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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
NEW CEMETERIES 
Five acres of land in Plainfield town- 
ship has been deeded to the Catholic 
Bishop of Chicago, to be used for a 
Catholic ceineterc- in Plainfield, Illinois, 
in connection with the new church 
which was started there a year ago. 
Temple Emanuel, the Jewish congre- 
gation of Rabbi W. S. Friedman, at 
Sixteenth avenue and Pearl street, Den- 
ver, Colo., has bought 15 acres of land 
in Fairmount cemetery for the purpose 
of establishing a Jewish cemetery. The 
Jewish cemeter}^ immediately east of 
Cheesman park will be vacated at once 
and the bodies will be removed to the 
new cemetery. 
The city council of Flolland, Mich., 
has decided to accept the offer of the 
Pilgrim Cemetery Association to take 
over the ten-acre cemetery and conduct 
it as a municipal burying ground. The 
city also takes over $900, the balance 
in the treasury of the association, 
which has conducted the cemetery since 
its establishment in 1848. It is also 
planned to purchase an eight-acre tract 
next to the cemetery and combine the 
two properties. A number of improve- 
ments are planned for the cemetery. 
Improvement work on the new River- 
hurst Cemetery, Endicott, N. Y., is 
rapidly approaching completion, and the 
laying out in sections and lots will soon 
be undertaken. 
The Oak Hill Cemetery Association, 
Belle Plaine, la., has bought four acres 
of ground for an extension. This as- 
sociation is composed entirely of wo- 
men of Belle Plaine, and they bought 
the cemetery some years ago when in 
very bad condition and have since trans- 
formed it into an attractive spot, put 
in a waterworks system and cement 
sidewalk about a mile from town, built 
a shelter and a large vault, and made 
many other improvements. The addi- 
tional acres afford much needed room. 
The Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, 
Baltimore, Md, has bought the old 
Schone Inn., on the west side of the 
Belair road, adjoining the Congrega- 
tion Cemetery. It will shortly be razed 
for an extension to the burial grounds. 
The property is one of the landmarks 
of the neighborhood, and was one of 
the favorite road hostelries during the 
stage coach period. The .old inn, de- 
spite the ravages of time, is still in an 
excellent state of preservation and 
plainly shows the marks of its past 
elegance. 
Forest Hill Cemetery Association, 
Fredonia, N. Y., with members in Fre- 
donia and Dunkirk, has bought nine 
acres of land adjoining its property, 
from the estate of the late Judge George 
Barker. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
The Cemetery Board of Saginaw, 
Mich., has completed arrangements for 
a convenient waiting-room building to 
be erected just inside the Washington 
Ave. entrance of Forest Lawn Ceme- 
tery. 
The annual spring cleaning in Vale 
Cemetery, Schenectady, N. Y., is about 
completed, and on a recent fine day 
an unusual crowd of visitors testified 
to the public appreciation of a beautiful 
place. 
The Jewish Cemetery at Nashua, 
N. H., is to be improved this season. 
A receiving vault is to be erected and 
the cemetery generally cleaned up. 
Some $1,600 is to be e.xpended on a 
road from town to Graceland Ceme- 
tery at Mitchell, S. D. In addition to 
this a better water supply is under con- 
sideration. 
Members of the executive committee 
of the Lone Fir Cemetery Lot Owners’ 
Association, Portland, Ore., have de- 
cided that no work shall be done on 
the cemetery grounds until sufficient 
money has been subscribed to insure 
the completion of the plan of improv- 
ing and beautifying the cemetery, plans 
for which have been made by Howard 
Evarts Weed. The cemetery grounds 
will receive a thorough overhauling, 
roadways filled where they are low and 
below the grade, more shrubs and trees 
planted, and grass seed sown. Through 
the center roadway a large water main 
to insure sufficient water for irrigating 
purposes is to be laid during the sum- 
mer months. No monuments or head- 
stones are to be disturbed in any 
manner. Hedges and fences will be 
removed by the consent of the owners 
upon whose lots they stand. The move- 
ment inaugurated by the Lone Fir 
Cemetery Lot Owners’ Association has 
nothing to do with the original com- 
pany. The new association has been 
organized and is in charge of the 
grounds for the sole purpose of carry- 
ing out the plan of beautifying them, 
and all lot owners are requested to co- 
operate and join the movement. 
It has been decided by the directors 
of the Hillside Cemetery Association, 
Middletown, N. Y., that a number of 
improvements shall be made in the 
grounds this season, among them the 
erection of massive stone pillars at the 
different entrances. A number of other 
minor improvements were also decided 
upon. 
The Evergreen Cemetery Association, 
of Jacksonville, Fla., has recently been 
organized under a new charter. Under 
this new charter trust funds for the 
perpetual care of lots may be received 
and a certain percentage of the pur- 
chase price may go into a trust fund 
for the maintenance of the cemetery 
after all the lots have been sold. Some 
thousands of dollars are to be provided 
for new buildings and improvements. 
The annual statement read at the 
sixty-third annual meeting of the lot 
owners of Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, 
N. Y., showed for the year ending. 
March 31, 1911 : Receipts from sale of 
burial lots, special care of grounds, 
riower beds, vases, etc., interment .per- 
mits, $28,213.49 ; interest from invested 
funds, $2,518.57 ; and total receipts, $38,- 
748.75. Included in the operating ex- 
penses were : Expense accounts, mate- 
rial and supplies, wages, labor items, 
sundries, $23,246.64 ; improvements, 
new acquisitions, property accounts, 
land purchased, buildings erected, new 
fencing, $6,347.86 ; total disbursements 
for year, $29,594.50. Balance, cash on- 
hand, April 1, 1911, $9,154.25. The 
perpetual care or trust funds of the 
association were increased $11,488 dur- 
ing the fiscal year, representing over a 
hundred new endowment funds. The 
superintendent’s report, among other 
things, showed a total of 542 inter- 
ments ; 94 burial lots sold during the 
year ; total lots sold to date, 3,701. Lots 
under perpetual care, 932 ; lots under 
general care, 875 ; total, 3,701. 
CEMETERY REPORTS 
The annual report of the Marion 
Cemetery Association, Marion, O., for 
year ending April 1, 1911, shows total 
receipts of $18,344.73. This includes ; 
lot sales, $3,870.51 ; lot endowments, 
$3,143.89 ; greenhouse sales, $1,127.72 ; 
grave permits, $878; stone graves, foun 
dations, etc., $1,464.12 ; interest, etc. 
The expenditures included : labor and 
salary of superintendent, $5,542.29 ; gen- 
eral expenses, $1,941.11 ; sundries, 
$976.85, which with other matters to- 
taled $8,677.29. The total cash assets 
amount to $79,767.64, giving an increase 
for the year of $9,667.44. The report 
gave much satisfaction. Mr. P. O. 
Sharpless, who was re-elected a trustee 
for a further term of three years, has 
now served the association for 46 years, 
and the officers were all re-elected. 
The annual meeting of the Ottumwa, 
la.. Cemetery Association was held 
May 1, and all the officers were re- 
elected. Among the receipts for the 
year were : burials, care and other 
sources, $2,902.38; lot sales, $1,062.35; 
added to perpetual care fund, $1,824.85. 
The perpetual care fund is now 
$7,485.15 and the general fund, $6,220.73. 
Number of burials during year, 177.. 
A minimum price of $2.50 has been es- 
tablished for setting headstones. Un- 
der the supervision of Mr. S. W. Ru- 
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