PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Two cemeteries were recently visited by burglars. The 
office of Lakewood cemetery in Minneapolis, was the first 
to suffer. The safe was broken open by an explosion early 
in May, but the thieves secured only $9 for their trouble, 
overlooking $3,oco which was also in the safe. This was 
the third attempt to burglarize this cemetery, the other two 
having been unsuccessful. 
Robbers who entered the office of the Lake View cemetery, 
Cleveland, O., June i, and forced the safe open in the same 
manner, were more successful and made way with about $200. 
The cracksmen are thought to belong to a gang wdiich had 
been operating at other places in Cleveland. 
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East Lawn cemetery, a new burial ground laid out on the 
modern lawn plan near Sacramento, Cal., was recently dedi- 
cated with impressive and interesting (Exercises. It was laid 
out by Superintendent H. A. Alspach, formerly with Holly- 
wood cemetery, Los Angeles, and comprises about forty acres 
of farm land, well adapted to its use. The grounds have 
been laid out in twenty sections with lots of 200 square feet 
and more, and all are sold under perpetual care. Under 
the laws of the state governing such cemetery associations, 
each lot owner is a stockholder in the corporation and has 
a voice in the selection of its officers and in the management 
of its affairs. About 2,cco trees have been planted. The 
evergreens and deciduous trees are kept in separate groups 
to attain to uniform effect. Many of the varieties of trees 
planted are very choice, and other rare trees will be added 
from time to time. Each tree is labeled with its botanical 
and common name. 
IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. 
The East Bloomer Cemetery Association of Carson City, 
Mich., has been reorganized under a new charter and many 
improvements are contemplated. A receiving vault is to be 
erected and a new entrance gateway. Land recently pur- 
chased for the enlargement of the grounds has been laid out 
by Howard Evarts Weed, Landscape Architect, of Chicago, 
and new driveways are to be constructed. 
The soldiers’ plat in Graceland Cemetery, Albany, N. Y., 
was dedicated on Memorial Day with impressive ceremonies. 
Sid J. Hare, of Kansas City, Mo., has prepared plans for 
the development of Greenwood Cemetery, a lOO-acre tract 
in Knoxville, Tenn. About 80 acres of this have been plotted 
and 40 acres are to be improved at once with drives, lawns, 
trees and shrubs, lakes, fountain and waterfall, office, lodge 
and shelter house. Four small lakes will be provided for. 
In two of these will be grown rare water lilies and gold fish, 
the others to be for swans. The planting will consist of 
native and ornamental trees, shrubs and vines and rare and 
attractive flowers. The only rock outcrop in the burial sec- 
tion covers less than one-half acre and will be laid out as a 
rock garden, with rustic stone lodge. 
A new gatew'ay has just been erected at Lowell Cemetery, 
Lowell, Mass. It consists of an iron gateway with massive 
granite piers. The iron work was furnished by the Anchor 
Post Co., of New York, and Gumb Bros., of Lowell, were the 
contractors for the granite work. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Rochester, N. Y., has added 2^^ acres 
of adjoining land. 
The selectmen of Foxboro have appointed Robert W. 
Carpenter and Commander Frank O. Pierce, of the G. A. R., 
to put in better condition the old cemeteries of the town, 
where a number of colonial war heroes were buried. 
Elmwood Cemetery, Rantoul, 111 ., has been incorporated. 
A. P. Neal is president and J. M. Beard secretary. 
Riverside Cemetery, a /S-acre tract on the Kalamazoo 
River at Albion, Mich., has erected a new office and waiting 
room and completed other substantial improvements. 
Ladies of Carson City, Mich., have raised a fund of $1,000 
for the improvement of the cemetery. 
St. John’s Cemetery, Worcester, Mass., has purchased an 
addition of 36 acres for $35,000. 
Forest Hill Cemetery, Bridgeton, Me., will open a new sec- 
tion and build a new receiving vault, besides making other 
improvements in the drives and landscape. 
A gift of $40,000 to the St. John's Cemetery at Yonkers, 
N. Y., has been made by Mrs, William F. Cochran, widow of 
the philanthropist, to care for and maintain all the graves 
within the cemetery and lay out the walks and pathways. 
The entire cemetery is to be beautified. St. John’s Cemetery 
is the oldest in Yonkers. 
Oatka Cemetery Association, Scottsville, N. Y., has' pur- 
chased two acres of additional territory and raised a fund of 
$600 for improvements. 
The Metairie Cemetery Association, New Orleans, La., has 
purchased seventy-five acres of land in the rear of the ceme- 
tery. 
The new Mount Carmel Cemetery Association, said to have 
been incorporated by prominent Brooklyn politicians, has re- 
cently taken title to 75 acres of land, said to have cost about 
$250,000, located east of the Fresh Pond road, in the town of 
Newtown, Long Island. The property consists of two 
parcels, one of about 40 acres south of Mount Nebo Ceme- 
tery, and the other of about 35 acres, north of Mount Nebo. 
Both tracts are surrounded on the east and south by Cypress 
Plills Cemetery. 
The Rosehill Cemetery Association, forming a continua- 
tion of the three cemeteries established in Linden township, 
N, J., has adopted plans for the erection of a combined 
crematory and receiving vault which is expected to be fin- 
ished this summer. It will be seventy by thirty feet, and the 
crematorium will have between 3,500 and 4,000 niches for the 
reception of urns. The receiving tomb will have fifty cata- 
combs. The chapel will be arranged so as to be used for both 
crematory and receiving tomb. The estimated cost of the 
structure is between $40,000 and $50,000. The new crema- 
torium will be the first one located in New Jersey. 
Oak Grove Cemetery, Pawtucket, R. I., is planning the 
erection of a new receiving vault to cost $10,000. 
The Sherburne West Hill Cemetery Association, Sher- 
burne, N; Y., will erect a handsome chapel and receiving 
vault this summer in a new section recently added to the 
cemetery. 
Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, is to erect a new 
chapel and receiving vault to cost $30,000, for which the 
contract has been awarded to J. W. Dornsife, of Burlington. 
The building is to be faced with 'Vermont marble with elab- 
orate carving and will include an arched gateway. The re- 
ceiving vault will contain sixty catacombs. 
