_ PARK AND 
Stone it is very difficult to accomplish muph that is 
satisfactory in that way. But patching when/ most 
successfully done cannot preserve a road; iFoniy keeps 
the surface smooth as it wears out. Sooner 6j later r* -. 
surfacing has to be done; usually it is demjthded when' 
the center of the road has worn down about three inches. 
It should then be done at any rate, ft is probably 
needless to say that the resurfacing is simply loosening 
up the surface, adding the necessary new material to 
bring to grade and rolling until thoroughly compact. 
Many drives that are little used are apt to be found 
with the bond broken in the spring when the frost goes 
out of the ground. These should be gone over with a 
steam roller w?t1i perhaps a little packing material added. 
It is surprising how cheaply this can be done and how 
greatly the drives will be improved by it. Most out- 
lying park and boulevard roads will be so greatly 
improved by this rolling in the spring that its cost is 
more than repaid in the resulting excellence of the roads 
during the remainder of the summer. 
Again I say the maintenance of park roads is a 
simple matter. Its success or failure depends simply on 
doing or not doing it. But it costs something. 
What I have said refers entirely to the gravel or 
macadam roads. Hard roads such as brick, stone 
blocks, asphalt and perhaps wood cannot be considered 
as park roads: for a park road if anything is a pleasure 
road. Driving over a hard road is very little pleasure 
if one has a fine horse and cares anything for it. The 
introduction of the automobile may however change 
this. When the horse is the exception on the drives 
then the hard monolithic surface will be the pleasure 
drive par excellence. That time has not arrived. 
Pleasure seekers still abandon the hard road for the dirt 
road. Therefore, for the present at least hard roads are 
not park roads. Rejoice that it is so else you would be 
bored with another most tedious quarter of an hour 
listening to the merits and otherwise of concretes, 
asphalts, bricks and wooden blocks creosoted and other- 
wise treated. 
The park road to be at all satisfactory must have 
three qualifications. It must be in good repair; it must 
be clean; it must be properly sprinkled. These con- 
ditions are to be attained only by constant attention, 
efficient management with the expenditure of money. 
In many things in the world the expression: “That is 
good enough” may indicate a satisfactory condition, but 
in park roads and park work generally, if that is to limit 
the effort the result will be mediocrity. A road is clean 
or dirty. It is well sprinkled or it is muddy or dusty. 
The lawns are green or they are dried out. The trees 
are pruned and thrifty or they are full of dead wood 
and dying. Things either are or they are not. A park 
is the municipal luxury of a community. A luxury to 
continue as such in the estimation of those who enjoy 
it must continue to be to them perfection of its kind. 
A luxury is expensive, usually an extravagance. Per- 
haps parks are extravagances, but as long as the people 
consider them luxuries they will as freely expend their 
money for the maintenance of the parks as they do for 
other luxuries if they feel that a dollar expended buys a 
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■ dollar’s wortit .p.f_materiaP:_.Qi;. labor. But just the 
moment that , there is a fallirig off in efficient care and 
exquisite beaiiPy just than will the people commence to 
question the wisdom of the park tax and shortly the 
revenue will be.,j:educed to a ] oint where satisfactory 
maintenance tiahnot be had. Excellent maintenance 
should be the first consideration of all park commis- 
sioners. Unless the majority of the people of a com- 
munity think their parks are just a little better than 
any parks in the world, that park system is on slippery 
ground. To create that impression it only needs proper 
maintenance and there is no place where the want of it 
is more quickly noticable than on the roads. Do not 
let the luxuriant vegetation with which nature adorns 
either side of it be marred with the ugly unkempt road. 
As was first said, the park roads are regrettable 
necessities. Do not multiply the necessities for them 
by introducing extraneous attractions into the park. 
Simplicity is always beautiful, and above all things 
the simplicity of nature. Let your park be a piece of 
country, your roads only ways to reach its beauties, 
mostly roads through thick woods closely planted upon 
both sides, hidden. There are open roads enough in 
the approaching boulevards. There let the peacocks of 
fashion who drive only to be seen disport themselves. 
Make the roads in the parks the quiet peaceful ways o-f 
the lovers of nature, and those who travel them will find 
themselves approaching near and nearer to the truest 
pleasure of life — the full appreciation and enjoyment of 
the wonderful beauty which nature has so lavishly 
strewn all about us. 
GREENLAWN CEMETERY, SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
On the next page is given a plan of Green- 
lawn cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y. , one of the recent 
examples of cemetery practice. It is the work of 
Mr. Edward D. Bolton, landscape architect. New 
York city, and is designed to conform to modern 
ideas of cemetery development. 
The total area owned by the corporation is 
about 200 acres, but the area, as shown on the plan 
and lying south of the highway, is only 130 acres. 
It is locited on the line of the New York Central 
railroad, about nine miles west of Syracuse. The 
topography of the tract is very undulating and the 
drives are located so as to secure the easiest pos- 
sible grades with an economical amount of exca- 
vation or embankment. The figures along the 
drives are suggestions for grades and show very 
closely the general contour of the land. 
Considerable work has been done in the way of 
grading for lawns and most of the ground is in fine 
condition for that purpose. 
The railroad station built some months since, 
was built by the cemetery corporation for its own 
private use. It is planned for the usual purposes 
of a railroad station and is also provided with a 
large room where services may be held when de- 
