—and natural advantages of the grounds warranted them in this determination to give to the citizens of Chicago a rural cemetery that would compare favorably with any in the land. While it is agreeable to know that they are so determined, and that such information is a matter of public interest, yet the intention of this article was to give more the impression created by investigation. All who visit Rose Hill confess that in point of location and natural advantages, as well as in its improvements, it must be accorded the first place in the list of rural cemeteries near or adjacent to Chicago.

AN IMPORTANT FEATURE.

From a very interesting and important pamphlet issued by the Rose Hill Company, the information is gleaned that an important feature has recently been introduced at the request of a number of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Chicago who desired to secure large and handsome lots for themselves and heirs. Several sections in the finest part of the cemetery have been laid out on the lawn plan, to be disposed of for all time to come. Special covenants were incorporated and given in the warranty deeds, covenanting not only as to the lots conveyed, but also that no lots in said section or sections shall be subdivided or sold in fractional parts.

This portion of the cemetery bids fair to become the handsomest and most desirable of any within its borders. A large number of prominent citizens already own lots in this locality, but space will not admit the long list of familiar names found inscribed on the handsome family monuments in this part of the grounds-and in deference to the many all are omitted.

A PERPETUAL CARE FUND.

Like all cemeteries of a responsible character, this one has a fund created under the provisions of its charter, for the perpetual care of the cemetery grounds after all lots therein shall have been sold. This fund al

ready amounts to more than $35,000 of principal alone, and is rapidly on the increase; so that the completion of the principal amount of $100,000 required by its charter is fully assured. That the readers of this issue may glean some idea of the solidity of the fund, it is only necessary to mention that the Hon. Charles B. Farwell, Orrington Lunt, banker, and Henry F. Lewis constitute the committee which have control of all moneys belonging thereto, which is invested in interest-bearing bonds, as required and particularly designated by the charter, which bonds are incontrovertible for any other purpose whatsoever.

ROSE HILL'S FUTURE.

To all who are interested in Rose Hill, and to those who are undecided as to where and in what cemetery they should secure a family lot, THE INTER OCEAN Would suggest:

That the future of Rose Hill, as a large, permanent, and beautiful rural cemetery, free from molestation, is assured. Its superior advantages of location and adaptability for cemetery purposes, over any other ground near or conveniently accessible from the city, have been enumerated and need no further mention. A visit to the grounds will convince the most skeptical of the correctness of the statements in regard thereto. Chicago may grow and become a city of one, two, or even three millions of people-a continuous city, north along Lake Michigan to Evanston, and yet Rose Hill, a city in extent within its own borders, is away from the line of growth

of the city along the lake. It is a city set apart by itself; a resting place for the dead, where they will not be disturbed or molested by the encroachments of the living; and still it is within a convenient distance, and of easy access from the great city of Chicago.

The exceedingly low price of lots, as compared with other cemeteries, where ground is sold for double the price asked for the finest lots in Rose Hill, may be an inducement for some to purchase in this cemetery. It is true that those who purchase now get the benefit of the present low prices, yet we do not hold this out as an inducement to the public. There are other and greater advantages possessed by Rose Hill, advantages that are far above and beyond any mere money considerations; advantages that elsewhere money cannot buy.

GRACELAND CEMETERY.

THE BURIAL GROUND OF NOTABLE MEN.

This beautiful city of the dead is situated near Lake Michigan, north of the city. It is formed by a series of ridges left by Lake Michigan as it receded from the shore and of little valleys between them.

Within the last three years large additions have been made to Graceland, doubling the area available for burial purposes and providing lots to supply the demands of the next twenty years at least. This new part has been laid out on the landscape lawn plan and improved at great expense, and it is now by far the most attractive portion of the grounds. It rivals the public parks in beauty, and is worthy to rank with the famous cemeteries of America. Thousands of people from far and near visit Graceland, drawn by its growing reputation for scenic beauty. There is

an almost endless variety of foliage and a those who think of the surroundings of Chidiversity of surface which is a surprise to cago as a monotonous prairie. The pieces of ornamental water have been managed with great skill, and when the trees and shrubbery around them are fully grown they will be very unusually picturesque.

A BIT OF HISTORY.

Graceland was founded in 1861 by the Hon. Thomas B. Bryan. The first Board of Managers contained the names of some of the men who have been largely instrumental in making Chicago what it is-among them William B. Ogden, Sidney Sawyer, and Edwin H. Sheldon. Most of the historic names of Chicago are to be found in the list of lot-owners, or on the tombs of Graceland, such as William B. Ogden, Judge Manierre, Mahlon D. Ogden. Jonathan Burr, the philanthropist; John H, Kinzie, N. B. Judd, Justin Butterfield. H. H. Magie, Alexander Fullerton, Walter L. Newberry,

W. F. Coolbaugh,

Eli B. Williams, Dr. Brainard, E. G. Hall, John C. Calhoun. Mr. Calhoun is the gentleman who established the first newspaper in Chicago, and whose biography appears elsewhere. Among the lot-owners, the names of men who control the vast industries of Chicago, or represent its interests to-day, are found: Mayor Harrison, Judge Drummond, E. W. Blatchford, J. V. Farwell, N. K. Fairbank, Wirt Dexter, Joseph Medill, Keith Brothers, L C. Huck, Jerome Beecher, L. J. McCormick, Albert Keep, T. W.

Harvey, John De Koven, Henry W. King, Lorenz Brentano, Volney C. Turner, Daniel A Jones, Edwin H. Sheldon.

SOME OF THE MONUMENTS.

Great sums have been expended on the monuments in Graceland, and they compare favorably with those of any cemetery in the country. Conspicuous among these are the costly gothic mausoleum of H. H. Taylor, the fine obelisk of Washington Smith, the stately Egyptian column of T. M. Avery's, surmounted by a noble figure; the Corinthian column, with its statue, of D. B. Shipman; the fine monuments of E. H. Haddock, C. B. Blair, William Blair, Henry Whitbeck, W. D. Fuller, with its background of dense foliage, and the massive tomb of William J. Wilson, of original and striking design. There are many others perhaps equally striking and important, among the number being a mausoleum built at a cost of $15,000. It is an interesting fact that the interments in Graceland exceed those in any other cemetery in America, except Greenwood, near New York-the number of silent residents of Graceland being more than 37,000.

THE ROUTES TO GRACELAND.

Graceland is reached by a drive along the lake shore through Lincoln Park, and thence by North Clark street; or by horse-cars on Clark or State street, which run to the cemetery every half hour. The Chicago and Evanston Railway will be in operation in a short time, and will carry passengers from the Union Depot on Canal street or from the Kinzie street bridge to the new cemetery entrance.

The intention of the management of Graceland is to preserve the wide and beautiful sweep of the lawns by excluding, as far as possible, stone and marble from the new grounds, the monuments being restricted in number, and the headstones being kept low and unobtrusive, while all the old-fashioned and repulsive stone edges, fences, posts, chains, and all other unsightly lot-enclosures once in vogue have been forbidden. In dry seasons, when the grass even in Lincoln Park turns brown, the turf in the new grounds in Graceland is kept as green as in June by plentiful sprinkling by means of a steampump, the water being supplied from living springs which feed the artificial lakes.

PERPETUAL FUND.

A large and constantly growing fund,known as the Graceland Improvement Fund, in the hands of a Board of Trustees consisting of Edwin H. Sheldon, George C. Walker, Jerome Beecher, A. J. Averill, Hiram Wheeler, John De Koven, E. S. Williams, M. C. Stearns, E. W. Blatchford, J. W. McGinness, Daniel Thompson, and William Blair, guarantees the perpetual preservation and maintenance of Graceland Cemetery.

PARKS AND BOULEVARDS.

A MAGNIFICENT SYSTEM.

Nothing in this great city better shows the spirit of Chicago people than the magnificent park system, which is the wonder of the age, attracting the admiration of visitors from all over the world, and it is generally conceded that no other city on the continent has so elaborate a park and boulevard system as the Garden City of the West.

In this, as in everything else where Chicago saw her need, she went to work on a scale

The surveyors were stopped in their work of laying out town lots where Union Park now lies, and the tract of twenty-three acres was purchased by the city for a public park. And such it has ever since been, though it must be admitted that in later years it has been much neglected, and is of little use to the people who live in its vicinity.

Then other portions of the city became envious, and little parks were laid out, some of them no more than small squares, but they served their purpose, and to-day are delightful play-grounds for the neighborhood children. These small parks which now are under the control of the city are: Union, 23 acres; Jefferson, 5 3-5 acres; Vernon, 3 acres; Ellis, 2 acres; Lake, 40 acres; Wicker, 5 acres; and Washington Square, 212 acres, making a total of 81 acres devoted to parks in the city limits.

But Chicago's pride is her grand park system outside the limits, where the dry prairies and bottomless bogs have been converted into the most beautiful pleasure grounds-veritable places of enchantment. These with the little city parks make up a grand total of 2,353 acres of pleasure grounds in Chicago, and the money expended could only be counted by the million. LINCOLN PARK 1864

It

Lincoln Park was cut off from the lands of the Chicago Cemetery by city ordinance in 1864, and for several years bore the name of Lake Park, but the name was changed by common consent without official action. then contained sixty acres and was under the control of the city government, but in 1869 the Legislature provided for its improvement and appointed E B. McCagg Andrew Nelson, John B. Turner, Joseph Stockton, and Jacob Rehm as the first Board of Commissioners. It is supported by taxation of the North Division. It now has a total of 310 acres and is said to be the prettiest park in this country.

It was in 1866 that the people first began to agitate the question of laying out parks of this kind and George M. Kimbark, Paul Cornell, Chauncey T. Bowen, George R. Clarke, Obadiah Jackson, J. Young Scammon, and J. Irving Pearce should have the credit of the first move. These gentlemen proposed two South Park bills to be presented to the Legislature, one providing that the whole city should be taxed and the other that only the South Division and Hyde Park. This passed, but when the people were asked to indorse the action at the spring election it failed.

ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE.

A second bill was passed fixing the location where it now is, and this passed the Legislature and was indorsed by the people. The first Commissioners were John M. Wilson, L

B Sidway, Paul Cornell, G. W. Gage, and C. T. Bowen.

The South Parks contain 1,100 acres, and the land alone cost $1,700,000. The Drexel, Oakwood, and Grand boulevards are built in connection with this, and several millions of money have been spent in improving the grounds.

The West Parks system was established in the same manner. This has three large parks -Douglas on the south, Central or Garfield in the center, and Humboldt on the north. Douglas has 180 acres, Garfield 185, and Humboldt 225. All are connected by boulevards, and soon other boulevards will be completed connecting them with the parks in the other divisions.

With over 2,000 acres of pleasure grounds and fifty miles of boulevards, Chicago stands without a rival in the extent of her park privileges for her citizens.

THE WASHINGTON PARK CLUB.
THE HOME OF THE TURFMEN.

One of the most important and certainly the most aristocratic club in the city is the new Washington Park Club. Not only in the turf world, but in the social as well, this institution takes precedence. The Jockey Club in London embodies the highest aristocracy in England, and to be a member of that association is considered one of the leading honors of the country. Several crowned heads are numbered on its roll of memberhip. Many of the nobility are also members, but the mere fact of their being noblemen is not a qualification for admission to the club. The Committee on Membership scrutinize the application in the most rigorous manner, and the fact of a gentleman's election to the London Jockey Club is heralded as a distinction as notable as a gazette in the army.

THE FRENCH JOCKEY CLUB.

France has its national jockey club, located in Paris. Its exclusiveness is noted the world over. Many Americans of fabulous wealth, resident in Paris, have tried with unavailing effect to gain an election in that organization, but no influence could be brought to bear that would overcome the exclusiveness of the by-laws. New York has in the American Jockey Club an institution comparing favorably with these two clubs in Europe. It is composed of the best men in the aristocratic social circles of New York: August Belmont, Leonard Jerome, James Gordon Bennett, D. D. Withers, Charles Constable, Henry Hilton, Augustus Schell, Whitelaw Reid, Russell Sage, Pierre Lorillard, William A. Travers, Judge James Munson, and others of equal wealth and celebrity in New York City. This club is fully as exclusive as either of the European clubs. It is a power in the world of fashion, and its indorsement stamps the thing as being

proper.

CHICAGO'S NEW JOCKEY CLUB. That Chicago was ready for such an institution is shown in the altogether splendid response which has come to the call of the directors of the Washington Park Club. The first thought of this club originated in the brain of Albert S. Gage, Esq., who has never faltered for a moment in his efforts to make this club a grand success. Through his instrumentality a stock company was formed

with a capital stock of $150,000. With this start the club has to-day one of the finest courses in the country, if not in the world. They own eighty acres of land just south of South Park, lying between Sixty-first and Sixty-third streets, Cottage Grove avenue, and the Grand boulevard.

A SPLENDID BUILDING.

Upon this has been erected a club-house which cost upward of $50,000, and which far surpasses anything of its character in the world. Of course the London Jockey Club has extremely valuable property in its town house, not to speak of the various courses and other houses it owns at Epsom and elsewhere. But there is nothing in America that can compare with the Washington Park Club. When the gates are opened next June Chicagoans will see the handsomest club-house in the United States. In the laying out of the grounds the club has had the good fortune to have the combined talents of Mr. S. S. Beman, who built Pullman, and Mr. N. F. Barrett, well known in the East and West as a landscape engineer. These gentlemen have worked together with a view of making the buildings and landscape harmonize, and the entire plat as picturesque as possible. There will be ample drives for the club members, and a perfect track for public meetings and members' speed trials. The grand stand will be the finest in the world, being 500 feet long, two stories high, fitted with refreshthe whole costing upward of $40,000, and ment rooms, parlors, and reception rooms. capable of seating 10,000 people. Stables are now completed to accommodate 280 horses, and as many more will be erected in the spring.

AN ARTISTIC INTERIOR.

The club-house, which will occupy a position twelve feet above the track, with a lawn sloping from it, will be completed by May 1. It will be 136 feet long by 97 wide, and two stories, basement, and attic in height. In the basement will be the kitchen, store-rooms, heating apparatus, cellar, etc., and the attic will contain the servant and lumber rooms. On the main floor will be a spacious entrancehall, club office, cafe (with serving and wine rooms off), billiard-room, a ladies' waitingroom, a parlor for the directors, a lavatory, and five private dining-rooms. Extending around the entire building on this floor is a veranda 16 feet wide, which will be provided with chairs and other conveniences for witnessing races. The second floor contains a grand dining-hall, seven private diningrooms, wine and serving rooms, a grand hall, ladies' parlor, ladies' toilet and private room, and cloak-room. A covered balcony, 16 feet wide, also runs around the entire building of this story. All of the rooms and halls have fire-places specially designed for each by Mr. Beman. Upon the third floor are also some sleeping-rooms and bath-rooms, and upon the roof of the building are two open observatories, from which every part of the park and surrounding country can be seen. The grand dining-hall referred to will have an elaborate timbered ceiling, and all of the private dining-rooms will have sliding-doors, so if desired they may be thrown together. The main entrance halls and staircases will be finished in white ash, and the rest of the structure will be treated in white pine. The main staircase will be an elaborate affair, and will be a very attractive feature of the large hall. The families of members are expected to visit the club, consequently the necessity of the strict scrutiny spoken of

previously. At the present moment there are 300 members admitted to this club.

A LARGE MEMBERSHIP.

The initiation fee is $150, and the applications for membership are quite numerous. Before the gates open it is expected that there will be 500 members. There is not a name on the rolls but what has passed the most rigid scrutiny, and a membership in the Jockey Club is virtually a guarantee of the owner's standing in society. The club have opened stakes for the various ages of thoroughbreds, and will give their inaugural meeting beginning June 28, closing July 12. Racing on alternate days. In the young classes the stakes closed Oct. 15, with 375 nominations. The entries for the general meeting close Jan. 15, at which time fully as many more entries will probably be made. This new club will offer an opportunity to those who enjoy the better qualities of the turf sports. The thousands who have each summer gone to Saratoga and other Eastern resorts to enjoy racing will now make this city the terminus of their summer tours. To the residents of Chicago who have long desired an objective point for their drives will find in this club the fulfillment of these desires. It will elevate the taste and benefit the turf. Fine turnouts will be numerous, and the sport will be dignified. Mr. J. E. Bewster, the efficient Secretary, has done much to further the success of the club, he being a member of the American Jockey Club of New York.

THE SPORTING CAPITAL.

THE TURF, BASE BALL, THE WHEEL, AND BILLIARDS.

The advance that Chicago has made in the matter of sporting affairs in the past twentyfive years has become a question of wondering surprise, not only throughout our own country but on the other side of the Atlantic. The early days of Chicago saw little or no sport save in its primitive character. There were no remarkable characters in the sporting world. Who ever heard of Chicago, much less come to visit the city? John C. Heenan came here but it was only en route St. Louis. It has been since 1860 that Chicago has achieved her present position in the sporting world. The era of sensation, or, better, originality, began with that year, and the eyes of all lovers of sports have been turned toward Chicago ever since.

IN TURF MATTERS

there have been more and greater remarkable events here than in any city in the world. Dexter, Goldsmith Maid, Rarus, Hopeful, St. Julien, Maud S., and Jay-eye-see all found their laurels in Chicago, and the list of great performances is large and varied.

In base ball affairs this city occupies the parental position, professional playing having been originated here. The Chicagos have always been at the top or close to it ever since the game has been a reality. Starting with the best amateur club in America, the old Excelsiors, and going from better to best in the way of professional play

ers, Chicago stands pre-eminent among all cities where the game is known. The sport has been fostered and upheld here to such an extent that there is no other city which

patronizes the games as does Chicago. In fact, the city is looked upon as the center from which emanate many of the decrees and other details of the sport.

Cricket also finds a foothold in Chicago, having two full-grown clubs in existence, one of those possessing two or three players on the international team.

IN BOATING MATTERS

This city has to labor under the disadvantage of rough water most of the time, and so in the years gone by the many clubs that have been formed have tossed along on the rough lake and but little success has been achieved. But to-day there are three or four good clubs. Two of these are equal to anything anywhere in point of strength and financial standing. The Farraguts head the The latter list, and the Pullmans are second. has done much to overcome the rough water by the construction of their course at Pull

man.

The bicycle is of such a recent invention that Chicago has hardly had time to win the first place in that matter. It was only a few years ago when the old velocipede was introduced in this city by the opening of a school in the old skating rink at the corner of Wabash avenue and Jackson street, where the Matteson House This now stands. was in 1867. The sport did not seem to take a strong position at that time. Later, when the bicycle came into existence, it proved an attractive sport, and it gradually grew, and to-day the riders are numbered by the hundreds in this city. Schools have been opened, and the traffic in this expensive sport has become a thing of wonder.

The billiard world has also found a Mecca in Chicago. Some of the greatest experts in the world first came to the surface in this city. The perfection in the manufacture of here, and the greatest tournaments find their implements of the game has been achieved field within Chicago's walls. Thus it is that this city has reached a very pinnacle, indeed, held in this country before, and which no in the world of sports, such as no city ever other city is ever liable to win. There have been established rolling-skating rinks which find patrons in the best ranks of society, and regular ice skating. the public parks afford ample scope for the

Chicago, with her two turf clubs and two professional base ball clubs, is fast becoming the home of champions. The bicycle_has several world beaters residing here. Base ball has a champion club here. Billiards will have one or more of the big stars in this city. Chicago stands

IN FRONT IN THE SPORTING WORLD

at least in two departments, namely, the turf and base ball. In all other matters of sport she has a place near the top, and is always looked upon as a prime factor in any gathering of sportsmen. The gun has no city in which there is a greater following than here in Chicago. There are more gun clubs and wealthier ones than in any other city. The best marksmen and trap shots are here, and the last convention showed a better average than any of those held in the East. in this Western metropolis, not only in business, but in sports, does the great energy and progress of Chicago manifest itself. It was here that many now world renowned names were first crowned with victory

Thus