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in the magazines, has made a beginning 
on the development of its first ceme- 
tery, the Gary Oak Hill Cemetery, a 
tract of 40 acres at Forty-fifth and Har- 
rison Sts. Twenty acres of the grounds 
have been improved, roads built, an iron 
gateway constructed, and trees, shrubs 
and flowers planted. Charles A. John- 
son is president of the stock company 
developing the grounds ; Jos. P. Gran- 
tham, vice-president and general man- 
ager; Baker T. White, secretary C. O. 
Holmes, treasurer, and Peter Burg, 
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CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
The St. Matthews Cemetery, St. 
Louis, Mo., J. A. Schmiemeier, Supt., 
is building an office and waiting 
room: for the superintendent and the 
public, to cost approximately $1,100. 
It is also g'ra.ding and laying out 
about eighteen acres of new ground 
to extend the cemetery. The total 
expenditures will be near the $10,000 
mark. 
The Women’s Improvement Club 
of Sutter City, Cal., has .decided to 
purchase from the government sev- 
eral lots adjoining the cemetery for 
the purpose of enlarging it. 
Action has at last been taken look- 
ing to future up-keep of the old Cen- 
ter street cemetery, Wallingford, 
Conn. Early in May a number of 
citizens subscribed to articles of in- 
corporation and formed the Center 
Street Cemetery Association of Wall- 
ingford. This association acting in 
conjunction with the board of select- 
men may receive moneys and look af- 
ter the up-keep of the cemetery and 
make various improvements at the 
yard from time to time as they may 
elect. 
Dr. H. D. Hinckley, president of 
the Board of Trustees of Oxford Cem- 
etery Association, Oxford, O., re- 
cently announce,d that a contribution 
of $1,000 had been made by a promi- 
nent citizen of the village, who de- 
sires his name withheld for the pres- 
ent, which is to be paid over if $9,- 
000 more are subscribed for a perma- 
nent endowment fund to be used in 
keeping up the cemetery property. 
The board of trustees are at work to 
raise the necessary $9,000. 
The citizens of Sedgwick, Kas., 
have determined to improve their 
burial ground, and have been collect- 
ing labor and donations for the pur- 
pose. 
The St. John’s cemetery commit- 
tee, Clinton, Mass., has decided to 
erect a building for the use of the 
committee, the convenience of visit- 
ors at the cemetery, and there will 
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also be quarters in the cellar for tools. 
The building will be 24x30 feet, two 
stories high. The first floor is to be 
one large room and the upper floor 
will contain two. rooms, both of 
which will be fitted up for offices and 
will be used by the committee. The 
lower floor will be fitted up as a 
waiting room. The new building is 
to be located near the entrance of the 
cemetery. 
The cemeteries of Kerman, Cal., 
are to be beautified and cared for. 
The Bethany Lutheran church, 
which owns the burying ground in 
Vinland, has recently decided to im- 
prove the property while the Farms 
Company is laying out a cemetery for 
town use, a short distance southeast 
of Kerman. A water tank will be in- 
stalled and the work of the improve- 
ment will be left to the Woman’s Im- 
provement Club. 
Charles G. Wright, manager of the 
Oakwood crematorium of Tacoma, 
Wash., has recently visited San Diego, 
Cal., arranging for the commence- 
ment of work on a crematorium in 
Greenwood cemetery, where a piece 
of ground 200 feet square has been 
purchased for the purpose. Work has 
begun an.d the building is to cost $50,- 
000. It will be modeled on the lines 
of the Tacoma crematorium, but will 
be still more modern. 
Work is under way for a concrete 
enclosure wall for Fairlawn Cemetery, 
Oklahoma City, Okla., which will be 
followed by handsome gates at each 
entrance. The directors appear to be 
determined to beautify the property. 
The Ann Rogers Clark chapter. 
Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion, reclaimed the old city cemetery, 
in Mulberry street, Jeffersonville, Ind., 
two squares from the principal busi- 
ness street of the city, from years of 
neglect. Memorial Day exercises were 
held and a flagpole raised there May 
27. 
With the completion of the new en- 
trance gates an.d several hundred feet 
of gravel driveways in Hazelwood 
cemetery, Springfield, Mo., a great 
improvement to the burial place has 
been made under the direction of the 
cemetery committee of the city coun- 
cil. 
Architects Krempel & Erkes, Los 
Angeles, Cal., are preparing plans for 
a mausoleum to be built at the Jew- 
ish cemetery for the Harris estate. It 
will contain ten catacombs, four in 
the crypt and six above. The con- 
struction will be of reinforced con- 
crete. 
In accordance with an action taken at 
the last meeting of the board of direct- 
ors of Spring Grove Cemetery Associa- 
tion of Cincinnati, O., automobiles will 
now be admitted, provided owners and 
chauffeurs comply with certain rules. It 
is reported that leading undertakers say 
that the result will be the introduction 
£if auto funeral cars in the near future 
in that city, and that the barrier against 
automobiles at the Cincinnati cemeteries 
has prevented local undertakers from 
getting modern motor vehicles such as 
are used in other large cities and that 
doubtless they will now supply not only- 
autos instead of carriages for the use 
of mourners, but also auto-hearses. 
CEMETERY REPORTS 
The Cemetery Board of Managers 
of Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, On- 
tario, has recently issued its revised 
Rules and Regulations, stating in the 
preface that no unnecessary restric- 
tions have been imposed, the aim be- 
ing to provide to the greatest extent 
for the preference of lot owners as 
well as to ensure stability of improve- 
ments. The board assumes the gen- 
eral care of the entire grounds and 
lot owners must be governed by the 
rules and regulations from time to 
time laid down. Monuments, vaults 
and markers are subject to the ap- 
proval of the superintendent. No 
decoration or memorial services may 
be held in the cemetery except on the 
days, set apart for such observances, 
the second and third Sundays in Sep- 
tember. The pamphlet also includes 
a price list covering all lots and serv- 
ices. 
The report of the Board, of Trus- 
tees of the Green-Wood Cemetery, 
Brooklyn, New York, for 1910, shows 
the following. Receipts from the sale 
of lots, $146,073.96; the trust fund for 
the special and perpetual care of lots 
was increased by $69,445.46, and now 
amounts to $1,249,0.76.02; to the gen- 
eral fund for the improvement and 
permanent care of the cemetery there 
was added for the year $123,319.48, 
making now a total of $3,828,169.82. 
There was paid out on account of new 
chapel $31,046.10. The new receiving 
tomb developed leakage after the roof 
and earth covering had been put on, 
an.d after much consideration it was 
determined to strip the walls and roof 
and cover them with waterproof con- 
crete; this has so far been successful. 
A very handsome chapel is in course 
of construction from designs by War- 
ren and Wetmore, architects; this will 
probably be finished this year. There 
was an average of 266 men and 35 
horses employed through the year. 
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