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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
nated four acres of ground to the Im- 
maculate Conception Catholic Church of 
Coupon, Pa., for cemetery and other 
purposes. The congregation is composed 
of miners and a few old settler farmers, 
and this new cemeter}^ will be a great 
convenience for them. 
The cemetery committee of the town 
of Windham, Conn., has employed a 
competent landscape architect to lay out 
and plot the ground for its new ceme- 
tery located on West Main Street. 
The officials of Swan Point Cemetery, 
Providence, R. L, are seeking to close 
that part of Rochambeau Avenue which 
extends from the Blackstone Boulevard 
through Swan Point Cemetery to the 
Pawtucket line. One of the purposes of 
the proposed abandonment is the elimi- 
nation of all traffic not in keeping with 
the beautiful surroundings ; another is 
the utilization of land for burial lots at 
either side of the avenue, this being 
necessary to meet the growing demand 
for lots. Traffic requirement can be 
very well met by the use of the Alfred 
Stone road, which runs from Pleasant 
Street, Pawtucket, to Blackstone Ave- 
nue in Providence. A petition covering 
the above was submitted to the Board 
of Aldermen, which was referred to the 
committee on highways, with a request 
for a public hearing. 
Land for another large cemetery ad- 
jacent to Chicago has been acquired. It 
contains 120 acres adjoining the town 
of Argo, south of Willow Springs, and 
is said to be located on the highest land 
in Cook County. It is well wooded with 
a natural growth of fine trees. It is 
named Fairmount Cemetery and is 14 
miles from Chicago on Archer Avenue, 
and is accessible by several lines of 
street cars and railroads. The highest 
part is 106 feet above the main entrance. 
Some $6, .500 of improvements are to 
be made at Woodlawn Cemetery, Des 
Moines, la., the main items being a re- 
taining wall on the north and a new 
iron fence running from the entrance 
on Twenty-first Street to Center Street. 
An appropriation of $2,500 has been 
made for the purpose of erecting a new 
granite and iron gateway, designed on 
classic lines, for the Edson Cemetery, 
Lowell, Mass., to be located opposite 
Third Avenue. 
The cost of improvements in North 
Burial Ground, Providence, R. L, of 
which Mr. James Warren, Jr., is super- 
intendent, for the year 1910, will amount 
to $5,000. It is to be expended chiefly 
on additions to office building from 
plans by Martin & Hall. 
By an unanimous vote of the Board 
of Aldermen of Manchester, N. H., the 
resolution calling for the purchase of 
additional land for use in Pine Grove 
Cemetery extension was passed. A tract 
under advisement consists of some 75 
acres adjoining the present grounds and 
being added to the cemetery would give 
it a highway boundary on all sides. By 
a readjustment of finances the funds can 
be easily provided. 
Chas. N. Lowrie, landscape architect 
of New York City, who has been at 
work on the laying out of the grounds 
of the Connecticut Agricultural College, 
has also been engaged by the cemetery 
committee of Windham, Conn., to lay 
out a plot of ground for burial pur- 
poses. 
POWER TO REQUIRE BURIAL 
PERMIT 
The Kentucky Supreme Court decides 
that under Kentucky statutes, 1903, sec- 
tion 3058, authorizing the general coun- 
cil of a city to establish and enforce 
quarantine laws and regulations to pre- 
vent the introduction and spread of con- 
tagious diseases in the city, to regulate 
hospitals, infirmaries, etc., within the 
city, and to secure the general health of 
the inhabitants of the city, a city has 
power to pass an ordinance providing 
that no person dying in the city shall 
be interred in a city cemetery without a 
burial permit from the board of health. 
The judge holds that by section 3058, 
Kentucky statutes, 1903, the general coun- 
cil was authorized to establish and en- 
force quarantine laws and regulations to 
prevent the introduction and spread of 
contagious diseases in the city, to regu- 
late hospitals, infirmaries, etc., within 
the city, and to secure the general health 
of the inhabitants of the city. Under 
this provision of the statute the city had 
power to pass the ordinance to the ef- 
fect that no person dying in the city 
should be interred in the city cemetery 
without a burial permit from the board 
of health. The board of health was au- 
thorized to make reasonable regulations 
as to the issuing of such permits, and it 
was not an unreasonable regulation to 
require the certificate of the attending 
physician as to the cause of the patient’s 
death. Under all the circumstances of 
this case, and in view of the necessity 
of speedy action the Supreme Court 
says there is no ground for disturb- 
ing the judgment of the circuit court. 
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Rooms without 
bath, European 
plan, $1.50, $2.00 
and $2. 50; with 
bath, $2.50, $3.00, 
$3.50, $4.00. 
When $1.50, $2.00 
and $2.50 rooms 
without bath are 
occupied by two 
persons the rate 
for the second per- 
son is $1.50; when 
$3 00, $3.50 or $4.00 
rooms with bath, 
are occupied by 
two persons, add 
$2.00 a day for the 
additional person. 
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