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PARK AND CEMETERY 
The Boston Park Report. 
The annual report of the Board 
of Commissioners of the park sys- 
tem of the city of Boston, Mass., 
contains a large amount of ex- 
ceedingly interesting matter, as 
might be inferred from the vast 
sums of money which have been 
expended on the parks and the 
progressive methods adopted in 
their development and care. Some 
of the figures are instructive. The 
Fens, taken up in 1879, has cost 
to date of report $2,634,516.89. 
It contains over 1 1 5 acres and has 
over ten and a half miles of drives 
and walks. Jamaica Park, with 
120 acres, has 7 miles of drives 
and walks and has cost, since 
1892, $955,059.09. The Arnold 
Arboretum and Bussey Park, the 
former dating from 1882, contains 
223 acres and ii miles of drives 
and walks, cost $306,760.80. 
Franklin Park, with 527 acres, 
and some 32 miles of walks and 
drives has cost $3,341,094.40. 
The park system comprises 2,162 
acres and the total expenditures 
have been $13,309,240.18. Sug- 
gestive paragraphs are the follow- 
ing: With regard to the influence 
of public parks on the neighbor- 
ing real estate, no recent figures 
have been made. In 1890 the 
board published a statement of 
the increase in value of the Back 
Bay lands since the establishment 
of the park. By this table it will 
be found that the land alone was 
trebled in value in the thirteen 
years, while the valuation of land 
in the rest of the city during the 
same period increased only 
eighteen per cent. 
“The increased taxes on this 
land, without including the build- 
ings erected, aggregated over two 
million dollars — a sum more than 
sufficient to pay the entire cost of 
the improvement at that time. 
The increased taxes on new build- 
ings erected on these lands yeild- 
ed one and a half millions of 
revenue.” 
This has been the experience in 
all places where carried out under 
proper conditions. Property im- 
mediately enhances in value and 
a residence neighborhood is built 
up beneficial to the community. 
As oc ation of American Cemetery 
luperint ndects. 
O. C. SIMONDS, "Graceland," 
- Chicago, President 
G. W. CREESY, “Harmony Grove,'" 
Salem, Mass., Vice-President. 
F. EURICH, Woodlawn, Toledo, O., 
Secretary and Tieasurer. 
The Tenth Annual Convention will be 
held at St. Louis, September, 15, 16 and 
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Publisher’s Department. 
Notice TO Subscribers. If this no- 
tice is marked with a blue pencil it indi- 
cates that your subscription to Park 
AND Cemetery has expired and a renew- 
al of same is solicited. 
Park Commissioners and Cemetery 
trustees are requested to send us copies of 
their reports. 
Photographs and descripdve sketches of 
interesting features in parks and cemeter- 
ies are solicited from our readers. 
Park AND Cemetery wants the names 
of every park and cemetery official or em- 
ployee who would be likely to be interest- 
ed in this paper. To the many subscrib- 
ers who have sent in such list of names, 
we return our thanks. There are many 
more that we should hear from. 
Subscibers are again reminded that we 
want brief notes on any feature of park or 
cemetery work that will be of general in- 
terest. Park and Cemetery is the only 
publication of its class and earnestly soli- 
cits the co-operation of subscribers in 
making it a help to all indentified with 
such work. 
received. 
Report of the Trustees of Cemeteries 
of the City of Walden, Mass., for the year 
ending December 31, iSgy 
Annual report to the Lot Owners for the 
year 1895 with Rules, Regulations, etc., 
Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. This 
report is illustrated with a number of full 
page photogravures. 
Presidents and Superintendents reports 
of the Allegheny Cemetery, Allegheny, 
Pa. 
A very attractive little illustrated 
pamphlet of Flushing Cemetery, Flushing 
Long Island, giving its history, description 
and information concerning its perpetual 
care and other funds for improvement and 
perpetuity. 
Report of the Directors of Saint John 
Rural Cemetery. Saint John, N. B. 
Lectures, Laws, Papers, Pictures, 
Pointers. Interstate Park, Dalles of the 
St. Croix, Taylor’s Falls, Minn., St. Croix 
Falls, Wis., Compiled by Geo H. Haz- 
zard. Commissioner Interstate Park. 
This is a compilation of the lectures 
and other work arranged and carried out 
under the direction of Mr. Geo H. Hazzard 
and is in line with his energetic efforts to 
push the enterprise to fruition. It forms 
a pamphlet of some 100 pages, interest- 
ingly and copiously illustrated. 
Annual report to the Lot proprietors 
for the year ending May i, 1896, together 
with Rules, Regulations., etc., the Lake 
Side Cemetery, Erie, Pa., Illustrated. 
St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N. Y. , 
Charter, Rules and Regulations; Cata- 
logue of Lot Owners, etc., revised to June 
I, 1896. 
City of Boston, Department of Parks. 
Twenty-first annual report of the Board 
of Commissioners for the year ending 
January 31, 1896. The report of 123 
pages is beautifully illustrated with fulj 
page half tone of various features of the 
park system. 
History, Condition, Rules, Regulations, 
etc., of the Muncy Cemetery, at Muncy, 
Pa. The pamphlet is illustrated with 
half-tone portraits of the successive presi- 
dents of the Cemetery Association. 
TESTIMONIALS. 
James C. Scorgie, Supt, Mt. Auburn^ 
Cemetery, Boston, says: “I am very glad 
of the opportunity of returning, if I can, 
some of the benefits I have received from 
the reading of your paper.” 
We take four copies of Park and 
Cemetery, and value it very highly. 
Long may you continue in the good work 
of educating in the line of beautifying and 
perpetuating the plots made sacred by the 
interment of loved ones. 
E. B. Hens lee, Sup’t. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Zanesville, O. 
Mr. R. J. Haight: I have taken a great 
interest in extending the circulation of 
‘‘Park and Cemetery” because it is 
most worthy of encouragement and sup. 
port by those whose profession and work 
cannot be successfully practiced without 
reading the valuable contributions appear- 
ing each month in its columns, and still 
keeping up with the times. B. J. j 7 idson, 
Supt. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N. Y. 
J. M. Underwood, Secretary and Sup- 
erentendent, Lakewood Cemetery, Lake 
City, Minn., writes: “I think you would 
do well to encourage all cemetery asso- 
ciations to introduce the permanent care 
feature, and am grateful to Park and 
Cemetery for calling my attention to 
it.” 
