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ASKED AND ANSWERED 
An exchange of experience on practical matters by our readers. You 
are invited to contribute questions and answers to this department 
Best Types of Lot Markers. 
I should like to know of the experience 
of cemetery officials as to lot markers 
which have given most satisfaction. I 
wish to purchase. — E. K., Ky. 
Would you recommend the use of com- 
mon terra cotta markers for lot markers ? 
Are they glazed enough at $2 for 100 extra 
price? — R. R. C., Wis. 
Regarding terra cotta lot markers, we 
tried terra cotta markers, but found them 
unsatisfactory, as they chipped badly and in 
many cases the whole top came off. We 
now use concrete markers of four kinds 
and make them ourselves. We use clean 
river sand — screenings and Portland ce- 
ment for the body of the marker. For 
the top of the marker we use granite dust 
to give a hard surface. These markers 
are made in the following sizes : 
6x6x18 inches plain to mark the cor- 
ners of lots and are set flush with the 
ground and square with lines; 6x6x18 
inches, marked with section and lot num- 
ber, set diamond shaped 1 in the center of 
the lot front; 4x4x15 inches, marked with 
the number of the grave to correspond 
with our platted records, and used to mark 
level graves on private lots; 4 inches round 
by 15 inches long, set at foot of all graves 
in single grave section. 
We make the first three kinds in wooden 
collapsible boxes and the round one in a 
x/s' Private. Lot 
G rave. mark for 
■S ing/e Grave. 
MARKERS USED IN CAVE HILL CEME- 
TERY. 
patent mould, and our foundation depart- 
ment crew* do this work during bad 
weather. We find these markers cheap and 
durable and entirely satisfactory. The 
method of manufacture is simple and can 
be used by any cemetery with profit, as it 
utilizes labor during inclement weather. 
I enclose sketches of the four kinds of 
markers used in Cave Hill. 
Robt. Campbell, 
Supt. Cave Hill Cemetery. 
Louisville, Ky. 
I have had some experience with the 
terra cotta markers, both glazed and un- 
glazed, and so far cannot see any differ- 
ence. If there is any, it is in favor of the 
glazed marker. Some few years ago I 
took some old three-inch iron pipes and 
filled them with concrete, smoothed off 
the top and made a hole in the same, and 
found they worked very satisfactorily as 
a temporary marker. It is the custom here 
in Philadelphia among lawn plan ceme- 
teries, when the lot is sold, to replace 
these markers with a granite post set flush 
with the ground. Geo. M. Painter, 
Sec. and Supt., Westminster Cem. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
I am using terra cotta markers for sin- 
gle graves, but don’t consider them large 
enough for lot markers. We have some 
of our lot marked with three-inch cement 
markers, but they are too small ; it is hard 
to find them in snowy weather. For the 
Park Commissioner Dwight F. Davis, of 
St. Louis, has devised a scheme through 
which he may be able to do much of the 
work planned for the next fiscal year, de- 
spite the decrease of $292,740 which the Mu- 
nicipal Assembly made in his appropriation 
following its failure to pass the $2.25 tax 
rate bill. Mr. Davis will submit to the 
City Council soon a bill to make the 
department the recipient of all funds col- 
lected from boating and refreshment con- 
cessions in parks and playgrounds and the 
amounts derived from the sale of soap and 
towels in public bath houses. Heretofore 
these sums have gone into the municipal 
revenue. 
Charles M. Loring, of Minneapolis,- widely 
known as “father of the Minneapolis park 
system,” has offered to plant an avenue of 
elms to extend from the city limits on Lake 
street to Lake Minnetonka, a distance esti- 
mated at about fifteen miles. Mr. Loring’s 
offer was received by the Board of County 
Commissioners and was referred to the 
Roads and Bridges Committtee for irame- 
mediate action. Mr. Loring asks nothing 
of the county except permission to plant 
the trees and that the county surveyor 
place stakes along both sides of the road to 
designate where the trees are to go. 
The semi-annual meeting of the Arbori- 
cultural Association of Southern California 
will be held in the Board of Trade rooms, 
West Colorado street, Pasadena, September 
5 and 6 next. This association is corn- 
last three years we have used a Lawson 
six-inch diameter outfit and prefer it to 
anything tried so far. Besides making a 
very nice post, you can use your men in 
idle times to good advantage on the work. 
Leroy Christie, 
Supt. Ottumwa Cemetery. 
Ottumwa, la. 
We have used three different kinds at 
Lakewood: first, granite, then iron, and 
finally cement. Both the granite and the 
iron were very satisfactory, but too ex- 
pensive ; the concrete is equally as satis- 
factory, and the expense very much less, 
being about seven cents per post. We 
have never had any experience with the 
terra cotta and are, therefore, not in a 
position to pass an opinion on same. 
Arthur W. Hobert, 
Supt. Lakewood Cemetery. 
Minneapolis'. 
We like best the concrete posts made 
in the forms of Bellett Lawson, Jr. 
E. G. Carter, 
Chicago. Supt. Oak Woods. 
posed of those interested in city beautifi- 
cation, and Jacob Allerecht, superintendent 
of parks in Pasadena, is chairman of the 
Executive Committee. 
The .first annual meeting of “Friends of 
Our Native Landscape” was held Saturday, 
June 14, 1913, in Ogle County, 111., in the 
only virgin pine forest in Illinois. A spe- 
cial train ran from Chicago to the grounds, 
where interesting exercises' were held. A 
“masque” by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a 
symbolic dedication of this forest to our 
“Friends,” and an Indian campfire were 
features. Sherman M. Booth, Borland 
building, Chicago, is secretary of the new 
organization. 
Improvements and Additions. 
Plans are being drawn for a shelter house 
to be erected at Taylor Park, Freeport, 111., 
to accommodate about 3,000 people. 
The Mattoon Township Park Board, 
Mattoon, 111., has ordered a set of swings, 
a set of trapeeze bars and flying rings, a 
giant stride, two sets of see-saws and a 
shoot the chutes for the North Park, and a 
like order of playground apparatus for 
West Side Park. 
The Springfield, 111., Park Board, through 
its superintendent, J. Francis' Macpherson, 
lias made experiments with various dust- 
laying devices and has finally decided to 
use the Solvay process calcium chloride on 
the park roads. 
Secretary L. Edgar Orendorf, of the 
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