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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
VIEW IN HILLSIDE CEMETERY, MINNEAPOLIS. 
“Different Sources of Income for Ceme- 
tery Corporations" was considered in an 
exhaustive paper by James Currie, Forest 
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. 
Currie handled his subject in his usual 
thoroughgoing manner and offered many 
valuable suggestions, incidentally condemn- 
ing in no uncertain tones the practice of 
paying commissions to undertakers for sell- 
ing lots. His paper appears on another 
page. 
In a carefully thought-out paper, based 
upon practical experience ; n one of Chi- 
cago’s largest cemeteries, T. H. Little, sec- 
retery and general manager of Mt. Hope 
Cemetery, discussed the “Advantages and 
Disadvantages of Deferred Payments on 
Lots Purchased" His deduction showed 
the advantages of such a practice to be 
greater than the disadvantages. This pa- 
per will be printed in a later issue. 
J. Warren Roberts, a leading funeral di- 
rector of Minneapolis, delivered an ad- 
dress on “The Co-ordinate Function of 
Cemetery Superintendents and Funeral Di- 
rectors,” in which he appealed for co- 
operation between the two professions that 
would result in better service for the pub- 
CHARLES M. LORING POINTING OUT 
THE BEAUTIES OF LAKEWOOD. 
lie. His address will also be printed in 
these pages at an early date. 
The automobile ride in the afternoon had 
as its objective point Lakewood Cemetery, 
which was reached after a delightful ride 
of twenty-five miles or more over the river 
road overlooking the Mississippi River, 
stopping in Minnehaha Park to view the 
famous falls immortalized by Longfellow, 
thence over Minnehaha parkway, taking in 
St. Mary’s Cemetery en route. Lakewood 
Cemetery, with its handsome mortuary 
chapel, its attractive entrance building and 
charming landscape, has often been illus- 
trated and described in the pages of Park 
and Cemetery. The trustees have spared 
no expense in their efforts to make the 
cemetery as nearly ideal as possible. The 
topography is admirable, and while nature 
has done much, the skill of the landscape 
engineer has contributed not a little in 
creating many of the beautifully undulating 
sections. On the newer sections the mod- 
ern lawn plan is seen to best advantage. 
Here there is an almost unbroken lawn 
surface. Grave and lot markers are set 
flush with the sod ; mounds have been 
abolished and monuments only, but one on 
a lot, rise above the turf. 
Superintendent Hobert did not have to 
keep his ear to the ground to hear com- 
plimentary remarks about Lakewood ; they 
were on every tongue. After an inspection 
of the chapel and its accessories, a tour 
of the grounds, and posing for the group 
photograph illustrated in this issue, the 
guests gathered where the shadows were 
lengthening on one of the spacious lawns 
and enjoyed a delicious luncheon. There 
were about 180 persons present at the 
luncheon, including G. A. Brackett, presi- 
dent Lakewood Cemetery Association ; C. 
M. Loring and ex-Congressman Loren 
Fletcher, all of whom have been trustees 
of Lakewood for forty-five years. Wm. 
M. Berry, Mrs. Hobert’s father, who is now 
88 years of age, was also present. Mr. 
Berry was the first superintendent of the 
Minneapolis parks and retained the position 
for twenty-two years. Park and Ceme- 
tery readers have often heard Mr. Loring 
referred to as the “Father of the Minne- 
apolis Park System.” He has always 
taken a keen interest in tree planting and 
is still promoting work of that kind in 
Riverside, Cal , where he makes his win- 
ter home. 
At the evening session Professor F. L. 
Washburn, state entomologist, Minnesota 
Agricultural College, delivered an interest- 
ing and instructive address on “Birds and 
Insects of the Cemetery,” illustrated with 
lantern slides. At the close of the lecture 
a bird song by Charles Kellogg was ren- 
dered on the victrola in which the notes 
of most of the best-known birds were 
cleverly mimicked. Sucking and biting 
insects, caterpillars, cut-worms, borers, 
grubs, scale and the several insecticides 
recommended for their extermination were 
discussed. Birds, the good and bad, were 
considered ; traps were recommended for 
abolishing the sparrows and houses for 
encouraging wrens, bluebirds and chicka- 
dees to nest in cemeteries. 
MRS. E. E. HAY, ERIE, PA., BEING 
INTERVIEWED. 
“Brains and Muscle,” a paper written by 
W. N. Rudd, president of Mt. Greenwood 
Cemetery, Chicago, 111., in which he gives 
some very practical advice, was read by A. 
R. Gross, superintendent of that cemetery, 
and will appear in a later issue of this 
journal. 
The Thursday morning session concluded 
the business of the convention. A paper 
on “Cemetery Roads” was read by H. E. 
Ashworth, of the Barrett Manufacturing 
Co., in which he dwelt upon the necessity 
of constructing enduring roads in ceme- 
teries and suggested' the best methods to 
adopt in building them. The question “Is 
it necessary to have all lots, particularly 
small lots, accessible by a path, alley or 
avenue?” was debated by John J. Ste- 
phens, Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, 
Ind., and Geo. L. Tilton, Graceland Cem- 
etery, Chicago. Their decision was in the 
affirmative, with certain qualifications. 
H. S. Adams, superintendent, Forest 
