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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
IMPROVEMENTS and EXTENSIONS 
Fairview Cemetery, Catasauqua, Pa., 
has purchased an additional tract of 
about six acres. 
The Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Newark, N. J., has added a plat 
100 x 400 feet. 
The New Crown Cemetery Co., of In- 
dianapolis, Ind., has increased its capi- 
tal stock from $10,000 to $20,000. 
The city of Savannah, Ga.. is to buy 
the historic Bonaventure Cemetery 
from the Evergreen Cemetery Co. for 
$23,500. Laurel Grove, the city ceme- 
tery, has but two or three acres of 
unused ground, and it is the intention 
to provide for future interments in the 
other cemetery. 
The Beuiia Vista Cemetery Associa- 
tion has bought two tracts of land ag- 
gregating a hundred and sixty acres 
just north of New Albany, Ind., and is 
to lay out the grounds as a modern 
lawn plan cemetery. The company is 
said to be backed by Louisville capi- 
talists. 
The Avoca Cemeterj^ Association, 
Avoca, N. Y., will issue bonds for the 
sum of $800 to make improvements in 
the grounds and to meet the expense of 
additonal land recently purchased. 
The Right Rev. M. J. Hoban is to 
erect a new chapel in Cathedral Ceme- 
tery, Scranton, Pa., in memory of his 
parents, and the contract has been let 
to the Carlucci Stone Co. It is to be 
of granite and limestone and will have 
a seating capacity of about two hun- 
dred. A receiving vault in connection 
will have thirty-six catacombs. 
The city engineer of Richmond, Va., 
has been requested to plot and lay out 
in sections the unused portion of Riv- 
erview Cemetery which is soon to be 
opened for interment. 
The city council of Atlanta, Ga., has 
voted an appropriation of $2,000 and 
has instructed the cemetery committee 
to receive bids from landscape engi- 
neers for making thorough and com- 
prehensive improvements in Oakland 
Cemetery. 
The following bill allowing cemeter- 
ies in Connecticut to establish trust 
funds and perpetual care funds was re- 
cently passed by the legislature of that 
state : 
Section i. — Any cemetery associa- 
tion, duly organized as provided by 
law, may, by vote of the directors of 
such association, create and set aside, 
from the surplus funds of such asso- 
ciation, a sum not exceeding two hun- 
dred thousand dollars as a perpetual 
fund the income from which shall be 
expended for the management, care. 
and maintenance of the ' cemetery 
owned or controlled by such associa- 
tion, and for no other purpose; and 
said fund may, in like manner, be in- 
creased from time to time; provided, 
that the amount of the principal of 
said fund shall at no time exceed two 
hundred thousand dollars. 
Section 2. — Said fund shall be under 
the control, management and supervi- 
sion of the directors of the association 
and shall be invested in accordance 
with the provisions of the statutes con- 
cerning the investment of trust funds; 
and said directors shall annually ren- 
der a statement, under oath, of the in- 
vestment and condition of said fund, 
to the probate court for the district 
within which the cemetery owned or 
controlled by the association is situ- 
ated. 
The Middlebury Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Akron, O., has received a bequest 
of $25,000 from the late James Viall. 
The directors of the Mt. Vernon 
Cemetery Association, Abington, Mass., 
are considering the erection of a new 
receiving tomb. 
The Burns Hill Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Waynesboro, Pa., will make ex- 
tensive improvements, including the 
rebuilding of fences and repairing of 
drives and walks. 
The Laurel Parlor of the Native 
Daughters of Nevada City, Calif., are 
making preparations to improve the 
old cemetery on Broad street. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Knoxville, 
Tenn., is to erect a new stone gateway 
artd chapel from designs now being 
prepared by Barber, Klutts ■& Graf, 
architects. A sundial will also be erect- 
ed in the center of the cemetery. 
Riverside Cemetery, Moline, 111 ., has. 
let the contract for the erection of four 
massive Bedford stone pillars at the 
entrance. 
Highland Cemetery, Wichita, Kan., is 
raising a fund for the erection of a 
waiting pavilion. 
The Calvary Cemetery Association, 
of Middletown, O., has been incorpo- 
rated by F. G. Litsch and others. 
The North Burial Ground, Provi- 
dence, R. L, is to erect a mortuary 
chapel near the entrance of the cem- 
etery. A sub-committee composed of 
C. A. Barbour and John S. Ingraham, 
was appointed to secure bids from con- 
tractors and estimates for the structure. 
The Ladies Evergreen Cemetery As- 
sociation, of Superior, Neb., is making 
plans to erect a shelter house in their 
cemetery, to cost from $500 to $800, 
and would like to have illustrations or 
plans of small shelter houses that have 
been erected by cemetery associations. 
Mrs. H. C. Johnston, secretary of the 
association, is in charge of the work 
and would like to hear from associa- 
tions who have built such houses. Park 
AND Cemetery would also be glad to 
publish illustrations and plans. 
From the Annual Reports 
The annual meeting of the lot own- 
ers of the Franklin Cemetery Compa- 
ny, Franklin, Pa., and report of Super- 
intendent Cyrus D. Phipps showed a 
total of 134 interments for the year end- 
ing March 31st. About one-fourth of 
the interments were from localities out- 
side of Franklin. Other reports 
showed a very satisfactory financial 
condition, the assets including $8,700 
in bonds and over $1,000 in cash. 
The annual financial statement of 
Secretary W. S. Pirie, of Forest Home 
Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis., shows to- 
tal receipts of $ 147,136 and expendi- 
tures of $120,879. The reserve fund 
was increased by $16,482 during the 
year and now amounts to $225,149. 
The fund for the perpetual care of lots 
now amounts to $86,893, an increase of 
$13,950 during the year. Securities on 
hand amounted to $314,300 and cash 
on hand to $26,250. There were 842 
interments during the year and 73 cre- 
mations. 
The Marion Cemetery Association, 
Marion, O., at its annual meeting April 
8th reported $49,083 in the endowment 
and reserve funds and in the funds for 
expenditures $10,272, making total as- 
sets of $59,355. The total receipts for 
the year amounted to $9,607, an excess 
of $3,083 over the expenditures. 
At the fifty-ninth annual meeting of 
the Utica Cemetery Association, Utica, 
N. Y., the following statistics of the 
year’s work were presented in the re- 
ports of officers: Total receipts for 
the year, $25,533; operating expenses, 
$19,446; expenditure for improvements, 
$2,838; total receipts from the trust 
fund amounted to $23,372, and the to- 
tal of these funds is $135,796. There 
were 517 interments during the year, 
making a total of 16,488. 
The annual report of the commis- 
sioners of the North Burial Ground, 
Providence, R. L, showed ■ an addi- 
tion to the perpetual care fund of 
$io,8go. The main entrance to the 
grounds will be enlarged this year at 
an expenditure of $1,0000. A triangular 
plot south of the large lake has been 
improved and a lily pond sixty feet in 
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