PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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FROM THE ANNUAL REPORTS 
The annual report of the Evergreen Cemetery Association. 
Salem, N. Y., notes a trust fund for the perpetual care of 
lots of $ 13 , 899 . There were 33 monuments and markers set 
during the year and 58 interments made. The total number 
of interments is now 2 , 418 . 
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The Newton Cemetery Corporation, Newton Centre, Mass., 
has made quite a number of minor improvements during the 
year. An addition has been purchased and negotiations for 
another are in progress. Substantial repairs were made in 
the greenhouse, chapel, superintendent’s residence and the 
slope south of Crystal Lake has been graded and made ready 
for seeding. The perpetual care fund was increased by 
$6,821 and now amounts to $160,857. The cemetery has about 
forty-two acres of land not yet developed. 
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The fifty-third annual report of Pine Grove Cemetery, 
Ljmn, Mass., shows a year of unusual activity. A new en- 
trance gate is nearly completed and the perpetual care of lots 
is making gratifying progress, the fund now amounting to 
$165,241. The expenditures for the year were $33,857. The 
grading of additional land for new burial lots, the completion 
of the recently enlarged receiving tomb and the extension of 
the water system necessitated by the increased area of the 
grounds are among the contemplated undertakings for this 
year. 
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At the annual meeting of Swan Point Cemetery Corpora- 
tion, Providence, R. I., the cash receipts for the year were 
reported as $130,820. The superintendent recommends that 
the old lodge be torn down and that the greenhouses that 
have seen thirty years of service be renewed extensively or 
new ones built. The perpetual care and bequest fund now 
amounts to $387,773, and the permanent fund to $99,571. The 
total asset of the corporation are $460,176. The most notable 
bit of planting during the year was that around the new office 
building and about six thousand feet of grading was done 
along the bluff. The cemetery is getting out a new card cata- 
logue of interments. 
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The annual report of the Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, 
Mass., includes a very interesting history of the cemetery 
covering the entire twenty-five years of service of John M. 
Stevenson, clerk and treasurer. It tells in detail of the de- 
velopment of the cemetery and how the different problems of 
management were met throughout the changing features of 
modern cemetery development. During the last year the 
grounds about the chapel and north of the entrance were 
graded and trees and a hedge planted along the north side. 
Four new sections were laid out and a new plan of the 
grounds is being made. The expenditures for the year 
amounted to $31,225 and the number of interments was 170, 
making a total of 7,609. The perpetual care fund is now 
$15,568. J. G. McArthur is superintendent. 
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The annual report of Superintendent James Warren, Jr., 
of the North Burial Ground, Providence, R. I., gives the fol- 
lowing statistics of the year’s work: Interments during the 
year, 679, making a total of 31,042 since 1848, which was the 
first year that any record was kept; 193 foundations for 
headstones were built, and thirty-six lots graded and turfed ; 
number of lots under perpetual care, 1,457. Posts and rails 
were removed from six lots and curbings from three ; 16,000 
square feet of land was graded and seeded. The increase 
in the perpetual care fund for the year 1906 was $11,520, 
making a total to date of $203,794.16. Average number of 
men employed, 33. Expenditures of all kinds, $37,501.66. 
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The annual report of F. H. Rutherford, secretary of the 
board of managers of the Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, 
Out., tells of the improvement of two new sections contain- 
ing four and one-half acres, which has been graded, seeded 
and planted, but not yet placed on sale. All the board walks 
have been removed from the older portions of the cemetery, 
the roads widened and prepared for a dressing of cinders 
and gravel. The cemetery is divided into five sections -and a 
squad of men assigned to each section. The secretary sug- 
gests the encouragement of competition between the sections. 
The erection of a shelter and waiting room at the main en- 
trance is recommended ; 141 lots have been placed under per- 
petual care during the year. 
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The annual report of the trustees of Oakland Cemetery, 
St. Paul, Minn., gives a brief statement of work done and 
the financial statistics of the year. The net ordinary receipts 
for the year, not including the income of invested funds, 
was $29,027, and the total receipts amounted to $36,954. 
The perpetual care fund was increased more than four per 
cent during the year and now amounts to $123,866. A new 
entrance and concrete platform to the receiving tomb was 
constructed and considerable progress made in the improve- 
ment of Zion Cemetery, which is also controlled by the asso- 
ciation. A contract has been made for the purchase of ten 
acres of land adjoining Zion and Oakland cemeteries which 
will increase the area of Oakland to 100 acres. The total 
expenditure for the year was $25,787. 
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At the annual meeting of the Homewood Cemetery, Pitts- 
burg, Pa., the following statistics of the year were presented : 
Lots sold in 1906, $81,586.15, exceeding the sales of 1905 by 
$13,577.65; number of interments, 709; total interments, 15,- 
160. The cemetery planted 329 trees. 965 shrubs, seeded and 
graded 18 acres, repaired roads, lake, etc., at a cost of $13,- 
864.10. This, added to former improvements made, makes 
a total of $266,441.31. Foundations were built for 225 head 
markers, 33 monuments, 19 tombs, three sets steps and five 
mausoleums; cost of the work, $2,473.44. Improvements 
made by lot owners in 1906 amounted to $108,333.50 ; expend- 
itures for labor, $14,672.55. The improvement and mainte- 
nance fund amounts to $212,158.36, and cash balance Decem- 
ber 31, 1906, was $179,289.68. 
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The annual report of J. C. Cline, superintendent of Wood- 
land Cemetery, Dayton, O., shows considerable work of im- 
provement. There are 39,196 square feet of lots sold, of 
which 12,420 carried provisions for perpetual care, and de- 
posits were made for perpetual care on 28,772 square feet 
of old lots. There is now a total of eight and one-tenth 
acres under perpetual care. The interments for the year 
were 833, making a total of 7,554. Thirty-five foundations 
were built for monuments, and 5,464 feet of concrete curb 
and gutter work completed. This concrete gutter is expected 
to greatly reduce the future expense of road maintenance. 
A new roadway 875 feet long, begun last year, is now com- 
pleted. There were fifty-five new catch basins built and a 
considerable extension made to the sewer system. Mucli 
work has been done in grading in the northwestern part of 
the cemetery, which will make about four acres ■ accessible 
for burial lots. This tract will be seeded and plotted next 
season. 
