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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ON THE TRIP TO THE COAST 
WHAT TO SEE 
Those who journey to the California ex- 
positions this year will do well to arrange 
their itineraries with as much elasticity as 
their time and means will permit. It is 
possible to take an astonishing number of 
side trips from any of the larger cities to 
many points of interest well worth seeing. 
Naturally the park or cemetery man will 
be most interested in those things that per- 
the city limits, now nearly twenty-four 
years ago, Mr. Noble organized his associa- 
tion and subsequently visited the principal 
cemeteries in the East in search of the 
most modern ideas in cemetery manage- 
ment. Many of the buildings in Cypress 
Lawn have been illustrated in Park and 
Cemetery. These include a crematorium, 
columbarium, receiving vault, office and 
birds of many other varieties add interest 
and beauty to the landscape. From forty 
to one hundred men are employed on these 
grounds. 
Seattle’s splendid park and boulevard 
system was recently written up in these 
pages. Hills, lake, sound and mountains 
provide a diversified setting such as few 
cities can boast of. The system includes 
TWO ENTRANCES TO CYPRESS LAWN CEMETERY, SAN FRANCISCO. 
The Gates connecting the Norman Towers lower out of sight during the day. The White Birds are a flock of gentle turbots. 
tain to his own special field. Although 
much has been printed about San Francis- 
co’s widely known Golden Gate Park, only 
the hem of the garment has been touched. 
It is truly a people’s park, with a variety 
of uncommon features of more than pass- 
ing interest. Park builders will find here 
an instructive object lesson, and genial 
John McLaren, who began the unpromising 
task of transforming the shifting sand 
dunes into a beautiful park nearly fifty 
years ago, is there to tell how he accom- 
plished it. 
The lengthy list of trees, shrubs and 
plants in Golden Gate Park reveals to what 
distant climes Mr. McLaren has gone for 
the material with which to carry out his 
plans. His latest work is seen on the 
Panama-Pacific International Exposition 
grounds, where for the past two years he 
has been preparing for the series of gor- 
geous floral displays and arboreal planting 
effects that have been the admiration of all 
visitors. 
The cemeteries of San Francisco are 
mostly located along the Old Mission Road 
in San Mateo County, about ten miles 
from the city, lying between the San Bruno 
mountains and the coast range. Nearly a 
thousand acres of land are held by ceme- 
teries in this vicinity. These include Cy- 
press Lawn, Holy Cross and Mt. Olivet, 
with approximately 200 acres each ; Wood- 
lawn, Greenlawn, four Jewish, two Chi- 
nese, and Italian, Hungarian and Japanese 
cemeteries. 
H. H. Noble, president of Cypress Lawn 
Cemetery Association, and his accomplished 
gardener, A. H. Davidson, were the pioneer 
lawn plan cemetery builders in California. 
When San Francisco began to agitate the 
subject of discontinuing interments within 
waiting room, glass houses, etc., and the 
two stone entrances which are illustrated 
herewith. The receiving vault is marble 
lined and thoroughly lighted in every part 
through the glass roof. Palms and a pro- 
fusion of flowers rob the place of every 
semblance of gloom. Much of the plant- 
ing on the grounds is semi-tropical and 
will prove of interest to the visitor from 
the East. Other cemeteries in the vicinity 
are also conducted on the lawn plan and 
have their interesting features. For want 
of time the writer was unable to visit 
them. 
En route to San Diego to see the Pan- 
ama-California Exposition, referred to in 
these pages last month, travelers have had 
an opportunity to stop off at Los Angeles 
and see the interesting park system and 
several thoroughly up-to-date cemeteries. 
Those especially noteworthy are Holly- 
wood, Inglewood Park, Forest Lawn, and 
Rosedale. Evergreen, the oldest cemetery 
in the city, is only partially on the lawn- 
plan. Here, as elsewhere, flowers abound 
and palms and ornamental shrubbery are 
used liberally. Several of the cemeteries 
have crematoriums. 
Nine miles distant, at Pasadena, are the 
famous Busch Gardens, which every super- 
intendent will want to see. The gardens 
cover approximately eighty acres in an 
aroyo or canyon that ten years ago was a 
dumping ground in the rear of the prin- 
cipal residence avenue of the now justly 
famous city. The transformation is a 
tribute to the art of the landscape gar- 
dener. The terraced hillsides, called local- 
ly sunken gardens, have been planted with 
a wealth of ornamental shrubs and flower- 
ing plants from different parts of the 
globe. Peafowl, mocking birds, grackle and 
thirty-four parks, nineteen playgrounds 
and twenty miles of completed boulevards 
and park drives that may well be regard- 
ed as one of the important factors in 
spreading the city’s fame. Members of 
the Association of American Park Super- 
intendents will spend a delightful day here 
en route to their convention at San Fran- 
cisco. 
Point Defiance Park, at Tacoma, is less 
than two hours away by water or rail. 
This park is still in the making from the 
plans of Hare & Hare, which were de- 
scribed in Park and Cemetery some 
months ago. 
In the recently completed Terwilliger 
Parkway Extension, Portland (Ore.) has 
a magnificent boulevard far above the city, 
that represents an outlay of approximately 
$250,000. From this charming drive pano- 
ramic views of the city, rivers and moun- 
tains for miles around may be had. It 
recalls the delightful cliff drive at Kansas 
City, although the altitude is much higher. 
The plans for the Portland park system 
were made by Olmsted Brothers some 
years ago and have been carried out in 
part under the direction of Emil T. Mische, 
who is now the city’s consulting landscape 
engineer. 
No cemetery visitor, and particularly 
members of the A. A. C. S., should fail to 
see Rivervicw Cemetery, Portland. Sel- 
dom is a name for a cemetery more ap- 
propriate. The drives which wind around 
the hillside several hundred feet above 
the city command magnificent views of the 
Willamette River and surrounding country. 
The steep hillsides are densely wooded 
with native trees and shrubs which form 
an effective screen between the cemetery 
proper and the main road which forms one 
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