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PARK AND 
CEMETERY. 
WATER COURSE AND APPROACH TO McKINLEY NATIONAL MEMORIAL. 
The Harrison Granite Co., of New 
York were the general contractors for 
the structure and the Massachusetts 
Pink Granite Co., Milford, Mass., 
were the sub-contractors for the 
granite work. Even the steps and 
landings of the main approach are 
of Pink Milford. They are 58 feet 
wide, in four runs with a total length 
of 200 feet. They have a rise of 6 
in. and a tread of 18 18/23 in. The 
coping on either side is made of 
stones weighing 15 tons each. 
The ground reserved for the me- 
morial includes twenty-seven acres, 
the original eleven acres purchased 
from West Lawn Cemetery, at the 
time of erection of the memorial and 
sixteen acres added since. The land- 
scape plans for the development of 
the grounds were prepared by Smyth 
& Co., Rochester, N. Y. The plant- 
ing consists chiefly of conifers and 
deciduous shrubs. About one third 
of the ground is in natural forest. 
The McKinley Memorial Associa- 
tion has charge of the grounds, which 
are cared for by contract, about five 
men being employed for that pur- 
pose during the growing season. The 
endowment fund amounted to $37,000 
at the time of dedication of the me- 
morial. 
The memorial draws many visitors 
to the city, and an average of 350 peo- 
ple a day inspect it in summer and 
from 30 to 50 a day in winter. There 
is no admission fee and a custodian is 
on duty from 9 to 5 each day. Pub- 
lic exercises are held each year on 
McKinley’s birthday. At this cere- 
mony last year, the Evangelist Billy 
Sunday spoke to an audience of 8,000 
people, gathered about the memorial. 
NATURES FROST 
Almost everyone may be supposed 
familiar with the substances that we 
call snow, ice, and hoar-frost; again, 
almost every child may be presumed 
to know that these three substances 
are, in reality, no more than as many 
forms of water. Whether all who 
know this much, know further that 
snow, hoar-frost and ice are one and 
the same form may be open to doubt. 
A writer in a recent issue of the Sci- 
entific American describes the sci- 
entific phenomena of freez- 
ing and the formation of 
“frost flowers” and coatings 
of hoar-frost over natural 
objects. 
One of the lasting bene- 
fits which photography has 
conferred upon the world is 
certainly the ability to place 
on record natural phenom- 
ena so that, however rare 
or special the subject of a 
negative, every person can 
examine this subject in a 
print almost as well as 
though the natural object 
were before him. In cer- 
tain cases the examination 
is easier and more instruc- 
tive when made thus indi- 
rectly than it could be un- 
der natural conditions. This 
is certainly the case when 
FLOWERS AND 
we desire to study the real nature of 
snow or hoar-frost. Every flake of 
snow or atom of white hoar-frost is 
a crystal, so fragile and perishable 
that a' touch, the sun’s first rays, or 
even a man’s breath, will ruin its 
form in an instant. Those forms, 
again, are usually small as well as 
frail. To be examined as they — so 
to speak — “grow,” they must be ex- 
amined by the naked eye, or at best 
SNOW CRYSTALS 
by a small magnifying-glass. They 
are too perishable ever to be trans- 
ported within range of the micro- 
scope. 
When a sheet of water, such as a 
lake, begins to freeze, six-rayed ice- 
stars are formed here and there, and 
float on the surface. These touch 
each other and their edges join. They 
are the component parts of the sludgy 
film which grows outward from the 
banks of a freezing pool, and, later 
