The Sun Newspaper 1907
Acreage for Cemetery Project
Splendid Site Secured at the Corner of Waterman and Highland Avenues to be Made Show Place of City.
When the plans which have been outlined by the Mountain View Cemetery Association which was orgaized at the office of Attorney F.A. Leonard last night shall have been worked out. San Bernardino wil be able to boast one of the most beautiful burying grounds to be found in all the West.
For by situation facing the towering mountains to north and east itcan hardly be rivalled and the plan of the organization is such that it is to be endowed with a magnificent fund that will guarantee its perfect care perpetually.
The association whose articles of incorporation will be filed perhaps today at most within a day or two has been incubationg for several months. Following the excitement more than a year ago when the cemetery question was at fervent heat all of which excitement, however, resulted in no cemetery. Men who had been either directly interested in those plans or who had felt the keen need of a new and well kept cemetery, conferred together with a view to finding a site that would be acceptable and sutable for the purpose and which at the same time would arouse the least oppostion. For it is well understood that there is a certain to be opposition to a cemetery wherever it may be located.
LOCATION AND PLANS
They finally determined that one of the corners at Highland and Waterman avenues would be the best available location and set aobut quietly to buy one of them. Prcies were asked for on different tracts of land with the result that representatives of the association have obtained 35 acres at the northeast corner of Highland and Waterman avenues, which will at once be laid out under direction of the most skillful advice that is available, and the incorporators are confindent. That the result will be a beautifully laid out and faultlessly kept park, which will be a comfort to those whose friends sleep the last sleep beneath its grassy beds while such embillishments aer planned as weill make it a pride to the city both immediatelyand for all time to come. For when all of the land in the cemetery has been sold, there will be set apart an endownment fund of more then $100,000, the principal of which shall be inviolable for any purposes and the interest is to be wholly devoted to the care of the grounds,perpetually.
THE ENDOWMENT FEATURE
The endowment system has come to be recognized as the only one which provides for the future care of cemeteries, and is being univerally adopted, where new burrying grounds are laid out in the larger cities. A fixed proportion of the proceeds of the sale of every lot,from the first is set apart to this endowment fund. The remainder going to the owners and out of thrier proportion they maintain the cemetery until the endowment begins to produce sufficient interest.
It is this plan which the local association has adopted. It is practically the same one which was outlined to the Masoic Building association ore than a year ago and which it would have used had it embarked on the enterprise.
NAME CHOSEN
The name Mountain View was selected as being especially suitable for the location which the association controls and the putting of the tract in condition will be begun immediately. The corner 19 aceres will be first improved although the whole 35 acres will be platted so that the plan will be uniform for the entire tract when opened up.
The corporation is capitalized for $50,000 and the directors chosen for the first year include,A.M. Ham,N.Glasgow,R.C. Harrison,John W. Barton,Grant McIntyre,W.H. Swan and Gay I. Frazer of Highland. Other stockholders include H.E. Harris,Col.R.M. Baker,W.E. Leonard and F. A. Leonard.
IMPROVEMENT FEATURES
The entrance will be directly at the corner fo Highland and Waterman avenues, which is just three blocks from Arrowhead trolley line,where it leaves Highland avenue at H. Street and as the business of the cemetery grows and more people frequent it and extension will be put down. Highland avenue to the entrance.
The association will develop it's own water system and purposes to have it in such abundance that lawns may be kept in perfcet condition while the purpose is to perserve an absolute level on the grounds so that a power lawn mower may be utilized. A number of those details have already been determined upon and the incorportors therefore have some fundation for their faith that they will (sp)raise Mountain View a cemetery of which the city willnot be ashamed.
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