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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
senger, and the other a Federal 18- 
passenger bus. Both cars are built with 
side seats, canopy top and side curtains 
for bad weather. The average expense 
of maintaining a bus is about $5.50 per 
day, not including depreciation. Condi- 
tions are so different in the various cem- 
eteries that it is a hard thing to say 
how they should be operated. We run 
on a regular scliedule over a fixed route, 
with signs at various intervals lettered 
'Auto-bus stop, No. 1, No. 2,’ etc. This 
has proven very satisfactory to us.’ 
Bellett Lawson, Jr., 
Supt., .Elmwood Cemetery. 
Chicago, 111. 
“We operate a motor bus service out- 
side the grounds only to connect with 
local transportation. The length of the 
run is one mile. We have no direct con- 
nection with street car or trains within 
one mile and therefore our auto service 
is very necessary and the only way for 
quick transportation. We carry from 20 
to 200 passengers one way daily and Sun- 
day. We charge a fare of 5 cents round 
trip, using one bus, a Kenyon motor 
truck ‘Commerce’ with Continental en- 
gine and carrying capacity of 10 pas- 
sengers. The vehicle cost $1,400 and the 
cost of operation, with chauffeur and 
gasoline, oil, etc., is $2.75 per day. We 
do not operate the bus in the cemetery, 
but if we were getting street car trans- 
portation direct we would not discon- 
tinue the running of an auto bus in the 
grounds. We are contemplating the pur- 
chase of a larger one in the near future.” 
George Schrade, 
Supt., Mt. Auburn Cemetery. 
Berwyn, 111. 
“We operate a horse-drawn carriage 
through the grounds on a run of one 
mile. The service is only fairly pat- 
ronized. It was inaugurated to serve lot 
holders, but more visitors ride than lot 
holders. They do not pay expenses. 
Last year we carried 16,073 passengers, 
charging 10 cents for the round trip. On 
weekdays we use one carriage in the 
morning and two in the afternoon. . On 
Sundays, two in the morning and three 
in the afternoon. The carriage has three 
seats and can carry eight passengers and 
•driver. Each carriage cost $365. In 1914 
the receipts were $803.65 and expendi- 
tures $1,331.60. Our wagonettes run 
only from April 1 to December 1, 244 
days. We believe that a cemetery 
should have such service.” 
Robert Campbell, 
Supt., Cave Hill Cemetery. 
Louisville, Ky. 
“We operate a motor bus service out- 
side the grounds to connect with local 
transportation, a run of about a half 
mile. The service is much used and was 
inaugurated to offset as near as possible 
the disadvantage (to those who see it 
that way) of not being directly on a car 
line. We carry about 60,000 passengers 
a year. We do not charge fare. We use 
one vehicle every day and two on Sun- 
days, Saturdays and holidays and when- 
ever needed. The cars are Federals and 
carry 20 passengers each. The vehicle 
cost $2,600 and the cost of operating in 
1914 was $2,020.81, not including depre- 
ciation.” T. H. Little, 
Secy. -Gen. Mgr., Mt. Hope Cem. 
Chicago, 111. 
“We operate a motor car service 
through the grounds on a run of one- 
half mile. This service is used only for 
selling lots and conveying old people 
from and back to the entrance. We try 
to look after those we feel are not in 
condition for such a long walk. The ve- 
hicle used is a five-passenger Ford tour- 
ing car. I believe all large cemeteries 
should operate a conveyance for the 
benefit of its patrons free of charge, 
especially for those far away from en- 
trance, where they would have to walk a 
distance of one-half to a mile to get to 
their lots.” Theo. E. Anderson, 
Supt., Riverview Cemetery. 
Portland, Ore. 
“We operate a motor bus through the 
grounds, a run of a little over three- 
fourths mile. The service is used very 
liberally. About 20,000 passengers a 
year are carried. We charge a fare of 5 
cents each way and use one vehicle, a 
White car, with a summer and a winter 
body, the winter one seating 12 people. 
The average expense of maintaining it is 
about $100 per month. My opinion is 
that all large cemeteries should have one 
to accommodate their patrons, and while 
ours is not self-sustaining, as it is op- 
erated at a loss of about $30 per month, 
we consider it a good investment.” 
Thomas Wallis, 
Supt., Rose Hill Cemetery. 
Chicago, 111. 
“We operate a horse-drawn carriage 
within the grounds on a run of two to 
four miles. The distance in the grounds 
MEETING OF AMERICAN 
The first annual meeting of the Ameri- 
can Academy of Arborists, formed about 
a year ago with the aim of advancing ar- 
boriculture and landscape forestry and 
maintaining the highest professional stand- 
ard among its members, will be held in 
Newark on January 8 next, in appreciation 
of the work done by the Newark Shade 
Tree Commission for the progress of ar- 
boriculture. 
The sessions will open at 10 a. m. with 
a business meeting. Addresses will be 
given as follows at the afternoon session, 
which will open at 2 o’clock: “The Min- 
istry of Trees,” Carl Bannwart, secretary, 
is what brought it about. Some days 
we have few passengers and some days 
many; but it does not pay. We charge 
a fare of 10 cents and use one vehicle 
through the week and two on Sundays 
and holidays. It is a small bus of local 
make and seats eight passengers. It is 
on the order of a park wagon, and I 
think the original cost was $400. The 
average expense is about $2.50 per day. 
It is very nice for large cemeteries to 
have such a conveyance, but there are very 
few that can afford it. I don't think it can 
be made to pay.” 
John J. Stephens, 
Supt., Crown Hill Cemetery. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
“We do not operate a bus or any other 
conveyance for the use of the general 
public, as our cemetery is only a small 
one, not exceeding 58 acres and only 
about one-half in use. But I have my 
own personal Overland car, which I use 
when showing lots or directing people to 
plots which they are unable, to locate. 
The cemetery association furnishes me 
with the gasoline and oil For a ceme- 
tery the size of this one this system 
seems to work the best, for the auto is 
always at the disposal of the superin- 
tendent when he needs it, and there 
would not be the expense of the ad- 
ditional chauffeur or maintaining the 
second machine. I find the auto of great 
use in directing funerals, which I do my- 
self. When the funerals arrive I meet 
them at the entrance and lead them to 
the proper place, and if there are others 
due about the same time I can return 
to the entrance and take them to the 
proper place and always avoid one 
funeral passing another while in the 
grounds.. Nearly all of our funerals 
come by auto; only about one in every 
hundred are horse-drawn, and possibly 
two a year come by the electric car. 
The electric car line passes our entrance, 
hence there is no need for the cemetery 
to operate an outside conveyance.” 
George D. Brown, 
Supt., Mountain View Cemetery. 
Pasadena, Cal. 
ACADEMY OF ARBORISTS. 
Newark Shade Tree Commission; “The 
Tree Fakir,” Hermann Merkel, chief for- 
ester, New York Zoological Park and 
president of Academy of Arborists ^‘Fun- 
gus Problems of Interest to Arborists,” R. 
B. Maxwell, city forester, Baltimore, Md., 
and second vice-president of Academy of 
Arboriculture ; “Arboriculture as a Pro- 
fession,” J. J. Levison, .arboriculturist of 
Brooklyn Park Department and secretary 
of Academy of Arboriculture. New and 
important problems in arboriculture then 
will be discussed by the members. In the 
afternoon the session will be open to the 
public. 
