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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
It is usually figured that about 25 per 
cent of the price of a lot is necessary for 
the perpetual care of graves and much 
more than this amount would be necessary 
for the perpetual care of a mausoleum. 
Ask your promoters if they are willing to 
set aside 50 per cent of the cost of the 
structure as an endowment fund. The 
main considerations are to secure perfect 
construction and sufficient endowment to 
properly support and care for the structure 
and probably ultimately to make extensive 
repairs or rebuild it. 
A cemetery that thinks there is need for 
a mausoleum should build one itself, and 
own it and control it absolutely. You can 
get a private mausoleum builder to build 
a mausoleum in the same way that good 
private mausoleums are built, which are 
The Ripon Cemetery Association, Ripon, 
Wis., has recently erected at Hillside Cem- 
etery a massive entrance of red granite 
that makes an unusual and impressive 
form of entrance. The plan of the struc- 
ture includes a wall about four feet high 
with a recessed, center curving toward the 
drive gates. Eight massive posts form the 
corners of the wall, and the gates for 
pedestrians are set at right angles to the 
main gate, thus securing the maximum 
width for the front wall 
The central gate posts are 9 feet hisrh 
and 2 feet 6 inches square; the inside 
posts of the walk gates 8 feet high and 
2 feet 2 inches at the base, and the others 
The Lowthorpe School of Lanscape Ar- 
chitecture and Horticulture for Women at 
Groton, Mass., has recently issued an illus- 
trated descriptive book telling of the work 
of this interesting school. While not large 
and greatly in need of endowment, Low- 
thorpe School is doing a good work for 
women. Its management and teaching staff 
have been thoroughly reorganized and im- 
proved during the past summer. Miss 
'Georgianna J. Sanders, a very capable 
much better constructed than anything in 
the way of a public mausoleum that would 
be put up by any of the promoting com- 
panies. The building should be heated, 
maintained in perfect condition, and the 
construction subject to the examination of 
a disinterested expert. 
The only demand for this form of in- 
terment that is evident is that stirred up 
by the promoters for their own revenue. 
In many cases where vigorous advertising 
of the weaknesses of the mausoleum prop- 
osition has been done, the project has 
failed. Those who oppose and want to 
fight the proposition can best do it by ad- 
vertising in their community the argu- 
ments that have appeared in these pages 
from time to time. 
5 feet 6 inches high by 2 feet 2 inches at 
the base. A polished name stone on either 
side adds something of decoration to the 
front wall, which extends 52 feet from post 
to post. The drive-gate is 12 feet wide. 
The entrance was designed by George 
Goodell, president and superintendent of 
the Ripon Cemetery Association, and was 
erected by Knopf & Preston, of Berlin, 
Wis. The granite is “Wisconsin Mahog- 
any,” from the Lohrville quarries of the 
American Granite Co., of Milwaukee. The 
drive and walk gates were furnished by 
the Enterprise Foundry and Fence Co., of 
Indianapolis. The total cost of the en- 
trance and grading was $2,300. 
Englishwoman, thoroughly trained at 
Swanley, Lowthorpe and elsewhere, has 
been appointed principal. The important 
courses in landscape design are given by 
Bremer L. Pond, of Olmsted Bros., a Har- 
vard graduate and master of landscape 
architecture, and Miss Elizabeth Leonard, 
one of the ablest graduates of the De- 
partment of Landscape Architecture at 
Cornell University. Miss Elsie D. Varley, 
also a graduate of Swanley, and holder of 
various honors from the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society of England, is in charge of 
the courses in morphology, anatomy, phys- 
iology, plant pathology, soils and practical 
horticulture. Miss Laura Dawson, a grad- 
uate of Radcliffe and a daughter of Jack- 
son Dawson, of the Arnold Aboretum, is 
in charge of the course devoted to the 
practical study of trees and shrubs and 
flowering plants. 
During the summer the main building 
(Mrs. Low’s home) and the annex have 
both received many needed improvements. 
Up-to-date lighting and drafting facilities 
have been provided, and the garden and 
various greenhouses put in excellent con- 
dition, offering complete facilities for prac- 
tical work for the students. 
The fall term opened with about fifteen 
students. Many of the former graduates 
are doing good work in such places as 
New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, 
Cleveland, and one is in charge of the 
school garden work at Los Angeles. 
Any interested are requested to com- 
municate with the new principal, Miss 
Georgianna J. Sanders, at Lowthorpe, or 
visit the school in its charming setting at 
Groton, Mass., and see for themselves just 
what is being done. 
BRITISH CEMETERY ASSOCIA- 
TION FORMED. 
Cemetery officials of Great Britain held 
a well-attended meeting at the Town Hall, 
Kensington, London, October 17, and or- 
ganized “The United Kingdom Association 
of Cemetery Superintendents.” 
The following officers were elected : 
President — J. D. Robertson, City of Lon- 
don. 
Vice-President — A. King, Islington. 
Secretary-Treasurer — C. F. Tate, Ken- 
sington Cemetery, Hanwell, London, W. 
It was voted to make the annual dues 
five shillings. The following committee 
was 'appointed to draft rules and by-laws : 
T. Bevan, St. Marleybone ; E. Cowell, 
Crystal Palace ; A. Casselton, Fulham; W. 
C. Hards, Greenwich; W. G. Hill, Barnes; 
W. Ismay, Plumstead ; F. J. P. Loud, Ac- 
ton ; G. W. Snow, Wandsworth. 
MASSIVE CEMETERY ENTRANCE OF GRANITE. 
WOMEN’S SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. 
NEW GRANITE ENTRANCE AT HILLSIDE CEMETERY, RIPON, WIS. 
