PARK AND CEMETERY 
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San Mateo County, is bounded on one side by the 
Jewish Cemeteries and on the other by “Holy Cross.” 
It has been illustrated and described in these columns 
in a previous issue. It contains 59J2 acres of land, 
and is conducted on the lawn plan with perpetual care, 
and with the contiguous cemeteries is beautifully lo- 
cated on the lower rise of the San Bruno Hills. 
One of the later cemeteries to be established is 
The Jewish and Protestant cemeteries are laid out 
and conducted more particularly on the lawn plan, 
and are in the hands of capable officials. The Roman 
Catholic cemetery of “Holy Cross” is under good man- 
agement, as is usually the case, but like the great ma- 
jority of the cemeteries of that religion, the park plan 
does not obtain favor. 
The most recent addition to the group of cemeteries 
SCENES IN CEMETERIES OF SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY. 
1. Chapel and Receiving Vault, Mt. Olivet, at Colma; 2. Drive and Trees in Mountain View, Oakland; 3. Lower Reservoir, 
in Mountain View, looking toward Mt. Tamalpais and San Francisco; 4. Drivew.iy in Laurel Hill, San Francisco; 5. 
Office building and chapel of the Jewish Cemetery, San Francisco; 6. Two mausoleums in Laurel Hill; 7. Chapel in Cypress 
Lawn, San Francisco. The trees to the left and rear of chapel divide Cypress Lawn from Jewish Cemeteries; 8. Bird's-eye 
view in Mountain View. Oakland. 
“Mount Olivet,” and in area it is the largest of all, 
comprising some 230 acres. It lies to the north of 
the before-mentioned group, on the opposite side of 
San Bruno Avenue, and runs partly up the San Bruno 
Hills. It has a gently rolling acreage with a dry 
sandy-loam soil and is about ten miles from the city. 
It was established in 1896, and is controlled by a 
private corporation, strictly on the lawn plan with up- 
to-date, modern practice. 
in San Mateo County is the new Masonic, a tract for 
which has been acquired, and it is the result of the 
city ordinance discontinuing interments in the burial 
grounds of that order in the city. It comprises some 
no acres of sloping land, and the main avenues and 
drives are now being laid out. The design for impos- 
ing - entrance buildings has been accepted, and work 
on these is also begun. 
These San Mateo County cemeteries are all very ac- 
