PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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ROAD BUILT WITH TARVIA “X” IN MT. PLEASANT CEMETERY, TORONTO. 
gravel has been substituted for the more 
expensive granite previously used. The 
entrance driveway was constructed this 
year and is a perfect piece of tarvia road 
construction. 
Mr. Goebel, of Oak Hill, Grand Rapids, 
has tried some successful experiments re- 
surfacing with pea gravel and Tarvia A 
over gravel roads. This work, while not 
to be recommended as a general practice, 
has given excellent results at Oak Hill. 
The gravel subsoil has made the roads par- 
ticularly well drained and stable during 
wet and frosty weather. 
In adapting tarvia to cemetery work, cer- 
tain precautions must be taken to insure 
satisfactory work. All edgings, steps, mon- 
uments or sides of buildings exposed to 
tarvia spatterings must be carefully cov- 
ered with old canvas or building paper be- 
fore the work begins. A little forethought 
in this way saves expensive cleaning. 
Grass edging is easily protected by a 
plank provided with a rope at either end 
and moved along as the work progresses. 
When the tarvia is melted in kettles, care 
should be taken to see that they are so 
placed that the heat will not affect the 
shrubbery or trees. Care should also be 
exercised not to let the material become 
too hot, as the production of yellow fumes 
is detrimental to some tender forms of 
vegetation. Wherever possible, tank wag- 
ons equipped with pressure spray should be 
employed, as better results can be obtained 
and a more cleanly handling of the tarvia 
is possible. 
The methods to be pursued in construct- 
ing a successful penetration tarvia macad- 
am have been recently so thoroughly de- 
scribed in an article by George D. Steele, 
in “Better Roads and Streets,” June, 1915, 
that they need not be gone into here. Suf- 
fice it to say that each step must be care- 
fully watched and exact uniformity in 
stone, in laving and in application of tar- 
via must be secured in order to obtain the 
best results. Dirty spots in the stone or 
local excess of refined tar are sure to show 
in the completed road. 
Particular attention must be paid to the 
sizing of stone in cemetery roads to con- 
form to the traffic requirements and land- 
scape effects. As a general rule, the stone 
sizing should be smaller than for town 
roads. At the same time extreme care 
should be exercised to obtain clean stone 
in order that the penetration of the refined 
tar should not be impeded. The seal coat 
of refined tar must be applied with great 
care in order not to obtain any local ex- 
cess. The covering for the seal coat should 
be chosen with care, as it will form the 
finished surface of the road. If a perma- 
nent peastone surface effect is desired, a 
sprinkling of clean peastone should first be 
put on the seal. The stone should be in 
sufficient quantity to fill the surface voids 
with no excess. A roller should be used to 
force them in. Peastone with the dust in 
should then be applied, with the object of 
filling the small voids in the peastone. No 
excess should be applied. The roller 
should then be used again. A final finish- 
ing coat of clean peastone is used. This 
method gives an attractive peastone sur- 
face, while at the same time providing a 
close waterproof surface beneath. 
The maintenance of roads built or re- 
surfaced with refined tar is a simple mat- 
ter, but at the same time should never be 
neglected. 
All openings should be repaired, follow- 
ing the original construction so far as pos- 
sible. Surface treatment, either of hot ap- 
plications or cold applications, should be 
renewed as soon as their condition war- 
rants. Small breaks should be carefully 
patched in before the general treatment. 
By using a selection in the choice of cov- 
ering, the original surface may be restored. 
Conscientious work along these lines should 
preserve the roads indefinitely. 
GREAT HUDSON RIVER INTERSTATE PARK 
The effort of public spirited citizens of 
New 5 ork and New Jersey to save the 
Palisades on the western shore of the lower 
Hudson has not only been a complete suc- 
cess but the effort has led to the organiza- 
tion of a great Hudson River Park which 
will extend when completed from Fort Lee 
Ferry northward along the river shore to 
Bear Mountain and running westward at 
one point to the Ramapo Mountains. 
Over twelve years have elapsed since the 
battle was begun for the preservation of 
the Palisades, but the fight has been kept 
up with unabated ardor and the example of 
prominent men and women taking an inter- 
est in such a worthy public movement has 
been so wholesome that others have been 
moved to subscribe large sums in order 
that the most picturesque sections of the 
beautiful Hudson may be preserved for the 
benefit of the public and made a playground 
for all time. 
The inroads upon the Palisades twelve 
years ago by the quarry interests were so 
general that it was apparent to the most cas- 
ual observer that if the beauties of these 
striking formations along the Hudson were 
to be preserved something of a radical na- 
ture would have to be done at once. The 
greater portion of Old Indian Head, north 
of Fort Lee bluff, had been blown asunder 
and other celebrated portions of the famous 
Palisades were rapidly disappearing. 
The new Jersey State Federation of 
Women’s Clubs began an energetic cam- 
paign for preservation. This resulted in 
the passage of a bill in 1899 empowering 
the governor to appoint a committee of 
five to report on the condition of the Pali- 
sades and to suggest some plan to prevent 
their defacement. Such a committee was 
appointed. 
In New York state interest in the work 
of halting the vandalism was very keen in- 
deed. Among the most active of the friends 
of the Palisades were Andrew H. Green, 
“Father of Greater New York,” and presi- 
dent of the Scenic and Historic Preserva 
tion Society, and Governor Theodore 
Roosevelt. The New York Legislature 
passed a bill similar to the one passed by 
New Jersey and Governor Roosevelt ap- 
pointed a strong committee which went 
right to work. The joint commission de- 
cided to report in favor of the Legislature 
passing an act constituting a permanent 
Interstate Palisade Park Commission, with 
power to acquire and hold in each state 
whatever property was necessary along the 
Palisades for an interstate park, the inten- 
