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PARK AND CEMETERY 
amount to if 143,175.74, of which $44,- 
095 is invested funds. Of these in- 
vested funds $14,687.52 belongs to the 
permanent fund and $15,290.54 to per- 
petual care. 
The annual report for 1908 of Pine 
Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass., records 
some changes made in its affairs and 
some to be inaugurated. A sort of 
reorganization in its methods of busi- 
ness is in order; for instance, in one 
direction payment in advance for all 
cemetery work is to be demanded, 
and in another the increase in the 
price of lots and in the amounts set 
aside for perpetual care. A “per- 
manent perpetual care fund” is also 
to be established of sufficient volume 
to counteract in the future any re- 
ductions in interest rates on the in- 
vestments. Nearly $2,000 was ex- 
pended in 1908 in fighting the brown- 
tail and g}'psy moths. The total re- 
ceipts for the year were $36,194.76, 
which included sales of lots, $5,911.32; 
interments and reinterments, $3,465; 
annual care, $1,917.07; greenhouse, 
$1,839.66; appropriation, $10,900. 
Among the expenditures were; Labor, 
$19,683.62; salaries, $4,336.75; miscel- 
laneous, $9,834.20, the latter including 
a balance of $2,905.97 on improvement 
contract. The perpetual care fund 
now amounts to $199,764.65. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
The 24- acres adjoining Mound 
Cemetery, Charleston, 111., the pur- 
chase of which was recorded in the 
last issue, will be laid out on the lawn 
plan by Howard Evarts Weed of Chi- 
cago. Perpetual care and all modern 
improvements will be given. 
The trustees of Locust Hill Ceme- 
tery, Dover, N. J., have awarded the 
contract to survey the property of the 
association and supply topographical 
maps and working plans to Clark & 
Pike, Willoughby, O. With these 
plans completed the trustees intend to 
take up a line of improvement on a 
modern basis. 
Last fall a proposition to bond 
Muskegon, Mich., in the sum of $15,- 
000 to provide funds for the purchase 
of a proposed addition to Oakwood 
and Evergreen Cemeteries was re- 
jected by the voters. The same prop- 
erty is now offered to the city for 
$9,800, and the offer will probably be 
accepted, as very few lots are left in 
the cemeteries. 
A bill has been introduced into the 
Wisconsin legislature to enable the 
Forest Home Cemetery Association 
of Milwaukee to increase its prop- 
erty to embrace 200 acres. The 
cemetery is greatly in need of more 
room. 
The city council of Grand Island, 
Neb., has decided to make the deposit 
for the perpetual care of lots in the 
city cemeteries $100, this sum to be 
invested in the city’s own bonds or 
other securities, and the revenue 
therefrom applied to the care of the 
lot for which it is invested. 
The trustees of Lebanon Cemetery, 
Lebanon, O., are planning to erect a 
substantial archway entrance with 
gates, to be built of Centerville lime- 
stone. 
The Board of Public Works, Terre 
Haute, Ind., are about to erect a 
“rest room,” to be constructed of Bed- 
ford stone, in Highland Lawn Ceme- 
tery, to cost betwen $5,000 and $6,000 
A site has been purchased for the 
erection of a so-called apartment mau- 
soleum facing the entrance to Spring- 
Hill cemetery, Huntington, Ala. It 
will contain some 640 crypts and will 
be constructed of cut stone for exte- 
rior work and concrete for interior 
walls and crypts. Its probable cost 
will be $36,000, and a company has 
been formed to carry out the project. 
The St. John cemetery. New Bed- 
ford, Mass., is to be enlarged. Twen- 
ty-five acres more land has been re- 
cently acquired. 
The old Harrisburg cemetery, Har- 
risburg, Pa., is to be improved, addi- 
tional land having been purchased. 
This is the oldest incorporated ceme- 
tery company in Harrisburg, but its 
permanent fund of $58,000 has been 
found quite inadequate to keep the 
grounds and buildings under up-to-date 
conditions. The board of managers 
has issued a circular letter to all lot- 
owners asking contributions, and 
with the hope that the fund may be 
increased to $100,000, a sum believed 
to be ample for perpetual care. Old 
lot boundaries are gradually being 
abolished and modern practice is be- 
ing introduced. 
The Chenango Valley Cemetery As- 
sociation recently let a contract for 
the construction of a chapel and vault; 
both will be under one roof and will 
be built of reinforced concrete. The 
receiving vault will have a capacity 
for 18 bodies. 
The trustees of the Cemetery .Lsso- 
ciation of Joliet, 111., have decided to 
go ahead with the work of repairing 
the damages caused by the heavy 
windstorm of last spring and to erect 
the necessary buildings and other 
contemplated improvements. 
The Ladies’ Cemetery Association 
of Oakwood Cem.etery, Austin, Texas, 
has recently added to its attractive-- 
ness by the completion of five en- 
trance gates. The four supporting 
columns are of gray granite, sur- 
mounted by classic urns. Total cost, 
$ 2 , 000 . 
The council judiciary committee of 
iMilwaukee, Wis., has recommended 
favorable action in the matter of the 
annexation of seven acres adjoining 
the grounds of the Union Cemetery 
Association. The action was due to 
the opinion of Dr. E. E. Darling, reg- 
istrar of vital statistics, that ceme- 
teries are not a menace to a residence 
community and that epidemics limited 
to cemetery districts have never been 
known in Alilwaukee. 
Evergreen Cemetery, Tucson, Ari- 
zona, is located some two miles from 
town and comprises a tract of 240 
acres, well suited to cemetery pur- 
poses. It is a new enterprise and 
improvements are only in the begin- 
ning. The next legislature will be 
asked to pass additional laws to make 
perpetual care a permanent institu- 
tion. 
It is always pleasing to record a 
long and satisfactory service; it means 
so much both for the cemetery and 
the individual. Mr. William Crosbie 
has served as superintendent of Wash- 
ington Cemetery, Washington, Pa., 
for 41 years. Scotch by birth, he is 
a sterling Scotch-American today and 
hale and hearty at 77 years of age. 
A mausoleum to hold 10,000 bodies 
is being considered for Forest Lawn 
Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y., to be con- 
structed b}' a private company on a 
large lawn plot. 
According to a report of the treas- 
urer of the Lowell, Mass., cemetery 
corporation, the money received for 
perpetual care of lots for the first 
half of the year exceeds all past rec- 
ords and promises that before the 
close of the year the fund will have 
accumulated to well past $150,000. 
The Oakland Cemetery Association, 
St. Paul, Minn., has just let a contract 
for new greenhouses 75 by 175 feet, 
with service building 20 by 90 feet. 
The best iron construction will be 
used throughout with concrete foun- 
dations. The service building will 
contain office, toilet and pot rooms 
on the main floor with an enclosed 
dirt shed; the basement will have 
boiler room, coal bunkers and dor- 
mant cellar, and the second story will 
be used for storage. The contract 
for superstructure and benches h^s 
been awarded to the Lord & Burn- 
ham Company; the concrete and brick 
work will be done by St. Paul men. 
