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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ciation has arranged to purchase :i5 
acres, three-quarters of a mile south 
of Quaker Hill. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
The Tamaqua, Pa., Lodge of Odd 
Fellows, which owns the leading bur- 
ial place of that town, is considering 
the question of erecting a chapel in 
the cemeter}^' and of building a more 
commodious driveway. The cemetery 
has no shelter of any kind, which 
makes the situation very unsatisfac- 
tory for outside funerals at least, of 
which there are a great number from 
other towns. 
Cutter lodge No. 100, I. O. O. F., 
Wheatfield, Calif., has determined to 
extend its cemetery and has pur- 
chased the land and decided to secure 
the services of a qualified man to plat 
the land. The lodge has one of the 
best maintained cemeteries in the in- 
terior and takes considerable pride in 
caring for its trees and walks. 
The new mortuary chapel in Mount 
Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque, la., has 
been completed and is now in use. It 
is constructed of red stone, and is 
simple but substantial in design, and 
is already demonstrating its useful- 
ness and convenience. 
The trustees of Lake View Cem- 
etery association, Jamestown, N. Y., 
have decided to purchase, from the 
estate of Fred A. Gron, the Gron 
farm north of the cemetery at a cost 
of $13,000, to make provision for the 
enlargement of the cemetery. The 
association now owns 167 acres. The 
Gron farm, which embraces 97 acres, 
is located just outside the city limits 
on the north and has a frontage of 
1,000 feet on North Main street. 
The petition of the Linwood cem- 
etery trustees, Haverhill, Mass., for 
an extension of their holdings to be 
used for burial purposes was approved 
by the board of health at a meeting 
January 17. 
The city of Kearney. Nebr., has pur- 
chased ten acres of land for burial 
purposes adjoining the city cemetery. 
Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Ore., 
the pioneer cemetery, was established 
fifty years ago and has an acre- 
age of 30 acres. It is situated in the 
midst of a thickly populated section 
of Portland and all the lots nave been 
sold off for many years. It is now in 
the condition usual for such ceme- 
teries and the various improvement 
associations of the city have made 
several efforts in trying to awaken a 
sentiment for the beautification of 
same. Some months ago the interes- 
ted parties had Howard Evarts Weed 
Chicago look over the cemetery with 
a view of its permanent improvement 
into a parklike condition. They have 
now arranged with him to undertake 
this work. A fund of ten thousand 
will be raised for the improvements 
and a like sum as a perpetual care 
fund. All the newspapers of the city 
are backing the movement strongly 
and arrangements have been made 
with , the various improvement asso- 
ciations for Mr. Weed to gi\'e hi.s 
“More Beautiful Cemeteries” lecture 
in all parts of the City. These lec- 
tures both educate the lot owners as 
to the needs of the cemetery and help 
in raising the funds. 
FROM ANNUAL REPORTS 
In his annual report Martin Pack- 
ard, superintendent of Melrose ceme- 
tery, Brockton, Mass., recommends 
that the city charter be amended to 
provide a cemetery commission,to have 
charge of the cemetery, instead of a 
city council committee, as at present. 
Supt. Martin believes that a commis- 
sion would insure greater interest in 
the development of the burial ground. 
He recommends that an artificial lake 
be built at a cost not to exceed $3,000, 
also that a new wall be constructed in 
front of the grounds. His financial 
report shows a balance of $1,067 on 
hand. During the year $2,593.76 was 
paid in wages outside the superin- 
tendent’s salary of $1,200; the total 
expenditures were $4,469.30, and re- 
ceipts $5,125.67. There are 95 unoccu- 
pied graded lots, and 200 single 
graves. 
Paul L. IMueller, landscape archi- 
tect of Minneapolis, iMnnesota, has 
been engaged by the Cemetery Board 
of Red Wing, Minnesota, to make a 
design and planting plan for the en- 
trance and adjacent portions of Oak- 
wood Cemetery. The design is to 
develope a fine setting for the Betcher 
Memorial Chapel and the Blodgett 
Memorial entrance. The area in- 
cludes the very attractive natural 
glade along the main driveway. The 
same landscape architect has recently 
completed plans for an addition to 
the Waseca, Minnesota, cemetery, and 
a complete park system for the city 
of Owatonna, Minnesota. 
The annual report of the Mt. Hope 
Cemetery commission, Rochester, N. 
Y.. shows the receipts of 1910 to have 
been $73,663.93, and the expenses, $84,- 
028.30. The excess of expenditures 
over receipts is due to the construc- 
tion of n new chapel, at the cemetery, 
for which $33,200 was paid this year, 
the balance of the $58,000 it is to cost 
being left for payment in the present 
year. The chapel will be completed 
in the spring. The largest items in 
the receipts were lots sold. $22,429.35; 
.single graves sold, $3,079; sodding 
and repairs, $21,381.04; interments, $6,- 
575.75; foundations, $5,029.29. The total 
funds to the credit of the commission 
in the hands of the city treasurer on 
December 31, 1910, was $199,611.66, 
against $209,976.03 on December 31, 
1909. 
The annual report of the commis- 
sioners of Pine Grove cemetery, Lynn, 
IMass., shows that there are at present 
in the cemetery 24,945 bodies, the num- 
ber of interments during the year hav- 
ing been 753. The total permanent fund 
is $4,018.75 against $2,197 a year ago, 
and the total perpetual care fund is 
$421,289 against $218,551 at the close 
of 1909. The total expenditures for 
the year were $39,310, and there is in 
the general fund $39,900. Over $1,- 
100 was expended in the fight against 
the moth pests with the result that 
not a single tree has been defoliated, 
but there is another pest known as the 
bronze birch borer against which no 
fight is successful except by burning 
the trees. 
The annual report of J. C. Cline, 
superintendent of Woodland Cem- 
etery, Dayton, O., shows sales of 31,- 
260 square feet of lots, of which 11,- 
867 sq. ft. were under the perpetual 
care provision. This brings the total 
area now under perpetual care, 10.6 
acres. There were 966 interments 
during the year; 592 grave markers 
were set and foundations made for 
26 monuments. The superintendent 
recommends the use of Calcium 
Chloride for the destruction of weeds 
and prevention of dust. The main 
avenue upon which it was used, at a 
cost of 2 cents per square yard, was 
only sprinkled 6 times during the last 
summer, and the results were satis- 
factory. 
The report of F. H. Rutherford, 
superintendent of Hamilton Ceme- 
tery, Hamilton, Ontario, shows a 
steady increase in the number of lots 
placed under perpetual care, and the 
fund is now $70,340. The Mainte- 
nance and Improvement Fund start- 
ed two years ago is $2,640. A large 
amount of improvement work has 
been carried on, including progress on 
the systematic improvements of the 
older portions of the cemetery. The 
entrance has been enlarged, and the 
masses of rhododendrons, azaleas, 
etc., in the foreground, together with 
attractive shrubbery, which have 
thrived successfully, make a very at- 
tractive picture. The report fully de- 
tails the work done and the proposed 
improvements for the coming season. 
