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PARK AND 
THE MOUND AND MOAT AROUND IT. 
Mound Cemetery, Marietta, O. 
several varieties, and other ornamentals, including the 
It contains fifty-four acres, of which about half is 
in use. There have been about 6,000 interments. 
CEMETERY. 
IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY, MARIETTA, O. 
The Harmar Cemetery is an old historic ground, 
where many of the heroes of the Revolution and War 
of 1812 are buried. 
PROPOSED NEW CEMETERIES, EXTENSIONS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS 
The Greenwood Cemetery Association has secured an op- 
tion on a fifty acre tract near Claymont, midway between 
Wilmington, Del., and Chester, Pa., for the establishment 
of a cemetery for colored people. John' H. Woodlen, of 
Wilmington, is president, and Frank S. Kane is general 
manager. 
The Blue Ridge Cemetery Association, Chillicothe, 111 ., 
has been incorporated by L. W. Robinson, S. R. Stowell and 
R. J. Nurs. 
The Park Lawn Cemetery Association, of Danvers, 111 ., has 
been incorporated. Dr. F. J. Parkhurst is president and John 
S. Popple is secretary. 
The Estabrook Cemetery Asociation, Fond du Lac, Wis., 
has added an acre and a half of ground. 
Plans have been prepared for a new receiving vault for 
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D. C. It will be of Gothic 
architecture, 47x25 feet, and will cost $15,000. 
Bellett Lawson, Jr., of Buffalo, has been engaged to pre- 
pare plans for the improvement of Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, 
N. Y. 
The Har Nebo Cemetery Company, Philadelphia, has pur- 
chased twelve acres of additional ground. 
The city council of Moline, 111 ., has voted an appropria- 
tion of $6,000 for buying a ten-acre addition for Riverside 
Cemetery. 
Park View Cemetery, Schenectady, N. Y., will erect a 
new stone gateway and receiving vault at the State street 
entrance. 
St. Mathew’s Cemetery, St. Louis, has added twenty-two 
acres of adjoining territory at a cost of $1,000 an acre. 
Mrs. Chas. Betcher has presented $10,000 to Oakwood 
Cemetery of Red Wing, Minn., for the erection of a chapel 
in memory of her husband. 
The Asheville Cemetery Company, Asheville, N. C., has 
purchased an additional tract of ten acres for $10,000 and 
has a new well-built waiting room for women under con- 
struction. 
The city council of Kansas City, Kan., will submit to 
popular vote a proposition’ for issuing $75,000 in bonds to 
purchase the old Huron Indian Cemetery. 
Extensive plans are being made for the improvement of 
Rosehill and Oak Ridge Cemeteries, Macon, Ga. Driveways 
are to be repaired and some wooden bridges replaced with 
concrete structures. The city council is expected to appro- 
priate $2,500 for the work. 
The Cemetery Association of Austin, Texas, has employed 
a supervisor to look after the grounds of Oakwood Cemetery 
and is to inaugurate a general cleaning up and beautifying 
of the grounds. 
The board of commissioners of Oakland Cemetery, Little 
Rock, Ark., is to expend $2,000 in improving a creek which 
runs through the grounds. The bed of the stream will be 
straightened and a bridge built. 
A new chapel is in process of erection at the Main Street 
Cemetery, Dalton, Mass. 
The Waterville Cemetery Association, Waterville, Conn., 
will purchase an acre of additional territory. 
Greenwood! Cemetery Association, Allentown, Pa., will 
build a new entrance gate. Eleven and one-half acres were 
added to the grounds during the year. 
Sid J. Hare, of Kansas City, Mo., has been employed to 
replot and make planting plans for Elmwood Cemetery, 
Birmingham, Ala. 
The accompanying picture of the entrance to Woodlawn 
Cemetery, of Winona, Minn., is made from a very attractive 
souvenir postcard which the cemetery issues. It makes quite 
ENTRANCE TO WOODLAWN CEMETERY. 
Winona, Minn. 
ari attractive showing with some fine healthy looking trees 
immediately within the entrance. A. C. Dixon is secretary 
of the association. 
The Glasgow Cemetery, Glasgow, Ky., has added an ad- 
joining tract. 
Continued progress is being reported in a number of places 
in the abolishing of Sunday funerals. The Ministers’ Asso- 
ciation of Utica, N. Y., has started a movement there and 
induced the daily press to take it up at considerable length. 
At a recent meeting of the New London Cemetery Associa- 
tion, New London, Conn., it was voted that hereafter no in- 
terments be permitted on Sunday except when demanded by 
considerations of public health. 
