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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
VIEW IN BROOKSIDE CEMETERY, WINNIPEG, MAN. 
intendent, took a warm interest in 
the matter, and persuaded the Al- 
dermen and Public Parks Board to 
visit it with him ; this resulted in 
a stirring up, and a meeting, at 
which the cemetery was handed 
over to Mr. England for redemp- 
tion. 
It was a sorry job to start upon; 
it had lost public interest, its loca- 
tion was altogether undesirable, and 
in fact, its removal was introduced 
into the Council procedings three 
times. But Mr. England gathered 
up information, and with it enthu- 
siasm for the work of reclamation, 
and with remarkable success as will be seen by the 
photographs. 
There are forty acres now in use with some 6,000 
interments, most of which were made before the new 
order of things was instituted, and up to date ap- 
proximately $38,000 has been expended for improve- 
ments. The average price of lots is 40 cents per 
square foot, and ten cents per foot is reserved for per- 
petual care. All plans for monuments must be sub- 
mitted to the superintendent, and no grave mounds 
or lot enclosures, other than corner posts, are per- 
mitted. All planting is done under the direction of 
the superintendent and some 12,000 trees, shrubs, etc., 
have been set out since he took office. 
A great disadvantage in the improvement of the 
cemetery is the uncertainty of funds, which are an- 
nually appropriated by the City Council. 
But the physical difficulties have been a severe test 
of patience. The lack of drainage entailed serious 
difficulties, and the prejudices of the people in favor 
of grave mounds impeded progress to some extent. 
The old windmill which did duty for 18 years has 
been superseded by a modern gasoline pumping plant. 
In Manitoba, frost is not the serious trouble that most 
people think, but drought, the evaporation being be- 
yond conception. Twenty-four hours after a 48 hours' 
rainstorm the hose is in requistion again. 
The methods pursued by Mr. England looking to 
the transformation of Brookside Cemetery, Winni- 
peg, and which have met with such marked success, 
can be followed anywhere. The work accomplished is 
due to his personal effort in bringing to the atten- 
tion of those interested the conditions of their lots 
and the cemetery, and the regeneration possible under 
enlightened care. It means sacrifice of time and the 
many unpleasant features of personal interviews and 
missionary work, but a measure of success is more 
certain, and if there is a better example of what can 
be brought about by one-man effort in cemetery prac- 
tice we would like to know it. It should be an in- 
centive of no mean importance to much personal ac- 
tivity in all neglected cemeteries. 
MEMORIAL ENTRANCE TO A CEMETERY. 
The new memorial entrance to Riverview Cemetery, 
East Liverpool, O., shown in the ac- 
companying illustration, is a sub- 
stantial, artistic gateway presented 
to the association by the late Hon. 
David Boyce, who was its president 
for twenty-one years. 
The driveway is seventeen feet 
wide, closed by massive iron gates 
swung from columns of Bedford 
stone with granite trimmings. The 
large columns are three feet in di- 
ameter and fifteen feet high. 
The structure was designed by 
Civil Engineer G. E. Whitaker, and 
erected by J. C. Cunningham at a 
cost, complete, of $1,500. The iron 
work was furnished by the Stewart 
Iron Works Co., of Cincinnati. 
ENTRANCE TO RIVERVIEW CEMETERY, EAST LIVERPOOL, O. 
