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PARK AND CEMETERY 
stench, and it was found, upon investigation, that the 
cellar wall, adjacent to the fosse commune destined to 
receive some two thousand corpses of the poor, had 
y ielded under the pressure and that the decaying bodies 
had filled the basement. The cemetery was officially 
closed, December i, 1780, but it was not till April, 
1786, that the transportation of the bodies and bones 
to the catacombs was begun. On the cleansed and ren- 
ovated site was established the celebrated market of 
the Innocents, formally ceded to the city of Paris by 
Imperial decree, January 30, 1811. 
William Walton. 
BOULDER MEMORIAL, SALEM, MASS. 
A Native Boulder Memorial, Salem, Mass. 
The huge native boulder shown in the accompany- 
ing picture has been placed as a memorial to the 23d 
Massachusetts Regiment in a small open area at the 
intersection of Winter street and Washington Square, 
Salem, Mass. The big stone was found on Salem 
Neck (Massachusetts Bay) lying on the beach ten 
feet below the land level, and had to be raised to solid 
ground and moved to its destination on rollers like a 
house is moved. It weighs fifty-eight tons, and the 
feat of transportation was safely and successfully ac- 
complished by William G. Edwards of Salem. 
It also bears two large pieces of bronze work. The 
inscription tablet which can be seen on the front face 
is 36 X 48 inches, and a corps badge on the other side 
is about two feet high. They cost about $225 and 
were cast by the Murdock Corporation of Boston. 
The total cost of the memorial was $900. 
The city of Salem has made an appropriation for 
enclosing the boulder with a granite curbing and the 
23d Regiment association has planted a low hedge of 
Japanese barberry about the place, making a very 
dignified, appropriate and attractive memorial. Mr. 
George M. Whipple, formerly a captain in the Regi- 
ment, was instrumental in securing the memorial. 
Annual reports or extracts from them., historical sketches^ 
descriptive circulars, photog^raphs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department. 
By the will of the late Byron Somers of Albuquerque, N. AI., 
the sum of $1,500 has been bequeathed to the village cemetery 
of St. Jolmsbury, Vt., the interest of which is to be applied 
to general improvement. 
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At the annual meeting of Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, 
the report of the superintendent showed that during the 
year 9,994 square feet of new land and 8,330 of old had been 
seeded and graded, 50 monuments erected, 127 grave markers 
set, I brick vault built and 525 trees and shrubs planted. 
The greenhouse receipts for the year were $5,617.25. The 
gross receipts of the association for the year were $40,643.03. 
a gain of $4,232.23 over last year. The perpetual care fund 
is $123,000. An interesting fact noted in the report shows 
that the average number of interments amounts to between 
500 and 600 per acre, while in the single grave section alone 
more than 1,000 burials are made to the acre, and that at 
this rate the cemetery has available land for fifty years. 
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number of Minneapolis architects have submitted plans 
for the new cemetery chapel to be erected in Lakewood cem- 
etery, Minneapolis, Minn., in response to a call for competi- 
tive designs. The estimated cost was $40,000, but it is ex- 
pected that this sum will be exceeded for a fine structure. It 
will stand inside the gates in the direction of the present build- 
ing, and from the hydraulic bier a passageway" will lead 
underneath to the underground vault used during the winter 
months. 
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A great stir has been created in Buffalo, N. Y., cemetery 
circles by the developments in the North Street Cemetery 
matter. It is a bad case of graft and has been going on for 
several y-ears. The amount involved is a large one, and the 
city has had to pay for the removal of thousands of bodies 
which were never buried. The case has been given to the 
grand jury, but at time of writing nothing has come to hand 
to disclose the result of their investigation. A number of 
people are involved, and many sensational revelations are 
reported to have been made to the grand jury. 
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An ancient burial ground has been discovered on the Ar- 
kansas river, near Webbers Falls, I. T. It is reported to be 
tyvo miles long. Forty years ago the site was covered with 
a heavy growth of timber and cane, but in recent years the 
land has been cleared and put under cultivation. While dig- 
ging yvells and making other, excavations in the recent past 
human remains have frequently been unearthed, but they 
yvere thought to be Indians. Investigation shows the graves 
to be in regular order about four feet apart, and in each was 
found an earthen bowl containing a mussel shell, placed in 
the curve of the right arm. In most cases all crumbled to 
dust when uncovered, but many are intact. Reports have 
been s^nt to Washington, and some think that this is a burial 
ground of some prehistoric race. 
