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main entrance and use the building 
there for the superintendent’s resi- 
dence. 
The National Mausoleum Co., of 
Shelby, O., have contracted to erect 
in Woodlawn Cemetery, El3fria, O., 
a huge mausoleum for permanent in- 
terment to contain over 300 crypts. 
It will be of concrete exterior and 
marble interior. B. F. Seibert, the 
architect of the National Mausoleum 
Co., recently visited Springfield, 111., 
to make studies for the erection of 
another of these structures to contain 
1,008 crypts, and to cost $60,000. It 
will be of Bedford stone and granite 
exterior and marble interior. This 
company also has the contract for 
one of these mausoleums to be 
erected from concrete blocks in Fern- 
hill Cemetery, Aberdeen, Wash. It 
will be of marble interior, with 240 
catacombs, and will cost $30,000. The 
Columbus Woodlawn Mausoleum So- 
ciety, of Columbus, O., has plans 
prepared by Architects Mills & Pruitt, 
for a similar structure to cost $75,- 
000, and contain 740 crypts. It will 
be of concrete exterior with terra 
cotta interior. The contract for its 
erection has been let to W. J. 
Spears, of Toledo, O. 
Preparations are being made for 
the improvement of the new 40-acre 
addition to Mount Hope Cemetery, 
Rochester, N. Y. One of the im- 
provements under consideration is 
the erection of a new chapel to cost 
$65,000 at the southern entrance. It 
has been proposed that when the 
new chapel is built the old one be 
remodeled as a crematory. Mount 
Hope embraces 250 acres and has a 
total of 71,000 interments, with a 
present average of 1,600 a year. 
The Providence Cemetery Associa- 
tion has been incorporated at Carroll- 
ton, 111., by A. J. Johnson, C. W. 
McPherson and George K. Ashlock. 
Superintendent George Gossard, of 
Washington Court House, O., has 
completed some extensive improve- 
ments in his ground's. The lake has 
been cleaned, the service buildings re- 
arranged and one of them moved to 
permit the use of all available space, 
waste ground reclaimed, and the 
superintendent’s residence remodeled 
and overhauled. 
Louis Mohr, superintendent 'of 
Mound Cemetery, Racine, Wis., has 
recommended to the city council the 
enlargement of the grounds and the 
reconstruction of a bridge. There 
are now 13,000 interments. 
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Roches- 
ter, N. Y., has bought twenty-four 
acres of land in Greece township for 
cemetery purposes. 
Oakwood Cemetery, Sharon, Pa., 
has recently completed a handsome 
entrance gate consisting of massive 
stone posts, and iron gates. The 
granite work was done by William 
McIntyre & Sons, of Sharon, and the 
iron work by the Van Dorn Iron 
Works Co., of Cleveland, O. The 
work cost $2,500. W. A. Addicott is 
superintendent. 
Greenwood, a new cemetery at 
Montgomery, Ala., owned by the 
American Securities Co., has a solici- 
tor canvassing personally for lot 
sales. 
Superintendent William Kuhnle, of 
Riverside Cemetery, Marinette, Wis., 
completed a new system of water 
piping, and placed new lot markers 
throughout the grounds. Several 
new driveways have been laid, and 
improvement of a new addition will 
begin in the spring. 
Contracts have been let for an im- 
posing new administration building 
at Forest Home Cemetery, Milwau- 
kee, to cost $30,000, which it is ex- 
pected will be completed in the 
spring. It will be 64x49 feet, of 
brown stone laid in random range, 
with red tile roof, and will have every 
modern comfort for patrons. Alex- 
ander C. Fschweiler is the architect. 
Forest Lawn, the new City Ceme- 
tery of Norfolk, Va., is being devel- 
oped on landscape plans by George 
H. Brown, landscape gardener of 
public grounds at Washington, and 
under the direct supervision of As- 
sistant City Engineer W. T. Taylor. 
A new shelter house and rest 
room is being erected at Oakwood 
Cemetery, Adrian, Mich., by Super- 
intendent F. E. Willbee. 
The Misso^iri Cemetery Improve- 
ment Association has increased its 
capital stock from $10,000 to $50,000, 
and moved its headquarters from 
Hopkins, Mo., to St. Joseph, Mo. 
Edward Past, superintendent of the 
National Cemetery at Jefferson Bar- 
racks, near St. Louis, Mo., has com- 
pleted the placing of 941 marble head- 
stones furnished by the government. 
S. S. Snell, of Lowville, N. Y., is 
laying out the new grounds of the 
Wildwood Cemetery Association, at 
Lyon Falls, N. Y. The tract con- 
tains twenty acres. G. H. P. Gould 
is president and C. C. Merriam sec- 
retary. 
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, 
Mich., is to erect a new entrance gate 
and is considering designs and plans. 
Wildwood Cemetery, Williams- 
port, Pa., which includes what was 
formerly Grandview Cemeterjs has 
spent $10, ()()() in improving the 
grounds the past season. Concrete 
gutters are being placed throughout 
the grounds. John A. German has 
been superintendent for over thirty 
years. 
Oakland Cemetery, Indiana, Pa., is 
to build a chapel and is considering 
plans. Harry W. Wilson is presi- 
dent of the board, and John A. Find- 
ley secretary. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, 
W. Va., is to remove the greenhouse 
and discontinue this branch of the 
business. The association will expend 
$10,000 in improvements the coming 
year, and make extensive changes in 
the grounds. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas, Tex., 
is erecting a new fence and will soon 
begin work on a brick lodge to re- 
place the old wooden structure. 
Ten acres have been added to 
Greenwood Cemetery, Grand Rapids,, 
Mich., which now includes 75 acres. 
Elmwood Cemetery, Lawrence, 
Mass., has added twenty-seven acres 
of adjoining land. 
The new part of Elm Cemetery, 
Dighton, Mass., is being graded and 
prepared for sale. 
Superintendent George Troup has 
completed the improvement of a new 
section in Forest Lawn Cemetery, 
Buffalo. 
Greenmount Cemetery, Philadel- 
phia, Pa., has added six acres. 
The grading of the new City Ceme- 
tery, Laurel Hill, at Des Moines, la., 
has been completed, and a new en- 
trance and other improvements are 
planned for next spring. The work 
is under the supervision of Council- 
man Ash. 
The Huntington Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, Huntington, Mass., has 
bought a tract of land containing a 
spring and will utilize it to furnish 
the water supply of the grounds. 
The Green Mountain Cemetery 
Association, Boulder, Col., is con- 
sidering the erection of a chapel and 
receiving vault. 
Cedar Park Cemetery, Hudson, N. 
Y., is constructing an artificial lake 
and will also build a rustic bridge. 
Oakland Cemetery, Fort Dodge, 
la., is to erect a 2,500 gallon tank for 
its water supply. B. R. Canfield is 
secretary. 
Hillside Cemetery Association. 
Troy, N. Y., is erecting a concrete 
vault. 
