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NEW CEMETERIES, IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS 
Gas City, Kan., has decided to buy 
the cemetery of the Allen County Cem- 
etery Association near that city. 
Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Mass., will 
hereafter charge $3 for the use of the 
chapel, which was formerly free. 
The Tennessee Woman’s Historical 
Association has undertaken the im- 
provement of the old City Cemetery in 
Nashville. Mrs. James Woods, Jr., is 
one of the leaders of the work. 
The town of Newport, N. H., has 
purchased eleven acres for a site for a 
new cemetery. 
Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, O., 
has begun the construction of a new 
shelter house, and is planning to erect 
a chapel to cost $5,000. 
A new concrete receiving vault has 
been constructed at Waterman Ceme- 
tery, Sutherland, la. It is 20 feet 
square and was designed by P. P. Co- 
moli, of Sioux City. 
Holy Cross Cemetery, a new Cath- 
olic ground at Lisbon and Fond du Lac 
avenues, Milwaukee, will be opened in 
May. It includes 117 acres. 
Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga., un- 
der its new superintendent, Sid Boynton, 
lias inaugurated the reform of allowing 
only cemetery employes or lot owners to 
work on the grounds. 
Four acres have been added to Cal- 
vary Cemetery, Greenfield, Mass. 
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind., has 
added five acres of adjoining land. 
LAKE AND THREE ISLANDS, ST. STEPHEN’S CEMETERY, HAMILTON, O. 
An interesting feature of St. Stephen’s 
Cemetery, Hamilton, O., is an artificial 
lake with three islands in it, and the 
accompanying illustration gives a view 
of the lake, with Superintendent Jos. H. 
IMarr on one of the islands. 
The upper island is in the shape of 
an anchor ; the center, circular, sur- 
mounted by a cross, on which is a re- 
volving spray throwing out water fifty 
feet across, and the lower one, in the 
shape of a heart, representing the three 
“Cardinal Virtues.” It is supplied by 
city water. The lake is well stocked 
tCth seven kinds of fish. Eight-inch 
pipes run through the banks to take care 
of the surface water in early spring. 
Oakland Cemetery Association, War- 
ren, Pa., has built a six-foot concrete 
walk at the main entrance and is also 
laying out a new section, building a new 
road and laying 350 feet of 18-inch 
sewer pipe. The cemetery contaiits 
about eighty acres, and is situated across 
the river from Wairen on a site that 
gives a beautiful view of Warren and 
surrounding country. 
It is conducted by the Odd Fellows 
and has about 3,500 interments, with a 
yearly average of 120. The Perpetual 
Care Fund is raised by charging a cer- 
tain amount per foot, figuring interest 
at 4 per cent and fifty cents per 100 
superficial feet. All funds from lot 
sales go to the improvement of the 
grounds. 
Geo. W. Deming is president of the 
association ; Guy C. Swanson, secretary ; 
A. Hertzel, superintendent, and J. K. 
Simpson, the other member of the board 
of trustees. Peter Olson has been sex- 
ton since 1896. 
FROM ANNUAL REPORTS 
In the seventy-si. xth annual report of 
the proprietors of Mt. Auburn Ceme- 
tery, Cambridge, Mass., President Pren- 
tiss Cummings noted that the sale of 
lots during the year netted $11,362, and 
the repair fund, which is the trust fund 
to secure perpetual care contracts, had 
increased $47,816 and now amounts to 
$1,503,638. The permanent fund now 
amounts to $518,599, and the general 
fund is $236,148, having decreased dur- 
ing the year $3,744, which has been due 
to new construction and reconstruction. 
A small house adapted to the care of 
half-hardy plants like the cactus has 
been erected and a portion of the re- 
ceiving tomb has been reconstructed to 
meet modern methods. 
The report of the Board of Cemetery 
Commissioners of Burlington, Vt., for 
1907 shows the following receipts and 
ENTRANCE TO OAKLAND CEMETERY, WARREN, PA. 
