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association and have at least one rep- 
resentative at its annual meetings. 
Officers are, president, W. D. Grassau, 
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. 
Y. ; vice-president, J. J. Stephens, 
Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, 
Ohio; secretary-treasurer Bellett 
Lawson, Jr., Elmwood Cemetery, of 
■Chicago, postoffice address River 
Grove, Illinois. 
Missouri Park and Cemetery Improve- 
ment Association 
The third annual meeting of the 
“Missouri Park and Cemetery Im- 
provement Association” will be held 
:at the Maryland Hotel, St. Louis, 
Mo., August 23-23. The following 
program has been prepared: 
PROGRAM: AUGUST 22. 
Address of welcome, A. E. Todt, 
Supt. SS. Peter and Paul. 
Address by President, Wm. Mittel- 
Lach, Boonville Cemetery. 
Report of Secretary. 
Appointment of Committees. 
Paper — M. P. Brazill, Supt. “Cal- 
vary,” St. Louis. 
Paper — Perpetual Care, J. A. 
Schmiemeier, Supt. “St. Mathews,” 
St. Louis. 
Paper — Underground Burial Vaults, 
President Wm. Mittelbach. 
Recess for Lunch. 
1:15 P. M. Take cars to cemeteries 
in southern part of city, “Mt. Sinai,” 
“St. Marcus,” “New IPickler,”' “SS. 
Peter and Paul,” “St. Mathews,” and 
■“Concordia” cemeteries. 
Lunch and refreshments will be 
served at “New Picker” Cemetery. 
Evening Session at St. Mathews 
Cemetery. 
Paper — On Records, M. N. Reker, 
bookkeeper, “SS. Peter and Paul” 
Cemetery. 
Supper will be served at “St. Math- 
ews.” 
august 23. 
Visit north end cemeteries: “Cal- 
vary” and “Belfontaine;” afterwards 
Park sand Shaw’s Garden.” 
A. G. Todt, Secretary. 
CEMETERY NOTES 
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removed by the city authorities. The 
plot will make an ideal playground 
being near the Elizabeth street school, 
and the center of a district where 
there are many small children. 
The cemetery employees of Bos- 
ton are again urging the “Saturday 
half-holiday” privilege. 
The City Council of Austin, Texas, 
has been considering an ordinance 
providing for the calling of an election 
to vote on an issue of bonds to the 
amount of .$33,000, for the purpose of 
purchasing and improving a public 
cemetery. 
In connection with a recent sale of 
500 acres at Wyandotte, Long Island, 
to the St. Patricks Cathedral by the 
Pine Lawn Cemetery Co., it is inter- 
esting to note that Pinelawn ceme- 
tery itself is the largest in the Unit- 
ed States. It comprises 3,3l'9 acres, 
of which 1,900 are available for burial 
purposes. It was started in 1904 by 
a wealthy corporation which planned 
great things for it and it was dedicat- 
ed September 15, 1904. The Brooklyn 
“Eagle” says of it: It is four times 
the size of Prospect Park, and so has 
succeeeded in getting that park-like 
effect so hard to arrange in places of 
the kind. Seventy-two acres of it, 
nearest the railroad station, are to 
be kept always as a park. Erom the 
top of the water tower can be seen 
the Great South Bay, the Atlantic 
Ocean, Long Island Sound and many 
of the famous Long Island estates. 
There are forty-five miles of roads, in- 
cluding a boulevard 200 feet wide, and 
100 miles of auxiliary paths. 
The New York legislature has re- 
cently passed an act connected with 
legislation for the village of Owego, 
Tioga County, and which became law 
on June 15, by which a board of four 
Cemetery Commissioners is created 
to have entire supervision and con- 
trol of Evergreen Cemetery and any 
other Cemetery hereafter to be ac- 
quired. Another point in the amend- 
ment is that all money or property 
bequeathed, devised or donated, the 
income of which is to be applied to 
general or specific lot care and im- 
provement, shall be immediately 
turned over by the commission to the 
village treasurer to be invested by the 
village trustees in the name of the 
village as a part of the permanent 
cemetery fund, the income from which 
is to be applied by the commissioners 
as per the terms attached to the gift 
or trust. The board of commission- 
ers may also adopt reasonable or- 
dinances for the control and manage- 
ment of the cemetery. 
NEW CEMETERIES 
The Chester, Pa., Court has grant- 
ed a charter to the ‘Shenkels Burying 
Ground Association,” to acquire and 
cake charge of burial grounds and 
property known as the Shenkel Burial 
Grounds, in North Coventry township, 
and to maintain the same for burial 
purposes. 
The trustees of Youngstown, O., 
township recently purchased 3J4 acres 
of land from the estate of George Tod 
to be used as a township cemetery for 
the poor. The price paid for the land 
is $6,000. The lot fronts on Craven 
street, Youngstown. 
The Carnegie Land Co., a subsidiary 
jf the H. C. Frick Coke Co., has do- 
nated to the Holy Trinity Polish Ro- 
man Catholic Church a well situat- 
ed 5 acre tract of land in Connells- 
ville township for a cemetery, 
Mr. F. P. Hosp, superintendent of 
parks for the Santa Fe R. R., has been 
engaged to lay out the new cemetery 
for the Redlands Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Redlands, Calif. 
Plans for laying out the new ceme- 
tery at 'Willimantic, Conn., are be- 
ing prepared by Charles N. Lowrie, 
landscape architect of New York. 
The Oakview Cemetery association 
Detroit, Mich., has been incorporated 
with capital of $40,000. The officers 
are: President, Judge Harry A. Lock- 
wood; first vice president and general 
sales agent, John C. Hickey; second 
vice president, Robert E. Barber; 
secretary, Alva G. Pitts; treasurer, 
Charles E. Hinkle; landscape en- 
gineers, Mason L. Brown & Co. The 
association has purchased 127 acres 
of land adjoining Royal Oak. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
The 'West Laurel Hill Cemetery 
Co., Philadelphia, Pa., is starting work 
on its new office building, to replace 
the old one, recently destroyed. The 
contract for the erection of four more 
greenhouses, 28 ft. by 150 ft., is also 
about to be let. 
A number of men have been em- 
ployed in improvement of the roads, 
driveways, gutters, etc., of the Ever- 
green Home Cemetery, Beatrice, 
Nebr. It will take several weeks to 
complete the job. 
The Oakwood Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Joliet, 111., has bought a lot op- 
posite the entrance to the grounds 
upon which it expects to erect an ad- 
ministration building some time in 
the near future. 
Additional ground has been pur- 
chased for Holy Cross Cemetery. 
Waco, Texas. It will be fenced and 
improved for burial purposes im- 
mediately. 
The North Burial Ground, Bristol, 
R. I., is to be enlarged. 
A landscape architect has been en- 
gaged to look over Mt. View Ceme- 
tery, Olean, N. Y., with the idea of 
improving it and laying out an ad- 
dition. 
