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Chicago every six or seven years. Great care is exercised to 
see that every body is complete down to the smallest bone, 
so that its late possessor may rejoin his ancestors with no 
portion of his anatomy missing. The bodies are wrapped 
separately and labeled, each with its destination marked. 
Three or four are placed together in a zinc box, and this is 
closed hermetically by soldering. The metal box is placed 
in a fine wooden one and the whole is covered with a rough 
outer case for shipment. 
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The Marion Cemetery Association, Marion, Ohio, has re- 
cently issued a very complete descriptive book of the cemetery. 
It contains an historical sketch, descriptive of the grounds, 
rules and regulations, and a list of lot owners. Tt contains 
many handsome illustrations, among them being that of the 
granite ball surmounting the Merchant monument, which 
caused much scientific discussion by turning upon its pedestal. 
The cemetery contains 47 acres, and was originally purchased 
for $4,347. The handsome Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial 
chapel and a number of fine monuments are also shown in the 
illustrations. 
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The annual report of Joseph C. Spear, Secretary of Spring 
Grove Cemetery of Cincinnati, Ohio, shows the following 
financial statistics of the year’s work : Receipts for inter- 
ments, foundations and single graves, $27,119; improvement 
of lots by gardener, $19,183 ; trust fund account, $102,663 ; 
total receipts, including last year’s balance, $274,930. Some of 
the expenditures were as follows : Labor, $37,385 ; interments 
and foundations, $11,499; salaries, $10,600; repairs and bet- 
terments, $3,621 ; trust fund account, $98,832 ; total expendi- 
tures, $260,847; interments for the year were 1,648; total in- 
terments to date, 72,696. 
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The Rose Hill Cemetery Co., Altoona, Pa., which controls a 
new tract that has been under improvement for the past year, 
made very extensive use of newspaper advertising, to an- 
nounce the opening of the sale of lots. A few days before the 
•sale opened on September 29th and 30th, they had a full- 
page advertisement in a local newspaper, announcing the sale 
and telling of the work of improvement. On the succeeding 
days this was followed by other advertisements taking up 
■other phases of the work, and very good results are reported. 
In the three opening days, about 3,000 lots were sold, and by 
the middle of October nearly the entire number placed on sale 
were disposed of. The company is preparing to improve and 
put on sale the remainder of the tract that has been held in 
reserve. 
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The ground in portions of the town of Duryea, near Scran- 
ton, Pa., recently began to settle, and fissures were opened 
in the earth. The caving is caused by the settling of the 
surface into the big coal mines operated by the Lehigh Valley 
Coal Company. Fortunately no one was killed or injured, 
though many had narrow escapes. About five acres of the 
Marcy Cemetery, one of the oldest and most beautiful in that 
section of the State, dropped about ten feet, but the cave-in 
happily took place in a portion where no interments had been 
made, though the cracks in the earth are close to that part 
of the cemetery that is in use. Relatives of many of the dead 
there are in constant dread lest the bodies he hurled into 
the mines. Experienced miners who have viewed the ground 
since the accident say that other portions of the town will 
drop, and officials of the company have warned residents in 
the affected regions to abandon their houses. 
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Frederick S. Newcombe, president of the New London 
Cemetery Association, recently paid the fine of Benjamin F. 
Scoville, who was convicted in the police court in the Com- 
mon Pleas Court, and the Supreme Court of Errors, for 
working in Cedar Grove Cemetery in violation of the regula- 
tions of the association. Scoville was fined $5 and costs and 
appealed to the higher courts, but was defeated. He refused 
to pay his fine, and was committed to jail, but as the associa- 
tion was only desirous of establishing its right to forbid out- 
siders to work in the cemetery, the fine was paid by Mr. 
Newcombe. 
In his annual report, recently presented, Mr. Newcombe 
recommends that no more lots be sold without provision for 
care, and that 25c per square foot be set aside for this pur- 
pose. The perpetual care fund now amounts to $3,600, and 
the total number of lots under care the past year was 812. 
The total expenditures for the year were $7,309, and the re- 
ceipts $6,451. The President also recommends that composi- 
tion, cement, or white bronze monuments be prohibited from 
the cemetery. 
IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. 
Fairmount Cemetery, Davenport, la., has purchased an addi- 
tional tract of 97 acres, for $9,794. 
The Johnstown Cemetery Association, Johnstown, N. Y., 
has adopted plans for a new chapel. P. M. Simmons has the 
contract for the erection of it. 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N. Y., has purchased 39 
acres of additional territory south of the present cemetery, for 
$19,000. 
Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis., has added loj^ 
acres of adjoining territory. Price paid was $15,546. 
The Village Cemetery Association, Somerset, Mass., is rais- 
ing funds for a new receiving tomb. 
The Babylon Rural Cemetery, Babylon, N. Y., is erecting 
a new entrance gate of marble and stucco. 
The Cemetery Committee of Melrose, Mass., is considering 
the purchase of 29 acres of land, for an addition to Melrose 
Cemetery. 
St. Mary’s Cemetery, New London, Conn., is erecting a 
new receiving vault. It will be built in Gothic style of rough 
field stone, and will be 44x26 ft. in ground dimensions. 
Plans have been adopted and contracts will soon be let 
for the erection of a new chapel and receiving vault at Park 
View, Schenectady, N'. Y. 
Hillside Cemetery, Plainfield, N. J., has recently added 15 
acres of adjoining territory. 
The cemetery at Sioux Falls, S. D., will plant a hedge about 
the grounds, and the officials are considering the best shrubs 
for that use. Spiraea Van Houttei, the Tartarian bush honey- 
suckle, Russian olive, Caragana arborescens, Lonicera tar- 
tarica, the buckthorn, and Rosa rugusa are being considered. 
The new Litchfield Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn., reports the 
purchase of 10 acres of additional territory as the most im- 
portant work of its first year, and will develop it on modern 
lines of landscape gardening. A number of substantial gifts 
of trees and shrubs were made to the cemetery. There were 
10 interments during the year and a total of 249 since the 
opening of the cemetery. 
The corner stone of the Dr. Henry Judy memorial chapel 
in Washington Cemetery, Washington C. H., Ohio, was laid 
Oct. 16 with interesting ceremonies. The chapel will be an 
elaborate structure of Barre granite, cruciform in plan, and 
will cost about $25,000. 
