PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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The Realty & Investment Company, of Youngstown, 
O., has acquired title to seventy-two acres of land which 
is to be developed into a cemetery this year. W. J. Wil- 
liams, R. C. Huey and I. A. Weinberg are interested in 
the company. 
The City Cemetery Society of Sulphur Springs, Tex., 
has been incorporated by O. M. Pate, M. B. Sherwood 
and others. 
The Cambridge Catholic Cemetery Association has been 
organized at Cambridge, Mass., to develop the recent 
purchase of the Coolidge property into a cemetery, as 
soon as permission is obtained from the city authorities. 
The Chicago Park Cemetery Company, of Chicago, has 
been capitalized at $50,000 to operate a cemetery, a green- 
house and a nursery. The incorporators are Ralph M. 
Taylor, Martin Connor and Wm. Harley. 
The Evergreen Cemetery Association, of Detroit, paid 
its first dividend of two per cent Jan. i, 1907. The com- 
pany is capitalized at $300,000, and was incorporated April, 
1905. 
Annual reports or extracts from them^ historical sketches^ 
descriptive circulars^ photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department. 
At a meeting of the board of trustees of Oak Hill Ceme- 
tery, Evansville, Ind., last summer an order was passed 
abolishing Sunday funerals Jan. i, 1907. Supt. Wm. Hal- 
brooks writes that there will be no serious objections on 
the part of the lot owners as the order was passed on 
the receipt of a petition signed by the ministers and un- 
dertakers of the city and was favorably commented upon 
by the local press. 
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The Woodland cemetery committee of the city council 
of Des Moines, la., has voted to ask the legislature to 
pass a law taking control of the cemeteries from the city. 
The law will be general in its nature, applying to all pub- 
lic cemeteries and- the committee will recommend a spe- 
cial cemetery commission or urge that the park board be 
given control of the cemeteries. The fund for Woodland 
cemetery now amounts to only $16,000 and the committee 
is anxious to make it permanent. 
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At a meeting of the lot owners of Oakland cemetery, 
St. Paul, Minn., the report of the president showed a 
total of receipts of $36,955. The gross expenditures for 
the year were $25,780. The sale of lots and single graves 
amounted to $15,564, interment fees, $2,336; greenhouse 
sales, $5,847. Among the improvements made during the 
year was a reconstructed entrance to the receiving tomb; 
310 trees, shrubs and evergreens were planted, and 4,291' 
square feet of new land graded and sodded. There were 
398 interments during the year, an increase of 48 over 
last year. 
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A special committee of the City Council of Auburn, Me., 
was recently appointed to formulate plans for getting the 
cemeteries of that city under municipal management, and 
has made the following report on the subject; “The joint 
special committee on municipal owner.ship of cemeteries to 
which was referred the matter of recommending some method 
for the city to pursue to obtain ownership of the cemeteries 
have attended to that duty and beg leave to report as fol- 
lows : That they recommend that the city offer the Oak 
Hill and Stevens Mills Cemetery Associations the amount 
of their indebtedness for their cemeteries, also that the city 
offer the Mount Auburn Cemetery Association the amount 
of its indebtedness for that cemetery, and if these offers are 
accepted, that the city issue bonds for the purpose of caring 
for said indebtedness for a sum not to exceed $10,000, for a 
time not to exceed twenty years, at a rate of interest that 
may be satisfactory to the mayor and treasurer. And that 
three trustees be elected by the city council, to have charge 
of the property, one to be elected for a term of one year, one 
for a term of two years and one for a term of three years, 
after the first election one member to be elected each year for 
a term of three years, said trustees to formulate a set of 
by-laws, to include a provision for the payment of the bonds, 
to be presented to the city council for their approval.” 
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Ohio is peculiarly fortunate in possessing the rare 
mound-builder remains. At Fort Ancient, on the Little 
Miami, there is built the largest prehistoric earthwork of 
the race extant, primarily a fortification, but containing, 
at intervals, bodies of the dead. Serpent Mound, in Adams 
county, is another distinctly unique survivor of the days 
when the dusky mound-builder raised his barrows on the 
cliffs. Its purpose, too, however, was more religious than 
sepulchral, though there, likewise, a mound or two exists 
in which human bodies have been found. 
MOUND BUILDERS’ CEMETERY, MADISONVILLE, O. 
At Madisonville, O., however, a village on the outskirts 
of Greater Cincinnati, about to be engulfed by the next 
great tidal wave of annexation, a genuine mound-builder 
cemetery, per se, exists. The plot of ground lies on a 
headland, still overgrown with rank forest and under- 
brush, despite the numerous excavations that have taken 
place. One might pass through the woods a hundred 
times and never suspect their contents. A careful search, 
however, reveals even on the surface, mussel shells and 
an occasional bone, such as would never lie about on 
cliffs so high over the nearest waterway. From time to 
time, notably under the supervision of Dr. Metz, the local 
authority on the mounds, the pre-historic cemetery, or, as 
it is colloquiall known, the “Indian burying-ground,” has 
been investigated, and such of the find as has not found 
its way to Peabody Museum at Harvard, is now stored 
in the museums of the Natural History Society at Cincin- 
nati. 
