PARK AND CEMETERY 
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An7iual rep07'ts 07' extracts frotn thevt^ historical sketches^ 
descriptive circulars^ photographs of improveinents or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department- 
The town of Leominster, Mass., has voted to sell the timber 
which is cut in Evergreen Cemetery and devote the proceeds 
to creating a sinking fund for the care of lots. 
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The Mahoning Cemetery Association, Youngstown, O., has 
issued an order that all new graves at Oak Hill are to be 
made level with the lawn and will level all old graves that 
have sunk. 
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Learning that the trades unions are establishing a Union 
cemetery in Chicago, a local poet felt himself inspired to get 
off the following, which recently appeared in The Sunny side 
under the caption “Running it Into the Ground”: 
I want to be a Union man 
And with the Union stand, 
A label on my forehead, 
A club within my hand; 
And when my brother dares to work, 
If I don’t think he’s right. 
I’ll swipe him where it hurts the most 
And swipe with all my might. 
And when the strike is on, my boys, 
I’ll holler and I’ll shout 
For higher wages and shorter hours 
And put the boss to rout; 
And when my time has come to die. 
And Unions cannot save. 
I’ll be Union undertakered 
Into a Union grace. 
I want only Union pall-bearers 
To bear me to my rest, 
And none but Union flowers 
To bloom upon my breast; 
And when the funeral’s over 
And I’m beneath the sod. 
I’ll be filled with Union sorrow 
If there be no Union God. 
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lows: Lots containing from 200 to 400 square feet, $1.00; from 
400 to aOO square feet, $1.50; from 600 to 800 square feet, $2.00; 
and pro rata for larger lots. Said assessment due April 1st of 
each year, and to be paid to the Secretary and to be used exclu- 
sively for keeping lots in order. 
By-Laws amended for the accommodation of lot-owners who- 
bought prior to January 1st, 1885, and to insure the perpetual 
care of said lots, owners can, by the payment of twenty-five dol- 
lars, more or less, according to size of lot, to the Secretary, be 
exempted from the yearly tax, said twenty-five dollars to be 
placed in the Permanent Fund at interest, the interest accruing 
to be used exclusively for the care of lots. 
See Revised Statutes of Ohio, Section 3583. 
Section 16, page 7, amended to read as follows: 
All lots sold after January 1st, 1885, will be sold exclusively 
for cash, including corner stone. Forty per cent, of purchase 
money to be placed in the Permanent Fund, the interest accru- 
ing thereon to be used [only] for eare of lots perpetually. All 
arrearages due the Hillsboro Cemetery Association must be paid 
before a permit for burial will be issued. 
All lots must be put in perpetuai care before a permit to put 
up a monument will be given. 
The Secretary would ask as a special favor of persons apply- 
ing for permits to come prepared to pay for the same, and to 
answer the following questions: 
Name of deceased in full'. 
Place of birth 
Place of death 
Date of birth 
Date of Death 
Date of interment 
Disease 
Parents' name 
Late residence 
In whose lot interred 
Permit obtained by 
Name of undertaker [ 
Removed from _ . 
Single, married or widowed ' r: n 
What relation to lot owner 
Respectfully, ' - 
W, A. MORROW, Secretary. 
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IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. 
Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, has added a tract of 74,400 
sq. ft. valued at about $8,000. 
The Mumford Rural Cemetery Association, of Caledonia, 
N. Y., will erect a new pavilion and shelter house. 
A new receiving tomb is to be built at Rocklawn Cemetery, 
Marlboro, Mass. 
Edwin C. Swift, of Swift & Co., Chicago, who recently 
died in Boston, left $2,000 to the Sagamore Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, of Lowell, Mass. 
Prospect Cemetery Association, Olj'phant, Pa., has pur- 
chased an additional plot of land. 
The trustees of Mount Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich., 
have asked the City Council for an appropriation of $1,500 to 
purchase an additional tract for the cemetery. 
Ridge Lawn Cemeteries, the new tract of 270 acres between 
Paterson and Newark, N. J., are preparing to enter into the 
work of development on a large scale. Earnshaw & Punshon, 
of Cincinnati, are preparing the plans for the landscape de- 
velopment of the tract. Administrative buildings, a chapel 
and receiving vault, and gateways are to be built at once, and 
the cemetery invites proposals for such work at its Newark 
office, and also for drainage, road making material, and fen- 
cing. The receiving vault is to be of the side hill or under- 
ground construction, and will have about 200 catacombs. 
The Hillsboro Cemetery Association, Hillsboro, O., sends 
out a notice in the following form as a reminder to its lot 
holders : 
Put This Notice in Some Conspicuous Place. When Ton come to 
Pay Bring Notice With Tou. Remember, Due April 1st. 
CBMETERY NOTICE. 
, * Hillsboro, Ohio 190.. 
Mr 
To HILLSBORO CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, Dr. 
To care- of Lot No Section for 
Years 
To years’ Interest on @ per cent. 
To Perpetual Care 
To Corner Stones at 
To balance due on lot 
Total !!!!..!!!!!!!] 
Received payment. 
Section 18, page 17, of By-Laws reads as follows: 
Each lot-owner who purchased prior to January 1, 1885, is 
assessed per year for the care of his or her lot or lots, as fol- 
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CREMATION. 
A bill providing for the establishment of a public crema- 
torium at Washington, D. C., has been introduced into the 
House of Representatives by Representative Babcock and re- 
ferred to the commissioners for report. It has been heartily 
commended by Health Officer Woodward, and the commis- 
sioners have approved his recommendation that a favorable 
report be made on the measure, which provides for an ap- 
propriation of $15,000. 
In 1905 there were 604 cremations in England, as compared 
with 566 and 476 in the two preceding years. The total num- 
ber of cremations already performed in that country is over 
5 , 000 . 
