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ent treatments to suit incli\ idual tastes and 
conditions. Tlie posts might he of either 
brick or stone, or might l)e of a more 
monumental character and have ornamental 
metal decorations of some sort instead of 
the crosses. 
The Stewart Iron Work's Co., of Cincin- 
nati. will he glad to quote lu'ices on any of 
Eugene F. Goebel, superintendent of parks. 
Grand Rapids, Mich., was recently author- 
ized 1)\' the Board of Park and Cemetery 
Commissioners to proceed with plans and 
estimates for the impro\ement of all un- 
finished park and playground property in 
the city. This is the first step in a compre- 
hensive program of recreation ground im- 
provement which, it is intended, shall go 
forward as soon as arrangements are made 
for financing. Co-operation on the part of 
citizens was indicated by representative^ of 
the Creston Citizens' Association, who of- 
fered to issue a general call to include 
communit\' improvement associations and 
other civic organizations to start a move- 
ment to raise funds for the contemplated 
l)ark and playground work. Such a call 
probably will he issued soon. The Creston 
citizens want Briggs Park standardized and 
I)ut on a plane with other improved recrea- 
tion spots. In all sections of the city are 
]);irk and playground protierties which are 
idle because the park hoard has been pre- 
\'ented, from lack of money, to improve 
them. The investments in these properties, 
vhile good ones for the cit\', could he 
mtide of more value through standardiza- 
tion. The park hoard points out that the 
present generation which pays the cost of 
acquiring land for recreation purposes is 
lieing deprived of its benefits as t)arks and 
playgrounds. The work' of devising fimin- 
cial ways and means to put all the city's 
park and playground properties on an equal 
basis will he taken up first. 
-Mrs. .-Vmelia R. Gossard. wife of George 
Gossard, superintendent of Washington 
Cemetery, Washington Court llouse, O., 
died recently. For the past year Mrs. Gos- 
sard had been in ill health and for several 
months in a critical state. She is survived 
by her husband and children. Charles. Jo- 
sephine, Clark, ftlrs. iMadge Pensyl. of that 
city, and George, Jr., of Springfield. 
The management of Forest Hill Ceme- 
tery, iMemphis, Tenn., announces the com- 
pletion of its communitN' mausoleum and 
chapel. This structure is 166 feet long and 
these styles of gates from a large varietx' 
of designs that are being e.xecuted at their 
big factory at all tirnes. 
Their new 1917 catalog will Ite ready for 
mailing the latter part of January and will 
give an unusuall\' complete illustrated pres- 
entation of many modern styles of park 
and cemetery entrances and fences. 
John .\olen, landscape architect, of Cam- 
bridge, Mass., \vho prepared a comprehen- 
sive city plan report for Bridgeport, Conn , 
has also issued a pamphlet entitled "More 
Houses for Bridgeport,” and a $1,000,000 
corporation was organized to build them. 
I'his is, after all, howe\'er, an attack on 
what is oid\' one phase of a single big 
])roblem — that of proper and ade(|uate cit\' 
construction as a whole. The building of 
houses and nothing n'lore is a mere pallia- 
tive; the only cure is in the increase also, 
along right lines, of all the municipal facili- 
ties — streets, sewers, parks, etc., a wise 
regidation of all future htiildin.g; and a 
change, so far as absolutely necessary, in 
the framework of the old city so as to re- 
move the u'lost han'ipering of its faults and 
limitations due to its construction, such :is 
the narrowness of some of its main thor- 
oughfares, the congestion of its business 
center, etc. The preparation of the legal sec- 
tion of the BridgeiJort plan by F. B. Will- 
iams shows that Bridgeport has begun to 
face the fundamental cit\' ])lanning difficul- 
ties which beset her. Mr. Williams will 
first take iq) the legal problems with regard 
to the |)kuining of that part of Bridgeport 
and its einircm^ which is at present within 
the legtd limits of the citv . In so doing it 
will deal lirst with the f|uestion of the cit>' 
[)lanning agency or exccuti\e for the cit\'. 
its membership and powers: secondly, with 
various specifii' lesal iiowcrs which the cit_\ 
needs in its i)lanning. 
60 feet wide, containing heside> the chapel, 
family tombs and compartments, single 
crypts, providing in all 528 individual 
spaces. 
Beginning with January 2 automobile fu- 
neral carriages are to be allowed in Holy 
Sepulcher Cemetery, Rochester, N. Y., un- 
der certain restrictions, according to an 
announcement made by Bishop Thomas F. 
Hickey, president of the Board of Trustees. 
Heretofore automobiles were not allowed in 
the cemetery because of the charatcer of 
the roads, which, when the\' were originally 
laid out in point of width and with rela- 
tion to trees, shrubbery and monuments, did 
not contemplate the use* of any other than 
a horse-drawn vehicle. However, the new 
parts recently laid out on both the east 
and west sides have been so constructed 
that they will he more practicable for au- 
tomoliile funerals. Automobiles will be al- 
lowed in the cemetery under two restric- 
tions ; First, that they enter the cemetery 
only when accompan\ing a funeral party, 
and secondly, that onl>' the limousine au- 
tomobile be used. 
The trustees of the Caldwell Presbyterian 
Church, of Caldwell, N. J., are seeking 
official consent to set aside a recently pur- 
chased tract of land for cemetery purposes. 
The property adjoins the Prospect Hill 
Cemetery. di\'iding it from a residential 
street in the wetsern part of the town. 
The trustees say that they do not expect 
to use it for the purpose for some years 
to come, hut have purchased the land so 
as to protect their cemetery from unsightly 
hack yards. They seek now to have it rec- 
ognized as cemetery property so that it will 
not he taxalde. Residents in the imme- 
diate locality are not keen for the exten- 
sion, and taxpayers in the town at large 
object to the dedication of an_\' more land 
for purposes which will have a tendency to 
lessen the t'lxalrle property in the borough, 
and that instead of contracting its taxable 
land an effort should be made to enlarge it. 
I'he h'airview Cemetery, Mishawaka, 
Ind., has been officially approved by the 
Cit\' Council. The cemetery association 
presented a written agreement not to make 
any permanent improvements in a ten-foot 
strip of land at the eastern part of the 
property or to make and burials there un- 
til after -\ugust 1, 1917, owing to the fact 
that ‘^n anne.xation case is pending in the 
courts which includes lands of the Fair- 
view Cemeter>' .-\ssociation, and owing to 
the fact that the council had desired that 
the roadway in front of the cemeterv he 
widened to conform to the width of the 
street at the city cemetery, which involves 
the ten-foot strip of land. 
-\t the last meeting of Hollywood Ceme- 
tery, of Irvington, X. J., the following offi- 
cers were elected to serve three years: 
John F. I'allon, Jr., president: Charles J. 
luelding, Jr., secretary; William E. Tegeler, 
treasurer and superintendent, and Walter 
Bennett, trustee. 
TweKe ftlile Grove Cemetery .Associa- 
tion, of Pecatonica, III, has re-elected J. 
1). Eaton president and Emil Engdahl trus- 
tee for three years. 
At the annual meeting of the lot owners 
of Pine Lake Cemetery .Association, La 
Porte, Ind.. the following officers were re- 
elected : President, .Admiral R. R. Inger- 
soll ; \ ice-president. L. B. Wea\ er: secre- 
tary and treasurer. K. AI. .Andrew, and .A. 
R. Bowman, sexton. The aff'airs of the as- 
sociation were found to be in a most satis- 
factory condition, the trust fund having 
reached the amount of $19,686. 
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