PARK AND CEMETERY. 
rOR/nERLY THE /MODERN CEnETER'i’. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries. 
R. J. HAIQHX, Rublishier, 
334 Deapborn Street, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $1,00 a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $1.25 
VoL. V. CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1895. No. 7. 
CONTENTS. 
KDITORtAL loq 
BOTANICAL GARDENS no 
*RU,STIC VASES AT LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO 112 
PRESERVE VALUABLE TREES 113 
THE ONONDAGA COUNTY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.... n 3 
*HILLSBORO CEMETERY, HILLSBORO, 0 114 
CEMETERIES AND CREMATION 114 
THE CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENT'S NINTH ANNUAL 
CONVENTION— PRESIDENTS ADDRESS 116 
*THE PARKS OF DULUTH, MINN 118 
*THE SMITH MAUSOLEUM, CHARLESTON, S. C 120 
NOTES ON THE RHODODENDRON 120 
^GARDENING IN HARMONY GROVE CEMETERY. SA 
LEM, MASS 121 
CEMETERY ACCOUNTING.-II 122 
PARK NOTES i 23 
CEMETERY NOTES i 24 
CORRESPONDENCE-CREMATION 125 
EXTRACTS-PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT 126 
*niustrated. 
HE ninth annual convention of the Associa- 
tion of American Cemetery Superintendents 
was held at Richmond, Va. , on the 18, 19 
and 20 of the month. It was expected that the 
location of the convention city would impose ob- 
stacles to a very strong attendance, which happily 
was not the case; but it militates against a com- 
prehensive account of the proceedings, or publi- 
cation of the important papers and discussions in 
this issue of PARK and Cemetery. As heretofore a 
full report will be published by the Secretary in due 
course, which will make another valuable addition 
to cemetery literature. 
HE most important event of the month of 
September has probably been the dedication 
and other ceremonies attending the public 
opening of the Chickamauga National Park. The 
press generally has been teeming with descriptive 
matter concerning this great historical object lesson; 
and truly, the whole undertaking, with the liberal- 
ity displayed in its thorough equipment for the 
object sought, is well worthy of being set forth in 
such a manner as that the people shall realize pos- 
itively what a great work has been carried out for 
them. The occasion brought together representa- 
tive men from all over the country, civil and mili- 
tary, and the spirit of the work animated all the 
speeches and exercises. The park includes some 
ten square miles of country, with a fine driving 
road twenty miles long, passing through battle 
ground its entire length. The government owns 
it in fee simple, as well as jurisdiction over the 
roads to batde fields and through them. The sev- 
eral great battles fought on the ground are illus- 
trated through miles of lines marked by tablets and 
monuments, with actual batteries in place of pat- 
terns used in the battles. Twenty-five State Com- 
missions, Union and Confederate, have been engag- 
ed for months on the work. Ot the twenty-eight 
states which had troops on the fields, nine only 
have made appropriations, calling for 169 monu- 
ments, about 100 of which are on the ground. 
The amount thus far appropriated by the nine states 
is over $350,000. Illinois has chosen to erect 
monuments of one design for all organizations, 
simply changing the inscriptions. By this it is be- 
lieved the positions of Illinois troops as a whole 
can be more readily seen. Indiana uses Indiana 
limestone for its monuments; Tennessee, Tennessee 
marble, and it is probable as the states are represent- 
ed in the park, this idea will be still more preval- 
ent. The project is only fairly begun; and as it pro- 
gresses to completion, its conception and realization 
will become more and more highly appreciated. 
E lectricity is becoming more and more 
intimately associated with human needs as 
the days go by. As a motive force its appli- 
cation is assuming universality, while in many 
other directions its wide range of usefulness is be- 
ing brought under control through scientific re- 
search and the application of discoveries resulting 
therefrom. Since the motor has been used for the 
propulsion of street cars, more refined conditions 
have prevailed, and the innovation has been intro- 
duced, very satisfactorily too, of bringing into ser- 
vice electric funeral cars The advantages of this 
departure are manifest; it is in the line of progress, 
and is supplanting the very objectionable features 
which have been so long endured in connection 
with the funeral hearse and its attendant details. 
It moreover contributes to ecomony in funerals and 
admits of changes, which, while not detracting from 
the conditions properly belonging to the occasion, go 
