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PARK 
AND CEMETERY . 
t^FFICE AND C0NSP:RVAT0RY. MAFIIOX CEMETERY, MARION, O, 
-Marion Cemeter\- , is self-sustaining 
and one third of the land is still for sale 
at the same price it has always brought. 
'I'he price for perpetual care endowment 
is :2.) cents a square foot. 
The Marion Cemetery -\ssociation was 
•organized in 1857, by the purchase of 
■i~ acres at a cost of $C347, and later 
accessions have brought the total area 
up to 58 acres. 
File .\ssociation encountered great op- 
position and for years struggled hard 
to maintain itself. The members loaned 
it money and gave gratuitously, their 
time and labor toward its development. 
51 any people believed that it was only 
a speculation entered into for gain, and 
though invited to join and become con- 
$2,900, a handsome entrance and other 
service buildings as required. hand- 
some soldiers’ memorial chapel, erected 
by public contributions amounting to 
$15,000, also stands in the cemetery. 
In 1873, soon after the .Association 
was free from debt, a resolution was 
passed that ten per cent, of all the 
monej's realized from the sale of lots 
should be set apart and put on interest, 
the proceeds of such loans to be applied 
to keep the unsold grounds belonging to 
the .Association, in order for all future 
time. With all lots now sold the en- 
dowment is included. 
The grounds were well-endowed with 
a natural growth of trees and many lot- 
owners have made the mistake of plant- 
PERSONAL 
Mr. Durward W. Hill has been elect- 
ed assistant secretary of cemeteries in 
Waltham, Alass, 
Mr. Paul L. Alueller, Minneapolis, 
Minn., a graduate of Harvard Univer- 
sity’s Department of Landscape .Archi- 
tecture, and who has recently returned 
from an extended study throughout Eu- 
rope. has just completed a general plan 
for the development of an' addition to 
Woodville Cemetery at Waseca, Minn. 
He has also been engaged by the Park 
Board of Owatonna, Minn., to make a 
study and report on the question of fu- 
ture park improvements. He has opened 
an office at No. 726 .Andrus Building, 
Minneapolis. 
AN EFFICIENT AND INEXPENSIVE GREENHOUSE 
The combined cemetery office and con- 
servator\’ of Marion Cemetery, Alarion. 
O.. is suggestive of how an efficient and 
not unattractive greenhouse plant may 
be built at small cost. 
The total expenditure for the office, 
work-room and the five steam-heated 
greenhouses was $2,500. The plant is 
on a paying basis and the indirect bene- 
fits to the cemetery are also very great. 
ing too many evergreen and other or- 
namental trees upon their lots. Of the 
surplus trees not a few have been re- 
moved at the request of lot-owners 
themselves. Careful, judicious thinning 
out has been done and more of it is 
planned. 
S. E. De Wolfe is president of the 
Board of Trustees, and E. A. Sloan has 
been superintendent since June, 1907. 
versant with its workings, held aloof for 
want of proper information. The strug- 
gle with adversity continued till the 
spring of 1873, when the .Association 
was free from debt, had a balance in 
its treasury, and the way for much 
needed improvements was opened. 
.A comfortable residence for the su- 
perintendent has been erected at a cost 
of $3,000 : a receiving vault at a cost of 
