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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
SARCOPHAGITS-TOMB, WESTMINSTER CEMETERY, PHILADELPHIA. 
heavily carved corners is in West Laurel 
Hill Cemetery, and was erected by the Edw. 
A. Carroll Co. The exterior is of the 
following dimensions: Base, 9-10x4-I0.xl-0 ; 
Mount Hi Crow, a lofty eminence on the 
east banks of the Missouri from which 
VerendjTe, the French explorer, and his 
son spied out the land prior to crossing 
the Big Muddy en route from the head of 
Lake Superior to the Rockies, sixty years 
before Lewis and Clark made the same 
expedition, has been designated by Presi- 
dent Wilson as the site of the Verendrye 
national monument. The Frenchman ex- 
plored this territory about 1740, using an 
ancient bull boat, of the Welch coracle 
type, which he found in use here among 
the natives, as a means of navigation. The 
monument is to be in charge of the na- 
Peter Olsen, formerly superintendent 
of Oakland Cemetery, Warren, Pa., re- 
signed April 1st after twenty years of 
service there. He now has charge of the 
Conewango Valley Country Club at War- 
ren. He has a fine place and enjoys his 
new work very much. He writes : “I re- 
gret that I will not meet with you at the 
next convention at Barre, Vt., as it always 
gave me great pleasure to meet with the 
boys of old and to learn something of in- 
terest. I always took great interest in the 
cemetery, but sometimes a change is for 
the best.” 
Woodland Cemeter}- of Cook county, 
Chicago, has increased its capital stock 
from $75,000 to $250,000. 
The Oak Hill Cemetery Association of 
Birmingham, Ala., recently entered a cam- 
paign to raise $18,000 to invest for the 
permanent upkeep of the cemetery. Mrs. 
die, 8-(5x3-6.xl-2. The interior contains 
eight crypts and is built with thirteen-inch 
brick walls, marble lining and mosaic tile 
floor. 
tional park service, and there will be in- 
cluded in the reservation 250 acres sur- 
rounding Mount Hi Crow, which is second 
in altitude in North Dakota only to Senti- 
nel Butte, far to the south in the Bad 
Lands. 
Ayres Boal and Lesley J. Boal of Win- 
netka. 111., recently filed a quitclaim deed 
to the Winnetka park district on lots 1, 11, 
15 and 16 in the subdivision made by 
Ayres Boal. The only conMderation de- 
manded being that the property be used 
as a public park and that a drinking foun- 
tain be erected in memory of their daugh- 
ter, Lesley Boal, who died February 17, 
1914. 
Northington was elected general chairman 
of the committees. According to the con- 
tract with the city, as soon as the $.30,000 
is invested, the income of which is to go 
for the upkeep and beautifying of the 
cemetery, the entire control will pass to 
the association for perpetuity. Twelve 
thousand dollars of this money has al- 
ready been raised, and the campaign will 
be to obtain the remaining $18,000. Only 
the lot owners will be asked to contribute. 
Gift of a handsome entrance edifice for 
the Tod Homestead Cemetery, Youngs- 
town, Ohio, to cost $100,000, was made re- 
cently by the nine nieces and nephews of 
George Tod. The structure is a memorial 
to the late Honorable George Tod and to 
the Tod family and the contract has been 
let to the Wm. B. McAllister Company of 
Cleveland. The proposed entrance build- 
ing, designed in the style of mediaeval 
public buildings of Italy, is 209 feet long, 
the entrance arch having a span of 50 feet 
and is about 29 feet high in the center. 
The tower is 88 feet high and 21 feet 
square. It will be exceedingly simple in 
design, and depend for its effect on its 
size and proportions, its stone, which will 
be Ohio blue limestone, and its deep red 
tile roof, for its color and texture effect. 
In the masonry walls over the entrance 
arch, are sculptured figures representing 
Hope and Faith, with a scroll running be- 
tween each, bearing the quotation, “Until 
the day^ break and the shadows flee away.” 
This is the only decoration about the 
building, and it is concentrated about the 
entrance. At the left of the entrance will 
be the chapel, which will be 62 feet by 25 
feet, with a seating capacity of 144 people. 
At the right of the entrance the adminis- 
tration building will be erected. The archi- 
tect is J. A. Schweinfurth of Boston. 
Organization of the cemetery board of 
managers at Kewanee, 111., was effected 
recently when H. T. Lay was elected presi- 
dent. By provision of the new ordinance 
relating to this board, adopted within the 
last year, the city clerk, O. D. Peterson, 
is secretary of the organization. This board 
has general charge of the plans for the 
perpetual care of lots in the cemetery. 
.'Vny citizen by turning over $100 or any 
larger sum in denominations of $100 can 
assure perpetual care for any specified lot. 
This care will be under the city’s direction. 
Three thousand dollars has been appro- 
priated by the council of Virginia, Minn., 
for the Greenwood and Calvary Cemetery 
Improvement Associations. The Greenwood 
appropriation was $2,000 and the Calvary 
$ 1 , 000 . 
New Cemeteries and Improve- j 
ments (• 
Wasatch Lawn Cemetery of Salt Lake 
City, Utah, was recently formally opened 
and dedicated. The cemetery comprises 
62%. acres and about 175 burials have al- j 
ready been made. Plans are under way 
to erect a chapel on the grounds. 
The Ladies’ Cemetery Association of 
Quanah, Tex., has been incorporated with 
no capital stock. The incorporators are 
M. A. Tullis, Mattie Sparks, Mary F. Wall 
and others. 
Parks and Cemetery Development Com- 
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