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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
CmETERY NOTES 
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Citizens of Glade Park, one of the 
newest towns in the Big Park country 
of Colorado, suddenly found it neces- 
sary to hold a mass meeting, select a 
site and start a cemetery before a three- 
months-old baby could be buried at 
Glade Park. A cemetery association 
was at once organized, which purchased 
a site and prepared to plat it. The child 
was the first born in Glade Park. 
The claim is made that Woodland 
Cemetery, Cleveland, O., is the most 
heavily occupied, in point of bodies bur- 
ied to the acre, of any in the world. 
It contains 60 acres, with a record of 
59,t)00 burials. ^ 
The Lake View Cemetery Association, 
Jamestown, N. Y., has recently pur- 
chased an adjoining property of 98 
acres’. The cemetery now owns close 
upon 200 acres, and the last purchase is 
admirably adapted to landscape embel- 
lishment. 
Suit was begun in the superior court, 
San Rafael, Calif., on February 9 by 
Mr. E. Blois du Bois against the Mount 
Tamalpias Cemetery Company for 
$87,711.62, principal and interest, which 
he alleges is due him on promissory 
notes executed by the company. Mr. Du 
Bois also placed an attachment on the 
equipment of the company. 
Residents of Sears, la., have petitioned 
the board of supervisors to investigate 
conditions in the paupers’ Cemetery, 
which appear to be in bad shape. The 
residents want the cemetery removed. 
The Norfolk, Va., board of aldermen 
last month concurred with the common 
council in the appropriation of $17,- 
510.54 for the purchase of Calvary Cem- 
etery, Inc., over the veto of Mayor Rid- 
dicks. This is the colored cemetery. 
The house bill prohibiting the location 
of a cemetery within a half mile of the 
state university or soldiers’ home was 
finally passed by the Minnesota Senate 
on January 27. 
The trustees of St. Patrick’s Cathe- 
dral, Manhattan, propose to have a large 
cemetery laid out at Central Park, Min- 
eola, L. I. With this object in view 
notice was given in the county papers 
that the trustees would apply to the 
hoard of supervisors of Nassau County 
for permission to take and set apart a 
large tract of land for cemetery pur- 
poses. Some 241 acres have been se- 
cured. A petition has been filed with 
the sui)er\-isors reciting the fact that 
this land has been obtained, with the 
statement that on that date given in the 
notice the trustees would appear before 
the board and request permission to es- 
tablish a cemetery there. 
In the illustrated article on Spring- 
dale Cemetery, Peoria, Ilk, in the Feb- 
ruary issue, the paragraph in which the 
area of the cemetery is given should 
properly read : the acreage is approx- 
imately 250 of which 47 acres have re- 
cently been purchased, and which will 
be added to the original area as re- 
quired. 
Conditions in the so-called paupers’ 
cemetery in South Rock Island, Ilk, has 
led, to petitions from an increasing pop- 
ulation to the county board asking that 
the cemetery lie discontinued as a bury- 
ing ground. Disclosures made in the 
local press as to shallow graves and 
improper methods forced this issue. 
In order to meet Indian superstitions 
the government is' making an effort to 
have a small tract of land located on 
Warner's ranch in California given back 
to the Indians. The ground was used 
as a burying ground by the Pala In- 
dians. The land was taken from them 
by a court decision, it is declared and 
in a petition to the Indian bureau the In- 
dians aver that when the land was taken 
away they were promised they could re- 
tain that section which held their dead. 
The Indian office has made requests of 
those who have interests in the ranch 
to restore the burial ground to the In- 
dians. 
Community mausoleums are talked 
of for Columbia City, Ind. ; Bucyrus, 
O. : Wapakoneta, O. ; Cincinnati, O. A 
concern called' the Eastern Mausoleum 
Co., $10,000,000 capital stock, is reported 
to have been organized at Portland, Me., 
to manufacture and erect monuments 
and mausoleums and furnish cemetery 
supplies. 
It is interesting to note what “taking 
hold of things” can accomplish in the 
case of small cemeteries. The Hanover 
Cemetery, Hanover, Kas., of eight acres 
a few years ago was a wilderness, the 
directors not having held a meeting for 
many years. Seven years ago A. R. 
Mengers, was elected secretary, together 
with a few directors, all inspired with 
a determination to mend things, and this' 
has been done. The grounds have been 
greatly improved, roads made and other 
necessary things done. The association 
is laboring under the disadvantage of a 
clause in its constitution which sets 
aside three acres of the eight for the 
public ; in other words, these three acres 
cannot be sold. Mr. Mengers would like 
to hear from any of our readers who 
have such a stumbling block to contend 
with, and to learn if the clause can be 
changed. 
Matters have been arranged between 
the commissioners of Mount Elope cem- 
etery, Worcester, Mass., and the Massa- 
chusetts civil service commission, so that 
the commissioners may hire their labor- 
ers for grave digging and general ceme- 
tery work, and register their names with 
a statement of the pay they are to re- 
ceive, at the Worcester office of the civil 
service commission, within 10 days of 
the time they are hired. 
The judiciary committee, at Sacra- 
mento, Calif., has passed favorably upon 
Senator Cassidy’s bill providing for the 
repeal of the law concerning the disin- 
terment of bodies. The measure was 
opposed by George D. Gray, one of tire 
trustees of the Laurel Hill Cemetery 
Association, San Francisco. This de- 
cides the point that sentiment shall not 
stand in the W'ay of the grow’th of the 
cit}', and streets will now probably be 
cut through or carried under Laurel 
Hill Cemetery. 
NEW CEMETERIES 
The city council of Seattle, Wash., 
has appointed a committee of five to act 
with the board of park commissioners 
in obtaining lOo acres to be used by 
the city as a cemetery in exchange for 
Jefferson park, vdiich lies adjacent to 
the Beacon hill reservoir. 
St. Mary s Catholic congTegation at 
Eden, Fond du Lac, Wis,, is about 
to establish a new cemetery which 
will be operated in conjunction with 
the church. At a recent meeting the 
organization of a cemetery associa- 
tion was perfected and the details of 
the purchase of 4 acres of land was 
completed. Although the congrega- 
tion has been established some 15 
years, it has never had a burying 
ground of its own. 
The Green River Cemetery Co., 
Greenfield. Mass., has purchased an 
adjoining tract of land to provide for 
future needs. It contains loyi acres. 
The city council of Bloomington, 
111., are examining options and investi- 
gating sites with a view to estab- 
lishing a new city cemetery. 
Wilmington, Delaware, is consider- 
ing the question of purchasing Mt. 
Zion Cemetery, an adjoining ceme- 
tery and the tract of an adjoining 
property owner, at a price of $67,000. 
