PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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CEnETERY NOTES 
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Supt. Wm. Irvin, of Calvary Ceme- 
ter\’, Dayton, O., has resigned his posi- 
tion owing to ill health and advancing 
age. His successor has not yet been 
appointed. 
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W. N. Keifer has been appointed 
superintendent of the Ardsley Burial 
Park at Glenside, Pa. The cemeter}' 
was opened last November and con- 
tains ninety-eight acres. 
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“In Alemory of Jeptha H. Wade,” 
is the title of a beautiful memorial 
Ixtoklet describing the Wade Memorial 
Chapel in Lake View Cemetery, Cleve- 
land. O. The book is a unique speci- 
men of fine printing and illustrating, 
containing handsome photogravure pic- 
tures of different parts of the structure, 
drawings and a beautifully colored pic- 
ture of one of the windows. 
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A contractor who is engaged in dredg- 
ing the Miami and Erie canal between 
Middletown and Cincinnati, O., dumped 
several carloads of dirt into the Aman- 
da Cemetery at Amanda, O. The town- 
ship trustees promptly informed him 
that if he did not remove the dirt at 
once he would be prosecuted for dese- 
crating the cemetery. He moved the 
dirt at once. 
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The city council of Vienna, with the 
view of the municipal ownership of the 
undertaking business, has purchased for 
$500,000, the rights and privileges of 
two big companies, which practically 
control the burial business here. The 
municipality is already operating the 
gas and electric lighting, the electric 
street car and thb water services of the 
city, and also has established a big 
brewery. 
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At a meeting of the superintendents 
of the different cemeteries of San Fran- 
cisco and the bay' cities, held March 6, 
“The Pacific Coast Cemeteries Super- 
intendents’ Association” was organized. 
'I'he officers are ; J. W. Stobener. pres- 
ident; W. E. Carre, vice-president; H. 
P. Coleman, secretary and treasurer. 
meeting was also held March 25th, 
at the offices of the Home of Peace 
Cemetery, near Colma, San Mateo 
County. * 
Galvanized cast-iron marks for 
graves, lots and otlier requirements 
have been in use at “Spring Grove,” 
Cincinnati, O., and other cemeteries in 
the middle west for many years. They 
are made with removable lot and sec- 
tion numbers, wbich are easily inserted, 
and the markers quickly set in position. 
These markers are made b}' the Berger 
Manufacturing Company, 4227 Fergus 
street, Cincinnati, O., whose announce- 
ment appears in this issue. They are 
now filling an order for approximately 
five thousand marks for Allegheny 
Cemetery, Pittsburg. Pa., which is the 
third order of considerable size received 
from that cemetery. 
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In the basement of the principal 
church in Bremen, Germany, is a so- 
called “Bleikeller,” a store room orig- 
inally for the vast quantities of lead, 
used in enpasing the roofs and steeples 
of the great structure above. The 
vault has the propert}' of arresting de- 
composition and preserving animal mat- 
ter for an indefinite time. Ranged 
along the walls are open coffins, in 
which rest mummy-like corpses, the 
oldest having been 400 years, the most 
recent over 100 years in an undecayed 
condition. That the chainlier to this 
day has its mysterious qualities, is at- 
tested by the untainted state of the 
dead animals, that have been suspend- 
ed from the ceiling and in the corners 
at various, but modern times. 
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From the Annual Reports 
Cemetery Supervisor Feller, of 
Cleveland, O., in his report for 1906, 
says that the city cemeteries have net- 
ted a profit for the year of $2,899. 
There were 1,906 interments in Wood- 
land, and most of the bodies, in the 
old Erie Street Cemetery have been 
transferred to Highland Park. There 
are no more lots for sale in the iMonroe 
Street Cemetery. Harvard Grove has 
netted the largest profit in its history, 
and West Park Cemetery, too, is be- 
ginning to earn a profit. The work of 
laying out and improving Highland 
Park, the new cemetery at Warrens- 
ville, is progressing rapidly. 
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The annual report of Superintendent 
A. ’K. McMahon, of the Island Ceme- 
tery Corporation, Newport, R. I., re- 
ports that the avenues have suffered 
more than usual from washouts. Much 
work has been done in the way of re- 
grading and seeding lots, and lot own- 
ers are reported to be taking more in- 
terest than ever in the condition of 
the cemetery. The superintendent rec- 
ommends several changes in the layout 
of the grounds to provide more small 
lots. Mr. McMahon has been superin- 
tendent for twenty-three years. The 
total expemliturc for the year was 
$8,624. 
The Lakewood Cemetery Annual, an 
eight page publication issued each year 
by Lakewood Cemetery, Lake City, 
Mum., contains besides the annual re- 
ports of officers an account of the an- 
nual flower day celebration and a list 
of lot owners whose lots are under 
perpetual care. It contains also a plan 
of the grounds, many interesting hints 
and information for lot owners and an 
illustration of the National Cemetei-y 
at Gettysburg from a recent issue of 
Park and Cemetery. The total ex- 
penditures for the year were $1,917. 
The park and cemetery commission- 
ers of Saginaw, Mich., have issued 
their first annual report covering the 
year 1905. It gives rules, regulations 
and prices governing Brady Hill, For- 
est Lawn and Oakwood Cemeteries, 
and much historical and miscellaneous 
information about these tracts. These 
three cemeteries came into the control 
of the commissioners by an act of the 
Legislature in 1905. The book is 
handsomely illustrated and gives a brief 
history of each of the cemeteries tell- 
ing of the cost of the land an the other 
e.xpenditures. The book is also sup- 
plemented with some legal notes on 
cemetery matters taken from proceed- 
ing of the Association of Cemetery 
Suprintendents and from Park and 
Cemetery and also an article on “Mon- 
uments and the Lawn Plan Cemetery," 
reprinted (without credit) from Park 
.\N ii Cemetery. 
Auditor Paige, of Lowell, Mass., re- 
cently made a report of the receipts 
and expenditures of the city cemetery 
department from the year 1810 down 
to the present date. The total expend- 
itures since 1810 amounted to $2.'il!,008, 
and the receipts to $127,184. The per- 
petual care fund was established in 
1899 and now amounts to $49,875. The 
city owns the cemeteries in School 
street, the Old Cemetery in Gorham 
street and the Edson Cemetery. 
