Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-14

puCceS5iul bnterprlbe-lno Euturo oItJ VI
the Dead BEAUTIFUL Location and substan-
tlal prov,ments--T Two Hundred Inter
ments Across the River.
Yesterday, ia company with Mr..
l. w. Lord, we drove over to the
Evergreen Cemetery. Speaking
frankly, and without any desire to
refer to the enterprise as business
proposition, we were greatly sur
prised at the progress which has
been made in beautifying the new
cemetery.
ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO
The Messrs. L. w. Lord, A. FL. Jud.
son, L. A. Dunsmoor, V. Ponet and
f. Dohs began TO agitate for the
establishment of new cemetery
somewhere in the neighborhood of
Los Angeles. There was a decided
public sentiment against any fur
ther interments on Fort Hill. AL
though the project encountered a
great deal of opposition these gen.
tlemen were of the kind who could
not be discouraged, and they ad-
hered to their idea, which was cer-
tainly both enlightened and busi-
nesslike, with bulldog pluck.
They concluded that the modern
sentiment against inter-mural in
terments should be deferred to; and
they finally selected, as the site for
the new cemetery, a gently rolling
tract of seventy acres, in the rear
OF Brooklyn Heights, precisely two
miles distant from the Court
House.
THE VIEW OF THE NEW CEMETERY,
AS one approaches it from the city,
Is highly attractive indeed. AL
ready the ornamental trees have
registered very marked growth
and they quite noiiceably enliven
the landscape. An imposing gate
way, erected at cost of $500, ad-
mits the visitor to this City of the
Dead. Striking into a broad road,
called Evergreen avenue, which
makes nearly the whole circuit of
| the tract, and which Is o mile and
a half long, the cemetery is soon
seen to be laid out OH very Judi
cious and handsome plan. It's own
ers and projectors, in fact. paid Mr..
Wright $1,000 for the plans; and, in
making them, he availed himself
of the counsel of the most famous
cemetery designer in the East. Iu
addition to the principal avenue,
which 10 forty feet wide in the
clear, the tract is intersected in
every direction by minor avenues
and streets, most of them twenty
feet wide. Already
FOUR THOUSAND TREES
Have been set out, consisting of
the eucalyptus, cypress, maple aud
willow. They are irrigated from
well eighty feet deep, from which
sixteen foot Halliday wind mill
pumps four thousand gallons q day.
affording gallon of water
daily to each tree. A deep
trench is dug around the trees, so
that they get the benefit of every
drop which is applied to them.
The soil of the Cemetery is such
that gallon of water goes as far
as forty gallons would on some of
our sandy landJ. OF the seventy
acres of the tract thirty-four are
taken up by the streets and
avenues. In addition, narrow al.
leys separate each lot, on all sides,
from its neighbors. The lots are
twenty feet square aud the charter
OF the company makes the maxi
mum charge for them, fifty cents
per square foot. A hedge, which
already shows considerable growth.
extends around the whole seventy
acres. Quite pretty now, the cem-
etery cannot fail to be highly
beautiful in a few years, when the
trees shall have made greater
progress. They all look remark
ably thrifty.
SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS
Whlch have been made in the
Evergreen Cemetery are costly and
beautiful. Just on the rise of
little knoll on Evergreen avenue
the visitors attention is attracted
by a handsome granite shaft, with
fence of the same costly stone,
which ornaments the lot of Mr.. ].
e. Hollenbeck, the whole costing
upwards of $1,000. The handsome
improvements of Col. ]. +. God
frey cost fully 500. The lots of the
Messrs. Quimby, Mcclellan and
Mrs. Tansey, and many other of
our most noted residents, have also
been elaborately ornamented.
II the view of the cemetery on
the approach to it is charming,
that of the city from this we'll
selected spot is equally so. Thus
far about two hundred interments
have been made in it,. A plot of
| five acres has been donated to the
city for the burial of the INDECENT.
The cemetery cannot fail to
prove great blessing to this city.
Thus far its enterprising projectors
have expended $4,000 upon this
| property, ana tney are just begln-
ming to get a slight pecuniary re.
turn upon their investment. The
officers of the company are Mr.. A.
H. Judson, President, Mr.. I. w.
Lord, Secretary, and the Messrs.
Judson, Lord, Dunsmoor, Ponet
and Dohs, Trustees.
With public spirit which is
highly commendable these gentle
men have put the price of the lots
at very low figure. AS they pass
into private hands, however, the
more eligible ones cannot fail to
enhance rapidly in value. One
hundred dollars is the maximum
price now asked for lots, although