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IMPROVEMENTS and ADDITIONS 
Spring Hill Cemetery, Danville, III, 
has added an acre and a half of ground 
at the entrance and parked it to make 
a finer approach to the cemetery. The 
cost of the work was $4,000. They 
have also added four acres to the 
grounds proper, and have made exten- 
sive improvements in the drives and 
built 1,600 feet of iron fence the past 
\-ear. Spring Hill is a 6.5-acre tract with 
a fine natural growth of maples and 
oaks, and two artificial lakes. Sunday 
funerals are not allowed. 
IMount Olivet Cemetery Company, of 
Fort Worth, Tex., has been incorporated 
at $100,000 by D. B. Paddock, H. F. 
Spellman and others. 
The Swedish Cemetery Corporation, 
Worcester, Mass., will erect a new fence. 
East View Cemetery, Salem, N. J., is 
being enlarged several acres. 
The Mount Itloriah Cemetery Com- 
pany, Philadelphia, has bought an addi- 
tional tract of 13 acres at $9,000 an 
acre. 
The Congregation of Israel, Chester, 
Pa., has dedicated a new cemetery about 
a mile from that city. 
The Brotherhood Cemetery, Mount 
Holly, N. J., will e.xpend about $400 
in erecting a new iron fence. John 
Throckmorton is se.xtun. 
The Highland Cemetery Company, 
Pittsburg, Pa., has bought 108 acres of 
land for $500,000. 
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky., 
has asked for bids on the erection of a 
brick or stone wall 2,000 feet long and 
ten feet high about a part of the 
grounds. The work is estimated to cost 
about $20,000. 
Cedar Bluff Cemeterr-, Rockford, 111., 
has added seven acres of ground, which 
is soon to be improved. The lawn plan 
is being gradually introduced in the 
grounds and much improvement has 
been the result. 
Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridge- 
port, Conn., is planning to erect a chapel, 
entrance, and office building at a cost of 
$50,000. Definite plans, have not been 
made. Frank J. Naramore is secre- 
tary. 
North Cemetery, Oxford, Mass., is 
asking for bids on the extension of the 
water works system. 
Mantel Fielding, architect, of Phila- 
delphia, is making plans for a well- 
house to be erected at a cost of $2,000 
in Riverside Cemetery, Oswego, N. Y., 
as a gift of the A. S. Page estate. 
St. Joseph’s Church, Oil City, Pa., 
will buy 30 acres for a new cemetery. 
The American Securities Company 
has bought 55 acres near Montgomery, 
Ala., for $35,000. It is planned to es- 
tablish a colored cemetery there. 
Bennington Union Lawn Park Ceme- 
tery, a new tract of 80 acres, has just 
been opened at Bennington, Vt. Garnet 
D. Baltimore, landscape architect, of 
Troy, N. Y., is laying out the grounds, 
and E. Estabrook, the monument dealer, 
is superintendent. 
The Charles Betcher Memorial Chapel 
has just been completed in Oakwood 
Cemetery, Red Wing, Minn., as a gift 
of Mrs. Margaret Betcher. It is a hand- 
some structure of Gothic architecture, 
and was recently dedicated with inter- 
esting exercises. 
The Oaks Woods Cemetery, Chicago, 
is making an especial effort to have the 
corners of all lots marked with Portland 
stone corner posts, which the association 
is offering in a recent printed announce- 
ment to its lot holders to furnish at 
$2.50 each. 
FROM ANNUAL REPORTS 
The annual report of Mt. Prospect 
Cemetery, Bridgewater, Mass., notes 
a great improvement in the condition 
of the grounds under Superintendent 
John J. Glenn. A new section has 
been terraced and graded and two 
acres of land adjoining purchased for 
an extension. Superfluous and de- 
cayed trees throughout the cemetery 
The New England Cemetery Associa-' 
tion met in Portland, Me., June 12, and 
spent the day under the guidance of 
Supt. Frank M. Floyd, of Evergreen 
Cemetery. This is the first meeting of 
the association in that city since the sad 
accident which befell Mr. Floyd last 
year and he gave his guests a cordial 
welcome and a good time. Most of die 
party went by steamer from Boston. A 
more complete report will be given next 
month. 
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A recent communication from the 
Minnesota state board of health, noted 
in this department last month, led us to 
infer that the law requiring public rec- 
ord to be kept of all interments was a 
recent one, but it seems to be only the 
activity in enforcing it that is recent. 
Mr. F. D. Willis, secretary of Oakland 
Cemetery, St. Paul, corrects us so grace- 
fully that we print the following from 
his letter. The law was passed in 1860 
h;n-e been removed and the other trees 
have been trimmed. The financial 
statement shows that the receipts for 
the year have been $3,081.20, and the 
e.xpenditures $1,689.07. 
At the annual meeting of the Har- 
mony Grove Cemetery Association, 
Salem, Mass., reports of officers 
showed that the trust funds have in- 
creased by $5,830. The principal of 
the trust funds is now $146,389.11. 
The receipts available for corpora- 
tion purposes were $15,851; the ex- 
penses, $14,072.. Although the ex- 
pense has been considerable, the fight 
against the brown tail moths has been 
prosecuted steadily and, as the ap- 
pearance of the large number of trees 
in the extensive acreage of the ceme- 
tery shows, sucessfully. Superintend- 
ent George W. Creesy’s report shows 
six monuments and 165 headstones 
and markers erected, 147 interments, 
four iron fences removed, and 24 old 
and four new lots endowed. 
The annual report of the Erie 
Cemetery, Erie, Pa., notes that a new 
section has been laid out, graded, and 
divided into lots, and the construc- 
tion of the new macadamized road- 
way, with the sewer, cement gutters, 
and sidewalks, has proved a great 
convenience. The superintendent, 
Mrs. E. E. Hay, and her assistsant. 
Miss Eaton, are commended for effi- 
cient and faithful service. 
and Mr. Willis says: “Perhaps com- 
pared with the record of the burial of 
Sarah by Abraham this law may be con- 
sidered recent; compared with the life 
of our state it is not quite so juvenile 
and frisky — in fact, it is so hoary-headed 
that it seems that some of our rural 
friends thought it not worth while to 
give any heed to it, hence the activity 
of our board of health. The paragraph 
as it appeared in Park and Cemetery 
might lead to the impression elsewhere 
that Minnesota is just beginning to 
emerge from primitive conditions. As 
we take the matter in that magazine for 
gospel truth, it is always well to make 
it so when an error slips in. . Oakland 
is not planning any large things this 
season — rather a general improvement 
all over. A dressing up of the bald 
spots, removal of eyesores, etc. Receipts 
being about the same as last year (very 
good) give us the wherewith to im- 
prove." 
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