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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
memorials, representing a large investment, some lots save a few on the highest elevations, 
of which are interesting in themselves aside from * * * 
their size and costliness. That part of the older ground looks strangely 
Among the better known names of those bleak, and bare of trees of good size and shape, is 
who rest here are Jennie Cassiday, the invalid phil- partly due to the misfortune of war, for at some 
anthropist who from her bed organized and direct- time during the trying years of 61-65 soldiers en- 
ed numerous beneficent charities, most of which camped in the cemetery and practically cut out 
bear her name. The monument to her memory every large tree except the Honey Locusts, and 
was erected by penny contributions from school their immunity is not far to seek they were secure- 
children. Also Gen. Geo. Rogers Clark, who per- ly intrenched within the barrier of their own fierce 
haps stands next to Daniel Boone in the esteem of bayonets. The too trim, even severe appearance 
Kentuckians; James Guthrie, once Secretary of the is still more due to the planting of almost no trees 
Treasury; James Speed, Lincoln’s Attorney Gen- except Box and Holly, and to clipping these into 
eral; George D. I’rentice; Mrs. Ame- 
lia Welby, the poetess; Alexander 
Drake, the actor; Judge Bland Bal- 
lard, Gen. Wm. Preston, Bishop 
Kavanaugh, and the descendants of 
the poet Keats. 
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Nearly 5000 Federal 
and about 600 confederate 
soldiers are buried here, 
most of whom 
died in the 
Louisville hos- 
pitals. A rose 
is planted at the 
grave of every 
one that wore 
the gray. Op- 
posite the hill 
side where the 
Union soldiers sleep rises 
another, belonging to the 
places reserved for decor- 
ative planting, which is 
clothed with what looks like an indi- 
genous growth of young trees. In 
the narrow valley between nestles the 
finest, as well as the most charmingly 
natural looking Lotus bed I have 
ever seen. The entire effect of hill- 
side and pond is naturalesque and delightful. 
SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE. 
Cave Hill lies 510 feet above the sea and 105 
feet above the level of the Ohio, riv^er, and is topo- 
graphically beautiful. Hills, some easy others 
quite abrupt, alternate with valleys and table lands, 
and distributed singly or in groups, are numerous 
saucer-like depressions, characterestic of this region, 
that have been poetically and aptly called “dimp- 
les on the cheek of nature,” all of which are 
reserved for planting. The whole is underlaid 
with limestone which has to be quarried to a 
depth of six feet in the preparation of all 
formal shapes that make them nearly 
as hard in outline as the stone work 
they should veil and soften. The 
artificial aspect is further heightened 
by the use of curbing along all ave- 
nues and alleys in this lo- 
cality. As the sharp hill 
sides bristle with monu- 
ments and stones from 
foot to crest it 
can readily be 
realized that 
the effect is e.x- 
tremely archi- 
tectural, and 
the addition of 
many stiff car- 
pet beds carries 
out the rigid 
scheme to the 
fullest degree. Without 
doubt it is a perfect exam- 
ple of this type of ceme- 
tery work, but it is a type 
that Landscape Art does not sanction. 
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These features seem to be the re- 
sult of a series of unfortunate com- 
promises forced on the management 
by circumstances. 
The genial President of the board, Mr. J. PI. M. 
Morris, explained that curbing was introduced be- 
cause it seemed a lesser evil than the fences that lot 
owners wished to use as boundaries, and that not 
only is no more to be put down, but the manage- 
ment hopes eventually to remove all that is now 
in place. 
Again, Mr. Campbell, the bright and energetic 
superintendent, says regarding the unyielding out- 
lines of the trimmed trees that “every body wants 
a tree and there would not be room for so many 
were they not kept clipped.” 
One feels sure, however, that the higher type of 
art seen in other parts of the cemetery must in time 
