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F ARK AND CEMETERY. 
in Mound Grove Cemetery in that city. 
It was designed by Architect C. D. 
Henry, and will cost about $75,000. 
The township trustees of Sterling, 111., 
are to erect a new fence around the 
township cemetery and the Odd Fellows 
plot adjoining it will extend the fence 
around their part of the grounds. 
The cemetery commission of Seneca 
Falls, N. Y., has asked for $800 to build 
a rustic bridge over the glen connecting 
the two parts of the cemetery. 
Superintendent H. L. Nichols of Riv- 
erside Cemetery, Grafton, Mass., and 
Landscape Gardener Charles A. Hitch- 
ings, are doing considerable grading and 
planting of shrubbery. 
One of the first improvements 
planned by Mayor Callaghan of San 
Antonio, Tex., is to improve the new 
Mission Cemetery, a 530-acre tract just 
south of the city limits. A competent 
landscape gardener will be secured to 
make surveys and plans. 
J. R. Giddings, manager of Mountain 
View Cemetery, Pasadena, Cal., is plan- 
ning to erect a new ornamental fence 
about the grounds and improve the en- 
trances. 
Daniel Mahoney has charge of the 
grading and improving of the grounds 
of St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Taunton, 
Mass. 
New water mains are being laid in 
Riverside, Ansonia, Conn., and a reser- 
voir for a complete water supply sys- 
tem is soon to be installed. 
Rev. Louis D. Grenier, rector of 
Notre Dame church, and superintendent 
of Notre Dame Cemetery, Worcester, 
Mass., is to expend $2,000 in tree plant- 
ing and general improvement of the 
grounds this season. 
Brinley & Holbrook, of New York 
City, have prepared plans for the im- 
provement of Mt. Hope Cemetery, Nor- 
wich, N. Y. The carrying out of the 
work is in charge of E. E. Davis, of 
Norwich, and includes the planting of 
5,600 trees and shrubs. 
St. Mary’s Cemetery, Waltham, Mass., 
is to build a concrete wall about the 
grounds and erect massive iron gates. 
The Park Cemetery, of Carthage, 
Mo'., is to be Laid out on modern lines 
on plans by Sid J. Hare, of Kansas 
City, Mo. The improvements rvill in- 
clude the building of a handsome en- 
trance. Forty acres are to be laid out 
at once. 
Floyd Cemetery, Sioux City, la., will 
add 28 acres. 
The cemetery of North Chatham, 
Mass., has purchased additional land 
from C. I. Weiderwax, and will soon 
grade and improve it. 
S. W. Rubee, superintendent of River- 
I 
side Cemetery, Marshalltown, la., has 
made plans for the development of a 
new cemetery of 120 acres at Sioux 
City. It will be under the management 
of a stock company and will be on the 
lawn plan throughout. 
The Walnut Hills German Protestant 
Cemetery Association, of Cincinnati, O., 
has added six acres which are to be im- 
proved at once. 
Hon. Samuel Dibble has presented 
ten acres to Bowman, S. C., for a ceme- 
tery. 
The Arlington Cemetery Co., Mt. 
Pleasant, Tenn., has incorporated at 
$10,000 to develop a cemetery on a 
seven-acre tract. An iron fence is soon 
to be built. G. W. Killebrew, Lee Ir- 
win and C. F. Alexander are among 
the incorporators. 
Four acres has been added to South 
Cemetery, Berlin, Mass., by a purchase 
of land from Arthur Hastings. 
The Bohemian Cemetery Society, Cal- 
edonia, Wis., will build a waiting room 
and m.ake other improvements. Martin 
Klema is president and Joseph Stechan, 
secretary. 
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque, la., 
is planning to erect a receiving vault. 
The Evangelical Lutheran Gethse- 
mane of Detroit, Mich., has bought 36 
acres on the Gratiot road and will lay 
out a cemetery. Theodore Richter is in 
charge of the work. 
The Prairie View Cemetery Associa- 
tion of Tocsin, Ind., has been organized 
to establish a three-acre cemetery. 
John M. Heckley is president and 
Oiarles A. White, secretary. 
A commission appointed by congress 
to prepare plans for a memorial amphi- 
theatre in Arlington Cemetery, Arling- 
ton, Va., has submitted plans by Car- 
rere & Hastings, architects, of New 
York, for a structure to seat 5,000 peo- 
ple with standing room in a surround- 
ing colonnade for many more. It is es- 
timated to cost $695,000. A crypt for 
the burial of famous men and portrait 
statues or busts in the colonnade are 
other features recommended. 
Oak Hill Cemetery, Lewistown, 111., 
will add five acres to be purchased from 
George Showver. 
The Fairmount Cemetery Co., of Chi- 
cago, has been incorporated with a 
capital stock of $20,000 by J. M. Wright, 
W. M. Brown and John C. Hoof. 
The Evergreen Cemetery Association 
of Detroit has purchased 40 acres of 
land in Greenfield Township. 
Rev. Thomas J. Preston, who is in 
charge of St. Patrick’s church, Thomp- 
sonville. Mass., is to install a water 
system. 
Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, 
Mass., has added two acres and a 
crematory is soon to be built. 
Calvin Paige of New York City has 
bequeathed $30,000 for beautifying the 
cemetery at Hardwick, Mass. 
The Woman’s Federation of South 
Nashville and the Woman’s Historical 
Society will erect memorial gates to the 
City Cemetery of Nashville, Tenn. 
Glasgow Cemetery, Glasgow, Ky., will 
lay out additional lots and make other 
improvements to cost about $1,000. They 
may build a small receiving vault and 
will purchase some evergreens and per- 
haps a horse mower. E. Y. Kilgore is 
general manager. Mr. Kilgore is also 
to lay out a forty-acre residence park. 
Bellett Lawson, Jr., of Buffalo, N. Y., 
has been called in consultation to Mans- 
field, Pa., to devise ways and means for 
the betterment of their local cemetery 
known in the past as Hope Cemetery. 
Eighty years ago one acre was pur- 
chased and deeded to the township for 
burial purposes. Since that time addi- 
tions have been made by persons buying 
lots from any owner adjoining any of 
three sides of the original one acre. 
There has been no organization at all. 
Mr. Lawson has advised the incorpo- 
ration of the lot holders as a beginning 
and the purchase of the adjoining lands 
if possible up to 10 acres. A number 
of lot holders met and have applied to 
the Tioga County Court for a charter 
under the name of the Prospect Ceme- 
tery Association. 
LEGAL NOTES 
Assemblyman Conrad Garbe, of the 
Borough of Queens, New York City, 
has introduced into the legislature a 
bill forbidding the establishment of 
any more cemeteries in Queens Coun- 
ty, on Long Island. He is supported 
by the other assemblymen from that 
locality. The bill is the result of the 
Board of Aldermen, of Springfield, 
granting permission to the Springfield 
Long Island Cemetery Association to 
open a cemetery against the protests 
of residents of that neighborhood. 
The present law forbids the dedica- 
tion of more than fifty acres, so the 
Springfield Cemetery started with this 
much and are now endeavoring to add 
fifty acres more, as the law allows 
additions to existing cemeteries. 
There are now 5,000 acres of ceme- 
teries in this borough, which are 
valued at over $20,000,000. 
The Town Board of Amityville, 
L. I., has also recently passed a reso- 
lution protesting against the establish- 
ing of a cemetery by any non-resi- 
dent organization. 
