PARK AND CEMETERY. 
rOR/AERLY THE /nODERN CE/AETERY. 
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Parks and Cemeteries- 
R. J. HAIGHT, Hublislner, 
334 Deapborn StPeet, CHICAGO. 
Subscription $i,oo a Year in Advance. Foreign Subscription $150. 
VoL. VI. CHICAGO, JULY, 1896. No 5. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL , 287 
TREES AND SHRUBS IN JACKSON PARK, CHICAGO'..... 288 
ANCIENT BURIAL CUSTOMS 288 
■•SOME NOTABLE MONUMENTS RECENTLY DEDICATED 29o 
‘THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY, PITTSBURGH, PA 292 
‘GARDEN PLANTS, THEIR GEOGRAPHY, IX 294 
•THE CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY GARDENS 2t.6 
‘HAMMERED GRANITE 298 
WATER LILIES-NYMPH^A SUPERBA 299 
HUNNISH CEMETERY AT CZIKO 299 
’VILLAGE ADORNMENT-LEGAL 300 
PARK NOTES 3oi 
CEMETERY NOTES 3 2 
CORRESPONDENCE 3o3 
PUBLISHERS DEPARTMENT 3o4 
‘Illustrated. 
W HILE our cemeteries and parks are in cer- 
tain respects making rapid headway in 
characteristic excellencies, there are yet 
many features to be considered before, even in this 
day, they can be said to be up to date. Among 
these might be suggested shelters or rest houses, to 
which should be added means for enjoying the 
beautiful scenery of the place, which would suggest 
either altitude of location or of structure. Another, 
which has been practically entirely neglected, per- 
haps more so in our cemeteries than in our parks, 
though in the latter an excuse for the proper thing 
is the prevailing condition, is toilet accommodations 
and the accompanying absolutely necessary con- 
veniences properly and attractively arranged. It is 
strange that so little attention has been paid to this 
important feature, for a proper distribution of such 
conveniences would immeasurably increase conjfprt 
and the enjoyment of the beauties of the place. 
T he park system of Chicago has, generally 
speaking, been universally admired. Con- 
sidering the age of the city, there is no ques- 
tion but that the broad and liberal policy which in- 
augurated its scheme of parks bespoke wise fore- 
thought which has been amply justified. That be- 
ing conceded, there has been, however, a lamentable 
oversight in the direction of providing for that class 
of citizens, whose condition, as in every large city, 
precludes its participation to a fair extent in the 
larger parks, which for the most part are located 
well away from the crowded portions of the city. 
The race for wealth, which has largely come to 
many of its citizens from real estate holdings, has 
blinded those in interest to the demands of an en- 
lightened civilization, and Chicago’s City Fathers 
have never been credited with very many human- 
itarian efforts outside their own importunate needs; 
so that we find a city of immense area, a large por- 
tion of which teems with humanity, the second city 
in population in the great United States, possessing 
only so many inter-urban breathing spots as may be 
counted on the fingers of one hand. Public senti- 
ment in other large cities is demanding that the 
crowded masses shall be provided with small parks 
close at home, and immense sums are being ex- 
pended in the purchase of sites for the purpose. 
How the neglect of this provision, which should be 
attended to early in the career of every growing 
city, is making the work a costly one? But the de- 
mand is one that cannot be neglected. In this age, 
at last, the making of good citizens is acknowledged 
to lie in the care of the children, and small parks 
and playgrounds for their recreation and health, are 
now demanded as a settled policy of city de- 
velopment. And it is not a one-sided policy either. 
It reacts to the general good: on sanitary grounds 
it is an excellent remedial agency; on moral grounds 
its effects can scarcely be comprehended, so broad 
is its scope. Given a city with an abundance of 
well cared-for small parks and playgrounds, and it 
will go without saying, that the moral and physical 
atmosphere of that place will create a comparison, 
which applied to less favored spots will assuredly 
make it odious, 
