THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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portance and desirableness of providing for the per- 
petual care of their lots. It is manifest that the 
beauty of the whole cemetery depends largely upon 
the care bestowed upon individual lots, and that 
the care should be constant and as much as possi- 
ble removed from the uncertainties of the future. 
To provide for this want so that all interested can 
guard against all contingencies, certain rules have 
been adopted by which lot-owners can by making 
a deposit with the treasurer, based upon the size of 
the lot, provide for the care and attention so neces- 
sary to make beautiful the home of the dead.” 
The charges are as follows, or such sums may 
be bequeathed by will: 
For single grave $I 0 . 00 ; for a lot containing 
not exceeding i 50 square feet, 
$50.00; for a lot containing 
over 150 and not over 300 
square feet, $75-00; for a lot 
containing 300 square feet or 
more, $100. 
This sum is invested with 
other like deposits under the 
name of “perpetual care 
fund,” and the income there- 
from is expended under the 
suits in a cemetery which is at once a pride to, its 
owners, a place of rest and peace to those whose 
loved ones have found eternal repose, and a spot 
to which any and all can turn to feast their eyes on 
nature’s quiet beauties, and their souls in contem- 
plation and reflection. 
Whitinsville is a town of only 4000 inhabitants, 
and this cemetery clearly demonstrates what can be 
done, when wide-awake, liberal m.en, of the neces- 
sary qualifications, and there are many such in 
every community, take hold of cemetery matters. 
If only two or three of the right kind of men in 
each community, could be induced to interest 
themselves in their local cemeteries, new condi- 
tions would rapidly grow and the rural cemetery , 
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direction of the trustees in keeping the depositor’s 
lot in order forever, in cutting grass, etc., but does 
not include care of monuments, headstones, etc., 
unless specially provided for. 
For the annual care of lots charges are made as 
follows: For single graves, 50 cents; for lot not ex- 
ceeding 150 square feet, $2.00; for lot over 150 and 
under 300 square feet, $3.00; for lot over 300 
square feet, $4.00. 
Modern ideas are seen to prevail throughout 
Pine Grove Cemetery, and even the regulations 
concerning visitors are made with due regard to the 
protection of the lot-owners and the respect de- 
manded by the hallowed surroundings. It all re- 
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instead of being a reproach, would be the measure 
of the development of the community in which it 
exists. 
Mention has been omitted of the fact, that all 
purchasers of lots from outside territory, are com- 
pelled to place such lots under “perpetual care.” 
This is a wise precaution, preventing the inconven- 
ience attaching to communication and other matters 
with non-resident owners. 
In the last annual report, dated April, 1894, 
seven lots and fifteen graves had been sold for $340 
and the total net receipts for 1893 were $3,813.59, 
and the total expenditures $3,246.23. The green- 
house sales amounted to $801.95 and the net in- 
come from investments $1,905.02. 
On April I, 1894, the “perpetual care” fund 
amounted to $41 ,695. There were thirty-eight in- 
terments during the year, and the number of lots 
under annual care was 132. 
The development of Pine Grove Cemetery 
should be a positive encouragement to all small 
communities to go and do likewise. 
