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tion of Plainville, Conn., has been in- 
corporated by F. S. Neal, Robert C. 
Usher, and others. 
V. E. Warren and H. T. Kiernan 
have bought a five-acre tract near 
Kennett, Cal., on which they will open 
a cemetery. 
Mary H. Crocker, of Marion, Mass., 
has bequeathed $1,000 to the Old 
Landing Cemetery Association of 
Marion. 
Mound Cemetery, Charleston, 111., 
has purchased 24 acres of adjoining 
land. 
Wencel L. Cukerski, of Grand Rap- 
ids, Mich., has prepared plans for the 
development of a new addition to 
Maple Hill Cemetery in Cadillac, 
Mich. 
A cemetery association has been 
organized at Ridgeville, S. C., to im- 
prove Bonnerest Cemetery. Mrs. L. 
H. Dawson is president and Mrs. J. 
C. Welch treasurer, 
A new chapel has been recently 
completed at Spring Hill Cemetery, 
Huntington, W. Va. 
Last season there was expended on 
construction work at Hillside Ceme- 
tery, Torrington, Conn., nearly $17,- 
000. Some twelve acres of ground 
has been made available for burial 
purposes and 3,200 feet of macadam 
drive and 7,000 feet of drain installed. 
A large turn-about has been con- 
structed at the end of one of the 
drives. Some 2,500 crrbic yards of 
stone, cleared from the grounds, was 
placed in this fill. This outlook tops 
one of the abrupt hills and gives a 
commanding view of the Naugatuck 
Valley. About $25,000 will be spent 
this coming season on further im- 
provements. New lot sections, a sin- 
gle grave area and the extension of 
the drives are contemplated. Over a 
mile of fence, enclosing the property, 
will be erected. W. B. Hatch is su- 
perintendent of construction. 
The Scott Cemetery, and the Che- 
nango Valley Cemetery, at Ogden, 
N. Y., have been consolidated. They 
are adjoining tracts and include in 
all about sixteen acres. The trustees 
of the Chenango Valley Cemetery 
Association will have charge of af- 
fairs. William P. Davis, Edgar Dick- 
inson, and Floyd Hotchkiss are on 
the board. 
The Afro-American Cemetery Co., 
of Birmingham, Ala., has been incor- 
porated at $50,000 to operate a col- 
ored cemetery. C. L. Fisher is presi- 
dent. 
Paduch, Ky., has purchased a seven- 
acre addition to Oak Grove Cemetery, 
which is to be improved on plans to 
be prepared by the City Engineer, L. 
A. Washington. Joseph Mattison is 
sexton. 
Since it opened. May 1 last. Rose- 
land Park Cemetery, Detroit, reports 
over $25,000 in lot sales. One of the 
big features of Roseland Park Ceme- 
tery will be its entrance, which is to 
consist of two double gates and two 
single, supported by five light Barre 
granite pillars each 35 feet high; 
These pillars will weigh about 270 
tons. R. Robertson & Co. are the 
contractors. A hedge of English 
privet is to take the place of fences 
on the street sides of the cemetery. 
.Another feature will be an artificial 
lake for which excavations are being 
made near the entrance. Philip Breit- 
meyer, mayor of Detroit, is president 
of the company, John Western, sec- 
retary, and Emil Peilke, superintend- 
ent. 
The Holland Cemetery Company, 
of Kansas City, Mo., has purchased 
29 acres for a cemetery on the Blue 
Ridge Road, two miles southwest of 
Mount Washington. 
The Jewish Cemetery Association of 
Canfield, N. D., has been incorporated 
by Philip Kamins, Abraham Sachs 
and others. 
Belleville, 111., has bought 22 acres 
for an addition to Walnut Grove 
Cemetery. 
Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn., 
is contemplating the erection of new 
greenhouses, with about 70x175 feet 
under glass, exclusive of the heating 
plant and other accessory buildings. 
The building of public mausoleums 
of concrete for permanent interment 
continues to be vigorously promoted 
in the central West. J. Ehrenfried. 
of Tiffin, O., has recently erected one 
at Bettsville, O., and is endeavoring 
to promote one at Larue, O. The 
National Mausoleum Co., of Shelby, 
O., has contracted with Lisbon, O., 
to erect one in the village cemetery, 
to contain 600 crypts. A stock com- 
pany has been organized at Aurora, 
111., to erect one there, to cost $37,000 
and contain 400 catacombs. A. N. 
Healy, an undertaker, and John M. 
Raymond are the promoters. 
Riverview Cemetery, Lambertville, 
N. J., is raising a fund to make exten- 
sive improvements. Samuel Morse is 
sexton. 
The New London Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, of New London, Conn., has 
had a new survey made of Cedar 
Grove Cemetery. The work was done 
by Howard C. Richards. 
The Clinton Hill Cemetery Associa- 
tion has been granted a franchise tO' 
operate a cemetery in Union Town- 
ship, N. J., on the Elmer Day farm, 
on condition that they build a trolley 
line from the Meeker Inn to Fortieth 
street, Irvington, and maintain a 
thirty-minute schedule with a five- 
cent fare to Newark. 
FROM the ANNUAL REPORTS 
At the annual meeting of the Cal- 
vary Cemetery Board, Toledo, O.,. 
Chas. J. Kirschner, secretary and 
manager, reported that the number 
of interments in 1908 was 719. The 
total number of interments is 11,042. 
The receipts for the year from the sale 
of lots and graves and for plants for 
decorating, etc., amounted to $17,- 
344.53. The principal improvements 
during the year were the lowering of 
one section and the filling in of an- 
other at a cost of about $2,000; the 
building of a concrete bridge across 
the creek, 2,000 feet of filling, a new 
road and a new greenhouse. The 
cost amounted to about $5,000. 
The annual report of the directors, 
of Swan Point Cemetery, Providence,. 
R. I., shows that there has been a 
large amount of grading and road re- 
building, over 7,300 feet of cement 
gutters have been constructed and 
there have been laid about 200 feet 
of four-inch water pipes with hydrants- 
and proper connections. Some statis- 
tics for the years are: Average num- 
ber of m.en employed per month, 72;. 
interments, 284; foundations to monu- 
ments and tablets, 264; iron fences re- 
moved from lots, four; old lots re- 
graded and sodded, 11; avenues re- 
graded and macadamized, square feet. 
31,500; cement gutters built, linear 
feet, 7,360; land graded, square feet,. 
40,300; land sold, square feet, 9,266; 
number of lots under perpetual care,, 
2,133; number of lots under annual 
care, 481; whole number of lots sold 
to date, 3,560. 
At the annual meeting of the pro- 
prietors of Pittsfield Cemetery, Pitts- 
field, Mass., reports of Superintendent 
J. G. McArthur and Treasurer W. C. 
Stevenson showed expenditures for 
new bridges, sluices and grading the 
new Maple Lawn section. Out of the- 
2,947 total burial lots, 932 were cared 
for by yearly charge, 454 by the per- 
petual care fund, and for 1,561 no pro- 
vision was made by owners or by care 
fund. There is a steady increase in 
the number of lot owners willing to- 
pay for care, but in a large number of 
these 1,561 lots there is no one living 
who is interested. The expenditures- 
for the year were $32,478. 
