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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
was a slight gain in assets. The prin- 
cipal receipts were: Sale of lots, $3,- 
871.60; interments, $1,955.75; care of 
lots, etc., $3,317.25. The Perpetual 
Care Fund now amounts to $66,017.25, 
which provides for 548 lots out of a 
total of 2,500. The cemetery has now 
a total of 8,431 interments, and has 
an area of 150 acres. 
The treasurer’s report of Swan 
Point Cemetery, Providehce, R. I., 
shows receipts for the past year of 
$193,649.37 and disbursements, $186,- 
669.65. The total assets of the cor- 
poration are $489,935.80; the perma- 
nent fund is $129,674.55, and the per- 
petual care fund has reached a total 
of $444,488.82, an increase of $15,834 
for the past j^ear. The upkeep of 
the grounds and the care of the cem- 
etery has been carefully maintained. 
Last spring the Rhode Island Chap- 
ter of the American Institute of Ar- 
chitects erected a rustic stone seat 
on the main avenue from the en- 
trance, which has been surrounded 
with shrubbery and trees and forms 
a fitting and beautiful tribute to the 
late president of the cemetery, Mr. 
Alfred Stone. The failure to secure 
favorable action by the city on the 
petition to abandon the Swan Point 
road, running through the grounds 
was a great disappointment to the 
managers. 
Daniel C. Thurber, for the ■ past 11 
years assistant superintendent at Swan 
Point Cemetery, has been promoted to 
be superintendent to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Timothy McCar- 
thy. The new superintendent has been 
in the employ of the corporation about 
30 years. During the last 11 years of 
that time he was assistant under the late 
superintendent. He is thoroughly con- 
versant with the general ideas formu- 
lated by Mr. McCarthy regarding the 
laying out of the grounds, and the fu- 
ture development, and is considered am- 
ply qualified to continue that work. 
OBITUARY 
Mr. Timothy McCarthy, for thirty- 
five years superintendent of Swan 
Point Cemetery, Providence, R. I., 
died fieb. 10, after an illness of sev- 
eral weeks, at his home within the 
grounds he loved as his own. His 
funeral, attended by the city’s wealth- 
iest and most representative, as well 
as poorer citizens, took place from 
the Church of the Holy Name, where 
the final prayers were recited by Rt. 
Rev. Bishop Harkins, D. D., attend- 
ed by Vicar General Doran, LL. D. 
The interment was in the family lot 
at Swan Point. 
Both the .A. A. C. -S. and the N. 
E. C. S. associations were represent- 
ed at the funeral, the honorary bear- 
ers from the A. A. C. S. being Messrs. 
Brazill, Cunningham, Driscoll, Mc- 
Mahon, Salway, O’Connor, Cline and 
Reid; from the . N. E. Association: 
Messrs. Creesy, Derry, Floyd, Har- 
graves, Rafferty, Ross, Scorgie and 
Warren. The Catholic Club, of which 
the deceased was a member, was rep- 
resented by ex-Gov. Higgins, ex- 
THE LATE TIMOTHY MCCARTHY. 
Mayors Fitzgerald and McCarthy, 
Col. McGann, and Drs. Gleason and 
McGuirk. The offices of “North 
Burial Ground” and “Cathblic Cem- 
eteries” were closed during the serv- 
ices by Supt. James Warren, Jr., and 
Rev. J. P. Harrington, out of respect 
to the memory of their associate. 
With the passing of Mr. McCarthy, 
the A. A. C. S. loses one of its most 
zealous promoters; every member, a 
personal friend; and Swan Point its 
peerless chief. For more than a third 
of a century he had labored to make 
his the most perfect cemetery, from 
a landscape point of view, in the 
country. Original in methods and 
ideas, and success attending the ap- 
plication of both to his life work, his 
transformations and triumphs were 
complete — and both names “McCar- 
thy” and “Swan Point” became sy- 
nonymous as well as famous through 
out the land. Keenly alert to all 
that might enhance their artistic 
beauty, he accentuated rather than 
conventionalized the natural features 
of the grounds under his care, and 
framed his masterpiece with the 
boulder wall — the finishing touch of 
the artist. The members of the A. 
A. C. S. who visited Swan Point dur- 
ing the Providence convention in 
1907, recall with exquisite delight the 
lasting impression made upon them 
by the rough, massive enclosure, with 
its every nook and cranny reflecting 
the skilled handiwork of the genius 
who made such a combination pos- 
sible. With pleasure equally keen, 
they remember also, the warm-heart- 
ed hospitality of the reception. They, 
as well as the legions who have vis- 
ited both Mr. McCarthy and Swan 
Point, marvelled at the large human- 
ity of the deceased, his wit so free 
from smallness, and the gracious 
gentler touches of his nature con- 
cealing stalwart strength of charac- 
ter beneath. 
Single minded in work, in his social 
and domestic life, there was never 
the suspicion of the dual personality 
about him. Scorning those “miser- 
able aims which end with self,” his 
influence was leavening, his humor 
delightful and refinei, his jovial spirit 
serious in the causes which brought 
it to the surface, and thereby the 
number of his friends never grew less. 
These he has left behind, lonely at 
his absence, and sympathizing sin- 
cerely with his widow and family. 
“‘And so goodby!’ Light words, and 
quickly said! 
But could they reach your ears, be- 
loved dead. 
Their burden you would guess 
Better than many wearing graver 
face. 
Goodby to genius, gentleness and 
grace! 
A vanished presence and a vacant place 
Leave us in heaviness.” 
Mr. Levant L. Mason, a well known 
and much respected citizen and busi- 
ness man of Jamestown, N. Y., and 
for two years past president of Lake 
View Cemetery Association of that 
town, passed away on February 13, in his- 
85th year. For 25 years he had also been 
secretary and superintendent of the 
cemetery. He died in the house in 
which he began housekeeping when 
he was married over 60 years ago. 
The town loses one of its best known 
citizens, a man equal to any trust 
reposed in him. No short obituary 
notice can cover the life lived by 
Mr. Mason, for he was never toO' 
busy to give any help or work for 
the public welfare and the good of 
others, and he was most assuredly a 
part of the life of the community in- 
which he lived. He was born near 
Buffalo in 1826 and came to James- 
town when a child. He leaves a son 
and daughter with their children and 
the children of a deceased daughter. 
He was buried in the ceinetery which 
he had served so long and faithfully. 
