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THE MODERN CEMETERY, 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
In Hillsboro Cemetery,- Hillsboro, O., while some excava- 
tion was in progress, a spring of water was struck, of sufficient 
quantity to form a lake five to seven feet deep. There is no sus- 
picion of surface water in the outflow. 
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Extensive improvements are contemplated for immediate 
prosecution in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn. 
The proposed work will cost some $25,000 and will include the 
macadamizing of the principal drives and the erection of a hand- 
some arch at Burr road entrance. This is to be one of the hand- 
somest structures to be found anywhere. 
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The contract for the transfer of some 13,000 bodies from the 
old Machpelah Cemetery. Philadelphia, has been awarded to C. 
A. Quimby, and it is expected that the work will have been com- 
pleted in two or three months. This old burying ground was 
closed in 1890 by the Health Board, when the number of inter- 
ments became a menace to the living. The vast majority of 
bodies that lie in Machpelah are to be removed to a high plot of 
ground, ninety acres in extent, adjoining Mount Moriah. 
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Locust Hill Cemetery, Dover, N. ]., is carrying out some 
extensive and commendable improvements since the organiza- 
tion of the new board. It is one of the small cemeteries, some 
six acres, well situated, which always repay to the community in 
a large sense any care and improvement expended upon them. 
A new vault has just been constructed bearing the name of 
Bickley, the president of the cemetery association, above the 
doorway and above the name is the date ‘1894.” The style is 
after the Egyptian and adds much to the appearence of the ad- 
jacent grounds. 
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The Lakewood Cemetery Association, Minneapolis, Minn., 
held its 24th annual meeting recently, when the old staff of offi- 
cers were reelected. A committee was appointed to secure 
amendments to the state law with reference to the cemetery 
management and it was decided that all mounds over graves in 
Lakewood be eliminated as much as practical. The treasurer’s 
report showed the receipts of the association during the past 
year to have been $45,202.20, and the disbursements $70,450.63 
of which amount about $40,000 was applied on the payment for 
new lands, leaving a net gain of $15,000. 
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One might well be at a loss to know to what natures an ad- 
vertisement worded as the following appealed. Good taste, ap- 
propriateness and every essential element have been sacrificed: 
What a solace and comfort it is to know that after the trials 
and cares of this life are o’er, and we have been laid aw'ay in the 
“silent city of the dead,” that there are those who will remem- 
ber and mourn us, and who will erect a suitable monument to 
commemorate our good qualities. These pleasant thoughts help 
to remove the fears of death. Monuments and tombstones from 
$2.00 to $10,000.00. Satisfaction is guaranteed; skdlful and ar- 
tistic work; save you 25 per cent. Inscription cut upon and 
erected at grave without extra charge. 
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At the annual meeting of the Oakland Cemetery Associa- 
tion, St. Paul, Minn., the matter of securing better roads in the 
grounds was discussed and it was decided to do so. The receipts 
from all sources were $21,757.28; the expenditures for all pur- 
poses were $16,720. The perpetual care fund increased during 
the year $5,133.92, and now amounts to $87,116.84. Of this 
amount $85,500 is invested in interest bearing securities. The 
sale of lots has been very small during the year. Sales of lots 
during the year, $8,473; sales of single graves, $1,343; greenhouse 
sales, $3,243.77. The assets of the association include: real es- 
tate unsold, 44 3-10 acres at $5 000, $221,500; securities, invest- 
ments for perpetual care fund, $84,000; buildings, fences, water 
service, $71,147.24. Total, $383,643.76. Liabilities include, 
perpetual care principal, $76,225 82; perpetual care working 
fund, $10,891.02. Accumulations, $296,202.92. Grand total, 
$386,643.72; 
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Late last month a local speculator of Paterson, N.J., bought 
at sheriff ’s sale 7000 square feet of the Reformed Cemetery which 
the city authorities had confiscated in default of payment of a 
sewer assessment. The area had been subdivided into building 
lots and the lines actually cut through individual lots and in 
some cases divided graves, leaving headstones on one side and 
footstones on the other The purchaser claimed all monuments, 
tombstones and everything on the ground. This unquestiona- 
bly outrageous method of the Paterson city council aroused pub- 
lic indignation to a high pitch, and the bravado of certain of the 
city fathers has rightly given way to “chills.” The lot owners 
have retained counsel and if the city does not have to pay heav- 
ily for the ill considered action of its rulers, it would seem to be 
due to good fortune rather than deserts. Common sense should 
suggest that no law in the civilized world countenances the spoli- 
ation of graves even to pay taxes. 
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The death of the late Dr. James Me Cosh, of Princeton, N. 
J., draws attention to one of the oldest and most unique burying 
grounds of the Union, Princeton Cemetery. Near its center it 
holds within one little iron-railed enclosure the graves of almost 
all the college presidents from the beginning of the institution, 
which had its birth even before the dawn of the nation. There 
is a single tomb, however, in this curious area of God’s acre 
which to the average American will suggest a more impressive 
sense of the strange mystery, strength and sorrow of life than 
any of the rest, for under its sacred stone lie the ashes of Aaron 
Burr, who once occupied the next to highest seat in the nation, 
and who fell to the depths of disgrace and ignominy in the 
hearts of his countrymen. Burr lies at the foot of his father’s 
grave, and not far from the tomb of his grandfather, Jonathan 
Dickinson; and today it is best to remember him sleeping the 
last, long, dreamless slumber in the cemetery of the school 
where he passed, probably, the happiest hours of his life as a 
phenomenal young student. 
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The noted clan, the “Giant Macnabs,” at one time owned 
the territory on the south bank of the river Dochart, Scotland, 
and what is now known as Kinnel house was for many centuries 
the principal residence of the successive chiefs. Nearly seventy 
years ago, however, the late Marquis of Breadalbane purchased 
from Colon Macnab, the then chief, the house and lands, which 
were thus absorbed into the Breadalbane estates. All that now 
remains of the old clan and their ancient patrimony is, signifi- 
cantly enough, the romantic little island — Inchbhuid, “beautiful 
island,” that was for centuries the burial place of the clan, and 
it is a strange and not inappropriate peculiarity that in shape it 
resembles a coffin. Access to this interesting old place of sep- 
ulture is obtained by a steep flight of steps from Dochart bridge, 
near which stands, in a good state of preservation, two massive 
gate pillars, which at one time were surmounted by a figure of a 
dragon. The wall and doorways guarding the entrance to this 
ancient God’s acre are quaint looking enough, and quite in keep- 
ing with the character of the surroundings. The island is fully 
two hundred yards long, by about sixty yards broad, is protected 
by rocks, and crowned by splendid Scotch firs of great age— al- 
though here, too, last Winter’s storm has wrought sad havoc, the 
damage done detracting in no small degree from the picturesque 
