PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW CEMETERIES, IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS 
The city cemetery at Colorado 
Springs, Colo., is to be replatted, and 
this will give some 190 additional 
lots. The sale of these lots will help 
the city to improve the burial 
ground. 
It is proposed to add eight acres to 
Linwood cemetery, Haverhill, Mass. 
The Cemetery Commission of Sen- 
eca Falls, N. Y., has asked the village 
board of trustees to appropriate $1,000 
to start a chapel fund. It is proposed 
to build a chapel in the cemetery to 
cost about $4,000. 
Hollywood cemetery, Los Angeles, 
Calif., is to be greatly improved this 
year. Granite and wrought iron en- 
trances are to be built, and all the 
ungraded sections are to be graded 
and planted. Two more ornamental 
lakes with cement bottoms and curbs 
are to be constructed, and plans are 
prepared for a beautiful chapel to be 
located near the center of the 
grounds. 
Oak Hill cemetery, Lebanon, Ind., 
made great progress last year. Since 
November, 1908, some $10,000 has 
been expended in grading, improve- 
ments and beautifying the grounds, 
and this spring preparations are be- 
ing made to partially carry out an 
adopted planting plan. The ceme- 
tery is under progressive manage- 
ment and is a credit to the commun- 
ity and will unquestionably have an 
inspiring influence upon cemeteries 
in neighboring towns. 
The Elmwood Cemetery Co., Bir- 
mingham, Ala., has been reorganized 
. and its title changed to the Elmwood 
Cemetery Corporation. The capital 
stock has been increased from $150,- 
000 to $400,000, and an additional 80 
acres of land has been purchased, 
which makes a total area of 240 acres 
all enclosed by one fence- It is the 
intention of the corporation to create 
an up-to-date cemetery and with this 
end in view a large amount of money 
will be expended in beautifying the 
grounds already improved, and the 
lawn plan will be so far as possible 
carried out in every detail, including 
perpetual care. A street car line will 
be run down to the main entrance 
and one of the best equipped funeral 
cars that can be built will be a ceme- 
tery asset. 
Considerable improvement is being 
made in Green Park Cemetery, Port- 
land, Ind., a substantial residence and 
office building being of importance. 
There is now under consideration by 
the board a complete drainage sys- 
tem to take the place of the imperfect 
one now doing duty. 
Some $5,000 were spent on. general 
improvement work in 1909 at Wash- 
ington Cemetery, Pa. The cemetery 
includes 250 acres and there are sev- 
eral miles of roads. The water is sup- 
plied by a large spring, and it is 
raised by a gasoline engine to a hill 
reservoir from which it runs on to 
the grounds by gravitation- A new 
entrance is to be built in the near fu- 
ture. The granite receiving vault and 
chapel cost $25,000 and there is a 
small greenhouse. Some 250 barrels 
of Atlas cement are used annually. 
There is a wide difference between 
the estimates of cemetery land values 
in the land condemnation case of 
the Kensico cemetery against the city 
of New York, on account of a strip 
of the newer portion being required 
for the Catskill aqueduct. The ceme- 
tery corporation’s claim against the 
city is $2,360,000, while experts of the 
city place the damage at about 
$35,000. 
William Falconer, superintendent 
of the Allegheny cemetery, Pitts- 
burgh, is talked of as the tree com- 
mission’s possible superintendent of 
trees. There is no doubt as to his 
capacity for the position; the ques- 
tion may be as to inducements, and 
he is certainly equal to the -two ap- 
pointments, if they could be made to 
harmonize. 
At the annual meeting of Oakwood 
Cemetery Association, Geneseo, 111., 
a decidedly increasing interest was 
reported in the perpetual care pro- 
vision. During the past year more 
lots than ever were placed under per- 
petual care and there were more in- 
quiries from interested lot owners. 
The ordinance enacted by the city 
council of Lawrence, Mass., author- 
izing the deposit of funds with the 
city treasurer for the care and em- 
bellishment of cemetery lots, has 
been declared valid by the city solic- 
itor. 
The state house of representatives 
of New Jersey has passed the Mc- 
Cran bill permitting Paterson to ac- 
quire possession of three old ceme- 
teries that have long been abandoned. 
Prominent business men of Water- 
town, S. D., have organized the 
South Dakota Mausoleum Company, 
the object being to construct two 
concrete compartment mausoleums. 
The city council of Bloomington, 111., 
have given the National ^Mausoleum 
Companj^ opportunity to select a site 
for a compartment mausoleum, sub- 
ject to the approval of the council. 
The board of cemetery commis- 
sioners of Waltham. Mass., has de- 
cided upon selecting an assistant 
superintendent. 
It is possible that the city of At- 
lanta, Ga., may purchase Hollywood 
cemetery, it being agreed upon by 
the council that the city should have 
a municipal cemetery. Oakland 
cemetery is about all sold out. 
The Battle Creek, iMich., Mauso- 
leum Association propose to erect a 
$50,000 compartment mausoleum this 
year. It will provide 400 crypts. 
l\Ir. Sid J. Hare is laying out West 
Lawn cemetery, located between 
Omaha and South Omaha. It has an 
area of 160 acres and is a beautiful 
site. Mission architecture will be 
used in entrance, office, shelter, chapel 
and vault. 
Highland Park cemetery, Kansas 
Citjq Kas., is progressing. The 
chapel and vault are well under way 
and the lodge is under roof. The new 
and attractive entrance will consist of 
two shelter houses at each side of a 
corner entrance, and from the shelter, 
on either side, extends a pergola 
covered walk leading to the office on 
one side and to the waiting room 
on the other. The greenhouse, 
screened from view by planting, will 
be located near the waiting room. 
The architecture is all mission. This 
is also in care of Mr. Sid J. Hare. 
Clinton, 111., is contemplating en- 
tering into a scheme of mausoleum 
building on a proposition of the 
International Mausoleum Co., of Chi- 
cago. It is to contain 220 crypts. 
A gift of land has been accepted by 
the town officials of Ware, Mass., to 
enlarge Aspen Grove cemetery. 
An agitation has been started in 
Syracuse, N. Y., looking to the aban- 
donment of Rose Hill Cemetery, lo- 
cated in a thickly settled residence 
district, and one of the oldest ceme- 
teries in the city. It will necessitate 
the reburial of thousands of bodies. 
Application has been made to the 
Montgomery, Pa., county courts, for 
a charter for another large cemetery 
to be laid out in Abington township. 
Capital, $100,000. Incorporators: H. 
Oscar Sprissler, Frank H. Danen- 
hour, George F. Murray, and Gran- 
vil Asher, all of Philadelphia. 
