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labor and material on lots. The labor 
payroll was $44,110.81, the bill for ma- 
terials $18,768.21, and for salaries $12,- 
543.46. Forty monuments and 279 
headstones were erected. The total 
number of interments in the cemetery 
reaches 37,521, and cremations 1,688, 
■of which 254 were for the past year. 
The annual meeting of the trustees 
of cemeteries of Lowell, Mass., was 
recently held. Five cemeteries, of a 
total acreage of some 70 acres, are 
under the care of the board. The 
total receipts amounted to $8,615.90, 
and there was expended on labor $5,- 
051.26- — total expenditures amounting 
to $7,522.89. There were 573 inter- 
ments. The perpetual care fund now 
amounts to $60,600, and an urgent plea 
is made to all lot owners concerning 
the expediency of providing such care 
for their lots. A large amount of ef- 
fective work has been accomplished 
under the board, and there has been 
an average profit in the maintenance 
of the cemeteries •for the last three 
years of $1,000 per annum. 
According to the reports of the offi- 
cers of the Oakland Cemetery Asso- 
ciation the past year has been a satis- 
factory one. The total receipts 
amounted to $87,004.63, which includ- 
ed lot sales, $30,436; single graves, 
$1,264; interment fees, $2,397; labor 
and foundations, $4,047.65, and green- 
house sales, $6,518.75. Gross expendi- 
tures reached $76,696.09. This includ- 
ed greenhouse $4,369.69, payrolls $23,- 
177.65 and miscellaneous expenses. 
The perpetual care fund is $141,636.77. 
The total interments amount to 17,814. 
The average number of employes per 
month was 36. 
The annual report of Pine Grove 
Cemetery, Manchester, N. H., showed 
total receipts from all sources of 
$20,616.69. 
The annual report of the Lakeside 
Cemetery Association, Pekin, 111., was 
a satisfactory one. The completion 
of the Steinmetz Memorial chapel, 
at a cost of $11,000, was a fact of 
record. The perpetual care fund now 
amounts to $2,564.93. .The receipts 
from all sources were $2,928.25 and 
expenses $2,731.36, which included 
$1,510.75 for labor and superinten- 
dence, and left a balance of $196.89. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
With $6,000 now awaiting a satisfac- 
tory investment, the perpetual care fund 
of the city cemeteries of Waltham, 
Mass., will amount to $50,000. 
Preliminary surveys have been com- 
pleted for the new St. Mary’s Ceme- 
tery, located just south of San Lean- 
dro, Calif. The 80 acres in the tract 
have been laid out by Reymond J. 
Squires, of Oakland, and it is expected 
that the improvements will have cost 
half a million dollars before the ceme- 
tery is completed as intended. There 
will be two artificial lakes on the 
grounds, and a number of fountains. 
The maple trees on the north side 
of Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro, 
Pa., becoming too close for their proper 
development and appearance, the super- 
intendent has been removing alternate 
trees and transplanting them to a pri- 
cate lot in town. The trees are some 
25 years old and near 40 feet in height, 
but Mr. Gilbert feels confident that with 
care they will keep moving in their 
next home with little signs of damage. 
His method is to dig around the tree 
about three feet deep and say. four feet 
from trunk center, and after loosening 
the earth at the bottom to pull it over 
with block and tackle. He leaves it 
over night to freeze the loose earth 
and then transports it, in a truck de- 
vised for the purpose, to the new and 
well prepared location. To aid in pro- 
viding sufficient moisture for the roots 
terra cotta pipe is sunk into the ground 
close to the trunk. 
The Cemetery Board of New Bed- 
ford, Mass., asks for an appropriation 
of $25,000 to defray expenses for 1910. 
This is $8,000 more than was allotted 
for last year, and receipts are antici- 
pated to be just as large, but the in- 
crease in salaries and wages of this de- 
partment and the laying out of recently 
purchased land in Pine Grove Cemetery 
calls for an adequate appropriation. 
The South Tacoma Cemetery, of 
which Mr. George A. Hill is superin- 
tendent, expended some $10,000 in im- 
provements in 1909. A four-acre addi- 
tion to the grounds was made ; a new 
entrance, having iron gate with stone 
posts and wall, was erected at a cost 
of $3,700, and a greenhouse of wood 
on cement wall was built at a cost of 
$ 1 , 000 . 
Some $2,000 of improvement were 
made during 1909 in Graceland Ceme- 
tery, Sidney, O., comprising new gate- 
way and avenue work. The cemetery is 
supplied with city water, and it has a 
small frame chapel and a receiving 
vault. The avenues are constructed of 
gravel with high crowning, and dust 
does not bother the superintendent, Mr. 
G. C. Anderson. 
Oakland Cemetery Association, St. 
Paul, Minn., has made a new depar- 
ture in reference to monumental 
work. Order blanks requiring the 
signature of owner or owners of a 
lot will be required in the future for; 
Building foundations, making changes 
on work already set, cutting, inscrip- 
tions or cleaning of monumental 
work. This will necessitate that when 
a contract is signed for a piece of 
work, the foundation order must be 
signed at the same time, and this will 
inform the lot owner of what is being 
done. 
A vault and chapel is to be built in 
the Dixon, 111., cemetery for the con- 
struction of which bids have been 
called. 
The Norwich, N. Y., Cemetery As- 
sociation has purchased additional 
lands for extension purposes. 
The Helping Hand Society of 
Northville, Mass., has accumulated 
$400 for the purpose of improving the 
Northville cemetery. 
The Livingston, W. Va., township 
board is moved towards cemetery im- 
provement and will install a water 
supply, with windmill power, in the 
cemetery under its control. A gate 
lodge to accommodate the sexton is 
also contemplated. 
The city council of Atlanta, Ga., 
will convert about 100 acres of Lake- 
wood park 'into a cemetery, which 
will be selected by the associated city 
commissions. 
A satisfactory test has been made 
of the new cemetery constructed in 
the Springfield, IMass., cemetery. 
Several new features have been in- 
troduced into this furnace. 
Among the proposed improvements 
in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, 
iMich., is a lodge, shelter house and 
office, at its Washington avenue en- 
trance. The shelter house is to be 
Gothic in design with tile roof, cov- 
ering a waiting room 27 feet square, 
with toilet rooms, office and storage 
facilities. 
Work has been commenced on the 
new gateway and entrance to Moun- 
tain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, 
Conn., the gift of Charles B. and 
David F. Read in memory of their 
parents, the late D. M. and Ellen A. 
Read, and to cost $10,000. The main 
gateway will be 22 ft. 6 ins. wide, 
with a smaller one each side for 
pedestrians, and the massive columns', 
surmounted by urns, will be of light 
Concord, N. H., granite. The heavy 
iron gates, already on the ground, are 
highly ornamental in design. 
The City of Natchez, Miss., has pur- 
chased eight acres of land as an addi- 
tion to the city cemetery for $8,000, 
which is to be paid for as the lots are 
sold, improvement to be begun at 
once. 
