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selected for one in Diamond Grove Cem- 
etery, Jacksonville, 111. This is to be 
of concrete, veneered with enameled 
brick, and will contain 200 crypts. There 
is one under way at Waterloo, la., 
which will contain 480 crypts, and an- 
other has been completed at Monroe, 
la., by the Western Sales Company, ot 
Waterloo, which controls the patents in 
Iowa. This company has secured an 
option on a site in Harlan Cemetery, 
Harlan, la. The Cleveland Mausoleum 
Co., which controls the patents in 
Cleveland, 0., is preparing to start the 
construction of a compartment mauso- 
leum in the Brookhm Heights Cemetery 
near that city. It will be of granite and 
marble and will contain 400 crypts. 
St. Mary’s Cemetery on the Charles- 
ton Road, Louisville, Ky., has added 
some land and engaged a landscape en- 
gineer to improve the grounds. 
The new addition to Walnut Hills 
Cemetery, Belleville, 111., is being im- 
proved under the direction of Street 
Inspector Frederick Deutschmann. 
Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Col., is 
doing some extensive road building and 
grading with convict labor. 
The new St. Louis Cemetery, New 
Orleans, La., is opening several new 
avenues that will require the removal 
of several tombs and some lot coping. 
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, 
Mich., has added fourteen acres. 
Mt. St. Peter’s Cemetery, Derby, 
Conn., is installing an elaborate water 
system under the direction of Rev. R. 
F. Fitzgerald, who is in charge of the 
grounds. 
The I. O. O. F. Cemetir)', Hartford 
City, Ind., is erecting a new concrete 
arched entrance gate. 
A terrace is being built in Zion Hill 
Cemetery, Hartford, Conn., and plans 
have been prepared for a new entrance. 
The work is in charge of George A. 
Parker, superintendent of parks. 
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A one-mill tax has been voted for the 
improvement of Woodlawn Cemetery, 
Des Moines, la. It will yield about $20,- 
000. The Elmdale Park Cemetery As- 
sociation has been incorporated with a 
capital stock of $50,000 to develop Elm- 
dale Cemetery, a 160-acre tract about a 
half mile beyond the Des Moines city 
limits. S. F. Frick, J. G. Myerly and 
Florence Smith are the incorporators. 
W. D. Lane, representing eastern capi- 
talists, is also reported to be looking 
for a cemetery site near this city. 
St. Peter’s Greek Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Passaic. N. J.. is to build two new 
entrances and a chapel. 
Rockport, O., has bought seven acres 
adjoining the old Rockport Cemetery. 
Roads and walks have been laid out 
in the new Lake View Cemetery, Bi- 
wabik, Iv'Iinn., and other improvements 
are to be made this fall and next spring. 
St. Mary’s Cemetery, Niagara Falls, 
N. Y., is to build a new fence and in- 
stall a drainage system. 
The ladies of the Relief Corps at 
Centralia, 111., are raising funds to erect 
a memorial chapel in the Centralia city 
cemetery. 
Walnut Ridge Cemetery, Jefferson- 
ville, Ind., has taken additional ground, 
which is being surveyed and plotted by 
Capt. Lewis C. Baird. 
The Somerset Cemetery Association, 
Wabash, Ind.,' has been deeded an ad- 
joining cemetery' formerly owned by the 
county. 
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque, la., 
has let the contract for a handsome new 
receiving vault and chapel. 
Evergreen Cemetery, Detroit, has 
purchased an adjoining tract. 
Bound Brook Cemetery, Bound 
Brook, N. J., has bought adjoining land 
and will soon improve it. The cemetery 
now contains nine acres. 
St. Joseph’s German Catholic Ceme- 
tery, near Geistown, Pa., will erect a 
gateway as a memorial to the late Rich- 
ard Foster. Plans have been prepared 
by Architect Henry M. Rogers. 
Arrangements are being made to im- 
prove Lakewood Cemetery, near Ro- 
chelle Park, N. J. The tract contains 
about sixty acres. 
The Cemetery Commission of Penn 
Yan, N. Y., will soon begin the im- 
provement of the six-acre addition to 
the cemetery recently acquired. 
The Woman’s Club of Okmulgee, 
Okla., have formed a cemetery associa- 
tion and purchased 80 acres for ceme- 
tery purposes. The new cemetery will 
be strictly on the lawn plan, with mod- 
ern improvements, and will be known 
as the Okmulgee Cemetery Park. Plans 
are now being made by Howard Evarts 
Weed of Chicago for forty acres of the 
tract. Mrs. W. C. McAdoo is secretary 
of the association and Mrs. W. S. Bell 
president. 
Fairview Cemetery, Coffe}wille, Kas., 
is planning to install a water system 
and build a cottage for the sexton’s 
residence. 
St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Wi- 
nona, Minn., has let the contract for 
some road building and grading. 
Engineer E. A. Wilder is plotting and 
making records of interments in the old 
Fredonia Cemetery, Fredonia, N. Y., for 
the purpose of identifying the unmarked 
graves. The cemetery was laid out .in 
1820. 
The Ham.ilton, Ontario, Spectator, in 
a recent issue, comments editorially on 
the fine condition of Hamilton Ceme- 
tery, and gives great credit to Super- 
intendent Rutherford for his systematic 
and intelligent work, in improving the 
grounds in the last six years. 
Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, 
Ala., has added eighty acres since the 
first of the year and has increased its 
capital from $100,000 to $150,000. S. B. 
Cunningham is secretary. 
Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Wis., 
will build a new chapel and receiving 
vault and install a new water system. 
Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N. J., 
will add nine acres of adjoining land. 
Beatrice Cemetery, Beatrice, Neb., is 
to erect a new entrance gate and make 
other improvements. 
Wooster Cemetery, Wooster, Ohio, is 
to build a new shelter house. 
Oak Grove Cemetery, Hilldale, 
Mich., will build a new ornamental gate 
way and make other improvements. 
Chas. Greening, of Monroe, Mich., is in 
charge of the work. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Danville, 111., 
will make an artificial lake on the 
grounds. 
Pine Grove Cemetery, Ansonia, Conn., 
has let the contract for a handsome new 
chapel and receiving vault. 
Washington, N. C., is to lay out a 
new cemetery for colored people on a 
twelve-acre plot. 
THE PLAYGROUND IDEA 
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Not a very high price to pay for the 
results obtained. 
An instance came to my attention 
recently of a boy who was arrested 
for stealing apples. He had gotten 
into similar trouble several times be- 
fore, but the judge decided to turn 
him over to the probation officer for 
another chance. The officer took the 
boy. aside for a’ heart to heart talk, 
and said, “Now, see here. Jack, I 
want you to tell me just what the 
cause of this is. Do you like apples 
so very well that if you don’t get 
them in any other way y-ou just have 
to steal them?’’ Jack looked much 
surprised and somewhat ashamed. 
He had never thought of it in that 
light before. He hesitated, and then 
said, “No ma’am, but it’s such fun 
to have them chase me.” What that 
boy wanted was a game, not apples; 
and the city is not looking to its 
own welfare that fails to provide 
him a means of having his game in 
a good, wholesome way, instead of 
forcing him to get it under condi- 
tions that, although they may not be 
very serious at the time, are paving 
the way for greater offenses against 
the community when he 'comes to be 
a man. 
