the surface of the 
road in a fine spray. The heated tar pene- 
trates the top surface, and the remainder 
is then absorbed by means of one-half inch 
stone chips in the proportion of one cubic 
yard over about sixty-five square yards of 
surface, giving a depth of stone and tar 
equal to a little over one-half inch. The 
quantity of bituminous material for this 
treatment was one-half gallon to the square 
yard and as indicated the total cost includ- 
ing labor was 12.3 cents per square yard, 
or about $1,300 per mile for an eighteen- 
foot roadway. It is estimated that the only 
cost of upkeep to this surface will be an 
annual tar spraying of about one-eighth of 
a gallon per square yard at a cost of be- 
tween three and four cents per square yard, 
or about $320 per mile for an eighteen-foot 
roadway. 
EMETERY LOTS ON CREDIT — I 
LABOR. 
Per 
Total 
Sq. 
Yd. 
Loading 2" Stone and Screenings. 
.$ 321.00 
1.8 
cts. 
Hauling 
. 1,509.00 
5.2 
Pumping and Watering 
215.00 
.8 
Repairing Roadway 
. 547.00 
1.9 
Itoling and Spiking 
. . 425.00 
1.5 
$3,217.00 
11.2 
cts. 
MATERIAL. 
2" S'tone — 750 tons at $1.10 
. . .$825.00 
2.9 
cts. 
Screenings — 324% tons at $1.10.. 
.. 357.00 
1.2 
$1,182.00 
4.1 
cts. 
Total 
15.3 
cts. 
Remarks: — 895.4 cubic yards of Stone and Screen- 
ings were placed on 28,934 square yards. 
1 cubic yard of Stone and Screenings was placed 
on 32.3 square yards. 
Ratio of 2" stone to screenings used — 1 to ,433. 
Ton-mile cost of loading and hauling materials — 
32.3c. 
Wage rates: — Teams, 45c per hour; laborers, 20c 
per hour; foremen, 30c per hour. Cost per mile 
$1,600.00. 
At Queen Victoria Park rates for teams .55c., and 
men .22c; the above ton-mile cost would be 38.4c. 
In connection with the scarifying and recrown- 
ing of this section of roadway a bituminous top was 
laid on a two and three-quarter mile length, and 
the following figures show the cost of different op- 
erations in connection therewith: 
TARVIA “A” AND Vs" STONE SURFACING. 
Time — September 2nd to October* 16th, 1913. 
Location — Boulevard roadway, vicinity of Usher’s 
Creek. 
Length or haul — 3.4 miles. 
SELLING C 
The widespread interest in a more sys- 
tematic study of methods of business ad- 
ministration and financial management of 
cemeteries has led to frequently expressed 
desire for information on better methods 
of selling lots and securing prompt payment 
for lots. Ways of collecting for lots sold 
on the installment plan are especially de- 
sired among our readers. For the purpose 
of gathering some definite information as 
to current practices in selling lots on 
credit, Park and Cemetery recently ad- 
dressed to a number of cemeteries the 
following letter : 
Several of our readers have expressed a desire to 
know more about selling lots on credit, and we are 
endeavoring to secure a helpful interchange of ex- 
perience on this subject from cemeteries that have 
tried it. 
Will you assist us by answering the questions be- 
low or giving us any other information you can: 
Have you ever had lot holder discontinue pay- 
ments before lot was fully paid for? 
What course did you take to collect the money? 
What success did you have? 
Did you ever have to remove a body from a par- 
tially paid for lot? Do you know of any instance 
where this was done; if so, where. 
Would the law of your state allow you to do this? 
What arrangements and what contract do you 
make with installment buyers of lots; please enclose 
form of contract and tell us how you proceed to 
collect money due? 
The following extracts from replies re- 
ceived and copies of forms used in selling 
and collecting will suggest a variety of 
methods of getting better results in selling 
lots on installments: 
It happens quite often with our company 
that persons endeavoring to pay on their 
lot accounts lose interest and show no dis- 
position to further their payments. We 
Symposium of Methods and Forms Used by 
Many Cemeteries in Lot Sales and Collections 
then send them a thirty days’ notice, the 
form of which I am inclosing, and I find 
it has a very good effect on getting the lot 
holders to pay their arrearages. Phis no- 
tice reads as follows : 
Under an agreement between you and the Arling- 
ton Cemetery Co., dated you 
agreed to purchase the right of sepulture in lot 
in section, and to pay 
therefor in installments. You have paid nothing 
since . and under the terms of your 
contract the company has the right to cancel the 
agreement. 
At the last meeting of the Board of Directors it 
was resolved that all those in arrears be given thir- 
ty days’ notice that unless the arrearages in such 
case be paid the contract would be annulled. 
In compliance with this resolution. I beg to notify 
you that unless the amount now owing by you, to 
wit $ is fully paid on or before 
next, your contract will be annulled and all 
payments made thereunder will be forfeited to the 
company. 
It is the hope of the directors that all those who 
have contracts for lots will pay up. The lot in 
which you have an interest is more valuable today 
than when you contracted to buy it. The cemetery 
is proving itself a success. It is daily growing in 
favor. The management is liberal and up-to-date, 
and there is every prospect of ultimately making 
Arlington one of the most beautiful cemeteries in 
the country. You will be foolish to let your con- 
tract be annulled. 
Kindly acknowledge receipt of this notice. 
I am also inclosing a copy of an agree- 
ment which is signed when the first pay- 
ment is made. When there is a body, or 
bodies, in the lot purchased and they make 
no effort to make the payments as agreed, 
after a few payments have fallen due and 
not been met, we then write them that their 
body will be moved to a single grave and 
all money paid on the lot will be forfeited. 
This we do not have to do very often, but 
in a number of cases has been necessary, 
so that we could place the lot on sale again. 
You will find we have a right to do this 
as per printed form of agreement, signed 
at time of purchase. This agreement reads 
as follows : 
THIS' AGREEMENT, made this 
day of A. D. ID. . . . 
WITNESSETH, That THE ARLINGTON CEME- 
TERY COMPANY, of Philadelphia, agrees to sell 
and 
of agrees 
to purchase the right of sepulture in lot No , 
size in Section of said 
Cemetery Company’s ground for the price or sum of 
Dollars 
upon the following terms and conditions, to wit: 
The first payment of Dollars 
to be made at the time of the execution hereof 
and subsequent installments of 
Dollars each shall be payable on 
at the office of the said Company or its authorized 
collector until the full consideration above men- 
tioned shall have been paid. 
The privilege of making interment in said lot will 
be granted, provided only that all instalments then 
due shall have been fully paid, and all other claims 
of the said Cemetery Company then matured: shall 
have been liquidated, and further provided that at 
least one-third of the principal of the purchase 
money above specified shall have been paid. 
It is understood and agreed that the right of 
sepulture in said lot is sold, on the terms and con- 
ditions hereinabove expressed, and subject to any 
and all by-laws, rules and regulations now in force or 
that may be hereafter established by said Arlington 
Cemetery Company, from time to time, it being dis- 
tinctly understood that this agreement shall not nor 
shall any deed made in pursuance thereof, give to 
or vest in the purchaser any right to inter in said 
lot any thing other than the remains of white human 
beings, nor shall any interment be made except up- 
on a permit issued by the Cemetery Company in 
accordance with its rules and regulations. 
The purchaser further agrees that if three of the 
installments hereinabove designated shall become in 
arrears and remain so for a period of six months, 
all claims to the said lot and rights therein shall 
be deemed released to said Cemetery Company, 
which shall have the right to retain, as liquidated 
damages, all sums theretofore paid, to remove any 
