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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
some material more • durable than gravel 
and that a suitable sidewalk should be 
constructed. These improvements certainly 
■would lend dignity and beauty to the en- 
trance. 
True It is. that it costs money to run a 
cemetery the same as any other business. 
Sentiment enters into a lodging place. It 
is to these sort named that this article is 
directed. 
GREENWOOD’S NEEDS. 
In Greenwood there are ugly walks, places 
by the score where retaining walls are 
badly needed, places where “fills” should 
be made and unmade, places where trees 
should be planted, places where new walks 
should be made, places where tombstones 
should be straightened and repaired, places 
where some care should be given to lot 
after lot. 
The question has been asked in the col- 
umns of the Herald, “who is responsible for 
the care of the cemetery?” The cemetery 
association declares most emphatically that 
it is responsible no further than to keep the 
walks and drives in good condition. The 
association has been severely censured, 
times w'ithout number, probably, for not 
looking after the private lots of owners, es- 
pecially lot owners whose dead rest in 
Greenwood, and who have since moved to 
other sections of the country. The ceme- 
tery association has also been charged many 
times with failure to keep the walks and 
drives in good condition. Many hundreds of 
dollars, probably thousands, are spent each 
year in repairs and Improvements in Green- 
wood, yet w'ith all the money spent by both 
the association and lot owners, the ceme- 
tery in comparison with others is unat- 
tractive. 
From 1857 to 1880, there was no known 
record of the dead in Greenwood, but after 
that date Mr. Montgomery has kept a care- 
ful record and anyone really interested may 
go over such records in Mr. Montgomery’s 
office. 
There is no uniform price at which lots 
in Greenwood sell. This would be impos- 
sible, for some lots are in a more choice 
location than others. The association has 
been criticised many times because of the 
high prices it charged for lots. In the early 
history of the organization lots sold as low 
as $10. but this price has been raised stead- 
ily until now, for choice lots, the price is 
FINE TYPE OF 
So few receiving vaults have any 
pretensions to architectural character 
that would make them adornments 
to the landscape that the fine vault 
in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburg, il- 
lustrated here is of particular inter- 
est. This spacious, handsome struc- 
ture of Gothic design was built in 
1905 and stands in the west corner 
of Section 39. It is altogether above 
ground, and retains in front much the 
appearance of the face of the old 
vault. The external measurements 
are 34 feet long, 30^ feet wide. There 
are 54 crypts, in three tiers, with 
ample room, should occasion require 
for 18 more crypts. Thirty-six of 
these crypts are 7 feet 10 inches deep, 
31J^ inches wide, and 27 inches high; 
eighteen are larger so as to accom- 
modate the largest made burial cases, 
they are 7 feet 10 inches deep, 35 
inches wide, and 27 inches high. In- 
placed at a large figure. In some cases the 
lots are worth, apparently all that is asked 
for them, but in some cases it seems that 
the prices asked and paid are out of all 
reason. 
Greenwood Cemetery Association has 
been censured a great deal because it sold 
the coal rights under certain of its proper- 
ties. Mr. Montgomery is authority for the 
statement that the coal rights. had already 
been sold by Theron Powers before the as- 
sociation acquired possession of the 17-acre 
tract it bought of him and that later on 
the association sold some coal rights un- 
der other parts of the cemetery so the M. 
& C. coal company might the more easily 
reach other of dts lands where it owned 
coal rights. Mr. Montgomery said, too, that 
anyone wishing to see any of these transfers 
may do so at his office. 
Andy Lemming, superintendent of the 
cemetery, has been doing more in the way 
of putting the cemetery in a presentable 
condition than has been done in the past 
20 years. This is the opinion of every 
person who has a call to pass any time 
■whatever in the cemetery and who is fa- 
miliar with conditions. Mr. Lemming has 
been with the cemetery association for 23 
years and will soon finish his first year as 
president, 
DEAD LIMBS CUT OFF. 
During the time he worked under a 
superintendent it was impossible for him 
to go ahead and plan and execute any 
work, but since he has been clothed with 
the authority of superintendent he has done 
a great deal to help out the looks of the 
place. He recently had his force of men 
take ladders and ropes and go up in the 
trees and cut and lower as many dead 
branches as they were able to find and then 
haul them to the dumping ground near the 
river. Afterwards, the old wire frames, 
flower pots, cans, dead grass, etc., were 
taken from the graves and hauled to the 
dump, and altogether there was 27 loads of 
brush and trash carted away. At this season 
of the year it is almost impossible to dis- 
tinguish the live limbs from the dead, but 
careful investigation will show that the ma- 
jority of the dead limbs have been cleaned 
up. 
The Herald has been asked who is re- 
sponsible for the appearance of the ceme- 
tery. There is no question but the ceme- 
side of eacli there is a fixed roller 
to permit of readily putting in or 
taking out the casket. In addition to 
the main aisle containing the crypts, 
there are two side rooms, one of 
which is fitted up with marble colum- 
barium niches where urns containing 
the remains of cremated bodies are 
kept. These are 10 inches high, 14 
inches wide and 12 inches deep. 
There is room for many more niches 
in these wings should they be need- 
ed, and they can be constructed in 
sizes to suit the urns. 
The stone — a hard, close grained, 
gray sandstone — used in the building 
of this receiving vault came from the 
Friendship Hill quarries, Fayette 
County, Pa., the property of the late 
President of the Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Mr. Charles E. Speer, and was 
generously donated by him to the 
cemetery for this purpose. 
tery association is responsible for the ap- 
pearance of all the -walks and drives. 
LOT OWNERS NEGLECTFUL. 
It would seem that the lot owners are 
individually responsible for keeping- their 
lots in order. Many take pride in doing 
so, but others do not. There are many 
prominent people buried in Greenwood. 
What might be one of the most attractive 
lots in the entire cemetery is the one In 
which the first wife of Governor Oglesby 
and two of his children are buried, yet it is 
one of the poorest kept lots in the entire 
cemetery. According to an official of the 
association no care or expense has been 
bestowed upon the lot by the family for 
years, yet the grass has been cut on this 
lot several times each year at the expense 
of the cemetery association. 
It seems strange that so much land has 
been allowed to go to waste In Greenwood 
and that a better system of landscaping has 
not been adopted. No work along that line 
has apparently been done and for the most 
part everything is as nature made it. In 
numerous places there are chances for 
nature to be improved upon, but all those 
chances have been neglected. 
A great deal of money has been spent in 
Greenwood. A safe estimate of the cost of 
tombstones, monuments and mausoleums 
could be placed at $750,000 with no fear of 
successful contradiction, and yet it Is not a 
beautiful place by any means. 
PLAN FOR CHAPEL PAILS TO MATURE. 
There are six mausoleums in the ceme- 
tery, five of them private. The private 
buildings belong to Mrs. A. W. Conklin, 
W. F. Busher, John R. Miller, Martin 
Schroeder and Vandeveer & Brownback. The 
public mausoleum Is owned by Fred Walters 
and houses nearly 50 dead. 
On the rOad or drive which turns to the 
right at the Schroeder mausoleum and about 
100 feet west of the turn in the drive, is a 
vacant plot of ground. It had been the 
intention of the cemetery association to build 
a chapel on this ground for the accommo- 
dation of the public, either for funerals or 
protection in case of a storm, but the board 
has practically changed its mind, so that it 
is understood the ground will be sold to 
persons wishing to build private mausoleums 
on it. The plat of ground is about 65x95 
feet and can be sold to great advantage. 
For each interment in the vault, 
time not to exceed one week, the cost 
is $10. For each week or part of the 
next three weeks, $1.00, and after that 
time $2.00 per week. For opening 
and closing the vault at any one time, 
a charge of one dollar is made. The 
body of any person that died of a 
contagious disease is not permitted 
in the vault. 
If a lot holder wishes to erect a 
mausoleum on his lot and in it inter 
the bodies now buried in this lot, 
these bodies may be disinterred and 
placed into hermetically sealed cases 
and put into the receiving vault pend- 
ing the construction of the mausole- 
um ; the charges therefor are $5.00 
for each casket the first week and 
one dollar a week or part thereof, 
for each succeeding week. 
The picture opposite shows an ex- 
cellent view of the vault and site. 
RECEIVING VAULT ARCHITECTURE 
