PARK AND CEMETERY . 
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ARTIFICIAL LAKE IN PINE GROVE, MANCHESTER, N. H. 
LAKE COMPLETED, PINE GROVE CEMETERY, MANCHESTER. N. H. 
Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, 
N. II., recently completed an important 
improvement by building an artificial 
lake which not only adds a very attrac- 
tive landscape feature to the grounds, 
but does away with an unsightly spot 
that had long been an eyesore. The ac- 
companying before and after views give 
a good idea of the transformation that 
was effected. 
In 1907 the city council made a spe- 
cial appropriation of $5,000 for the pur- 
pose of beautifying the spot. It was a 
natural bog fed by springs. It was 
necessary, in the first place, to remove 
some 1,500 loads of muck. This being 
a rich deposit was very useful in the 
work. An island was built in the cen- 
ter, connected by bridges, and a rustic 
fountain placed to be supplied with city 
water. A retaining wall, some 1,500 feet 
in all, was built around the shore line 
and also around the island. Six hun- 
dred feet of 12-inch pipe was laid and 
connected with sewer for an outlet. 
There was used in grading around 
the shore line and on the island some 
2,500 yards of gravel and 1,000 yards of 
loam. Superintendent J. H. Erskine 
has set out a large number of shrubs 
and herbaceous plants, and there still 
remains room for more of this planting 
to complete plans for the improvement. 
An avenue nearly one-half mile long 
skirts the lake. This has been graded, 
macadamized and water pipe laid for 
use around the lake. With the excep- 
tion of what planting may be done the 
work is practically completed. The to- 
tal cost so far has been $10,000. 
Our illustration of the completed lake 
is from a photograph by Clarence D. 
Palmer, of the granite firm of Palmer & 
Garmon, Manchester, N. H. 
INDIANA’S -NEW 
The new state cemetery law of In- 
diana is a progressive measure that is 
being used to good advantage by Su- 
perintendent George L. Kell)’, of Fair- 
view Cemetery, New Albany, Ind., to 
promote perpetual care. 
By this act the Board of Regents of 
Fairview is made a corporation with 
perpetual existence, and is authorized 
to accept bequests and deposits for per- 
petual care. The moneys devoted to 
that object are paid over to the city 
of New Albany and bear interest at 
the rate of four per cent per annum, 
this interest only being used to per- 
manently care for the lot. 
The law in full is as follows : 
An Act Concerning Cemeteries in Cities, and 
the Incorporation of Boards of Regents for 
Same. Approved March 1. 1907. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General 
Assembly of the State of Indiana, that any 
city of the state owning, or having the 
CEMETERY LAW 
management and control of. any cemetery 
may, by ordinance or resolution of its Com- 
mon Council, transfer the title, management 
and control of such cemetery to a board 
composed of not le.ss than five or more than 
nine reputable citizens of such city, to be 
lot owners in said cemetery, and to be se- 
lected in the first instance by such Com- 
mon Council. The members of such board 
shall serve without compensation. 
Board — Powers — Terms. 
Sec, 2. Such board, when so selected by 
said Common Council, shall be a body cor- 
porate and politic, with the usual powers of 
corporations, and one-third of its members, 
as nearly as they can be divided, shall serve 
for a term of one year, one-third for two 
years, and one-third for three years, as the 
Corrrmon Council by its ordinance or resolu- 
tion creating such board shall direct; and 
thereafter, as the terms of the members of 
such board expire, their successors shall be 
elected by persons owning lots in such cem- 
etery and residing in such city, and each 
member so elected shall serve for the term 
of three years and until his successor i< 
elected and qualified. All vacancies in such 
board caused by death, resignation or fai‘- 
ure to serve, shall be filled by said board 
and the person so elected shall serve until 
the expiration of the term of the regent 
whose death, resignation or failure to serve, 
occasioned the vacancy. Ten days’ notice of 
the annual election of trustees shall be given 
by posting a notice of the time and place ,pf 
such election at the main entrance of said 
cemetery, and by publication three times 
in a daily newspaper of general circulation 
printed in such city, if any there be. 
Corporate Title — Powers. 
See. 3. Such corporation shall be known 
and designated by the name of the board of 
regents of Cemetery, of the 
City of in the State of 
Indiana, and shall be vested with the title, 
management and control of such cemetery, 
and all funds, securities and property held 
for cemetery purposes by such city, or by 
any existing board of regents, or trustees, 
for cemetery purposes, at the time of the 
creation of such new board of regents, to 
the .same extent that the same were, o- 
might be. held and exercised by such city 
for the uses and purposes of a cemetery, 
and place for the burial of the dead. Such 
board shall have authority to make all nec- 
essary rules and regulations for the govern- 
ment and management of such cemetery; to 
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SITE OF LAKE PINE GROVE CEMETERY, MANCHESTER, N. H. 
