PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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which remain unsold. I have always re- 
ferred to the slip which is made out in 
triplicate at the time of the sale, showing 
the name of purchaser, description of lot, 
price, and terms of payment. One copy of 
this slip is given to the purchaser, one is 
sent to the city office, and the third is re- 
tained at the cemetery. Particulars' of the 
sale of the lot are then entered in the “Lot 
Owners’ Index.” This book is a memo- 
randum to facilitate reference to the “Ad- 
dress Book.” The address book contains 
a record of all the lots set out in serial 
order. Opposite the number of the lol 
sold there are entered, (1) name of pur- 
chaser, (2) address, (3) date of sale (4) 
price, and (5) area in square feet. At the 
same time a card is made out showing par- 
ticulars of the sale of the lot, exactly as 
in the address book, and containing a plan 
of the lot and provision for a record of 
the interments. 
Burials. The order for the burial is 
generally communicated to the cemetery by 
the undertaker when it is entered in the 
LOG DRAGS F 
This is the time of year, according to 
road experts of the Department of Agri- 
culture, when the earth road should be 
prepared for the winter. The use of the 
split-log drag is important in putting the 
roads in shape for winter use. 
There are over 2,000,000 miles of dirt 
roads in the country, and the split-log drag 
:s of great service in keeping them in 
economical repair. The drag is used in 
many states and in foreign countries. It 
is used with two, three, or four horses, 
and is easily constructed. 
The two-slab log and plank drags have 
proven the most satisfactory. Double 
-drags for working both sides of the road- 
way simultaneously have been tried with 
•only limited success. The reason for this 
is that both sides of an earth road are 
never exactly alike. This causes the two 
parts of the drag to work unevenly and 
to interfere with each other. 
It is a mistake to construct a heavy 
drag. A dry red cedar log is the best ma- 
terial for a drag. Red elm and walnut 
when thoroughly dried are excellent, and 
box elder, soft maple, or even willow are 
preferable to oak, hickory or ash. 
The log should be seven or eight feel- 
long and from 10 to 12 inches in diameter 
and carefully split down the middle. The 
heaviest and best slabs should be selected 
for the front. At a point on the front 
slab four inches from the end that is to 
be at the middle of the road locate the 
center of the hole to receive a cross stake, 
and 22 inches from the other end of the 
front slab locate the center for another 
cross stake. The hole for the middle stake 
will lie on a line connecting and halfway 
between the other two. 
The back slab should then be placed in 
a position behind the other. From the 
day book under the date of the burial. Be- 
fore the burial order can be made out a 
permission for burial must be obtained, 
signed by the lot owner. The grave is 
prepared for opening by the burial fore- 
man, who returns the burial order to the 
office, and the superintendent or one of 
his assistants in the office checks by phys- 
ical examination the location and the meas- 
urements as shown in the order. The par- 
ticulars of the interment are entered in 
the Daily Interment Record, the informa- 
tion being as follows: (1) Name of de- 
cedent; (2) Date of death; (3) Date of 
interment; (4) Age; (5) Sex; (6) Social 
state; (7) Nativity; (8) Place of death; 
(9) Cause of death; (10) Place of inter- 
ment; (11) Name of undertaker. A card 
is then made out containing a record of 
the interment and this is filed alphabet- 
ically under the name of the deceased. 
Foundations. I have already described 
the procedure in connection with founda- 
tions when dealing with the city office day 
book. 
OR SURFACING 
end at the middle of the road measure 
2C inches for the center of the cross stake, 
and six inches from the other end locate 
the center of the outside stake. Find the 
center of the middle hole as before. When 
these holes are brought opposite each other, 
one end of the back slab will lie 16 inches 
nearer the center of the roadway than the 
front one. The holes should be two inches 
in diameter. Care must be taken to hold 
the auger plumb in boring these holes in 
order that the stakes shall fit properly. 
The two slabs should be held 30 inches 
apart by the stakes. The stakes should 
taper gradually toward the ends. There 
should be no shoulder at the point where 
the stakes enter the slab. The stakes 
should be fastened in place by wedges 
only. When the stakes have been placed 
in position and tightly wedged, a brace 
two inches thick and four inches wide 
should be placed diagonally to them at the 
ditch end. The brace should be dropped 
on the front slab, so that its lower edge 
shall lie within an inch of the ground, 
while the other end should rest in the 
angle between the slab and the end stake. 
A strip of iron about feet long, 3 
or 4 inches wide, and of an inch thick 
may be used for the blade. This should 
be attached to the front slab, so that it 
will be one-half inch below the lower edge 
of the slab at the ditch end, while the 
end of the iron toward the middle of the 
Watering. In the spring of the year a 
standing order for watering and a yearly 
order are mailed to those lot owners who 
have not previously given an order for wa- 
tering. When these cards are returned the 
appropriate entry is made in the watering 
book kept by the watering foreman. The 
cards are filed in the order of lots and sec- 
tions and information for the yearly charge 
is obtained from this file. 
Other forms which should be kept at the 
cemetery are : Order for floral decora- 
tions, order for greenhouse produce, order 
for vase, order for cremation. 
A daily report of all transactions taking 
place at the cemetery must be sent to the 
city office, along with duplicates of the sales 
and order slips and the cash received. All 
bills should be directed to be paid at the city 
office, but if cash is tendered at the ceme- 
tery in settlement of a bill rendered it 
should, of course, be accepted and a simple 
receipt given, together with a notification 
that a formal receipt will be mailed from 
the city office. 
DIRT ROADS 
road should be flush with the edge of the 
slab. The bolts holding the blade in place 
should have flat heads and the holes to 
receive them should be countersunk. 
An ordinary trace chain is strong enough 
to draw the implement, provided the clevis 
is not fastened through a link. The chain 
should be wrapped around the rear stake, 
then passed over the front slab. Raising 
the chain at this end of the slab allows 
the earth to drift past the face of the drag. 
The other end of the chain should be passed 
through the hole in the end of the slab. 
One and one-half trace chains are suffi- 
cient. 
The snatch link cr clevis should be fas- 
tened far enough toward the blade end of 
the chain to force the unloaded drag to 
follow the team at an angle of 45 degrees. 
This will cause the earth to move along 
the face of the drag smoothly and will 
give comparatively light draft to the team, 
provided the driver rides in the line of 
draft. 
If small weeds are to be cut or a fur- 
row of earth is to be moved, the double- 
tree should be attached rather close to 
the ditch end of the drag. The drag 
will now move nearly ditch end fore- 
most, and the driver should stand with 
one foot on the extreme forward end 
of the front slab. This will swing the 
drag back to the proper angle and will 
cause the blade to plow. This hitch re- 
quires slow and careful driving in order 
to prevent the drag from tipping for- 
ward. If the blade should plow too 
deeply, the driver should shift his weight 
toward the back slab. If straw and 
weeds clog the blade, they can usually 
be removed if the driver shifts his weight 
to a point as far as possible from the 
ditch or blade end. 
