PARK AND CEMETERY 
AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
PUBLISHED BY ALLIED ARTS PUBLISHING COMPANY 
R. J. HAIGHT, President H. C. WHITAKER, Viee-President and General Manager O. H. SAMPLE, Secretary-Treasurer 
VOL. XXIII DECEMBER, 1913 No. 10 
EDITORIAL 
National Parks and Good Road Building 
The office of public roads of the Department of Agriculture 
has been demonstrating the value of proper road building by 
the construction of certain object-lesson roads, and the forest 
service is carrying out the idea of national and state co- 
operation in road building. The law requires that 10 per cent 
of the gross receipts from the national forests shall be spent 
in the states in which the forests are situated. This money 
is expended for road improvement under direct control of the 
Secretary of Agriculture. The amount appropriated under this 
act, based on the receipts of the national forests for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, is $234,638.68. From the 1912 
receipts for this 10 per cent road item there is an additional 
$134,831.10, which is still available. In administering the 10 
per cent road fund, forest officers charged with the actual 
plans and expenditures in the neighborhood of their forests 
have, in almost all cases, secured an equal or a larger co- 
operative fund from state authorities for the building of certain 
pieces of road. With the money thus expended many impor- 
Missouri Supreme Court 
The Supreme Court of Missouri, November 24, delivered an 
opinion on a ruling by Judge Woodson in the case of the 
Union Cemetery Association of Kansas City. Judge Wood- 
son's divisional opinion in the case was adopted, namely, that 
the ordinance passed by the Kansas City Council, July 14, 
1910, prohibiting any further interments in the cemetery, is un- 
reasonable and tyrannical and that it is forever barred from 
being enforced. The cemetery is located in the vicinity of 
the new Union station in Kansas City, and it is intimated in 
the opinion that the wishes of real estate speculators entered 
largely into the enactment of the ordinance. Judge Woodson 
says that there is nothing in the record in the case to show 
that the cemetery is a menace to the public health, and that 
there was. no complaint whatever on the ground of sanitation 
until the location of the new Union station was determined 
upon. There are 50,000 people buried there and the realty 
Editorial 
There are seven spruces in the United States. Four are 
confined to the West, two to the East, while one, white 
spruce, has a continent-wide distribution. 
In proportion to its weight California redwood is the strong- 
est conifer so far tested at the United States forest products 
laboratory. This strength is due to its long wood fibers. 
Experiments with various chemical extinguishers for fight- 
ing national forest fires have not been very successful. The 
unlimited supply of oxygen in the open, forest officers say, 
tends to neutralize the effect of the chemicals. 
Of the two million trees to be planted on the national forests 
of Montana and northern Idaho during the present fiscal 
year, one-half have been set out this fall and the rest will 
be put in next spring. 
There is a flourishing forest school in the Philippines, and 
twenty-eight men were graduated with the class of 1913. 
The so-called Scotch pine is the principal tree in the Prus- 
sian forests. Its wood is much like that of the Western yel- 
low pine of the United States. 
A growing scarcity of willow, generally used for wooden shoes 
in Europe, is leading to an adoption of poplar. 
tant roads are being built or put in repair. One on the Wy- 
oming National Forest, six miles long, makes accessible to 
farmers a large body of timber and opens up a region of 
great scenic beauty, in northwestern Arizona part of the fund 
will be used in connection with the LeFevre-Bright Angel 
road, important because it makes accessible to tourists the 
Grand Canyon of the Colorado. In one place the ocean-to- 
ocean highway crosses the Apache National Forest, Arizona, 
and on this project the forest service and the local authorities 
co-operated enthusiastically. On the Florida National Forest 
in western Florida steel bridges and graded roads have, under 
the stimulus of this fund, taken the place of corduroy, bog 
and sand. This federal road fund is now available in all 
national forest states of the West. Just as fast as returns 
come in, the forestry officials say, a similar fund will become 
available in states in which Eastern national forests are being 
secured. 
On Prohibiting Interments 
holdings of the cemetery association embrace forty-nine acres. 
There are 1,000 Union soldiers interred in the cemetery. 
Among the notable dead are General George C. Bingham, 
William Gilliss and many others. The total value of the 
property of the cemetery association is placed at more than 
$5,000,000. Judge John C. Brown filed a brief concurring in 
the opinion, in which he says: “While I am sure the or- 
dinance prohibiting all future burials in Union Cemetery 
should be enjoined, there is a state of affairs which would 
justify an ordinance to abate all pools of water and provide 
storm sewers to carry surface water and sewage from the 
graves to the northern boundary of the property, to keep all 
graves leveled up to the surface and to require all future 
interments to be made six feet below the natural surface of 
the ground.” 
Notes 
The average area administered by a ranger on the federal for- 
ests of the United States is about 100,000 acres. In Germany the 
area administered by a man of equivalent rank is about 700 acres. 
Complaining that the Oakwood Cemetery Association, Joliet, 
111., has gone beyond the scope of its authority when it insists 
that only the special vault manufactured by it shall be used in 
the cemetery, L. G. Hutson has filed a bill for an injunction to 
restrain the association from enforcing this ruling. Hutson is 
planning to disinter the body of his father and to place it in a 
concrete vault. The by-laws of the association provide that the 
sexton shall have the power to designate what sort of vault shall 
be used. 
John B. Sutton, who owns a tract of 194 acres of valuable land 
just east of the village of Findlay, 111., has filed a petition for an 
injunction in the Shelby County Circuit Court, asking that the 
Findlay Cemetery Association be restrained from underdraining 
the new cemetery in such manner that the drainage will be 
turned into the Everman branch, or ditch, which Mr. Sutton 
alleges is a natural drainage ditch and passes through his land, 
furnishing water for bis horses, cattle, hogs and other stock. 
