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cemetery of Columbiana, O., has been 
planned by the cemetery directors. 
This includes a concrete retaining 
wall, iron gates swinging on stone 
pillars, and quite an amount of sod- 
ding and grading. 
More attention to the proper keep- 
ing of the Greenwood and German 
cemeteries of Reedsburg, Wis., is 
being given every year, the people 
realizing that the cemeteries are not 
kept up to harmonize with the im- 
provements in the town. A thousand 
dollars is being raised for fencing 
and other requirements, and it is to 
be hoped that the present dilapidated 
conditions will soon disappear. 
A community mausoleum is to be 
erected soon in Wausau Cemetery, 
Wausau, Wis. Preliminary details have 
been completed and plans are being 
secured. 
Both Beech Grove Cemetery and 
McCulloch park, Muncie, Ind., have 
been greatly improved under the 
handling of Mr. O. W. Crabbs, the 
superintendent. The cemetery is 
looking unusually attractive, and is 
creating a public interest in its wel- 
fare. This always follows. 
The new chapel at the entrance to 
the Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, 
Highlandtown, Baltimore, Md., which 
has been in course of construction 
for the past three months was recent- 
ly dedicated. It comprises a gate- 
lodge and chapel of Maryland 
granite, one story high, in Roman- 
esque style, with gables pierced with 
rose windows and with roof of Span- 
ish tile. Appropriate planting con- 
nects the chapel and gate entrance. 
Oakland Cemetery, Clinton, la., 
has awarded a contract for the instal- 
lation of the Kewanee, 111., com- 
pany’s system of subterranean com- 
pressed air systems of water works. 
The work will be completed some- 
time in November. 
A movement is on foot in West- 
brook, Conn., to raise funds to put 
into proper condition the two old 
cemeteries of the town. One, the 
original burial ground of the place, 
west of the Congregational Church, 
was set apart early in the 18th cen- 
tury, or about the time of the found- 
ing of the church in 1726. The first 
two pastors of the church were 
buried here. The second burial plot 
is about 100 years old, and is some- 
times still used for burials by those 
who have friends at rest there. No 
lots have ever been sold in either 
grounds. It is proposed to raise suffi- 
cient funds to generally improve the 
conditions of these old cemeteries. 
The massive Egyptian entrance to 
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, 
Conn., with its outer piers rapidly be- 
coming clothed with ivy, presents an 
imposing and attractive appearance. 
Postal card views of this entrance 
are now numbered with the city’s 
postal cards of commerce, and must 
necessarily be credited with its due 
share of publicity of the cemetery’s 
attractive features. 
Sebring, O., is facing a serious prob- 
lem in the matter of an addition to 
Quaker Hill Cemetery or the acquisi- 
tion of land for a new cemetery. The 
cemetery had been in use for a cen- 
tury, and but for the rapid growth of 
the town by its side might have lasted 
for many years yet, but recent experi- 
ences have shown that there is no more 
room for burials in Quaker Hill. 
Many legal complications are prom- 
ised for the Kansas City, Mo., authori- 
ties who are endeavoring to cut off an 
unused corner of Union cemetery for 
the improvement of one of the city’s 
most important thoroughfares. The 
right of eminent domain on the part of 
the city may be resorted to. 
A bill asking for the appointment of 
a receiver by Druid Ridge Cemetery 
Corporation, Baltimore, Md., and an 
order on the bill required the company 
to show cause on or before October 24 
why a receiver should not he appoint- 
ed. The day before the bill was filed 
at Towson a bill was filed in the Balti- 
more City Courts by the cemetery com- 
pany and Mr. Chapman was appointed 
receiver, but the proceedings in the city 
have been dismissed, as it was shown 
that the city courts did not have juris- 
diction, the cemetery being located at 
Pikesville, in Baltimore county. On 
October 25th, J. Edward Tyler, Jr., 
attorney for the company, filed an an- 
swer to the bill, admitting the insolv- 
ency of the corporation and consenting 
to the appointment of receivers, and 
Messrs. James W. Chapman, Jr., and 
Redmond C. Stewart were appointed un- 
der bonds of $10,000 each. 
Union Ridge Cemetery, Norwood 
Park, a suburb of Chicago, was made 
the subject of Hallowe’en pranks, several 
stones being upset. Search is being in- 
stituted for the perpetrators and it is 
possible that a severe lesson may be 
taught them. 
The Cemetery Department Em- 
ployes’ Union, Boston, Mass., has de- 
cided to continue the agitation for 
the Saturday half holiday. 
In order to create a fund for the 
care of the cemetery the Department of 
Parks and Public Property of Des 
Moines, la., has determined to raise the 
price of lots in Glendale and Laurel 
Hill cemeteries. Hitherto prices in these 
cemeteries have ranged between 10 and 
15 cents per square foot; in future the 
range will be between 20 and 40 cents. 
A new cottage is to be built in Laurel 
Hill Cemetery. 
rile Board of Works of Elkhart, 
Ind,, on October 10th, last, adopted a 
resolution vacating 50 additional lots in 
Grace Lawn Cemetery for failure of 
owners to pay purchase notes. The res- 
olution did not carry the usual instruc- 
tions to remove the bodies from such 
lots, but permits the sexton to be lenient 
wdth any owmers who may yet wish to 
pay for their lots. The clerk is in- 
structed to resell the lots. 
In the “Hoboken (N. J.) Observer” 
of October 5, a correspondent has quite 
forcibly drawn attention to the question 
of the taxation of cemeteries. He cites 
the view that when the legislation was 
passed exempting cemeteries and burial 
grounds from taxation, it was when 
cemeteries were not promoted and man- 
aged for profit, and he proposes to call 
the attention of the attorney-general to 
the cemetery question as related to tax- 
ation. 
The Des Moines (la.) “Leader” has 
recently published an article by Mr. Ray 
Floyd Weirick on the “Beautifying of 
Local Cemeteries,” illustrated with 
views of the past and present of ceme- 
teries, before given in P,\rk and Ceme- 
tery, and concludes as follows : “Wood- 
land Cemetery in Des Moines is an ex- 
ample of a burial ground snatched from 
the decadent policies of former years. 
What was rapidly becoming an odd 
mixture of densely crowded graves 
marked by falling slabs of disintegrat- 
ing marble, has been made over into a 
cemetery more in keeping with modern 
practice. The city should be grateful 
to the men who have for the last four 
or five years been remodeling the drives, 
the crumbling arrangement of lots and 
the grounds in general. Woodland 
Cemetery presents an interesting spec- 
tacle of modern ideas trying to make 
up for the errors of the past. This 
municipal property will in a few^ more 
years of improvements of the character 
already completed become one of the 
attractive grounds shown with pride to 
visitors.” 
Because the city cemetery fund of 
Ithaca, N. Y., is exhausted, and the 
Common Council refuses to appropriate 
any more money, the predicament pre- 
sents itself that city employes cannot 
dig any more graves until the fund is 
replenished January 1 next. 
The cemetery commissioners of Bev- 
erly, Mass., are asking for additional 
land, for cemetery purposes. The City 
Council will take up the matter with 
the commissioners. 
