PARK AND CEMETERY 
and Landscape Gardening. 
VOL. X. Chicago, December, 1900. NO. 10 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL — A Happy New Year — The Preservation of 
Scenic and Historical I’lace.s — The Billboard Nuisance — 
Public Statuary — Protection of African Fauna — Ont- 
Door Improvement 221, 222 
*The Tower, Hubbard Park, Meriden, Conn 223 
*West Park Cemetery, Cleveland, O 224 
^Lord’s Park, Elgin, 111 226 
’Subterranean Irrigation of Street Trees at Dresden, Oer- 
many 22.S 
* Improvement Associations 23 [ 
Japanese Privet Hedger 232 
•Memorial Fountain, Lee, Mass 233 
*Statue of Daniel Webster, Washington, D. C 234 
*The Bonne V Memorial, Lowell Cemet'-ry, Lowell, Mass. . 235 
Notes, Chiefly Historical, on Ivondon Burial Places 235 
*(larden Plants, Their Cleograpliy, LX 237 
The Shaw Annual Banquet, St. Louis, Mo 239 
*A iModern Burial 240 
Park Notes 241 
Cemetery Notes 242 
Selected Notes and Extracts 243 
Review.® of Books, Reports, Ivtc 244 
* Illustrated. 
A Before the next issue of this journal 
„ the Twentieth Century will have 
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dawned upon us, and thinking men and 
women, will be casting their thoughts backwards 
and forwards— in restrospect or anticipation. The 
world appears to this generation to be moving very 
rapidly, and judging from past standards this is 
true. The past decade has witnessed such remark- 
able strides in invention and application, and the 
forces of nature have been compelled by the genius 
of man to yield their helpfulness in such full meas- 
ure, that is is hardly possible to conceive of greater 
issues being consummated for some time to come. 
But progress is yet the watchword and none can 
foretell what a decade will bring forth. And in 
our own particular line of work the advances made 
in out-door art and improvement has been equally 
remarkable if we stop to think, and promises still 
more rapid development in the near future. The 
fact that a beautiful village or home exerts a pow- 
erful influence on the residents is becoming a well 
recognized conclusion, and is of itself sufficient stim- 
ulus to keep the work moving, and so while wishing 
our readers and patrons a Happy New Year, the hope 
that it may usher in renewed and still more extended 
effort in the promotion of art out-of-doors to the 
happiness and welfare of all, we feel sure, will be 
reciprocated. 
THE PRESERVATION 
0~ SCENIC AND 
HISTORIC-yJL PLACES 
The report of the New York 
Society for the preservation 
of scenic and historic places. 
draws attention to the value of such associations 
and suggests that every state should thus endow it- 
self, because every state, if it has not already se- 
cured or discovered such objects of interest, will as- 
suredly do so in the future. But it is true, without 
doubt, that every state in this richly blessed coun- 
try does already possess at least localities of high 
scenic interest, or natural phenomena, worthy of 
public care and preservation. It is needless to dis- 
cuss the reasons for such public care, the object 
lessons already in c.xistcnce prove the desirability 
of such a c )urse. In fact the movement is becom- 
ing world-wide, a large number of such societies be- 
ing in cx'stcnce in England, and the mutual inter- 
est in the cpiestion between the two countries has 
led to a very strong effort to infu.'^e more enthusi- 
asm in the work of forming such societies on both 
sides of the Atlantic. It is a Cuuse which will as- 
sure a vast amount of interest both to present and 
future generations. 
THE lie exponents of Municipal ethics arc 
^ufsANCE^ securing a healthy constituency in 
many parts of the country looking to 
the reduction to within reasonable limits of the so- 
called bill board nuisance. And it is a happy con- 
dition for the rapid consummation of their efforts 
that the abuses of public advertising have become so 
flagrant, that the vast majority of our citizens, ex- 
cepting of course, those commercially interested in 
the bill board system of advertising, are already 
recognizing the incongruity of such a blemish in 
public thoroughfares. It speaks well for the in- 
telligence of the people and is a promising augury 
for the expansion of our art instinct as a nation, 
that so satisfactory a response is so readily offered. 
Great strides are being made in our large cities 
looking to the securing of ordinances controlling 
the nuisance, and at a meeting held last month 
at the Art Institute of Ghicago, at which many 
prominent citizens were present, an amendment to 
the ordinance passed by the city council in July 
last was proposed, wdth the object of making it 
more eft’ective. The meeting was also informed by 
the legal adviser of the Lincoln Park Board that 
there was already a law on the statute books of Illi- 
nois, and had been for very many years, declaring 
bill board advertising to be a nuisance, prescribing 
severe penalties for abuses, and only requiring the 
action of the city council to put it into active exer- 
cise. 
