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PARK AND CEMETERY 
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The cigar makers union of Chicago has appropriated $15,000 
for the purchase of a site for a cemetery to be used exclu- 
sively by union labor. It is to be large enough to accommo- 
date 5,000 interments. 
The Independent Hebrew Charity Cemetery Association, of 
Chicago, will establish a 20 acre cemetery on the Des Plaines 
River south of 12th street. Louis Marks is President of the 
association, Jos. Kreeger Secretary, and Isaac Marks Super- 
intendent. 
A tract of 106 acres adjoining Wanderer’s Rest Cemetery, 
Milwaukee, has been purchased for a Catholic cemetery. 
The Anadarko Cemetery Co., of Anadarko, Oklahoma, has 
been incorporated by G. W. Campbell, 1 . H. Brooks and 
others. 
The Manitou Cemetery Association, Manitou, Oklahoma, 
has been incorporated by S. M. Oxford, M. W. Barnes and 
W. D. Moore. 
The Riverside Cemetery Association, of Camargo, Okla- 
homa, has been incorporated by G. M. Fields, John Hall and 
W. C. Faulk. 
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IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. 
Graceland Cemetery, Valparaiso, Ind., has purchased 35 
acres of additional territory. The cemetery now contains 55 
acres and E. C. Foster, of Kalamazoo, Mich., has been en- 
gaged to beautify the grounds. All lots are sold under per- 
petual care. 
The Ladies Improvement Society of Parsons, Kans., have 
raised a fund of $4,000 for the improvement of Oakwoods 
Cemetery. 
The proprietors of Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Mass., 
have amended the by-laws to increase the sum set aside for 
perpetual care to one-third of the lot sales. 
It is reported that Forest Hill Cemetery of Boston, is to 
purchase the crematory of the Massachusetts Cremation So- 
ciety which was erected about 7 years ago at a cost of 
$150,000. 
The Catholic Bishop of Chicago has purchased 70 acres 
just north of Norwood Park for an addition to St. Adelbert’s 
Cemetery. 
Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala., has issued some 
souvenir post cards, one of them bearing the picture of the 
entrance and the other a view of the grounds. 
Kensico Cemetery, New York City, is to acquire 350 acres 
of additional territory. 
Oakhill Cemetery, Nyack, N. Y., has purchased an addi- 
tional tract of land for $3,000. 
Linwood Cemetery, Galesburg, Ilk, will erect a new wait- 
ing room and chapel. 
Mound Cemetery, Racine, Wis., is considering the pur- 
chase of an additional tract of 14 acres. 
A bill has been introduced into Congress for an appropria- 
tion of $12,000 to erect a new lodge and make other improve- 
ments in the National Cemetery at Knoxville, Tenn. 
The town of Marblehead, Mass., has appropriated $3,500 
to build a new receiving tomb either at Waterside or the 
Green St. Cemetery. ^ 
Beech Grove Cemetery, Munice, Ind., has issued a hand- 
somely illustrated book of the grounds. One of the illustra- 
tions shows the new entrance gate which was erected during 
the year at a cost of $4,500. The structure consists of three 
pointed Gothic arches, the middle one above the roadway 
being 65 ft. high and the two smaller ones covering the en- 
trances for pedestrians. It is made of niggerhead boulders 
finished with Bedford stone. Beech Grove now consists of 
too acres and has 7,500 interments. 
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