THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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The town of Jefferson contains two cemeteries at 
least which deserve more than a passing notice. One 
of these is Mount Olive, which is situated near the 
county institutions at Dunning. Mount Olive is 
one of the youngest of Chicago’s cemeteries. It 
was opened in August, 1886. In the comparatively 
short time of seven years that have elapsed since 
then over 7,000 interments have been made at 
Mount Olive, and great improvements in the land- 
scape have been effected. The lawn system has 
been adopted from the beginning over the entire 
52 acres of this cemetery, and the results obtained 
have been excellent. Mount Olive is a Scandinavian 
Lutheran cemetery, but the privileges of the ceme- 
tery are not confined to any sect or nationality. 
In the summer of 1877 a plat of ground in the 
town of Jefferson, containing 30 acres, but since in- 
creased to 50 acres, was purchased by certain 
Bohemian Catholics, who had become dissatisfied 
with the burial regulations of their church. This 
was the beginning of the Bohemian National Ceme- 
tery, which is now represented by 36 lodges or so- 
cieties and contains nearly 10,000 interments. The 
site of this cemetery presents many natural advan- 
tages, but like many another similar enterprise the 
beginnings were not characterized by wise choice of 
the park system, and some unsightly structures still 
remain to detract from the beauty of the view. The 
newer portions of the cemetery are laid out in ac- 
cordance with advanced ideas. 
South of the city and reposing on tbe western 
slopes of the famous Blue Island ridge, are four 
charmingly located cemeteries, which at once attract 
the eye and please the sense of the beholder from 
the exceptional natural beauty of their surroundings. 
The first or nearest of these gardens of the dead is 
St. Maria, a German Catholicburying ground, which 
was consecrated in 1888. This cemetery contains 
102 acres of ground, which lies on the western slope 
of Washington Heights at an elevation of 5 5 feet 
above the level of Lake Michigan and from 16 to 
20 feet above the level of the surrounding prairie. 
The grounds are peculiar in that when they were 
purchased by the cemetery association they were 
almost treeless. Under the vigorous policy of the 
management more than 4,000 shade trees have been 
planted. 
Two and a half miles farther south are Mount 
Greenwood, Mount Olivet and Mount Hope, all oc- 
cupying an elevation of from 50 to 100 feet above 
Lake Michigan and nestling among forest trees of 
ancient growth. Mount Greenwood and Mount 
Olivet each contain 80 acres. Mount Greenwood 
was opened to the public in 1879., Here the lawn 
system is in full operation. The drives and walks 
are mostly macadamized and are kept in excellent 
condition. Much attention is paid to beautifying 
the grounds with flowers and shrubs. 
Mount Olivet is a Catholic cemetery and is under 
the same management as Calvary. It was conse- 
crated in 1885, and has since been much improved. 
Mount Hope was designed by its founders to be 
a model cemetery. It contains 300 acres in the 
form of a square, and is not only beautifully situ- 
ated on the slope of the wooded ridge, but has also 
had all the advantages of the expenditure of a large 
amount of money and the exercise of the best skill 
in its landscape gardening. No expense has been 
spared. Steam pumping wmrks supply water, and 
a complete system of drainage has been provided. 
A fine stone chapel, depot, w^aiting rooms and office 
were erected at a cost of $20,000 before a body was 
interred. It is not necessary to state that the park 
system prevails at Mount Hope. It is there that it 
is to be seen in the perfection of its loveliness, and 
nothing could be more helpful to a student of land- 
scape gardening than a day spent in contemplation 
of Mount Hope Cemetery. 
A sign bearing the words “Flirting is Prohibi- 
ted,” has been placed at the entrance to German- 
town (Penn.) cemetery. 
A firm of Pittsburg undertakers and the St. 
Mary’s Cemetery company were each fined $20 and 
costs for interring a body for which no burial per- 
mit had been issued. 
Two cemeteries at Hudson, Wis., were desecra- 
ted last month and twenty-two of the most costly 
monuments damaged. The city offered a reward 
of $500 for the arrest of the perpetrators. 
Laurel Grove Cemetery at Savannah, Ga,, was 
devastated by the destructive cyclone that did such 
damage in that section last month. Trees, fences 
and monuments were blown down and ruined. 
The mayor of Cherokee, la., imposed a fine of 
$20 and costs upon the wife of a prominent citizen 
of that place, who had been detected in the act of 
taking flowers from graves in Oak Hill Cemetery. 
An injunction has been granted at Port Huron, 
Mich , restraining the construction of a drain sewer 
from the local cemeteries to the lake. The grounds 
on which the injunction was granted was the alleged 
pollution of the waters in front of the beaches from 
where the cottagers secured their water supply. 
Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, is beautiful in its neat- 
ness and simplicity, a feature that in nearly all cemeteries is 
too frequently neglected, ^ohn G. Barker. 
Allow me to express my feelings regarding the Modern 
Cemetery. No association can afford to manage a cemetery in 
our day upon the narrow conception of a single individual be he 
engineer, landscape gardener and veteran grave digger com- 
bined — the Modern Cemetery shows him the true work. — 
Chas. N . Snyder, Secy. West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadel- 
phia. 
