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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
CEHETERY NOTES 
NEW CEMETERIES, IMPROVEMENTS and ADDITIONS 
One of our illustrations shows the 
new entrance to Oakwood cemetery, 
Sharon, Pa. It is a simple arrange- 
ment of massive stone posts, bearing 
heavy iron gates. The stone work was 
executed by McIntyre & Sons, and 
the gates were furnished by the Van 
Dorn Iron 'Works of Cleveland, O. 
Perry B. Traux, organizer and pro- 
moter of the much advertised Wood- 
lawn Mausoleum Association, of Co- 
lumbus, O., which was to erect a huge 
mausoleum of concrete for permanent 
interment to contain 740 crypts, has 
suddenly left for the west, taking 
with him $1,000 that had been paid in 
by some trusting purchasers of space. 
It now develops that the land which 
he had reported as purchased, he had 
merely secured an option on, and the 
contract which he reported as let for 
the erection of the structure, had not 
been let. The other promoters announce 
that they will continue the scheme. 
The National Mausoleum Co., of 
Shelby, O., which, as has been noted 
in these pages, has contracted to erect 
similar structures in Toledo, Decatur, 
Ind., Springfield, 111., and Buffalo. Mt. 
Hope Cemetery, Galesburg, 111., is 
al.so considering the erection of one 
by this company, as is also Paris, 111. 
The one at Galesburg is planned to 
have from 500 to 700 crypts. Rose- 
land Park Cemetery, Detroit, has had 
plans prepared by Architect Louis 
Kamper for one of these structures, 
to cost $25,000, to contain 500 crypts, 
and the Cleveland Mausoleum Co., of 
Cleveland, O., has been incorporated 
to build one in that city to have 250 
catacombs. The incorporators are L. 
L. McCallum, Winfred L. Hodsoll, 
Albert E. Green, Joseph Hidy and H. 
E. Gage. The American Mausoleum 
Co., of Indianapolis, has also been in- 
corporated to build these concrete, 
brick and marble mausoleums for per- 
manent intermient, and has contracted 
to erect one in Waterloo, la. This 
company is incorporated at $25,000 to 
do a general construction business. 
The incorporators are: Edward N. 
McClevey, John C. Murray, Willis C. 
Nusbaum, Harry Cooler and Walter 
R. Brewer. 
Richard Respass, a Baltimore un- 
dertaker, has opened a new cemetery 
of 150 acres near that city and pro- 
poses to dispose of lots by an issue 
of trading stamps, which will be given 
out in certain stores where clothing 
and family supplies are sold. 
Superintendent Leroy Christie, of 
Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, la., has 
modernized his records on a very 
thorough system devised by himself, 
and supplements this by keeping a 
scrap book of newspaper clippings 
about people who are interred in the 
cemetery in case of need for informa- 
tion in future years. The new section 
of this cemetery is to be improved on 
the complete lawn plan, with no' grave 
mounds, and markers level with the 
ground. 
A commission of the city of Nor- 
folk, Va., is considering sjtes for the 
establishment of a colored cemetery. 
Abbott Morris and W. J. Simmons 
are memibers of the commission. 
The Swigart Cemetery has been in- 
corporated at New Salem, 111., by 
Chas. A. Hooper, G. W. Crump and 
George P. Harper. 
Work has begun on the improve- 
ment of the new Independence Burial 
Park at Independence, Mo., which it 
is proposed to make modern in every 
respect. Ezra Downs, of St. Joseph, 
Mo., is president, and Miss Nora 
Peterson, secretary. 
Fairview Cemetery, Carthage, N. 
Y., has recently erected a new iron 
fence and entrance gate and made 
other substantial improvements. 
The' Vicksburg City Cemetery Pres- 
ervation Association of Vicksburg, 
Miss., has been incorporated to im- 
prove and care for the city cemetery. 
Some of the incorporators are: Mrs. 
H. C. McCabe, Mrs. Austin Seay, 
Mrs. Balfour Klein and others.' 
The New Forest Lawn Cemetery, 
Norfolk, Va., has begun business as 
a modern lawn cemtery. It contains 
156 acres, of which ninety have been 
cleared and twenty laid out for lot 
sales. 
The Shannon Cemetery Association 
of Shannon, Hi., has been incorpor- 
ated by Amos Yordy, F. C. Henze 
and Henry Vietmeier. 
The Macdoel Cemetery Association 
has been organized at Macdoel, Cal., 
to operate a ten-acre cemetery. R. E. 
Swigart is president and M. D. Early, 
secretary. 
The Proctor Cemetery Association, 
Proctor, Vt., has been bequeathed 
$5,000 by the late Senator Proctor. 
The Cemetery Board of Grand 
Rapids, Mich., on the advice of Eu- 
gene Goebel, superintendent of parks 
and cemeteries, has decided to pass a 
rule requiring all foundations to be 
built by the cemetery instead of by 
the monument dealers as formerly. 
Danforth J. Abrams, of Chicago, 
will present a memorial gateway to 
Evergreen Cemetery, Fonda, N. Y., 
and the contract for the work has 
been let to Hunter & Son, of Glovers- 
ville, N. Y. 
It is planned to make an addition 
providing about 1,000 lots to Rose 
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga. 
A new addtion to Fairview Ceme- 
tery, Colorado City, Colo., will soon 
be opened. 
Fairlawn Cemetery, Chickasha, Ok- 
lahoma, has been opened and a chapel 
is being erected and other improve- 
ments made. 
ENTRANCE TO OAKWOOD CEMETERY, S'HARON, PA. 
