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and regulations to govern the new 
cemeteries recently laid out: 
All lots in block 10, east cemetery, and 
all lots in block 12, west cemetery, are to 
be sold in one-half lots and at one-half 
price of full lot. 
10x10 lots to constitute a credit for... $10. 00 
10x15 lots to constitute a credit for. . . 15.00 
10x20 lots to constitute a credit for. . . 20.00 
20x20 lots to constitute a credit for... 40.00 
Each body in the old cemeteries entitles 
the relative buying a lot in. the new ceme- 
teries to a credit of $2.50 on the purchase 
price of the new lot, subject to the review 
of the council. 
The following prices are to be charged for 
digging graves: 
Graves, size 2 feet to 3 feet 6 inches. .. $3.00 
Graves, size 3 feet 6 inches to 4 feet 
6 inches 4.00 
Graves, size 4 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 
6 inches, or over 5.00 
In winter, $1.00 is to be added to above 
prices. 
All graves are to be east and west. 
An extra charge is to be made for deco- 
rating graves, the price to be made by the 
sexton. 
The salary of the sexton, to be $75 per 
month. 
The tools belonging to the sexton, as per 
memorandum of same, are to be purchased 
and paid for by the city at a price of $25. 
All wood and other markers now standing 
in the old cemeteries are to be removed to 
the new cemeteries upon request. 
Ail fence, curbing and other lot enclosures 
in the old cemeteries are to be excluded from 
the new cemeteries. 
NEW CEMETERIES 
The City Council of Beverly, Mass., 
has been asked by the Board of 
Managers of Public Cemeteries to 
take action toward securing 45 acres 
of land, off Brimbal Av., .for cemetery 
purposes. 
A.rticles of incorporation have been 
filed in Kansas, with capital $60,000, 
for the purpose of establishing a new 
cemetery, to be known as Oak Crest 
Cemetery, situated in Clay County, 
six miles northeast of Kansas City. 
The tract contains 160 acres. 
Senator Chauncey M. Depew, of 
New York, is named as one of the di- 
rectors of the Capital Cemetery of 
Washington, D. C., recently incorpor- 
ated. The other directors are Francis 
E. Baker and Reese Carpenter, of New 
York city, and C. A. M. Wells and C. 
Francis Owens of Washington, D. C. 
The incorporation papers have been 
filed in Annapolis. The organization 
recently purchased the Forest Lake 
Cemetery property, in Prince George 
county and will e.xpend $65,000 imme- 
diately on improvements. An elec- 
tric railway from Washington to the 
cemetery will be constructed. 
The council of Joplin, Mo., has 
unanimously accepted the report of the 
cemetery committee recommending 
the purchase of the entire Flerrod 
tract of 61 acres at $300 an acre, for 
a new city cemetery. It also adopted 
a motion instructing the city attorney 
to prepare an ordinance for the sub- 
mission to the vote of the people at 
a special election of a proposition for 
a bond issue to the amount of $25,000 
for the purchase of the land and 
beautifying it for the purposes of a 
cemetery. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
The new cemetery on West Main 
Street, Willimantic, Conn., is to be 
made attractive. The cemetery com- 
mittee proposes to have a small park 
laid out to the right of the main en- 
trance on West Main street in that 
portion of the cemetery that is scat- 
tered with boulders and a pool will, 
in all probability, be a conspicuous 
feature of the new cemetery just as 
one enters from the main entrance. 
This looks good from the Woman’s 
Club of Norfolk, Va.: “Other things 
which the club requests be attended 
to are to make a mortuary chapel of 
the ‘waiting house’ in Elmwood 
cemetery; more efficiency and regu- 
larity in the collection of garbage by 
the street cleaning department; spray- 
ing the trees in the streets and parks; 
and provision of more room for the 
children to play out-of-doors.” 
The War Department has awarded 
a contract for the enlargement of the 
Chalmette National Cemetery at New 
Orleans, La. More room has been 
greatly needed. Alderman Blair of 
Montgomery, Ala., was the success- 
ful bidder. The work will cost about 
$5,500. 
Some fifteen hundred dollars will 
be expended the coming year for im- 
provements in Woodlawn Cemetery, 
Green Bay, Wis., among the improve- 
ments will be a change in the entrance 
and considerable new planting when 
spring opens. 
The old cemetery at the foot of 
Chestnut St., Louisville, Ky., has 
been inclosed with a neat fence, a few 
trees have been planted and other im- 
provements made by the Ann Rogers 
Clark Chapter, D. A. R., of Jefferson- 
ville. As soon as the proper interest 
is manifested in the undertaking 
flower beds will be laid out and 
shrubbery will be planted. The money 
to carry on the work up to this time 
has been secured by the efforts of the 
chapter, and considerable has been 
spent. 
The Linwood and Walnut Cemetery 
Corporations of Haverhill, Mass., 
have petitioned the Board of Health 
for permission to use certain lands 
adjoining their properties for burial 
purposes, the demand for more ground 
growing urgent. 
The Jamesville Cemetery Association, 
Jamesville, N. Y., having a small ceme- 
tery of about two acres, has been in- 
corporated. 
The St. Johannes German Evangeli- 
cal Lutheran Cemetery, Decatur, 111 .,, 
was dedicated on October 16. 
Plans have been completed for the or- 
ganization in Texarkana, Ark., of a 
cemetery association to be conducted on 
modern lines. The corporation will be 
known as the Interstate Cemetery As- 
sociation and will conduct two cemeter- 
ies. Land has been purchased, which 
will be divided into two tracts, one of 
27 acres, to be used as a burial ground 
for white persons ; the other, 15 acres, 
to be used as a cemetery for negroes. 
Each cemetery is promised to be im- 
proved and maintained on modern lines., 
Leo Krouse is president of the associa- 
tion ; Louis Heilbron, vice-president., 
and A. B. DeLoach, secretary. 
Beaver Falls, Pa., is to have a new 
cemetery and application will be made 
to the courts for the incorporation of 
the Beaver Falls Cemetery Co. The 
proposed site is just west of the town 
and on ground adjoining the Steffen’s 
Hill road. Considerable opposition has 
developed against the project. 
Negotiations are under way for the 
erection of a compartment mausoleum 
near Cairo, 111. A company is also 
organizing in Wausau, Wis., to erect 
a $35,000 compartment mausoleum 
in Pine Grove Cemetery. 
The Catholic Church of Louisville, 
Ky., is to have a new cemetery located 
on a beautiful tract of land near the 
Sacred Heart Retreat, on the Newburg 
road, three and a half miles from the 
courthouse. 
The Ladies’ Cemetery Society of 
Buckingham, la., are erecting a pavilion 
in their cemetery at a cost of $900. It 
will be constructed of concrete, with 
tile roof, octagonal in shape. The lower 
part will be enclosed and used as a 
tool room, and the upper part is to be 
provided with seats, and also with slid- 
ing windows for inclement weather. 
Mr. Thomas Maguire, of East Du- 
buque, la., has just presented the city 
cemetery at that place with an additiorr 
of 240 lots. This cemetery has been 
much cramped for room of late, and the 
public-spirited act of Mr. Maguire will 
be greatly appreciated by citizens of 
East Dubuque. Of the 240 lots, 40 are 
reserved by the donor for burying 
grounds for his family. 
Gumb Bros., Lowell, Mass., secured 
the contract for the new gateway to be 
built for the Edson Cemetery, Bridge- 
port, Conn., at a cost of $2,500. 
A donation of $1,000 from Miss 
Diana Roberts encourages the Board of 
Directors of Xenia, O., to proceed with 
a long-cherished plan of erecting a Mor- 
tuary Chapel and Receiving Vault irr 
Woodland Cemetery. 
