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f^ARK AND 
CEMETERY. 
Philadelphia, Pa., has secured another 
lot adjoining its holdings on Frankford 
avenue. 
A practical experience in Union Ceme- 
tery, Amesbury, Mass., is interesting. 
More ground being necessary and the 
cost of an adjoining plot being pro- 
hibitive, a neglected portion of low 
ground on the present tract was studied. 
It was resolved to fill and raise it and 
1,500 loads of sand were hauled and 
dumped, with the result that it was 
economically made available for burial 
purposes. For the present this has 
obviated the necessity of a further pur- 
chase. Mr. John F. Merrill, superin- 
tendent, has done an excellent piece of 
work in this improvement. 
The Cemetery Board of New Bed- 
ford, Mass., recently raised the rates 
of labor in the department from $1.85, 
$1.95, $2.00 and $2.20 for foremen to 
$2 and $2.25 for laborers and $2.50 for 
foremen. Owing to lack of work for 
the entire force at this season only 
three men have been retained in each 
cemetery; the first time this has oc- 
curred in a number of years. 
Superintendent Martin Packard, of 
Alelrose Cemetery, Brockton, Mass., in 
his annual report will recommend that 
the cemetery be placed under the di- 
rect supervision of a commission, rather 
than under the present system of an 
annual change of committee. Flis main 
reason for the recommendation is that 
the commission method provides better 
men in permanent positions, and hence 
ministers to a progressive policy of im- 
provement. 
San Marcos, Texas, is trying to ob- 
tain title to the old cemetery property, 
an abandoned graveyard, upon which 
to erect a high-school building. It is 
now surrounded by fine residences and 
is very valuable, but the original 
grantors so tied it up that the city 
attorney is doubtful about securing title 
except by expensive litigation. 
The West Meriden, Conn., Cemetery 
Association has also been waging a 
fierce legal battle with the city to avoid 
paying a curb assessment on Orange 
street, amounting to $476, defending its 
refusal on the grounds of the curbing 
being of no benefit and unnecessary. 
The condemnation proceedings of the 
Lakewood Cemetery Association, Min- 
neapolis, Minn., to secure additional 
land are being strenuously fought by the 
defendants, and it may be months be- 
fore a settlement is reached. The work 
on the new chapel is progressing slow- 
ly; the exterior is completed, and the 
mosaic workers have possession of the 
interior. 
Application for a charter has been 
filed at Nashville, Tenn., capital $100,- 
000, for a new cemetery, Hollywood. 
A tract of 38 acres has been secured 
just east of Mt. Olivet Cemetery, and 
it is stated that development will be 
begun in the immediate future. The 
applicants for the charter are : H. J. 
Brownell, W. W. Appleton, J. G. Letts, 
H. R. Coleman and G. B. Murray. 
The case of the village of Gouver- 
neur, N. Y., against the Gouverneur 
Cemetery Association, which grew out 
of the refusal of the association to build 
a sidewalk, which the village authori- 
ties afterwards did, and charged to the 
association, has been decided by the 
Appellate division of the Supreme Court 
in favor of the village. Amount in- 
volved $900. 
Sneak thieves have been operating in 
St. Louis Cemetery, No. 2, Lexington, 
Va., removing the brass screws from 
the vaults. 
To determine the validity of the city 
ordinance prohibiting the burial of the 
dead in Calvary Cemetery, Denver, 
Colo., located close to Cheesman park, 
a test case is to be instituted. Since 
burial has been stopped the authorities 
appear to have neglected the necessary 
care of the grounds and lot-owners are 
becoming restive. 
The Board of Control of Norfolk, 
Va., recently recommended an ordinance 
increasing the salary of the superin- 
tendent of cemeteries from $1,500 to 
$1,800. 
We are making progress. The 
county commissioners at Richmond, Ind., 
have admitted that the present county 
pauper cemetery located at the county 
farm is a disgrace, and that those buried 
therein have not always been given a 
Christian burial. If the commissioners’ 
ideas and activity hold good a complete 
reform is to be inaugurated and car- 
ried out. 
The city council of Jacksonville,- 111., 
recently passed an ordinance placing 
Diamond Grove and Jacksonville ceme- 
teries under the care of commissioners. 
The commissioners need not necessarily 
be lot-owners ; the city clerk acts as 
secretary, whose office shall be in the 
city hall. 
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, 
O., has established new rates for in- 
terments. Prices range from $10 to 
$25 for graves from three to five feet 
long to $40 for full size graves. These 
new rates are not necessarily in- 
creases, but a correction, of existing 
inequalities. 
A compartment mausoleum with 
250 crypts was recently dedicated at 
the Silent City Cemetery, IMonroe, 
la. It is constructed of reinforced 
concrete on the exterior and white 
marble in the interior and cost $18,- 
000. In the Ottawa Avenue Ceme- 
tery, Ottawa, Ilk, another of these 
structures was dedicated, with a ca- 
pacity of 240 bodies. This is also of 
concrete construction. One of 150 
capacity is under construction at 
Ashley, O. 
The Central Illinois Pet Cemetery 
Association has been incorporated and 
fourteen acres of land purchased for 
cemetery purposes near the outer en- 
trance of Bradley Park, Peoria, 111. 
In this cemetery all family pets, in- 
cluding horses and ponies, will be al- 
lowed burial, and every animal's 
grave is to be marked with a monu- 
ment. Lots will be sold as low as $5, 
which is a third of what is charged 
at Hartsdale, N. Y., for similar lots. 
The scheme originated with Mrs. Gil- 
bert of Peoria. No stock will be sold 
and there will be no profit-sharing, 
but from the start 10 per cent of the 
money received will go to the Peoria 
Humane Society, and upon the death 
of the original incorporators and offi- 
cers the cemetery will pass into the 
hands of the same organization. 
France maintains the largest cemetery 
of this kind in the world. 
The Common Council of Boston has 
rescinded loan orders to the amount 
of $233,000 at the request of the mayor 
upon which bonds had not been is- 
sued, and the following cemeteries are 
affected: Mount Hope Cemetery, ad- 
ditional land, $40,000; Evergreen Cem- 
etery, additional land, $40,000; Dor- 
chester North Burial Ground, wall, 
$ 6 , 000 . 
FROM CEMETERY REPORTS 
At the annual meeting of the Oak- 
land Cemetery Association, St. Paul, 
Minn., it was reported that the gross 
receipts for the year amounted to $77,- 
545.58, and total expenditures to $76,- 
696.09. The receipts included : $31,700 
sales of lots and graves ; $2,397 inter- 
ment fees ; $4,048 foundations and mis- 
cellaneous labor, and $6,519 from green- 
house sales. Among the improvements 
are the foundations for the large new 
greenhouses, 333 feet of sewer, over 
1,745 square feet of cement block cross- 
ings and extensions to the water system. 
There were 394 interments, making a 
total of 17,814 to October 31 last. The 
fund for the future care of the ceme- 
tery now amounts to $146,300. 
In the 22 years of its existence the 
greenhouse work of the Oakland 
Cemetery Association, St. Paul, Minn., 
has grown from practically nothing to 
a cash business of over $6,000 a year. 
