PARK AND CEMETERY 
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FEBRUARY, 1916 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXV No. 12 
Planning a New Cemetery 
The frequency with which Park and Cemetery is asked to lay 
out and develop a new cemetery By return mail is our excuse for 
again mentioning the fact that the establishing of a cemetery is a 
task requiring an unusual degree of highly specialized training, 
years of experience and executive ability. The business man who 
would not dream of planning a house without an architect or go- 
ing into court without a lawyer is in many cases perfectly willing 
to embark in the laying out of a cemetery, with no advice other 
than a chat with the local real estate man. If perchance he 
realizes that he may need some additional advice in the matter, he 
expects that a few words of offhand advice in a general way will 
start off his cemetery and enable him to realize in a short time a 
profit that is in proportion to the difference in price between local 
For a Bureau of 
A bill recently introduced into the lower house by Congressman 
William Kent, of California, should have the support of every in- 
dividual and every organization in favor of a more systematic 
and business-like management of our national parks. It is espe- 
cially desirable that the care and development of our great national 
playgrounds shall be conducted co-ordinately under a bureau solely 
devoted to that purpose. In the past, the management of our 
national parks has been left to officials subject to change with 
every change of administration. A bureau like the one proposed 
would soon become permanent, and men of the right sort would 
find in this important work worthy careers of great public value 
and service, and with great and lasting benefits to the parks and 
monuments under their charge and control. The bill, known as 
H. R. 8668. provides for the establishing in the Department of the 
Interior a service to be called the National Park Service, which 
shall be under the charge of a director appointed by the Secre- 
tary, with such assistants and other employees as the Secretary 
of the Interior shall deem necessary. The director shall, under 
the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, have the supervision, 
farm land and the value of Trinity churchyard in New York. In 
perhaps no other business is there such great necessity for start- 
ing right as in the making of a cemetery. The first expenditure 
in connection with the establishment of a cemetery should be for 
an expert report and plan made by an experienced cemetery plan- 
ner after a personal study of the conditions. This should be 
made even before the land is bought, for the selection of the land 
is one of the most important considerations. No advice at long 
range can be of any value, and no attempt should ever be made 
to lay out a cemetery without this expert study and report. 
Only after years of study and practical experience can the 
principles of successful cemetery management be learned, and the 
first and most important advice in establishing a new cemetery is: 
“Get a good plan." 
National Parks 
management and control of the several national parks, national 
monuments, the Hot Springs Reservation in the state of Ar- 
kansas, and such other national parks, national monuments, 
and reservations of like character as may hereafter be authorized 
by Congress. It is further provided “that in the granting of leases 
and concessions and in the general management and development 
of said parks, monuments, and reservations no action unless 
specifically provided for by future enactments of Congress shall 
be detrimental to the fundamental object of these aforesaid parks, 
monuments and reservations, which object is to conserve the 
scenery and the natural and historic objects therein and to pro- 
vide for the enjoyment of said scenery and objects by the public 
in any manner and by any means that will leave them unimpaired 
for the enjoyment of future generations. The fund derived from 
such sales, leases, permits and privileges shall be deposited in the 
Treasury as a general fund, to be expended by the director, under 
the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior. 
Everyone interested in the more efficient management of our 
national parks should enlist the support of his senator and repre- 
sentative in securing the passage of the bill. 
Motor Transportation in the Parks 
Chicago has some forty miles of park drives in her city limits, 
and many of her citizens have never seen all of the boulevard 
and park system because the journey cannot conveniently be made 
without an automobile. There is at present under consideration in 
that city a proposition to establish a line of motor buses to traverse 
the entire boulevard and park system at a uniform and nominal 
fare. The Lincoln Park and South Park Boards have under con- 
sideration the offer of the Chicago Motor Bus Co. to establish a 
service in the parks and boulevards of the city. The rate is to be 
10 cents for any distance, the buses are to be of the best grade, 
and the company has offered to pay for road upkeep, about a 
thousand dollars a mile estimated. The company is responsible 
and evidently is ready to accept all reasonable regulations. In 
return it wishes to be protected from irresponsible competition. 
Under fair regulation there is as much to be said in favor of a 
motorbus monopoly as a traction monopoly. The attorneys of the 
Park Board have suggested some legal obstacles, but the attitude 
of both boards ought to be one of fair-minded consideration and 
investigation. There are many considerations involved, but there 
is no doubt that a motor bus service, reasonable in price and 
efficient in operation, is needed in Chicago, especially for the parks 
and boulevards. There is a very large class of people whose 
means do not permit them to maintain an automobile or patronize 
a taxi for a ride through the parks. On the other hand, they 
could afford so small an expenditure as the motor bus company 
pioposes. By this service they will have the whole park and boule- 
vard system at their command for the first time and the system 
will become much more available to a very much larger propor- 
tion of the population than it is now. 
Every large city’s resources of interest and entertainment should 
be given a more systematic and inclusive development. A good 
motor bus service will be attractive to visitors and especially help- 
ful to those who cannot remain long and who do not care to pay 
for an individual motor. There is many a traveler who does not 
see a large city park system because he has not had the time, 
money or patience to do exactly what a motor bus park service 
will offer him at a cost not worth considering, expeditiously and 
with comfort. Let us make our parks and boulevards available 
to as many people as possible. The problem of the motor bus is 
one for every large city to consider. 
