PARK AND CEMETERY 
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FOREST HILLS, A BOSTON SUBURBAN CEMETERY 
One of the most interesting of the his- 
toric cemeteries in the vicinity of Boston 
is Forest Hills, located at Jamaica Plain, 
with a city office at 14 Beacon street. 
The charges for work on single graves are payable 
in advance. 
STONE AND MONUMENTAL WORK. 
Designs for all monuments, headstones, or other 
structures to be placed in the cemetery, must be 
days before wanted. No foundations will be built 
between November 20 and April 1. 
No material shall be delivered or set at any 
time when the ground is soft and not in proper 
condition. 
The granting of permits rests solely with the 
Superintendent and his decision shall be final. 
All loaded teams must enter and depart through 
the Canterbury Street Gate, and no material shall 
be unloaded or set until a permit has been re- 
ceived from the Superintendent’s office. Upon grant- 
ing a permit the Superintendent shall at his dis- 
cretion appoint a supervisor, whose services will be 
charged for at the rate of thirty cents an hour, 
until such time as the monument shall be set and 
all apparatus or other material used in connection 
therewith shall be removed from the grounds. 
No material for the building or setting of monu- 
ments, tablets, or other work will be received or 
allowed after four o’clock in the afternoon nor on 
Saturdays, except by permission of the Superin- 
tendent. Any one sending material must send re- 
sponsible ui(en to attend to the unloading”. Horses 
shall not be allowed to stand unattended, nor shall 
they be fed in the Cemetery except at places in- 
dicated by the Superintendent. 
All workmen employed in the construction of 
vaults, erection of monuments, etc., shall be sub- 
ject to the control and direction of the Superin- 
tendent; and any workman failing to conform to 
this regulation will not afterwards be permitted to 
work in the grounds. In order to protect lots and 
paths over which heavy materials are to be moved, 
masons and stone cutters are required to lay planks. 
t^ain Entrance .Office ^Chapel 
FOREST HILLS CEMETERY, BOSTON. 
Forest Hills Cemetery, of 256 acres, was 
consecrated in 1848, and is now one of the 
most beautiful cemeteries in the United 
States. It is conveniently located in that 
part of Boston called Forest Hills or 
Jamaica Plain. 
It is about six miles north of the State 
House and lies in a region noted for its 
beauty, Franklin Park and the Arnold Ar- 
boretum being near neighbors. It is easily 
accessible by steam and elevated trains or 
by park roads from the heart of the city. 
Forest Hills Cemetery is managed by a 
Board of Trustees who receive no com- 
pensation and are elected by the proprie- 
tors, each lot owner being a proprietor. 
It is well kept, with most attractive land- 
scape features and excellent care and man- 
agement in every department. 
The accompanying map shows the loca- 
tion of Forest Hills Cemetery and will be 
found convenient to all visitors, whether 
coming by carriage, automobile, train or 
elevated. 
The following extracts from the rules 
governing Forest Hills, and the illustra- 
tions shown, are from a booklet of infor- 
mation recently issued : 
No enclosures or posts will be allowed in any ot 
the single grave sections. Raised mounds are not 
permitted. The planting of shrubs, vines, myrtle 
or flowers upon graves should be done by the ceme- 
tery, about which information will be furnished at 
the superintendent’s office. 
submitted to the superintendent for approval by 
the board of trustees. 
No monument should be erected upon a lot the 
bottom base of which covers more than ten per cent 
of the superficial area of said lot. This should be 
computed as a rectangle, and furthermore if the 
lot is rectangular no side of a monument shall 
exceed forty pen cent of the length of the lot line 
it parallels, unless it is proposed to erect one wide 
monument at the rear of the lot. This rule shall be 
strictly enforced in Section 10. 
Headstones in lots which already contain a monu- 
ment are undesirable and markers flush with the 
surface of the ground are recommended. In Section 
10 this restriction is final and must be adhered to. 
Lot owners should consult with the Superintendent 
in regard to these matters before placing orders. 
Headstones are allowed on single graves but must 
not be over two feet four inches by one foot three 
inches, nor over four feet high above grade. In 
Section 21, however, designs will not be accepted 
which are over two feet by one foot or over three 
feet high. The width of a stone may be increased 
at the head of two or more graves. 
No curbings around lots, corner posts above grade, 
platforms, steps or buttreses will be allowed except 
by the approval of the Board of Trustees. In cer- 
tain designated sections they are prohibited. The 
removal of unnecessary stone work and iron fences 
is urged and will be done without extra expense to 
the lot owners under all ordinary circumstances. 
All foundations will be constructed by the Cor- 
poration of Portland cement concrete and will be 
finished at least two inches below grade. Markers 
should have a twelve-inch butt and slate tablets at 
least eighteen inches. All orders for the same 
must be in writing, and the persons signing such 
orders will be held responsible for the cost of the 
work. 
The charge for building foundations shall be two 
dollars per square foot superficial area. A minimum 
charge of five dollars will be made, for each foun- 
dation unless several are built in a lot at the 
same time. 
Orders for foundations must be given at least ten 
