368 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
tacles in the rear of these bronze eastings 
could very appropriately be provided. 
In the application of landscape work to 
cemeteries in America the idea has been to 
produce a park-like appearance in which 
mausoleums now in use, a space of ground 
could accompany same that would give op- 
portunity for individual treatment; and in 
the cases of very large columbariums, as 
with crematoriums and chapels, the grounds 
for such an association would be on a scale 
equal in magnitude to an Egyptian temple, 
of which Robert Hichens says: “The tre- 
mendous effect these temples have upon the 
soul is not that jeweled dimness one loves 
to* 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 >894 <895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 J903 1 9 n 4 1905 1906 i9<>7 1908 1909 >9io 1911 1912 >9>3 Total 
1884 
LeMoyne Crematory 
' A, uhingt n r uu A 
Buffalo Cremation Co ", 
V. S. Cremation Co 
Pittsbugh Crematory, Inc 
Michigan Cremation Association 
Rosedale Crematory 
Cincinnati Cremation Co 
Missouri Crematory Association ” 
Chelton Hills Crematory 
Swinburne Island Crematory 
Gardner-Earl Memorial Crematory .... 
Davenport Cremation Association 
u aterville Cemetery Association 
Graceland Crematory ....... 
. . I.ancaster, Pennsylvania . J 
.. Buffalo. New York 
3 i *8 
>7 
it 
83 
23 
3 
30 
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ill 
4 
30 
3> 
41 
28 
3 
44 
40 
466 
43 
528 
67 
602 
So 
60 
55 
74 
841 
o 64 
69 
904 
75 
932 
74 
723 
"84 
7S> 
69 
722 
97 
758 
89 
8ia 
" 
874 
94 
M33 
14,086 
..Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
14 
8 
9 
>3 
>4 
>3 
>3 
14 
16 
>9 
31 
24 
>9 
61 
24 
62 
30 
30 
42 
33 
58 
63 
43 
77 
58 
104 
6: 
75 
1,174 
•• Co* . Angeles, California 
^7 
5 
23 
*7 
29 
4> 
37 
38 
$ 
37 
66 
37 
34 
58 
52 
52 
81 
66 
89 
45 
83 
88 
128 
>5> 
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181 
21s 
147 
X 
295 
179 
2,392 
2,175 
3.650 
24 
7? 
86 
si8 
X 
35 
269 
..Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
..New York, New York 
..Troy, New York 
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28 
3> 
3 
4 
Si 
62 
61 
14 
68 
>5 
74 
3 
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85 
18 
78 
3 
>4 
114 
>3 
106 
7 
18 
16 
124 
3 
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3 
23 
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30 
160 
3 
167 
3 
>3> 
27 
149 
35 
138 
38 
iso 
37 
146 
36 
162 
a 
181 
40 
42 
2,859 
138 
539 
587 
.. Waterville, New York 
42 
5 
6 
82 
6 
188 
6 
5 
9 
S 
280 
5 
5 
8 
296 
284 
3,833 
Cypress Lawn Crematory 
Massachusetts Cremation Society ........ 
Pasadena Crematory 
Odd Fellows Cemetery Association ..... 
Forest Home Cemetery 
42 
08 
>33 
& 
162 
204 
578 
1016 
876 
4,887 
87 
>35 
>4 
167 
281 
4.408 
13 
46 
81 
99 
57 
68 
65 
7^878 
666 
818 
34 
25 
5 
30 
76 
89 
80 
T. William Lee 
71 
1? 
58 
586 
Lindenwood Crematory 
Forest Cemetery Crematory Association. 
Alt Auburn Crematory 
..Ft. Wayne, Indiana 
..St. Paul, Minnesota 
3 
27 
5 
17 
So 
119 
35 
5 
>34 
SO 
3 
>4 
153 
4 
5 
183 
3 
36 
6 
35 
43 
3 
17 
254 
9 
23 
4 
23 
7 
16 
8 
18 
3 
Evergreen Cemetery 
Cleveland Cremation Co 
7P 
82 
1. 109 
2.297 
6,981 
Portland Cremation Association .. 
384 
Oakland Cremation Association 
558 
676 
Crematorium. Limited 
Denver Crematory 
Cremation Society of Washington ...... 
..Montreal. Canada 
. Denver. Colorado 
3 
6 
16 
48 
>9 
61 
>9 
57 
27 
75 
i 3 
88 
>>3 
97 
107 
74 
7> 
>>5 
352 
124 
536 
904 
Indianapolis Crematory . 
24 
I-os Angeles Crematory Association ... . 
105 
3 22 
2,028 
I.ouden Park Cemetery 
18 
Rosehill Crematory 
90 
>54 
158 
Oahu Cemetery Association 
Cremation Society of Tacoma 
3 
440 
37 
6s 
98 
Montrose Crematory ... 
N. \. & N. J. Cremation Co. 
..Chicago Illinois 
..North Bergen. New Jersey .... 
..Chicago, Illinois 
..Washington, District Cdlumbia 
5> 
59 
97 
307 
Oak woods Crematory 
Public Crematorium 
97 
129 
>47 
149 
163 
669 
685 
Lakewood Crematory 
East Lawn Crematory 
Springfield Crematory 
Mountain View Crematory 
Allegheny County Crematory 
32 
..Sacramento, California ... 
88 
130 
T, 
S>» 
. Pasadena. California . 
* 
S7 
92 
66 
124 
80 
502 
1 
858 
Mt Hope Cemetery Crematorium 
187 
41 
16 
E. J. Herman 
..Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
Started T 
muary. 1914 
Building, 
1914 
1914 
Bohemian Nat’l Cemetery Crematory . . 
Total 28 
58 no 
>27 
187 
239 
368 
459 
547 
644 
809 
1005 
1084 
>37> 
1668 
1976 
2363 
2713 
3200 
3S 32 
4093 
4328 
4537 
5436 
6152 
5690 
6466 
7524 
9109 I 
0.183 
86,006 
No report for these years. •• Cl osed. 
TABLE OF CREMATIONS IN AMERICA COMPILED FOR THE CREMATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA BY E. P. SAMPSON 
OF PITTSBURG. 
the monuments do not figure as a governing- 
factor ; they come in incidentally, as best 
they can, and appear to be treated more as 
a necessary evil than as the one important 
thing for which the cemetery exists. In 
Germany the landscape work is made to 
conform more to the needs of the lot own- 
ers. It decorates and makes a most satis- 
factory setting or background for the indi- 
vidual monuments, whether they be simple 
gravestones or expensive designs. If a 
cemetery were designed with a view of 
simply providing for the stone memorials, 
as would be the case where none but cre- 
mated remains w'ere provided for, the mon- 
uments could be set in large or small 
clumps of trees or shrubbery, and when 
desired set continuously in an unbroken 
line or border of plants, shrubs and trees. 
Not that the monuments would stand like 
a row of sentinels, but placed in diversified 
niches in the shrubbery. In this case, 
where the burial space for graves would 
not have to be considered, the American or 
German plans of landscape treatment could 
be combined and would give as a result a 
much more generous' use of landscape 
planting. The combinations of plants, 
shrubs and trees are infinite, and when 
cared for produce a result that is most sat- 
isfying. In the case of smaller columbari- 
ums, which would correspond with family 
would be made to conform to the structures 
and would call for expert landscape treat- 
ment, the same as the designs for the struc- 
tures called for architectural treatment. 
The use of large columbariums would in- 
troduce a comparatively new feature in the 
disposition of remains, for, sooner or later, 
fraternal orders as well as religious denom- 
inations would erect structures specially for 
those of their order or association, and 
local, county and even state provision would 
be made by erecting appropriate buildings. 
This would result in those who now bury 
in single graves selecting a receptacle in a 
large community columbarium, if there had 
not already been provision made in the way 
of a family repository. In this way the 
smaller lots and inferior stone monuments 
would rapidly lessen in number, and the re- 
markable specimens of art in the way of 
statues and monuments that have in the 
last few years come to grace the grounds 
of the larger city cemeteries would in- 
crease until a memorial park would have 
many times the beauty and attractiveness 
of the modern cemetery. 
From an association that is state-wide 
and 'which would make provision for the 
last resting place of its associates it is but 
a step to one that is nation-wide and 
gathers its associates from all directions 
within its bounds. A national columbarium 
in Gothic cathedrals, but the heavy dim- 
ness of windowless, mighty chambers light- 
ed only by a relinked daylight ever trying 
to steal in.” 
A fit setting for such a building would 
be upon a mountain top among the clouds, 
with an environment of Nature that would 
lift in above and away from the cares of 
life and place it in a realm of its own. 
Such a location could be had to perfection 
in the Blue Ridge mountains and within 
sight of the historic James River. It would 
be at about the center of population east 
of the Reeky Mountains. Within, it could 
be finished in any degree of elegance de- 
sired, and with corridors and colonnades 
grand beyond description. In the way of 
memorials, there could be, in addition to 
bronze and marble memorial urns, tablets 
and sculpture of infinite design ; a building 
— similar to the inner temple of an Egyp- 
tian temple — in which could be maintained 
a memorial scriptorium with a most com- 
plete collection of biographical works, for 
the study of members and reference by 
visitors, adding a live and interesting fea- 
ture that is not found in memorial build- 
ings. In this building, or in the lack of 
such a building, in an apartment of the 
memorial building, could be maintained a 
department of written, printed or hand- 
made personal memorials 
