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Maintaining Single Grave Sections. 
Editor Asked and Answered : I should 
like to inquire whether the single grave 
sections in other cemeteries are generally 
maintained on the “lawn plan” or not, or 
whether there is any difference between 
the way single graves and lots are main- 
tained. — M. L. M., N. J. 
In reference to maintenance of single 
graves, we sell so few of them that we 
make no distinction between the care of 
lots and single graves. 
Geo. M. Painter, 
Supt., Westminster Cemetery. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Single graves are of two classes : First, 
the high-class graves which are spaced as 
the graves on an ordinary family lot 
would be. These may be on certain lots 
in the fairly good sections with the same 
restrictions as to flat or low head marker 
and mound ; no monuments to be allowed 
on any single grave or fractional lot. 
Second, the less expensive single graves, 
which are put more compactly on cheaper 
lots or in rows of assorted sizes, subject 
to the same restrictions as to low or flat 
markers and mounds, so as to make the 
upkeep as small as possible. 
In either case these graves, like every 
portion of a modern cemetery, should be 
sold for such a price as to include per- 
petual care. The cemetery company should 
supply a concrete marker with the inter- 
ment number in case no head marker is 
supplied. Mounds and markers level with 
the ground will do much, not only for 
economy of maintenance, but in making 
the section less objectionable. 
Hare & Hare, 
Landscape Architects. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
In regard to the single grave section of 
our cemetery, we would say that it is 
maintained on the “lawn plan” and is given 
the same care that our best lots get, as our 
cemetery is wholly under perpetual care. 
I think you will find that the majority of 
cemeteries in the East are selling all graves 
under perpetual care and on the “lawn 
principle.” We allow no mounds of any 
kind, but we do allow flowers to be plant- 
ed on same. Horace A. Derry, 
Supt., Glenwood Cemetery. 
Everett, Mass. 
In respect to single grave sections in 
Forest Hills Cemetery, we have just opened 
a new section in which all the graves are 
sold with perpetual care of grass. This 
section is maintained on the lawn plan and 
the trees and shrubs are grouped as in the 
lot sections. The grass receives identically 
the same care as the lots. In all the older 
single grave sections single graves have 
been sold without perpetual care of the 
grass and the sections receive only a com- 
paratively small amount of attention. In 
the new sections the grass is mowed regu- 
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larly and kept level as in the regular lot 
sections. Henry S. Adams, 
Supt., Forest Hills Cemetery. 
Jamaica Plains, Mass. 
Our single grave sections receive the 
same general care as our best family lot 
sections, as we make no distinction be- 
tween single graves and lots. Our entire 
ground has perpetual care, regardless of 
whether it is a single grave lot or the 
largest lot in the cemetery. 
Theo. E. Anderson, 
Supt., River View Cemetery. 
Portland, Ore. 
SINGLE GRAVE SECTION, MT. HOPE 
CEMETERY, JOPLIN, MO. 
PERPETUAL CARE; ALL MARKERS 
FLUSH WITH GROUND. 
Our Costliest Private Mausoleums. 
Editor Asked and Answered : Could you 
give me the names, location, sizes and ap- 
proximate cost of the five or six largest 
mausoleums in this country, or whatever 
part of this information you may have? 
We have all the editions of Park and 
Cemetery for the past ten years or more, 
and if you could give us the month and 
year in which the largest tombs may have 
been described, we would appreciate it 
very much. — M. J., Mo. 
Park and Cemetery has illustrated and 
described in years past many of the 
largest and most expensive private mau- 
soleums that have been erected in this 
country, but they have appeared at such 
long intervals it would be impossible to re- 
fer you to all of them. 
Following is, however, a summary of the 
leading statistics about a number of the 
costliest mausoleums that have been erected 
in this country ; 
Gates, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York 
City ; erected by Stone, Gould & Farring- 
ton ; cut by N. Pelaggi & Co., Northfield, 
Vt.: 54x35 feet: cost $125,000. 
Ehret, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York 
City; cost $100,000; approximate ground 
dimensions, 37x37 feet. 
William Bradley, Woodlawn Cemetery, 
New York City; erected by Harrison Gran- 
ite Co., New York City; cut by Jones Bros. 
Co., Barre, Vt. ; cost $100,000; dimensions, 
35-8x46-8x21-0 high. 
Chisholm, Portland, Me. ; erected by Flint 
Granite Co., New York City; cut by Jones 
Bros. Co.,- Barre, Vt. ; cost $92,000; dimen- 
sions, 39-8x17-10x22-0 high. 
Anthony N. Brady, Albany, N. Y. ; 
erected by Flint Granite Co., New York 
City; cost $85,000 ; 43-0x25-0x20-0 high. 
Edward E. McCall, Albany, N. Y. ; 
erected by Flint Granite Co., New York 
City ; cost $67,000 ; dimensions 42-6x20-0x 
246 high. 
Poth, West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila- 
delphia; cost about $50,000 ; 27-0x34-6 in 
ground dimensions. 
H. Messchert, West Laurel Hill, Phila- 
deplia ; cost $25,000; dimensions, 16-6x23-0. 
In Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh : 
“Eaton,” 30-0x24-7; cost $26,000; “Jen- 
nings,” 29-6x16-10; cost $20,000; “Pitcairn,” 
30-0x15-0; cost $22,000. 
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, O. : 
“Groesbeck,” 25x30 feet; cost $25,000; 
“Fleischmann,” 25x35 feet; cost $35,000; 
“McDonald,” 20x30 feet ; cost $30,000. 
Andrews mausoleum, Lake View Ceme- 
tery, Cleveland, O. ; erected by C. E. Tayn- 
tor Granite Co., New York City; cost $65,- 
000; dimensions, 25-0x38-0x18-3; cut by 
Jones Bros. Co., Barre, Vt. 
In Graceland Cemetery, Chicago ; Potter 
Palmer, 26x40 feet; Martin Ryerson, 17x24 
feet; “Wilke,” 15x15 feet. 
E. H. Gary mausoleum, Wheaton, 111. ; 
cut by Jones Bros. Co., Barre, Vt., for 
Charles G. Blake & Co., Chicago. 
“Krueger,” Newark, N. J. ; cut by Jones 
Bros. Co. for George Brown, Newark, N. J. 
Ventilated or Sealed Crypts? 
Editor Park and Cemetery; I would 
like to have discussed through your Asked 
and Answered columns as to whether 
crypts or catacombs in community or pri- 
vate mausoleums should be ventilated or 
made as near airtight as possible. I would 
be pleased to hear from other superintend- 
ents of cemeteries who have had practical 
experience in this often discussed subject. 
My experience of over thirty years in this 
work leads me to believe that crypts should 
be made as nearly airtight as possible. — 
J. A. W„ Mich. 
There seems to be a difference of opinion 
among experts on this subject. Although 
every patentee of a so-called ventilating 
device for community mausoleum crypts 
thinks he has it exactly right, none of 
them have been in use long enough to 
prove anything. We discussed this subject 
at great length several years ago and at 
that time collected all the information 
available from both cemetery people and 
mausoleum builders. You will find the be- 
ginning of this discussion in the 1912 pro- 
ceedings of the Milwaukee convention of 
the Association of American Cemetery Su- 
perintendents. You will find a further con- 
tinuation of it in the September and No- 
vember issues of Park and Cemetery for 
1912, in the December issue for 1912, and 
in the April, November and December is- 
sues for 1913. 
