PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Creesy exhibited a number of weather 
beaten and faded flags of different or- 
ganizations, he took from graves ex- 
pressly to show at this meeting. A 
rising vote was taken which showed 
that about one-third of the cemeteries 
represented all flags of this character 
are removed within ten days from 
the time they are placed on graves, 
at the other cemeteries represented, 
the flags remain for an indefinite 
period. The opinion was almost 
unanimous that flags become unsight- 
ly and should be removed within a 
few days from the time they are 
placed. 
An inspection of “Forest Home” 
occupied the closing hours of the af- 
ternoon. The cemetery covers 210 
acres, of gently undulating land, 35 
of which are unimproved. Native 
hardwood trees, and masses of well- 
kept, ornamental shrubbery give 
pleasing variety to the landscape. 
Quite a liberal use is made of bed- 
ding plants, throughout the grounds, 
a range of twenty-seven green-houses 
affording an ample supply of mate- 
rial. The principal buildings are a 
handsome chapel and crematorium and 
the office building with its spacious 
and modernly appointed waiting room, 
which have been illustrated in Park 
and Cemetery. The park-like approach 
to the cemetery is a broad avenue of 
dustless macadam bordered with 
moss planting of ornamental shrub- 
bery and trees that extends well into 
the grounds before there is any sug- 
gestion of a grave or monument. The 
office building is conveniently placed 
near the entrance, as may be seen in 
the accompanying plan of the cem- 
etery. The chapel is farther in and 
three shelter houses in different parts 
of the Grounds afford needed protec- 
tion for lot holders, in inclement 
weather. 
Thirty of the one hundred and 
fifteen employees are women who do 
sickling, raking, pulling dandelions, 
etc. During the early summer 150 
men, women and boys are employed. 
Milwaukee’s wealthiest citizens have 
their burial lots here and many hand- 
some monuments and costly mauso- 
leums have been erected. Structures 
of the latter class are now discour- 
aged unless ample endowment is pro- 
vided to cover the cost of repairs that 
the ravages of time are certain to 
make necessary. About 40,000 inter- 
ments have been made to date and 
958 incinerations. The first crema- 
tion was made July 7, 1896. Most 
of the incinerated remains are placed 
either in wooden or concrete boxes 
and interred. Sunday funerals are 
prohibited. Forest Home cemetery 
is controlled by the Rector, Wardens 
and Vestrymen of St. Pauls Church, 
Milwaukee, and is under the efficient 
management of Superintendent James 
Currie and Secretary W. S. Pirie. 
Third Day. 
A discussion of the design and set- 
ting of gravestones furnished by the 
U. S. government to mark soldiers’ 
graves resulted in a resolution author- 
izing the officers of the A. A. C. S. 
to take up the matter of design, etc., 
with the proper government officials. 
A profitable hour was devoted to 
discussions suggested by the Question 
Box, and included: Sprinkling lawns: 
the elm leaf beatle and brown tail 
moth: cemetery advertising: grave 
linings: funeral cars; professional 
pall bearers: cut flower vases, etc. 
The election of officers for 1913 
resulted as follows: 
President, M. H. Turner, Rose 
Lawn, St. Paul, Minn. 
Vice-president, M. P. Brazill, Cal- 
vary, St. Louis, Mo. 
Secretary and Treasurer, Bellett 
Lawson, Jr., Elmwood, River Grove, 
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The By Laws were amended to ad- 
mit as associate members park offi- 
cials who are not commercially in- 
terested in cemetery affairs. 
The advisory committee was dis- 
continued and henceforth there will 
be an executive committee of three 
members, separate from the conven- 
tion committee. The members of 
the executive committee elected are 
G. L. Tilton, Chicago, 111., G. W. 
Creesy, Salem, Mass., W. Falconer, 
Pittsburgh. On motion of F. H. 
Rutherford, Hamilton, Ont., the asso- 
ciation placed itself on record as be- 
ing favorable to the principle that 
should it be felt necessary to build 
a community mausoleum in a cem- 
etery, the proper persons to build 
and control that mausoleum should be 
the owners of the cemetery, that is. 
the cemetery association. 
Buffalo, N. Y. was selected for the 
1913 meeting. 
Resolutions were adopted In Me- 
moriam, and also expressing the 
thanks of the association to the con- 
vention committee and all who had 
contributed to the success of the meet- 
ing. 
The afternoon was devoted to an 
automobile ride over the park sys- 
tem and through the residence dis- 
trict of the city. The following day 
a party numbering sixty or more ac- 
cepted the invitations extended them 
to visit Mt. Hope, Mt. Greenwood, 
Oak Woods and other Chicago cem- 
eteries a special electric car trans- 
ported the visitors over a portion of 
the route. 
ECHOES 
Sid J. Hare, Kansas City, Mo., came 
by the way of Boston, Mass., where 
he attended the annual convention 
of the Association of Park superin- 
tendents, of which he is also a mem- 
ber. Park and Cemetery is indebted 
to Mr. Hare for some fine photo- 
graphs taken on this trip. Only a 
few can be reproduced for want of 
space. 
The Rochester trio, J. W. Keller, 
Frank Sheard and John Meisch will 
look after the details of the Buffalo 
convention. Mr. Keller was master 
of ceremonies in Milwaukee, when 
several congenial Spirits were enter- 
tained with the following menu: 
MENU. 
Typhoid oysters on half shell 
Benzoate of soda soup a la mock turtle 
Ptomaine halibut 
Roast beef a la arterio schlerosis, with 
with prussic acid succotash and sulphate 
of copper peas 
Lettuce sallade with aniline dyes 
Lactic acid Philadelphia cream chees, with 
papier machie crackers 
Caffeine precipitate, with New Hampshire 
quarry sugar 
Finger bowls with streptococci water 
An orchestra rendered dirges ap- 
propriate to the occasion. 
Geo. M. Painter was receiving con- 
gratulations on the recent arrival of 
a little daughter. 
The ladies were present in large 
numbers. Mrs. E. E. Hay, supt. Erie 
cemetery, Erie, Pa., a member since 
1896, told the convention what her 
cemetery was doing to arouse in- 
terest in perpetual care. 
R. D. Boice, Geneseo, 111., the dean 
of the association, now in his eighties, 
was present, accompanied by a mem- 
ber of his board of trustees. 
P. H. McCue, representing the Ver- 
mont Marble Co., Proctor, Vt., and 
Mr. Eurich and Mr. Morrison of the 
Harrison Granite Co., New York, re- 
newed old acquaintances and made 
new ones among the superintendents. 
M. H. Winters, secretary, Wood- 
mere Cemetery, Detroit, Mich., ac- 
companied by his family, came by 
auto to Grand Haven, Mich., across 
Lake Michigan by steamer and re- 
turned via Chicago and northern Ind- 
iana. 
W. S. Pirie showed a post card just 
received from a friend traveling in 
Germany. It illustrated the crema- 
toriums at Leipzig where there have 
been 2,100 bodies cremated during 
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