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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
residential district of Baltimore, Md., 
the old Etting Cemetery, probably 
the oldest burying ground in Balti- 
more, is known to few of its citizens. 
Hidden behind high brick walls and 
tall gray gates, the cemetery has 
stood on North avenue, less than 100 
feet ofif Pennsylvania avenue, all 
these years, and the thousands who 
pass its gates daily do not know that 
generations of the Etting family lie 
buried there. The high gates were 
always closed. 
Under a cemetery law passed by 
the last Michigan legislature it is pos- 
sible for the city of Houghton to 
compel the owners of the old Protest- 
ant cemetery in that city to make 
whatever repairs are necessary to 
place it in good condition. The new 
law making cemetery improvements 
compulsory. 
Although actual graves will not be 
assessed by the tax assessor, unsold 
burying lots, which heretofore have 
brought no revenue to Spokane 
County, Wash., must pay their quota 
to help defray county expenses. It 
was recently learned that although 
cemeteries conducted for profit are 
liable to assessment to the extent of 
the unsold lots, they had never been 
taxed. 
Mr. Herbert Wellington, superin- 
tendent of the local cemeteries at 
Lexington, Mass., on September 3 
called upon the local police to stop 
the burial of a dog in the cemetery. 
Mrs. Sarah Bowman Vanness, a for- 
mer regent of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, wished to have 
a dog burial in her family lot, beside 
her husband’s body, but police 
stopped it at the grave, and she was 
forced to bury it on her estate, tem- 
porarily at least. It is believed she 
will contest the order. 
The directors of Woodmere Ceme- 
tery Association, Detroit, Mich., are 
considering a plan to increase their 
capital stock from .$50,000 to $250,000. 
Gov. Dix, of New York, signed 
Senator Harte’s bill, permitting exist- 
ing cem.etery associations and cor- 
porations to use for cemetery pur- 
poses lands within the limits of New 
York City, lawfully taken by recorded 
deed and devise and set apart for 
cemetery purposes. 
The newest project in the field of 
municipal ownership comes from 
Vienna, Austria, and is a decidedly 
picturesque and interesting one — a 
cemetery in a forest. Every effort 
will be made to preserve the sylvan 
character of the spot. The Vienna 
city council insists that all the grave- 
stones and monuments be of artistic 
design, and each of the latter are 
approved by the cemetery director 
before they are placed in position. 
Last month Alex. T. Butler, an 
attorney of Casper, Wyo., filed an 
appeal in the United States land 
office, asking that the Franco-Wyom- 
ing Oil Company be prevented from 
erecting a refinery on land deeded by 
the government to the town of Cas- 
per, for cemetery purposes, but not 
so utilized. 
As a result of a hot campaign by 
the stockholders against John West- 
ern, late secretary and manager of- 
the Roseland Park Cemetery Associa- 
tion, the Detroit “Journal” reports 
that a civil action has been brought 
against him to compel an accounting 
for moneys handled and also a 
charge of forgery. 
Without ceremony or formality of 
any kind, the first stone in the open- 
ing of the gateway between the Con- 
federate and the National cemeteries, 
at Springfield, Mo., was removed on 
Sept. 13, from the partition wall be- 
tween them, by Engineer C. E. Phil- 
lips, who has had general direction 
of the improvements planned for the 
cemeteries. 
A united campaign for opening the 
San Francisco cemeteries has been 
inaugurated by the Richmond Feder- 
ation of Improvement Clubs, an or- 
ganization representing all the im- 
provement clubs of the Richmond 
district. As a beginning, the federa- 
tion wants Sutter street extended 
through Laurel Hill Cemetery west- 
ward to make an almost straight con- 
nection with Clement street by meet- 
ing Euclid avenue at its junction 
with Parker avenue on the west side 
of the cemetery. 
Hancock, Md., finds itself in the 
unpleasant position of having prac- 
tically no more room in its cemeter- 
ies, a condition brought about by its 
failure to acquire cemetery property, 
when the opportunity offered. 
Unless a tract of land being con- 
sidered for a cemetery contains iron 
ore, the city of Eveleth, Minn., after 
18 years without a burial place, will 
have a graveyard located near town. 
The parsonage and cemetery of the 
First Presbyterian Church in Elms- 
ford. White Plains, N. Y., were last 
month advertised for sale for taxes. 
In the cemetery is the grave of Capt. 
Isaac Van Wart, one of the captors 
of Major Andre. Near the grave of 
Captain Van Wart is that of Solo- 
mon Utter, the carpenter who built 
the gallows on which Andre was exe- 
cuted. Others buried there are Ab- 
raham Martling, a Continental sol- 
dier who was present at the surren- 
der of Lord Corwallis; Gen. William 
Hammond and Capt. John Romer, 
who fought back the British at the 
battle of White Plains. Col. John 
L. C. Hamilton, of Elmsford, has is- 
sued an appeal to the patriotic resi- 
dents of Westchester County and 
throughout the state to contribute 
toward saving the cemetery. The 
residence of Archer Reed, at whose 
house the church was organized, on 
February 18, 1787, still stands at 
Eastview, and is owned by John D. 
Rockefeller. 
The work of preparing the new St. 
Vincent’s Catholic cemetery, at Ply- 
mouth, O., donated to the church by 
the Kingston Coal Co., to take the 
place of the old cemetery which has 
been seriously damaged by mine 
caves, has been under way for some 
time and the ground is now ready 
for the removal of the dead from the 
old cemetery. Moore Brothers, of 
Plymouth, undertakers, will have 
charge of the work. There are 2,500 
bodies to be moved. The cemetery 
comprises 50 acres of ground. 
There are said to be scarcely more 
than one hundred plots for graves 
remaining in the cemeteries situated 
in the eastern part of San Antonio, 
Texas, over which the city govern- 
ment has control, and appropriations 
will be necessary to provide for bury- 
ing the city’s dead at the Mission 
burial grounds. This tract contains 
530 acres and is situated five miles 
south of the city on the Corpus 
Christi road. 
Vigorous protests of property own- 
ers and others, against the establish- 
ment of a cemetery in an important 
section of Tacoma, Wash., has 
brought about an agreement to re- 
peal an ordinance recently passed, 
granting permission to create a ceme- 
tery in that section. The Annie 
Wright girls seminary, to be erected 
nearby, was a strong factor in the 
opposition. 
On the program of the Denver, 
Colo., Real Estate exchange, at its 
recent first fall meeting, was a re- 
newal of its protest against the re- 
opening of Mount Calvary cemetery, 
and a recommendation to the city 
authorities that a bureau in the high- 
way department be established for 
the purpose of keeping streets other 
than those paved with asphalt in 
good repair. It is asserted that the 
re-opening of Mount Calvary Ceme- 
tery, for which an ordinance was pre- 
pared, would be a decided step back- 
ward. The ordinance was later killed 
in the council. 
