PARK AND CEMETERY. 
POR/nERLY THE nODERN CE/AETERY. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries. 
R. J. HAIGHX, Publisher, 
334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $i,oo a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25. 
VoL. V. CHICAGO, JUNE, 1895. No. 4. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL 55 
PARK BUILDING 56 
♦AMERICAN CEMETERIES ARE PAGAN 57 
CARPET BEDS IN PARKS 59 
♦GOLDEN GATE PARK, SAN FRANCISCO 59 
♦ELM GROVE CEMETERY, MYSTIC, CONN 63 
♦FLOWER BEDS AT GIRARD COLLEGE, PHILA 64 
♦FOUNDATIONS 64 
♦ISLAND CEMETERY RECEIVING TOMB, NEWPORT, R. I. 66 
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CONSTRUCT HIGHWAYS 
THROUGH CEMETERIES 67 
♦CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, CHICAGO 67 
♦GREENHOUSES-HOW TO BUILD VI 68 
PARK NOTES 69 
CEMETERY NOTES 70 
CREMATION-CORRESPONDENCE-CEMETERY REPORTS 71 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMEN'l' 72 
♦Illustrated. 
A GOOD work has been inaugurated by the re- 
cent exhibition of the National Sculpture 
Society in New York, in its successful effort 
to display works of sculptural art in connection with 
landscape gardening. The American public have 
little conception of the Italian Garden, or the foreign 
country seat, with their statuary placed here and 
there to enhance the beauty and lend a charm to 
the surroundings. There is no hap-hazard work in 
such display. The subjects are either chosen with 
an object in view, or when acquired are disposed 
with a definite study as to appropriateness of dis- 
position. This exhibition of the Sculpture Society 
has clearly demonstrated on this side of the Atlan- 
tic the value of statuary in artistic landscape effects 
as well as the appropriateness of a setting of verdure 
for certain forms of ideal statuary. The value and 
beauty of our parks would be immeasurably en- 
nanced by such a combination of nature and art, 
and the future would assuredly proclaim the wisdom 
of this evidence of our enlightened civilization. 
I N another column will be found an illustrated 
article, written by a foreign visitor who paid 
considerable attention to our cemeteries while 
here, and whose criticisims are valuable in their sug- 
gestiveness. One of the most striking object les- 
sons offered by the large majority of our cemeteries 
today is monotony in monumental memorials. 
There is, generally speaking, a certain lack of in- 
dividual taste displayed by the average lot-owner in 
the selection of a monument. It would almost seem 
in most cases, as though a monument on an adja- 
cent lot had caught the passing fancy of the would 
be purchaser and a duplicate was therefore ordered. 
This condition of things, so detrimental to the high- 
er interests of the cemetery, can find a remedy in 
the rule to allow no monument to be erected with- 
out the approval of the officials, based upon the sub- 
mitting of the design selected for such approval. 
Whatever arbitrariness or deprival of personal rights 
might be suggested in such a rule, would be dissi- 
pated on reflection. The general appearance of a 
section is the increasing ratio of the appearance of 
the lot, and so on of the whole cemetery. An ap- 
preciation of this fact by the lot owner will eradi- 
cate any personal objections that may arise on the 
point of interference with individual rights, for the 
beauty and welfare of the cemetery should be the 
object to which all individual views are subservient. 
A n important matter in connection with ceme- 
tery work is the foundation of monuments, 
on which subject an article will be found in 
another column. The work itself affords so much 
latitude for carelessness and incompetency, to say 
nothing of dishonesty, that the subject is worthy of 
far more attention by cemetery officials than it has 
ordinarily received. Both the material and work- 
manship should be carefully considered and super- 
vised, and that in relation to the soil and surround- 
ings, — questions of the utmost importance. The 
unsightly condition of many country cemeteries is 
largely due to carelessness or cupidity in this direct- 
ion, and even in the more pretentious cemeteries of 
our large cities, instances are quite common where 
foundations have been so faulty as to imperil the 
monument itself, as well as reflect on the man- 
agement for inattention to such important work. 
From such general experience, the conclusion is 
manifest that the cemeteries themselves should un- 
dertake the work of constructing all foundations for 
monuments. In this regard a very pertinent sug- 
gestion offers itself. The work of building found- 
ations is of such a nature that a source of revenue 
is open to the cemetery management, which is tak- 
en advantage of by many of the large cemeteries. 
