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in the aggregate are accumulated, 
and are invested in bonds and mort- 
gages. The cemetery associations 
and companies, therefore, as a class, 
rank among the large financial insti- 
tutions in the city as lenders and in- 
vestors of money. According to the 
financial report of the Board of 
Trustees of Greenwood Cemetery, 
that association had invested in bonds 
and mortgages on December 31, 1908, 
more than $4,500,000, while its other 
assets, exclusive of the cemetery 
property-, amounted to more than 
^300,000. In addition to this, there 
is nearly $1,107,000 held in trust for 
the special care ■ of certain lots. 
Greenwood Cemetery, which was 
■chartered in 1838 and was opened in 
1840, is one of the oldest and richest 
around New York. Every one who 
purchases a plot of ground of not less 
than 300 square feet becomes a 
stockholder and has a vote in the 
election of the trustees, who control 
the property. Up to the first of this 
year there had been 339,904 inter- 
ments in Greenwood’s 478 acres. 
In some of the fashionable ceme- 
teries a fairly good plot of ground 
may be had for as low as $1 per 
square foot, but in others it is much 
higher. Full lots in Greenwood sell 
at from a little more than $2 a square 
foot up to $5 and $6. In Kensico, 
among the Pocantico Hills, it ranges 
from 40 cents to $1.50 per square 
foot, while at AVoodlawn the prices 
range from $1.75 to $5, according to 
location. 
That the majority of these corpo- 
rations which embark upon the e.x- 
ploitation for cemetery purposes of 
great tracts of land in the suburbs are 
extraordinarily successful as business 
enterprises is beyond question. Land 
is purchased at a few hundred dol- 
lars an acre, and is sold eventually — ■ 
on the square foot basis — at the rate 
of $100,000 or more an acre. 
The cemeteries that are operated 
as real estate enterprises do not fur- 
nish to the public an abstract of their 
receipts and disbursements, so if one 
is not a stockholder it is not easy 
to ascertain the cost of operation or 
profits. Greenwood and the other 
cemeteries on the same basis, how- 
ever, furnish such financial state- 
ments. The latest one from the 
above named cemetery shows that 
its receipts last year were nearly' 
$606,000, and that it paid out for all 
purposes in the same period $380,193. 
Of this a little more than $166,000 
was expended on labor. It is fair to 
assume that other great cemeteries of 
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