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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
WEST PARK CEMETERY, CLEVELAND, O. 
The new West Park cemetery, Cleveland, O., 
the latest addition to the city cemeteries, is situ- 
ated in the valley of Big Creek, and while some- 
what distant from the city of today it is a cemetery 
for the future. 
For a long time there has been a demand for 
more cemetery area in Cleveland. Quite persist- 
ently has this been voiced for years past in relation 
VIEW IN WEST I'ARK CEMETERY, CEPAELANI), O. 
to another city cemetery. In this direction the 
city authorities appear to have made a poor specu- 
lation when they purchased a piece of low-lying 
marshy ground on Lorain street and expended 
considerable money upon it. This was abandoned 
and the site changed to the present beautiful spot 
in the valley of Rig Creek. The work in the new 
cemetery, all that is to be done for the present, at 
least, has been finished at a cost so far for develop- 
ment of $2 1, 500. 
West Park cemetery is about a mile and a half 
south of Lorain street and a quarter of a mile out- 
side the city limits. In time it will undoubtedly 
be included within the city boundary, but it is 
large enough so that its beauty can never be 
spoiled by the growth of the city around it. At 
present the cemetery is inaccessible for there is no 
street car line to it. The franchise for a line that 
will pass it is already in the hands of a company, 
however, and it is said that there will soon be a 
line of street cars past the cemetery gates. 
This is the only cemetery ihe city has that has 
been laid out and beautified in accordance with 
modern landscape cemetery development. Its ma- 
cadamized drives, its series of lakes, its fountains, 
rockeries and waterfalls, its lawns and studied 
planting plan now nearing completion, are expect- 
ed to make this one of the beautiful burial places 
in the state. 
Willow Lake is one of the attractive features in 
the cemetery. It is an artificial lake, although but 
little was done to assist nature in its formation. 
There was a deep ravine that ran through the 
cemetery grounds and this was dammed at the 
lower end of the ravine and the narrow basin so 
formed soon filled with water. This lake is to be 
spanned by a handsome bridge that will connect 
the drive leading from the cemetery office to the 
drive that is to lead to the proposed vault and 
chapel. The outlet of the lake where the water 
escapes, and flows down the steep bank of Big 
Creek is another of the pretty places in the new 
cemetery. 
Bordering the drive on one of the hillsides 
where the temporary vault is built, it is proposed 
to reserve a whole section. No. 17, for vaults and 
mausoleums; this is scarcely likely to add to the 
beauty of the place, however. The gates to the 
cemetery are massive and imposing and appro- 
priate. 
The main drive of the cemetery is along^ the 
bank of Big Creek, winding in and out with the 
curve of the bank of the river and overlooking all 
its beauties for a long distance. 
A great deal of work has been done. Thirty- 
eight of the ninety acres included in the burial 
ground have been improved and this is considered 
to be enough for the needs of the city for years to 
come. A mile and a half of sew'ers and a half mile 
outlet of willow LAKE, U'EST I'ARK CEMETERY, 
CLEVELAND, O. 
of water pipes have been laid and lake water will 
be at hand all through the cemetery for the trees, 
shrubbery and plants. The work has been carried 
out under Mr. Win. H. Evers, civil engineer. The 
cemetery is divided info twenty-three sections and 
subdivided into lots, varying in size from seventy 
to four hundred square feet. 
Many lots have already been sold and the price 
has been set at 60 cents per square foot until April 
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