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DECEMBER, 1915 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXV No. 10 
Motor Transportation in Parks and Cemeteries 
On another page in this issue are presented some facts and 
statistics about motor bus transportation in cemeteries. The con- 
clusion of cemetery men who contributed to this data seems to 
be that where city transportation does not furnish easy access to 
the cemetery, the cemetery must furnish it. In most large cities 
conditions of competition will practically force the cemetery to 
do this. Where the cemetery is large, it is also necessary that 
some conveyance be furnished lot owners, either free or for a 
small fee. Statistics seem to agree that such a service cannot be 
made to pay for itself, but must be regarded as a necessary ex- 
pense. Other interesting points are brought out on another page. 
The subject of motor buses in parks is also a vital one, 
although it must be considered from quite a different point of 
view. One of the St. Louis newspapers discusses the park side 
of the question in an interesting manner and we quote as follows 
from this source: “St. Louis has been experimenting during 
recent weeks with motor buses in its parks. An auto-bus has 
plied each Saturday and Sunday afternoon between one of the 
park entrances and the museum. From their present data, the 
park commissioners believe that the city can make a profit at a 
3-cent fare. But there was something more interesting than this 
in the situation. A reporter for a St. Louis paper questioned the 
twenty-eight top-deck passengers during the first trip and learned 
that nineteen of them had never been to the museum. Chicago 
has spent large sums of money in developing places of recreation 
and amusement for its citizens and it has an enviable system of 
parks. But it has been a matter of complaint that their use is 
The Need for 
“The wrongs against society are committed by our people not 
in their hours of work but in their hours of leisure,” writes 
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania, to President 
J. Horace McFarland, of the American Civic Association at 
Washington, in commendation of its movement for the exten- 
sion and larger use of parks in American cities. That the eco- 
nomic value of parks and recreational areas is being recognized 
today to a greater extent than ever before is amply demonstrated 
by the reports that come to the association of municipal pro- 
cedure for the acquirement of increased park lands, and at the 
same time changed methods of administration. The new attitude 
toward parks is that they shall be service parks — not merely 
ornamental adornments for the exclusive use of the few who ride, 
but for the millions who walk. The importance of the accessi- 
bility of parks to the masses of the population is illustrated by 
the growing habit, in the creation of park systems, of acquiring 
many small parks, harmoniously distributed and connected, rather 
than the maintenance of one or more great parks on the out- 
skirts. The large park will continue to be popular, but it will be 
supplemented by groups of small parks given over to recreation 
purposes. “Verboten” in respect to the use of the grass is a dis- 
carded injunction; now it is “Welcome” everywhere. 
From all parts of the United States go out reports of munic- 
ipal bond issues for new and extended parks. The great cities 
of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago are not content 
with their expenditures of millions upon millions in years gone 
by for parks. They are spending more and more. And the ex- 
not made easy and convenient. The machinery for touring Chi- 
cago, as we tour European cities, is lacking. One of the troubles 
is doubtless transportation. There have been various attempts 
during two years to install lines of motor buses on the boule- 
vards. At one time five applications were pending before the 
public utilities commission. In each case park boards have pre- 
vented all experimentation. Chicago is frankly suspicious of mo- 
tor buses. Although they would open up the recreative resources 
of the city, we have been afraid. With home rule a shadowy 
dream, we are not sure we could control such a public utiltity. 
And with recollection of past experiences with corporations of 
this kind, we are afraid someone is going to get something with- 
out paying enough for it. Perhaps in this case caution is not a 
virtue. It is entirely possible that motor bus lines, even should 
someone make a little profit out of them, would be worth having. 
We might try them, at any rate.” 
With the establishment of new cemeteries farther and 
farther from the city limits, the question of transportation 
will become even more pressing, and will be one of the decid- 
ing factors in the location of the cemeteries of the future. 
The motor vehicles at present in use in cemeteries have 
proven very satisfactory in service, and the statistics regard- 
ing the types of vehicles used and the cost of operating them 
as given.on another page will be of especial interest to new 
cemeteries or old ones that are figuring on the necessity of fur- 
nishing transportation either to the entrance or through the 
grounds. 
Service Parks 
ample is being followed by scores and hundreds of smaller cities. 
The story of how Kansas City surmounted topographical eccen- 
tricities to create a park system is well known. Harrisburg, Pa., 
has acquired in the past eleven years 958 acres of park land, one 
acre for every seventy-six of its population. Lincoln, Neb., has 
just passed a bond issue of $50,000 to buy park lands, and a 
public-spirited citizen has donated to the city a beautiful tract of 
land worth thousands of dollars for the same purpose. Chatta- 
nooga, Seattle, Spokane, El Paso, San Antonio, Dallas, Minne- 
apolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Rochester, Columbus, Ohio, and Co- 
lumbus, Ga., Jacksonville, Charlotte, N. C., Springfield, Ohio, and 
Springfield, Mass., Hartford, Conn., St. Louis, and so on, in an 
almost endless chain, are all working out the park problems in a 
notable manner. 
Governor Brumbaugh sounds well the new attitude in his letter, 
as follows: 
“I believe that one of the great social and economic problems of 
our American life is the conservation of our people in their hours 
of leisure. We have reduced the hours of work, and we did 
well. We have made no provision for the increased hours of 
leisure thus provided. We have not made it easy for our people 
to find wholesome, happy, healthful recreation, and it is my judg- 
ment that in the very near future we must turn our attention to 
this matter in a serious, constructive way for the good of the 
citizenship of this great republic. I am a firm believer in the 
necessity and value of recreation centers and of playgrounds for 
our people, and these should be made as ample and as convenient 
to the residences of our people as possible.” 
