PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW CEMETERIES, IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS 
Grand Lawn, a new Detroit ceme- 
tery, was dedicated September 30. It 
contains 300 acres on Grand River ave- 
nue, on the west bank of the river 
Rouge. C. M. Burton is president, Mer- 
ritt M. Wilmarth secretary and W. J. 
Stringer acting superintendent. City of- 
fice is at 18 McGraw building. 
The Knollwood Cemetery Co. has 
been incorporated at Cleveland, O., with 
a capitalization of $300,000 by E. A. 
Scherer, E. A. Williams, J. A. Smith, 
Attorney F. L. Taft, and Chas. E. Cole. 
The company has bought a 200 acre 
farm midway between Cleveland and 
Gates Mill. 
The cemetery board of Melrose, 
Mass., has provided $3,500 for the con- 
struction of a new receiving vault. 
Cedar Grove Cemetery, Flushing, L. 
L, has sold 75 acres of its territory to 
a Jewish syndicate which will open it as 
a separate cemetery to be known as 
Mount Hebron. 
Oakland Cemetery, Freeport, 111., has 
established a perpetual care fund to 
which 10 per cent, of all lot sales till 
1918 are to be devoted and thereafter 
20 per cent. It will be administered by 
a board of trustees. The association 
is planning to build a stone and cement 
waiting room. 
The Independence Cemetery Co., In- 
dependence, Mo., has been incorporated 
at $50,000 by Alfred Peterson, Ezra 
Downs and G. W. Hines. 
William Batson, the monument dealer 
of Big Rapids, Mich., will 'contribute 
the greater part of the cost of the new 
entrance gate for Highland View Ceme- 
tery. 
A flood recently did $2,000 worth of 
damage to the cemetery at Augusta, Ga., 
destroying the fence, which will have to 
be rebuilt. 
Green Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, N. 
C., has bought an addition which is 
soon to be plotted. Capt. J. W. Fry is 
chairman of the board of trustees. 
Members of the congregation of the 
■“Church of God” at Anderson, Ind., are 
to establish a four-acre cemetery on a 
tract of sixty acres owned by this sect. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Spokane, 
Wash., will erect a crematory to cost 
$20,000. The structure will be built 
by the Portland Crematory Association, 
Portland, Ore. It is expected to com- 
plete the structure early in 1909. 
The cemetery committee of Eau 
Claire, Wis., will purchase an addition 
of three acres to Forest Hill Cemetery. 
H. C. Putnam is chairman of the com- 
mittee. 
Evergreen Cemetery, Pontiac, Mich., 
has purchased an additional tract of ad- 
joining farm land. M. D. Davis is gen- 
eral manager. 
Oakwood Cemetery, Muskegon, Mich., 
has purchased an additional tract equal 
to about twenty-one city blocks for $29,- 
000 . 
The Whitewater Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Whitewater, Colo., has been in- 
corporated at $5,000 by W. C. Meserve 
and W. J. Silgell. 
A committee of the city council of 
Nelson, B. C., is investigating the con- 
dition of the city cemetery, and it may 
be necessary to install a new water 
main. Aldermen Stead and Kerr, and 
City Engineer George Johnstone are on 
the committee. 
The Deer Park Cemetery Association, 
Ottawa, 111., has been incorporated by 
J. J. Horning, Wallace Libbey and D. 
M. Dibell. 
Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, 
Ala., will increase its capital stock from 
$100,000 to $150,000, as it is the inten- 
tion to purchase eighty acres of addi- 
tional territory. A half mile of new 
macadam roads have just' been complet- 
ed in Elmwood. 
A fund was recently raised for the 
rehabilitation of St. Michael’s Ceme- 
tery, Pensacola, Fla., and the work has 
just been completed under the direction 
of J. F. Taylor. 
Extensive improvements have just 
been completed in Newton Cemetery, 
Newton, N. J., under the supervision 
of George A. Walker. 
Foster Cemetery, Fairview, I'll., has 
been incorporated by T. H. Travers, R. 
E. Gould and A. A. Gentle. 
Oak Ridge Cemetery Association, 
Catlin. 111., has been incorporated by 
Richard Clipson, Henry Lloyd and Glen 
S. Fleming. 
Evergreen Cemetery, Detroit, has 
purchased an addition known as the 
Sand Ridge Farm, a high rolling tract 
well adapted to cemetery uses. The 
property has a fine growth of natural 
oaks and lies near Palmer Park. A 
winding road over a mile long will be 
built through the tract from the Wood- 
ward avenue entrance, terminating at 
the seven-mile road, where an entrance 
of field stone will be built. Warren K. 
Nible is superintendent. 
Mt. Olivet Cemetery Association, Du- 
buque, la., is to erect a receiving vault 
and would like to hear 'from contrac- 
tors who build these structures. Pro- 
posals are wanted for marble, granite 
and cement blocks. C. W. Dwyer is 
superintendent. 
The Odd Fellows Cemetery, Berlin, 
Pa., has replaced its gravel walks with 
grass. The cemeterj' is laid out in 20- 
foot squares and has seven acres. Jacob 
J. Zorn, secretary, has been on the board 
of trustees for forty years. 
The Ringwood Cemetery Society, 
Ringwood, 111., has been incorporated 
by J. V. Buckland, J. C. Ladd, J. D. 
Smith. 
Lawnview Cemetery, one of three 
holdings of the Odd Fellows Cemetery 
Co., of Philadelphia, has been increased 
by the addition of eleven acres, bringing 
them within six blocks of Fox Chase, a 
suburb of Philadelphia. They have 
built a macadam drive through the new 
purchase, and now have seventy acres. 
They are now contemplating erecting a 
ccmbined vault and chapel. 
The Hamilton Avenue Cemetery, 
Norwich, Conn., has been transferred 
to the city and Superintendent C. W. 
Pearson of the Cemeteries Department 
is preparing to make extensive im- 
provements in the grounds. 
The Rosemount Cemetery Associ- 
ation of Brooklyn, N. Y., has made 
application for permission to estab- 
lish a cemetery on a 100-acre farm in 
Wollkoft Town, near Elmont, L. 1. 
It is meeting with much opposition 
from property owners and residents. 
The Cemetery Committee of Mar- 
lette, Mich., is Jooking for a new site 
for a city cemetery. C. V. R. Town- 
send of the Board of Public Works, 
is one of the committee. 
City Engineer L. A. Washington 
of Paducah, Ky., has prepared plans 
for a new city cemetery to be known 
as Oak Grove Addition. The expend- 
iture for land and improvements is 
estimated at $20,528. 
St. Ann’s Cemetery, Pittsfield, 
Mass., has just completed a new en- 
trance of blue dolomite in the form 
of a Gothic arch 22 feet high with 
smaller side arches for pedestrians. 
It was designed by John W. Donahue 
of Springfield, Mass. 
Forest Hill Cemetery, Eau Claire, 
Wis., is erecting a mortuary chapel 
as a gift of Mrs. H. C. Putnam. 
Willimantic Cemetery, Willimantic, 
Conn., will add an adjoining tract. 
Roseland Cemetery is a new 120- 
acre tract to be developed on the 
lawn plan by the Park Cemetery As- 
sociation at Little Rock, Ark. W. W. 
McLaughlin is president of the asso- 
ciation and W. H. Wilson, secretary. 
