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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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CEntTERY NOTES 
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The annual report of Woodlawn 
Cemetery, Winona, Minn., calls atten- 
tion to the building of two new roads 
and a new greenhouse at a total cost 
of $3,979, and the grading of 1,300 sq. 
ft. of new ground. The general fund 
receipts were $12,315 and $1,659 was 
added to the permanent care and im- 
provement fund which now amounts 
to $50,665. There were 115 inter- 
ments. Charles Horton is president 
of the Association and J. E. Thomp- 
son, superintendent. 
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At the annaual meeting of Taco- 
ma Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash., an ad- 
dition of $15,029 was reported to the 
“irreducible fund,” which is protected 
by state law for the perpetual care of 
the grounds. An especial effort is 
being made to increase this fund 
which now amounts to $100,021. The 
receipts for the year amounted to 
$40,831 and the expenditures to $19,- 
518. George A. Hill is superintend- 
ent. 
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In the petition of the Embarrass 
Cemetery Association, Paris, 111., for 
leave to institute proceedings to con- 
demn certain lands for cemetery pur- 
poses belonging to Hannah Roll, 
Judge Lamon refused to grant the 
petition. 
Steps have been taken by the Hill 
Grove Cemetery Company, Connells- 
ville. Pa., to break up loafing in the 
cemetery at night and the stealing of 
flowers and plants from the graves. 
Numerous complaints recently that 
graves were being despoiled caused 
the company to secure the services of 
an officer to break up the practice. 
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The Department of the Interior of 
Mexico has under consideration plans 
for the erection of a repository near 
the Dolores Cemetery, Mexico City, 
where the ashes of cremated bodies 
will be kept. The crematories which 
are now being operated in that cem- 
etery are working satisfactorily and a 
large number of bodies, over 500, of 
unknown persons or of persons whose 
relatives have failed to claim their 
remains, have been cremated. 
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At a recent meeting of the Liver- 
pool, England, City Council to con- 
sider the adoption of a scale of 
charges and regulations for the gov- 
ernment of the cemeteries under the 
control of the Corporation, a warm 
discussion was developed on the ques- 
tion of artificial and other permanent 
decorations on graves, which appears 
to have been misunderstood by the 
florists, grave owners and others af- 
fected. Sentiment, of course, had its 
share in the discussion and was duly 
considered. The regulations were 
passed without the obnoxious provis- 
ions. Later a deputation of florists 
and others waited upon the Burials 
Committee, which resulted in an 
amendment satisfactory to . all and 
which reads as follows: “The Cor- 
poration is prepared to enter into 
agreements to plant flowers, shrubs, 
etc., on graves, and to keep the same 
in order for a period or in perpetuity 
on terms to be agreed upon. No per- 
son shall be permitted to plant flow- 
ers, shrubs, etc., on any graves in any 
of the cemeteries under the control of 
the Corporation without first obtain- 
ing an official permit so to do from 
the Corporation officer in charge at 
the cemetery. No person shall be 
permitted to place light or fragile ar- 
ticles On graves in any of the ceme- 
teries under the control of the Cor- 
poration without first obtaining an of- 
ficial permit from the Corporation of- 
ficer in charge at the cemetery, but 
this provision shall not apply to cut 
flowers or wreaths of a neat or de- 
corous description. The Corporation 
shall be at liberty to remove from 
graves any movable articles which 
shall be broken or have become un- 
sightly, and any flowers which shall 
be withered and unsightly.” 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
The Prospect Cemetery Association, 
Mansfield, Pa., has bought an addi- 
tional trace of land for Hope Ceme- 
tery, which is to be named Prospect 
Cemetery. 
Grove Cemetery, Naugatuck, Conn., 
has just completed 200 feet of rustic 
w'all along the front of the grounds. 
F. W. Tolies, superintendent, writes 
that they have had many requests for 
copies of their booklet from which 
some illustrations were recently 
shown in Park and Cemetery, and 
it will be sent, to any one desiring it. 
William Allen is in the midst of a 
busy season of improvement work at 
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburg, and 
estimates tljat his season’s work will 
cost $125,000. The work will include 
laying 5,000 feet of water pipes, build- 
ing miles of drives and the erec- 
tion of new stables, greenhouses, and 
much road building. They have just 
bought a new ten ton motor road 
roller, and $500 worth of nursery 
stock was purchased this spring. 
R. D. Palmateer, superintendent of 
the Waterford Rural Cemetery,' Wat- 
erford, N. Y., has completed extensive 
improvements in the grounds. They 
have about $8,000 in the perpetual care 
fund, and good results have been at- 
tained under Mr. Palmateer’s manage- 
ment. Last year he was instrumental 
in starting a movement for the rehab- 
ilitation of an old cemetery in Troy, 
N. Y. A fund of $10,000 was raised 
and the work done thoroughly and 
now the city is to appropriate $1,500 
a year for its care. 
Beatrice Cemetery, Beatrice, Neb., 
will expend about $1,500 in erecting a 
new granite entrance. Walter D. 
Hill is secretary. 
The Evangelical Lutheran Geth- 
semane Association which recently 
bought a 40-acre cemetery tract on 
Gratiot avenue, Detroit, has elected 
Herman Schroeter president, and Gus- 
tave Gaste secretary. 
Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Kankakee, 
111., will spend $2,000 in improve- 
ments to include the building of roads 
and erecting an iron fence and gate- 
way. 
Calvary Cemetery, Fond du Lac, 
Wis., will build a new receiving vault 
and a waiting room . 
L. B. Root of Kansas City, Mo., 
will prepare the landscape plans for 
the new Mission Cemetery at San 
Antonio, Tex., which is to be laid out 
on the modern lawn plan. David K. 
Furnish is president of the associa- 
tion, T. N. Smith secretary and W. 
H. Chambers superintendent. 
A new iron fence will be erected 
and other improvements made in St. 
Mary’s Cemetery, Streator, 111. 
West Branch Cemetery, Colrain, 
Mass., is being rehabilitated and mod- 
ernized. 
Alex Briggs has bought 24 acres 
adjoining Mound Cemetery, Charles- 
ton, 111., and is to lay out a modern 
cemetery there. 
St. Mary’s Cemetery, Red Bluff, 
Cal., has been resurveyed and an ad- 
dition plotted. 
Augusta, Ga., has passed a new or- 
dinance abolishing the fee system in 
the office of the superintendent of 
burials and placing that office on a 
salary basis, all fees being turned in 
to the city. 
The cemetery of the Mt. Hope 
