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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
BRONZE MEMORIAL TABLET. H. W. BEATTIE, SC. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
The forty-sixth annual report of the directors of 
Swan Point cemetery, Providence R. I., for the 
year ending December 1893, contains the following 
statistics: 
Average number of men employed per month during the 
year, 50; interments during the year, including 67 to the receiv- 
ing tomb, 319; total number of interments, 12,951; brick and 
slate vaults built, 94; foundations to monuments and tablets 
built, 206; hedges removed from lots, 2; curbing removed from 
lots, 5; land sold during the year, 10,723 square feet; number of 
lots put under perpetual care, and upon which bequests have been 
made, 1258; number of lots under annual care, 588; number of 
lots under partial care, 274; number of lots not under care, 993; 
whole number of lots sold to date, 31 15. 
In common with many other corporations, the cemetery felt 
the continued depression of the times, especially noticable in 
the reduced receipts from the sale of burial lots. It has been 
the desire of the directors to help relieve, as much as possible, 
the great distress among the laboring people by continuing all 
work that could be done advantageously through the winter, 75 
men were employed for this purpose. 
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The sixty-second annual report of Mount Auburn 
Cemetery, Boston, Mass., shows the past year to 
have been a moderately prosperous one. The Re- 
pair Fund was increased $35,926.70 and now 
amounts to $771,684.38. The Permanent Fund 
gained $10,459.96, making that fund $330,- 
880.76. The General Fund increased 8,046. 38 and 
now amounts to $100,382. Receipts for sale of 
lots and use of receiving tombs $16,461 .50. For 
labor and material on lots $55,148. Expenditures 
for labor and salaries $45,890.70. Interments 509, 
removals from cemeteries 43, total to December 
31, 29,837. Number of headstones erected 331, 
monuments 54, no curbing or coping was put in. 
Iron fences removed 16, granite curbing removed 
7, tombs removed i. 
Plastic riarble. 
In one account of Rome the author mentions 
five or six slabs of plastic marble as being in the 
possession of Prince Borghese. Being set on end, 
they bend backward and forward; when laid hori- 
zontally and raised at one end they form a curve; 
if placed on a table and a piece of wood or any 
other substance is laid under them they fall into a 
kind of curve, each end touching the table. Abbe 
Fortis was told that they were dug up near the town 
of Mondragon, in the kingdom of Naples. The 
grain is like that of fine Carrara marble, or perhaps 
of the finest Greek. They seem to have suffered 
some attack of fire. A slab of marble similar in 
every respect to those described, and highly polished, 
has been exhibited for more than twenty-five years 
at the British Museum. M. Fleuvian de Belvae 
succeeded in making common granular limestone, a 
granular quartz, completely flexible by exposing to 
a certain degree of heat. In Lincoln cathedral, 
England, there is an arch built of white marble 
which is quite elastic, yielding to a heavy tread, and 
returning or rebounding to its original position on 
true elastic principles. — Ex. 
Extracts from Rules and Regulations, Woodlawn Ceme = 
tery, Toledo, Ohio. 
Each deed for a family lot will be accompanied 
with a plat of the same showing the arrangement of 
the graves thereon, and the location of a monument. 
No lots will be regarded as sold until fully paid 
for. If interments are made before such time, the 
Association reserves the right after demand and 
neglect to pay, to remove the bodies to the single 
grave allotment and place the lot on sale. 
No lot or parcel of land shall be defined by any 
so-called fence, railing, coping, hedge, embankment 
or ditch. 
Boxes, shells, toys, wire-screens and designs of 
any description and similar articles scattered upon 
graves or lots are inconsistent with the proper keep- 
ing of the grounds, and will not be permitted. 
Chairs, settees and benches of any material, rus- 
tic work and so-called ornaments and architectural 
objects are considered injurious to the beauty, dignity 
and repose of the cemetery, are therefore forbidden, 
and will be removed from lots without further no- 
tice. Persons will be furnished with camp-chairs 
free of charge for use while in the cemetery. 
Planting within the narrow limits of a cemetery 
lot so as to avoid overcrowding and encroachment 
on adjoining lots requires the intimate knowledge 
of the habits of trees and shrubs, and the size which 
they attain, and it must be done only with the ap- 
proval and under the directions of the superinten- 
dent. 
Mounds should be kept flat or nearly so as it is 
