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gest and map out methods for improvement, and when 
the plan suggested is adopted, follow the same out in 
all its details. 
A good beginning made and carried on will soon 
stimulate a community to become interested in the im- 
proved methods of cemetery work, their individual ob- 
jections will soon give way to more modern ideas and 
it will be comparatively easy to convert some of the 
obstinate. It is entirely in accordance with the pres- 
ent established sentiment to maintain a burying ground 
as far as possible as a park, and this should be the 
aim of every community, large or small. 
I have often thought whether it might not be a 
good plan that, instead of having a number of small 
cemeteries scattered around in sparsely settled locali- 
ties, it would be wiser for contiguous communities to 
combine and secure a centrally located cemetery. Each 
community would have the expense apportioned and a 
proper person could be engaged the year around to 
care for the cemetery. Without question this would 
secure well and orderly kept grounds, be in every 
way more satisfactory and, if properly managed, would 
in course of time prove to be entirely self-supporting. 
In conclusion it might be well to enumerate a few 
suggestions and rules which will help to create beauti- 
ful cemeteries. Every cemetery should have a per- 
petual care fund. 
Fences, hedges, embankments or any other kind of 
lot enclosures should be prohibited. 
The established grade must not be changed. Lot 
corners should be level with the turf. Grass paths 
between tiers of lots are less expensive to maintain 
than gravel ; they enhance the beauty of a section and 
there is nothing more pleasant to walk upon. If 
sunken paths exist, fill them up and turf them over. 
1 f possible, do away with grave mounds, or at least 
keep them very low. High mounds are unsightly ; be- 
sides the grass dries out quickly on them. 
Do not introduce anything artificial. Permit only 
one monument on each lot and only one marker to 
each grave. Do not permit markers to be set in 
socket bases nor with dowels. The lower the marker 
the better ; four inches is plenty high. 
Do not plant trees at each corner of a lot, but set 
them out in groups of various numbers. Plant some 
singly also. 
Plant some flowering shrubs in masses and endeavor 
to keep each kind by themselves. Use native shrubs 
as much as possible and plant the boundaries profusely. 
Evergreens are beautiful, but do not plant too many, 
and above all, do not trim them up, but let them 
spread out upon the lawn. They are very appropriate 
along the boundaries. 
JOHNSON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN ANP GATEWAY TO THE FENS, BOSTON, MASS. 
MEMORIAL GATEWAY, BOSTON, MASS, 
The memorial gateway' and fountain shown on this 
page was recently erected at the Westland avenue 
entrance to the Fenway, Boston, Mass. 
The memorial comprises two square Greek pylons 
of Tennessee marble, 25 feet high, flanked on each side 
by a quarter circle seat of granite and granite balus- 
trade. Fountains for man and animals are provided, 
the former being in the form of lions’ heads in bronze, 
copied from the Parthenon. The gateway is the first 
memorial in the park system, and is the gift of the 
late Mrs. Ellen M. Johnson. 
In her will she directed that the bulk of her estate, 
about $25,000, be devoted to the erection of a gateway 
in memory of her husband. 
Architect Guy Lowell, of Boston, designed the struc- 
ture, which has been favorably criticised as an artistic, 
dignified and useful memorial. 
