PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW CEMETERIES, IMPROVEMENTS AND EXTENSIONS 
The I. O. O. F. Cemetery, Bluf¥ton, 
Ind., has added a new section and plot- 
ted it for lot sales. 
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N. 
Y., has adopted plans for a new chapel 
to be erected at the south entrance. J. 
Foster Warner is the architect and -will 
supervise the erection of the structure. 
Bids for the, work are soon to be asked. 
L. H. Yeager has bought Highland 
Cemetery, Allentown, Pa., from Rev. 
Henry Wentz. It contains thirteen 
acres. 
St. Jerome’s Catholic Church of Char- 
leroi, Pa., has bought the Yohe estate 
of 20 acres and will convert it into a 
cemetery. 
Woodsfield, O., has an option on a 
tract of 20 acres to be used as a ceme- 
tery. It is in charge of F. Buckio, a 
real estate agent. 
The old City Cemetery of Nashville, 
Tenn., is to be resurveyed and im- 
proved. Maj. E. C. Lewis has prepared 
designs for a new gateway. 
The I. O. O. F. Cemetery, Hartford 
City, Ind., has added ten acres. 
The Meriden Cemetery Association, 
Meriden, Conn., is to set aside $50,000 
as a permanent fund for the mainte- 
nance of Walnut Grove Cemetery. 
The Maywood Cemetery Association, 
Waterloo, la., will purchase a' tract 
of 40 acres overlooking the river and 
plot it for a cemetery. 
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, 
Ohio, will erect a stone wall along the 
Winton road side of the grounds. It 
will be seven feet high, 3,000 feet long 
and will cost $20,000. 
The Park Cemetery Co., Little Rock, 
Ark., has been incorporated at $50,- 
00 by Rev. Ben Cox and others. 
The Warrenville Cemetery Associa- 
tion of Warrenville, III, had been in- 
corporated by William J. Manning and 
others. 
The Guymon Cemetery Association 
of Guymon, Okla., has been incorpo- 
rated by E. C. Langston, A. J. Warren 
and others. 
Five thousand dollars has been pre- 
sented to the Kenosha Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, Kenosha, Wis., toward a per- 
manent care fund. 
Beaver Cemetery, Beaver, Pa., has 
recently provided that fifteen per cent 
of all sales be set aside for a perpet- 
ual care fund. 
The Jansen Cemetery Association 
has been incorporated at Jansen, Col., 
by Miguel Leyba and R. M. Romera. 
Oakland Cemetery, Warren, Pa., has 
let the contract to George Ott for the 
construction of a new chapel of Gothic 
architecture to be built of pressed 
brick and Warsaw sandstone from de- 
signs by Architect Gruninger. 
Hillside Cemetery, Whitewater, Wis., 
has added eleven acres and employed a 
landscape architect to plot it. 
Pioneers of Los Angeles have asked 
the city council to appropriate $3,000 to 
improve the old Protestant Cemetery on 
Fort Hill. 
The Harmony Cemetery, Harmony, 
Wash., has been incorporated by E. A. 
Dunn and others. 
A cemetery association has been or- 
ganized at Hannibal, Mo., with George 
Lake as secretary. 
Mount Olivet, the new 93-acre Cath- 
olic cemetery of Milwaukee, was re- 
cently dedicated. It is on Western ave- 
nue, two miles south of Forest Home 
avenue. Rev. Father Decker is in 
charge. 
Superintendent Charles E. Richard- 
son, Riverview Cemetery, Richmond, 
Va., is making extensive improvements, 
including additions to the administra- 
tion building. 
St. Ann’s Cemetery, Cranston, R. L, 
has added 100,000 square feet and will 
surround it with an iron fence. 
The Park and Tree Commission of 
Atlanta, Ga., has approved the plans 
for the new Bonaventure Cemetery, 
which is large enough for 25,000 in- 
terments. 
Bay View Cemetery, Bellingham, 
Wash., is to clear and improve a recent 
addition of 22 acres. 
A new iron fence has been built 
around Glenwood Cemetery, Oneida, 
N. Y. 
Melrose Cemetery, Melrose, Mass., is 
to improve a bog into a handsome arti- 
ficial lake with appropriate planting. 
A bill was introduced in the United 
States Senate by Mr. Foraker to au- 
thorize the Secretary of War to ac- 
cept from the National Woman’s Re- 
lief Corps the proposed gift of An- 
dersonville f Georgia) National Park. 
The tract includes the famous prison, 
and its eighty-eight acres of land is 
contiguous to Andersonville National 
Cemetery. 
A large tract of adjoining land has 
been added to Oak Grove Cemetery, 
Bath, Me. 
The Grace Cemetery Association, Cas- 
tile, N. Y., has bought adjoining land. 
The Hansboro Cemetery Association, 
Hansboro, N. D., has been incorporated 
by O. L. Lunde, A. R. Crum and others. 
Elkhorn Cemetery, Elkhorn, Wis., has 
added 26 acres. 
Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Ga., has 
added twenty acres and Civil Engineer 
H. D. Cutler is surveying the tract. 
Forest Home Cemetery, Marinette. 
Wis., will buy ten acres of adjoining 
land. 
Drivewa)^s have been made in the new 
addition to Rose Hill Cemeter 3 % Eaton 
Rapids, Mich., and other improvements 
are to follow. 
Woodlawn Cemetery Association, Los 
Angeles, Cal., has been incorporated at 
$25,000. 
Hazelwood Cemetery, Springfield, Mo., 
will build a new fence and improve the 
driveways with a fund of $1,200. E. H. 
Scholten is chairman of the City Coun- 
cil Cemetery Committee, 
Plans have been prepared for a 
bronze memorial fountain to be erect- 
ed in Mount Hope Cemetery, San 
Diego, Cal., at a cost of $4,860 as a 
gift of the L. A. Port estate. 
The town of Baggs, Wyo.. is mak- 
ing arrangements to buy the local 
government cemetery for town use. 
The Kenosha Cemetery Association. 
Kenosha. Wis., is preparing to pur- 
chase a large tract for a new ceme- 
tery. 
The Kane Cemetery Association, of 
Kane. III., has been incorporated by 
Joseph Dressel, John W. Huitt and 
others. 
Roseland Park Cemetery Association, 
of Detroit, is planning to begin the 
operation of a modern cemetery on a 
large scale. The cotnpany has pur- 
chased 140 acres on Woodward avenue 
and Twelve mile road and expect sub- 
sequent purchases to bring the ;irea up 
to 300 acres. The association has a 
capital stock of $300,000. di\'idcd into 
shares of $10 cacli. A funeral car, 
chapel, permanent interment vaults, 
greenhouse and nursery, crematory, 
and a permanent care fund of ten per 
cent of the receipts arc features adver- 
tised. ft is the intention to expend 
$200,000 in tlie next few >ear';. 'I'he 
company recently gave an extended de- 
scrijjtion of these featuri's in a pros- 
pectus occu|)ying a half page of the 
Detroit News. Philip Breitmeyer. Park 
Commissioner, is president of the asso- 
ciation, and John Western, secretary. 
City offices are in tlie Tolsma building. 
