PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The Kansas City, Kas., park de- 
partment will have charge of Oak 
Grove Cemetery in the future, pro- 
viding no legal obstacles are found. 
A committee from the Council of 
Women’s Clubs and the Mercantile 
Club explained to the commissioners 
that the city’s only cemetery was go- 
ing to ruin for the lack of attention. 
The city purchased the cemetery in 
1864, and since all the lots were sold 
it has not been properly cared for. 
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Oak- 
dale Cemetery Association, Worces- 
ter, jMass., met recently and received 
reports. The principal matter was 
that on water supply, on which a 
committee has been busy and report- 
ed that the work was half completed. 
J. Robert Reid, secretary of the 
Wakefield, l\Iass., Cemetery Commis- 
sion, has won his long fight for the 
custody of the records of his board 
and the office of the State Commis- 
sioner of Public Records has ordered 
Reid’s colleagues, Chairman John 
IVlinniken and Hoyt B. Parker, to 
turn over to him before Oct. 13 all 
books, plans and records in their pos- 
session. 
Harry E. Garner has filed a peti- 
tion for the appointment of a receiv- 
er for the Mount Zion Cemetery 
Company, Baltimore, Md., claiming 
that the company is indebted to him 
in the amount of $810. At a meeting 
of the directors a resolution was 
passed whereby the company admits 
that it is unable to meet the demands 
made upon it for payment of loans 
and claims, and has filed its answer 
to that effect. The court appointed 
Clarence E. Downes as receiver, the 
bond being $5,000. Mr. Ferdinand C. 
Link is the president of the company. 
The village of Forest Park, and 
suburb of Chicago, has passed an or- 
dinance authorizing a toll to be 
charged for every vehicle which trav- 
erses the streets of Forest Park. The 
five cemeteries west of Chicago, can 
only be reached now virtually by the 
payment of a vehicle tax, which will 
place a prohibitive cost on every fun- 
eral procession going that way. The 
annual fees are: for single horse 
vehicle, $4; for double horse vehicle, 
$8; for single seated automobiles, 
$10; for double seated automobiles, 
$20. According to this schedule driv- 
ers of hearses must pay $8 to use the 
streets of the village. Every vehi- 
cle in the procession will have to pay 
from $4 to $20. The ordinance is 
looked upon as a spite measure to 
bring Chicago to the point of meet- 
ing the village authorities on the 
traction question. The cemeteries 
which can be reached only by driving 
through Forest Park include Mount 
Carmel, Forest Home, Waldheim, Al- 
tenheim, and Concordia. 
NEW CEMETERIES 
E. V. Thompson and wife of Day- 
ton, Wash., have deeded to the town 
of Starbuck seven acres west of town 
and near the Tucannon river, to be 
platted for a cemetery. 
Some six completed sections, con- 
taining 800 lots, of the new Catholic 
cemetery near Stella, N. Y., have been 
consecrated. 
Articles of incorporation have been 
filed for a new cemetery association, 
the property located near Mishawaka, 
Ind. It is capitalized at $20,000 and 
expects to transform the Daniel Ward 
farm, two and a half miles east of 
Mishawaka, on the interurban line, 
into a modern cemetery. The plat 
contains 50 acres of land, of a sandy 
soil, well adapted for cemetery pur- 
poses. The name of this corporation 
is the Twin Branch Cemetery Asso- 
ciation. Besides the above a $50,000 
corporation has betn organized to pro- 
vide a burying ground where the St, 
Joseph County Country Club is now 
located. It will be known as the Hill 
Crest Cemetery, and will be located 
in the sixty-five acre plat of ground 
along the St. Joseph river. 
The new Jewish cemetery in Fair- 
mount, Denver, Colo., was opened 
September 1. It consists of fifteen 
acres and adjoins the greenhouses, 
close to the entrance. The ground 
cost the Jewish association $15,000 
and more than $3,000 has been ex- 
pended in general improvements. 
Within a short time it is expected the 
1,200 bodies now buried in the old 
Jewish cemetery, which adjoins Cal- 
vary Cemetery, near Congress Park, 
will be removed to the new cemetery. 
At a recent regular meeting of the 
city commissioners of Birmingham, 
.A.la., a resolution was passed, granting 
permission for the location of a ceme- 
tery for negroes near Mason City with 
the provision that in case of any pro- 
test on the part of citizens in this sec- 
tion action on the matter might be re- 
scinded. 
With the completion of the first 
thirty acres of the property of the 
Mount Scott Cemetery Association, 
Portland, Ore., substantial progress 
has been made on Portland’s thor- 
oughly modern cemetery. The tract 
owned by the association contains 335 
acres. The land is high and rolling 
and is one of the most beautiful tracts 
near the city. The improvements 
have cost some $75,000, and it is 
GSO 
planned to begip the development of 
another unit at an early date. 
What is promised to be one of the 
most attractive Catliolic burial 
grounds in the State of Ohio is com- 
prised in a tract of 214 acres south 
of Columbus, near Shadeville. Rt. 
Rev. Bishop Hartley is superintend- 
ing the work of preparing the grounds. 
At the special town meeting of Wil- 
limantic. Conn., held August 26, the 
plans for the new cemetery were ac- 
cepted and the sum of $5,000 appropri- 
ated to grade and lay out the land. 
CEMETERY REPORTS 
In the third Annual Report of the 
Board of Park Commissioners, on 
the Public Cemeteries of the City 
of Hartford, Conn., for the- year end- 
ing [March 31, 1911, Mr; G.. A. Park- 
er, superintendent, draws attention to 
the annual saving in maintenance 
due to the regular care given to the 
cemetery trees and grounds, year by 
year. The improvements for the year 
were almost entirely confined to the 
roads of the Old North Cemetery. 
It is not generally known that the 
late eminent landscape architect 
Frederick Law Olmsted, who was 
born in Hartford, is buried in the 
tomb where his father and mother 
rest in the old North Cemetery, On 
this lot stands one of the largest and 
most nearly perfect beech trees in 
Hartford — “a fitting monument to the 
man who loved trees and knew their 
value in the lives of men and in the 
beautifying of cities.’’ In addition to 
the appropriation made by the City 
for the care of the cemeteries there 
was received for sale of lots, $2,376.- 
50, and for care of lots, opening 
graves, etc., $2,149.20. There was ex- 
pended for maintenance and improve- 
ment, $8,134.08. 
ADDITIONS AND IMPROVE- 
MENTS 
The trustees of the Oakwood Cem- 
etery Association, Joliet, 111., have de- 
cided to proceed at once with the 
construction of an administration 
building on the lot recently purchased 
on the north side of Cass street. 
The Brooke Cemetery Company,. 
W’ellsburg, W. Va., is making prepa- 
rations to improve the entrance and 
grounds of the cemetery. The en- 
trance will be widened and a stone 
retaining wall and stone gate posts 
built, which will greatly improve the 
looks of the cemetery. 
Frank Purtman, commonly known 
as Peter Potter, for many years liv- 
ing in seclusion a mile west of Oakes- 
dale. Wash., died recently and be- 
