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were first made in Green Mount, in a little plot then two 
acres, when the town of Burlington was chartered in 1763, and 
in another cemetery, now called Elmwood, in 1794. The city 
cemeteries comprise Green Mount, which contains the grave 
and monument of General Ethan Allen, Elmwood, and Lake 
View. The new regulations prohibit the use of lot enclosures 
and authorize the superintendent to remove all that have be- 
come dilapidated ; corner stones must not be set above grade 
and markers are limited in height. The question of perpetual 
care seems to be voluntary, but a considerable amount of 
money has already been placed in trust for the purpose, and 
lot owners are urgently invited to endow their lots. Mr. W. 
J. Van Patten will be glad to send copies of this pamphlet to 
persons interested. 
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Louis Maurer, of Brooklyn. N. Y., has been granted a 
patent for a device for keeping flowers alive oh graves, which 
is shown in the accompanying illustration. It consists of a 
dish-like receptacle of a size corresponding with that of the 
grave and adapted to be fitted on the top of the earth in such 
a manner that the upper edges of the walls will be level 
DEVICE FOR WATERING FLOWERS ON GRAVES. 
with the ground. The receptacle is at its open top covered 
with nettings, serving to support the ground forming the 
mound of the grave; These nettings permit the passage of 
water from the receptacle to the earth of the mound. The 
water can be supplied from the outside to the receptacle, but 
the nettings will prevent the earth from falling into it. 
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FROM THE ANNUAL REPORTS. 
Lakewood Cemetery, Lake City, Minn., has issued its 
“Annual,” a little eight page paper, giving the news of 
the year pertaining to the cemetery. The flower memorial 
service which is a very interesting feature of the work, will 
be held June 17th, this year; 44 names were added to the 
Perpetual Care list, which is printed in full. The total ex- 
penditures for the year were $3,234. In addition to the reg- 
ular perpetual care contract they have a special care bond, 
which is issued for any other care. One lot owner placed 
$i,000 in this fund and specified that the income above what 
was necessary to care for his lot and monument should be 
used for the improvement of neglected lots. 
The 64th annual report of the Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, 
Mass., contains an illustration of the New Belvidere entrance 
erected in 1905 with voluntary contributions of lot owners 
and others amounting to $5,037. The total receipts from the 
sale of lots in 1905 was $3,090. Perpetual care fund was in- 
creased $5,325 during the year. The expenditure for labor 
was $7,715- A list of the trust fund lots, a general list of 
lot owners, and a list of the contributors to the new gateway 
are given in the report. 
The annual report of Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Me . 
shows total receipts of $26,901.64, with expenses at $26,673.34. 
The Joseph Browne fund now amounts to $7,374.20, and the 
income from this is available for the care of neglected lots 
in the cemetery, and for this purpose $408.80 was charged up 
the last’ year. More room for burial purposes must soon re- 
ceive attention. 
The Oakland Cemetery Association of St. Paul, Minn., has 
included with its annual report publication its articles of as- 
sociation and the by-laws and rules adopted last year. The 
report is illustrated with several views of the cemetery. The 
first ten acres of the cemetery was opened in 1854 and further 
improvements were made at first as necessary ; in 1869 the pol- 
icy of perpetual care was inaugurated and the creation of a 
fund provided for. In 1872 a landscape architect was engaged 
to lay out the grounds on the lawn plan, and substantial build- 
ings and improvements have been added as became advisable. 
All the income is devoted to the improvement and care of the 
grounds except that set apart for perpetual care. The net 
ordinary receipts from operations for the past year were $26,- 
c6o.io and from bills payable, perpetual care fund, etc., $14,- 
269.50. The expenditures were: pay rolls, $17,652.16; green- 
house, $1,168.62; other ordinary expenses, $6,741.31 ; real estate, 
bonds, interest, etc., $13,070.53. The greenhouse receipts were 
$5,617.25. The average number of employes per month, 27; 
foundations built, 177; monuments erected, 50; grave marks 
set, 127. Total interments to October 31, 1904, 15,152, and for 
the year 357. The perpetual care fund now amounts to $118,- 
921.47, an increase of nearly 4 per cent over the previous year. 
The report of the Board of Managers of Hamilton Ceme- 
tery, Hamilton, Canada, for 1905, shows gratifying improve- 
ment .in all directions. So far as possible it is being brought 
up to date in cemetery practice. The present year promises to 
see still further improvements in the old grounds and the lawn 
plan under practical headway in the new portion. The avail- 
able receipts amounted to $12,927 and the expenditures $12,- 
796. After six years’ work the perpetual care fund amounts to 
$22,000, and while there remain some sections in which lots 
are sold without reference to perpetual care, the greater pro- 
portion are now disposed of under that system. Yearly care 
is maintained in the older part of the grounds and some 2,000 
lot owners pay annual charges. These are gradually taking 
advantage of an offer whereby by paying the excess charged 
up for perpetual care on sales of new lots the old lots will be 
included in the system. The old cemetery, as it is said, ran 
itself for fifty years, so that the problems of renovation and 
improvement are serious ones. However, fences are being re- 
moved, mounds lowered, grades modernized and gradually a 
new order is being established. 
NEW CEMETERIES. 
The Calvary Cemetery Association, of Rock Island, 111 ., 
has been incorporated by P. H. Kelly, C. W. Johnson, and 
Wm. McClellen. 
The City of Des Moines, la., has voted to purchase a tract 
of 30 acres belonging to the Sims estate, for a cemetery. 
The price is $15,000. 
Mt. Glenwood Cemetery, of Chicago, 111 ., has been incor- 
porated with a capital of $150,000 by W. J. Root, Jas. D. 
Dagley, and C. O. Patton. 
Leavenworth Cemetery Association, Leavenworth, 'Wash., 
has been formed and will purchase a site for a new cemetery. 
Petrel Davis is President, Geo. Keating Treasurer, and F. J. 
Nelson Secretary. 
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