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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Request No. . 29 
Lot No. ... 3234 
Estimated Cost 
of Perpetual Repair. 
CarfiofLot, 
^ 3 . 
0.0,. 
00 . 
OQ.. 
Top-dressing, 
2 
.7 
Myrtle, ,3,. .firaves 
Plants in 
11 
6 
.. 25 ... 
00., 
Washing Monument ^?Headsto^eS| 
Painting Fence (while it lasts). 
Washing and Leading Curb, 
Annual Expense, (average) 
6 
. 7 
QQ... 
50 
7 
50 
^ 50 
25 
ENDOWMENT necessary to provide for 
i,.675 
annual expense (int. 3 per ct.) 
0.0 . 
Additional for INSURANCE of 
one S ran i t- 6Mnniimpnt and 
190 
00 
three marke^gysto^e 
85 
00 
Total, 
a.95o 
00 
2M-5-I2 
FIG. 12. PERPETUAL CARE ESTIMATE 
FOR MONUMENT. 
some actual figures of the amounts needed 
for the perpetual care of these monu- 
ments. As seen in Fig. 12, this view 
shows an estimate made up in detail ; there 
are very few lots that have so many differ- 
ent things to take into consideration, but 
this is made so as to cover nearly every 
contingency. 
Speaking from my own experience, I 
should say that nine-tenths of cemetery 
officials need no instructions, or any sug- 
gestions, in regard to the care of the turf- 
ing, or anything else beyond the monu- 
ments. Unless, therefore, someone has any 
particular question to ask, I shall pass on 
to the care of stonework. Here is a view 
of stone, in Fig. 13, copying an old-fash- 
ioned slate headstone; one dollar per year 
will usually keep plumb and in position 
such a stone, if the foundation is a proper 
one. Two stones, however, of substan- 
tially the same size and style, would only 
cost about $1.50. 
In Fig. 14 is a monument that requires 
the joints pointed, as well as washing; 
three to five dollars has been found suf- 
ficient for that purpose. 
A puzzling question is what to do with 
the boulders. They are not supposed to 
need washing, and the only thing to pro- 
vide for would be to see that the bronze 
tablet is kept securely fastened to the 
boulder. Such planting as is usually done 
about these boulders varies so, but the 
gardener can easily determine the average 
annual expense of maintaining it. It is, 
however, advisable to have a proper foun- 
dation below such a memorial, so that, 
should the boulder tip and the tablet get 
out of plumb, the defect may be corrected. 
I have usually asked in the vicinity of 
$1.50 per year for the care of such a struc- 
ture as in Fig. 15. 
With large monuments or mausoleums 
the question is not so easily solved, but 
with a proper survey, and getting esti- 
mates from one or two stonecutters of the 
cost of erection, etc., a safe estimate can 
be made. The large mausoleum in Fig. 11 
has a base measuring 1.9x23 ft. and 45 ft. 
high. The bill for setting, some years ago, 
was $2,500.00. Four of the stones weighed, 
I think, about eighteen tons each, and one 
stone about thirty tons, all of which made 
for permanency. The structure will not 
have to be reset again, but I estimate that 
various stones will get out of place and 
will have to be reset, so that in the course 
of fifty years, a sum equivalent to the 
original cost of setting will be expended 
The joints of this structure were pointed 
with lead, which not only looks better 
than cement pointing, but in the New 
England climate with its variations in tem- 
perature, its ductility prevents abrasion 
of the edges. The cost of this pointing 
was $450.00, and I estimate that in the 
course of twenty years an equal sum will 
be expended. 
We found that to erect a staging around 
this mausoleum and wash it costs $60.00; 
this we do every second year, but because 
of the proximity of the trees, the stone up 
to the pediment needs the green scum 
washed from it once a year, which costs 
$27.00. The vestibule is ventilated, with the 
result that dust enters rather freely, so it 
is brushed out once a week, at a cost of 
$1.00 each time. Then, in the Spring and 
Fall, we give the vestibule a thorough 
cleaning, which costs about $12.00. This 
FIG. 13. COPT OF OLD COLONIAL 
STONE. 
totals an average annual expense of 
$180.00, which at three per cent requires 
a payment of $6,000.00. Following is the 
estimate in detail : 
ESTIMATED AMOUNT FOR THE CARE OF A 
M.IDSOLEUM; WITHOUT RENEWAL. 
Setting^: $2,500 every 50 years $50.00 
l/eading: $450 every 20 years 22.50 
Washing: (with staging) $60 evei-y 2 years 30.00 
Washing: (alternate years) $27.00 13.50 
Dusting: (once a week) 52.00 
Spring and Fall Cleaning: (vestibule) 12.00 
Average annual expense $180.00 
Endowment necessary to provide for annual 
expense (interest 3 per cent) $6,000.00 
But when one comes to consider the re- 
newal of monuments; that is, replacing 
breakage; or in the case of marble, pro- 
viding for decay, I am afraid that the 
transactiton partakes more or less of a 
gamble. I have made very diligent in- 
I8SS ^ 056 
IB70 
CoNomoN OF Perp£tual Cauf Fund 
or 
Mount Auburn CeMErrar 
By Five Yean PcniOos 
tees - 1916 ■ 
1 ; 
f i: 
FIG. 20. GROWTH OF MT. AUBURN PERPETUAL CARE FUND. 
