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comply with an ordinance of May 6, 
1908, which stipulates that “no inter- 
ment of any human being shall be made 
in any public or private burial grounds, 
unless the distance to the top of the 
box containing the coffin or casket shall 
be not less than four feet from the nat- 
ural surface of the ground.” 
A community mausoleum is contem- 
plated for Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, 
to cost $150,000. The Colorado Mauso- 
leum Co., jointly with the cemetery as- 
sociation, is promoting the enterprise. 
Joseph Wilson, a Denver architect, has 
prepared the plans. 
It is reported that Bishop P. A. Lud- 
den, of Syracuse, has stated that he will 
not consecrate any more land for ceme- 
teries under private control. This is 
said to have been caused by the dis- 
graceful conditions of St. Mary’s -Ceme- 
tery. The bishop is to be commended 
for taking any stand which may prom- 
ise more satisfactory permanent results. 
A bill has been introduced into the 
New York legislature to confer juris- 
diction upon the State Comptroller to 
determine the application of Washing- 
ton Cemeter 3 ^ Brooklyn, for redemption 
of lands. The lands affected by the bill 
are in the territory formerly the towns 
of Gravesend and New Utrecht. The 
redemption sought is from tax sales ex- 
ecuted in 1881, 1885 and 1890. 
Crown Hill Cemetery, Denver, Colo., 
is to be made a burial ground for white 
people only, if it is successful in secur- 
ing a charter amendment to that effect. 
It is the aim of the stockholders to 
make this cemetery the mo.st exclusive 
in the West. 
A tempest has occurred in Greenwich, 
Conn., over the removal of the remains 
of a pet dog, buried recently in the lot 
of Miss Harriet Lockwood, in Lock- 
wood Cemetery. This act caused con- 
siderable commotion in the community, 
resulting in the grave being opened and 
the body of the dog removed. Miss 
Lockwood engaged detectives and prom- 
ised arrest for the perpetrators of the 
deed. 
An opinion of far-reaching impor- 
tance in the State of New Jersey has 
been handed down in the Court of 
Chancery by Vice-Chancellor Stevents 
m connection with the case in which 
the East Ridgela-wm Cemetery Company, 
Newark, is the complainant and Adam 
Frank and a man of the name of Pond 
the defendants. In the case in question 
it is held that the defendant has never 
received any consideration for his lands, 
but in order to arrive at this conclusion 
the vice-chancellor was obliged to pass 
directly upon the validity of a stock 
issue of a cemetery, and held that such 
an issue, however disguised, was un- 
authorized by the cemetery act. As 
such shares are widely distributed in 
the State, the decision is of more than 
ordinary interest. 
There is a movement on foot in Syra- 
cuse, N. Y., to improve the city ceme- 
teries and make them attractive to the 
general public. The idea is to intro- 
duce the idea often observed in the cem- 
eteries of the South. 
Plans for the Sarah E. Spaulding 
Memorial chapel, in Fairview Cemetery, 
Chicopee, Mass., have been accepted by 
the cemetery commissioners. The de- 
sign is by E. C. and G. C. Gardner, of 
Springfield. The new building will be 
constructed as largely of marble and 
terra cotta as the $12,000 appropriation 
will permit. The building will be about 
40 feet by 28 feet, with a vaulted roof. 
The decorations will be warm in tone 
and the appointments complete. 
A chapel and gate-house is under con- 
struction for the Hebrew Friendship 
Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. It will be 
constructed of Port Deposit granite, 
after plans by Theodore Wells Pietsch, 
architect. 
A receiving vault in Milltown Ceme- 
tery, Brewster, Conn., is rapidly nearing 
completion. Its cost wilt be $2,500. 
The new cemetery of West Lawn, 
Omaha, Neb., upon which some $40,000 
has already been expended,- is being 
brought rapidly into shape for use. The 
superintendent is W. E. R. Murphjq 
from Altoona, Pa., and the improve- 
ments contemplated will cost in all 
$100,000. It will be conducted on the 
lawn plan, with restricted monuments 
and head stones. The whole area is 
165 acres, of- which 55 is under im- 
provement for present purposes. 
Lot owners in the City Cemetery, Og- 
den, Utah, have been planning to take 
that cemetery out of city control and 
maintain it by assessing the lot-owners. 
The new cemetery of the Cleveland- 
Cliffs Iron Co., Marquette, Mich., is 
progresing from designs and under the 
care of the company’s engineers. The 
plans have been accepted by the council. 
In the late fall the bodies from the old 
cemeteries will be removed to the new 
one. where there is room for 36,000 in- 
terments. 
Graceland Cemetery is one of the 
newest of the local burial places of Al- 
bany, N. Y., and is a beautiful tract of 
a total of 200 acres. Of this some 30 
acres has been improved, and the re- 
mainder will be developed as required. 
There wdll be no grave mounds, and the 
methods and rules of modern cemetery 
making will be in control. Its location 
is most picturesque and under lawn 
plan regulation it offers opportunities of 
up-to-date improvement to the landscape 
gardener not often excelled. 
FROM CEMETERY REPORTS 
The annual report of the Ottumwa 
Cemetery, Ottumwa, la., for year end- 
ing April 30, 1910, shows total receipts 
of $6,211.70, and cost of maintenance 
$4,031.13. There was added to the per- 
petual care fund $1,705.50, making a to- 
tal of $5,890. The number of inter- 
ments was 177. The chapel which was 
built jointly by the Cloutman Post, G. 
A. R., and the Cemetery Association is 
constructed of Bedford stone, and fin- 
ished in Mission oak, cost $5,000. The 
chapel is 18 feet by 18 feet, with office 
10 feet by 12 feet, and the heating plant 
and toilet room are in the basement. 
The new entrance is also of Bedford 
stone with ornamental iron gates and 
cost $1,800. It was built from a fund 
founded by J. W. Edgerly, one of the 
town’s foremost citizens. The new res- 
idence of 6 rooms, modern in arrange- 
ment and design, cost $3,000. Mr. Le- 
roy Christie is secretary and treasurer 
of the Ottumw'a Cemetery Association. 
The annual report of the Board of 
Commissioners of Pine Grove Ceme- 
tery, Lynn, Mass., for year ending De- 
cember 19, 1909, shows receipts to have 
been : including interest from Perpetual 
Care Fund, $7,575.18, and appropriation, 
$9,000, $38,892.45. The sale of lots 
amounted to $9,197.26; interments, $3,- 
370; regrading, $2,424.95; foundations, 
$2,138.18; plants, $1,642.95, and annual 
care, $1,334.93. In the expenditures 
$23,454.91 is charged to labor. The Per- 
petual Care Fund was increased for the 
year by $29,677.36, and the total fund 
now amounts to $226,374.96. 
The total interments for the year 
were 773, and the total number in the 
cemetery is 24,193. During the year 207 
old lots were put under perpetual care, 
making about 1,000 of- such lots pro- 
vided for, and leaving 500 yet to come 
under the provision. The work of in- 
stalling a new water system is under 
way. The fight against the gypsy and 
brown tail moths cost $1,156.85. The 
Commissioners are obliged now to con- 
sider the question of the fast driving of 
automobiles in connection with road re- 
pairs, and it may result in prohibiting 
their use on the cemetery roads. 
OBITUARY 
Henry Bull, a pioneer landscape gar- 
dener, died at his residence in Chicago 
on May. 12. He was 86 years of age 
and was a native of England. He came 
from that country in 1852 and settled 
in Lake View. He was interred in 
Graceland Cemeterjn 
