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PARK AND CnnCTCRY. 
public is provided with a continuous driveway all 
the way on park land from Boston Common and 
Public Gardens to Franklin Park, a distance of 
seven miles. The entire length of park way drives 
is eleven miles, this added to the Park and Arbore- 
tum drives makes a total of twenty miles thrown 
open to the public which is one tenth of the Metro- 
politan Park System. 
I might mention the beauties of Scarboro Pond 
alive with canoeists, its marge of tree reflections, 
always a feature in landscape and in the rural sense, 
not when bounded by hewn and designed stone; then 
there are innumerable picturesque bits, fine masses 
of tangled scrub and shrub, cultivated road lawns 
where the bicycles meet; verges of green area 
which claim attention from the rider or plodder on 
foot; architectural effects, for architecture is here 
made effective in juncture with the landscape, no- 
ticeable in the Refectory building and its rustic re- 
taining wall elevation crowning the old Gleason 
grounds. Dales that demand a halt to contemplate 
as one would an innocent face among the promen- 
aders at a dress ball, or the comely maiden in the 
Sunday village church procession; flora so varied 
and decorative; the roadside rose, laurels, brooches 
and clusters of azaleas, rhododendrons bursting in- 
to effulgent glory, varieties of kerrias bloom, and 
other multitudinous blossoms and flowers, scent 
the air and flood the fore-grounds with their 
brilliant hues and glances. 
Such are a few of the charms of P'ranklin Park, 
and these beckon the dwellers in our brick wilder- 
ness to enjoy its vernal mildness, its reason, faith 
and perennial attire. 
F. T. Robinson. 
riemorial Chapel, Union Cemetery, Fairhaven, Conn. 
The accompanying cuts give perspective eleva- 
tion and plan of the Memorial Chapel, now in 
CHAPEL, UNION CEMETERY, FAIR HAVEN, CONN. 
course of construc- 
tion, at P'airhaven 
Union Cemetery, 
Fairhaven, Conn. 
The exterior will 
be constructed of 
East Haven, red 
sand-stone, rock- 
faced, broken ash- 
lar; with metal 
work, — cresti n gs, 
valleys, flashings, 
gutters, conduc- 
tors and finials of 
1 6 oz hard rolled 
copper. The roofs 
will be of slate. 
The interior side 
walls of all rooms 
except tool room, 
will be of buff col- 
ored brick. The 
ceilings will be 
plastered with Ad- 
amant and tinted 
PLAN OF CHAPEL. witli watei' colors. 
The ceiling of the 
vault will be arched with hollow brick: the in- 
side finish will be of North Carolina pine. The 
floors of all rooms, except the loggias, tool room 
and vault, which will be vitrified brick, will also 
be of North Carolina pine. 
Stained glass, costing some $1500, will be used 
in all the windows. Plxclusive of glass the con- 
tract price for the work was $5285. The architect 
of the structure is Mr, D. Bloomfield, of Meriden, 
Conn., and the contractors, R. Redfield & Son, of 
New Haven. 
Koads.* 
When ground is to be prepared for a cemetery, 
the first question that arises in regard to roads is one 
of location. The answer will be determined by 
considerations of beauty, utility and economy. If 
we were only seeking to produce a beautiful ceme- 
tery we should have trees, shrubs and flowers so 
arranged on a perfectly kept lawn as to produce the 
best effect of light, shade and color. The lawn 
would cover what Downing so pleasantly described 
in his essay on ‘The Beautiful in Ground,” and 
among the trees would stand a few monuments that 
would be real works of art. But utility demands 
that we shall be able to ride in carriages to points 
♦Read before the Association of American Cemetery Superintend- 
ents at Brooklyn, N. Y., 1888 . By O. C- Simonds of Graceland Ceme- 
tery, Chicago, 111. Revised to date. 
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