PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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THE STEAM ROAD ROLLER IN PARKS AND 
CEMETERIES. 
It is often the fact that implements and other 
devices especially designed for certain operations, 
find a broader field for their utility than that for 
which they were originally de- 
signed. This experience is quite 
well illustrated in the case of the 
steam road roller, whose effi- 
ciency for the construction and 
maintenance of roads and road- 
ways, wherever it could be 
worked without difficulty, has 
been thoroughly proven. 
The first cost has of course 
been prohibitory of their use in 
our smaller places, but the variety 
of work that can now be accom- 
plished by them in the cemetery 
and park, and that in so thorough 
a manner, makes it possible to 
spread the cost so as to present 
an economical aspect when the 
question of such a purchase comes 
up, in localities having a fair 
amount of such work to perform. 
The illustrations show the 
steam road roller in two capaci- 
ties, — road making and hauling. 
Mr. Salway, superintendent of Spring Grove 
cemetery, Cincinnati, O., who had been using the 
machine for rolling the new metal and the general 
terial found in making improvements. With such a 
suggestion, there are numerous opportunities in 
park and cemetery work where the road roller may 
be adapted to overcome difficult operations at an 
immense saving of labor, and moreover it is com- 
KOAD ROLLER AT WORK IN SPRING GROVE CEMETERY, CINCINNATI, O. 
paratively cheaply operated, as we know frcm ex- 
perience. 
The illustration showing the hauling of the large 
roof stones for the Fleischmannmausoleumin Spring 
HAULING HEAVY STONE FOR FLEISCHMANN MAUSOLEUM, SPRING GROVE CEMETERY, CINCINNATI, O. 
work of road making and maintenance, in the course 
of his experience found many new uses for it. It 
became especially efficient by blocking it and using 
it as a stationary engine, with the aid of the plow, 
in breaking up hard-pan and other refractory ma- 
Grove cemetery, offers another suggestion, which 
can be multiplied as an argument for its great use- 
fulness in park and cemetery work. 
The machine seen in the illustration is that manu- 
factured by the O. S. Kelly Co., Springfield, O. 
