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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
queathed a three-acre tract of land 
to the Oakesdale Cemetery Society, 
reserving the right to be buried there 
himself. 
A twenty-acre addition to Mount 
Hope Cemeterjq San Diego, Cal., has 
been opened by the City Cemetery 
Commission. It is laid out on the 
modern lawn plan, and no lot cop- 
ings are permitted. 
The Evergreen Cemetery, Chicago, 
111., has recently purchased 30 acres 
at the southwest corner of Kedzie 
avenue and Eighty-seventh street for 
$24,000. This gives the cemetery a 
total of 127 acres in all, extending 
from Eighty-seventh to Ninety-first 
streets and from Kedzie to Central 
avenue on the Grand Trunk Railroad. 
Work has commenced on the Rick- 
er memorial chapel in Pine Hill Ceme- 
tery, Dover, N. H., under the will 
of IMrs, Mary A. Ricker as a me- 
morial to her daughter, the late Mrs. 
James F. Gallagher. The chapel will 
be erected on a large lot in a beauti- 
ful location. The plans, drawn by 
Alvah T. Ramsdell, a local architect, 
provide for a brick structure 32x60, 
with a square tower, under which will 
be a driveway. The trimmings will 
be of cut granite. 
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, 
Nebr., will soon be equipped with an 
up-to-date crematory. Mr. H. S. 
Mann, secretary, has been east inves- 
tigating the best examples, and other 
officials have been in Minneapolis 
and Chicago on the same errand. The 
building will be constructed of gran- 
ite, the interior will be highly deco- 
rative with most approved materials, 
and although it is the present inten- 
tion to use oil in the furnace it will be 
so equipped that electricity can be 
easily installed. Forest Lawn com- 
prises 320 acres, of which only 25 have 
been sold. 
An addition of 22 acres to St. Mat- 
thews Cemetery. St. Louis, Mo., was 
dedicated the 17th of this month. The 
cemetery is now better equipped than 
ever before. 
L. White & Son have been awarded 
the contract to put in the extension 
to the water system in the North 
Cemetery, Oxford, Mass. 
It is stated that a crematorium will 
be erected in Woodmere Cemetery, 
Detroit, Mich., in the near future. 
A determined and continuous effort 
is being made to clean up and repair 
the crumbling monuments, etc., in 
Church Street Cemetery, Mobile, Ala., 
once the only burial plot in that city. 
Many well known names are inscribed 
on the tombs. The cemetery asso- 
ciation is earnestly inviting the co-op- 
eration of all who have relatives 
buried there. 
The Mt. St. Benedict Cemetery As- 
sociation, Hartford, Conn., has bought 
a tract of land adjoining the cemetery 
on the east, which will be used for 
burial purposes as soon as it can be 
prepared. 
A movement is on foot among cer- 
tain of the reformed Jewish socialists 
of Brockton, Mass., to open a new 
Jewish cemetery. 
The Aspen Grove Cemeter}' asso- 
ciation, Burlington, la., recently 
closed the deal for something over 
twenty acres of land adjoining the 
present cemetery grounds on the 
north. The additional ground was 
bought of the Burlington Golf club. 
This deal was not an immediate ne- 
cessity but to safeguard the future. 
A chapel to cost from $12,000 to 
$15,000, will shortly be built at Pine 
Lake cemetery, Michigan City, Ind. 
The edifice will be a memorial. Plans 
for the structure which are being 
prepared by Allen & Son, architects. 
An attractive new fence, costing 
$700, has been placed around Pine- 
wood cemetery. West Point, Ga. 
Harlan P. Kelsey, the well-known 
landscape gardener, of Salem, Mass., 
has recently been in Spartanburg, S. 
C., advising on the improvement of 
Oakwood cemetery. 
The Harlingen, Tex., Priscilla Club 
has decided to layout and improve 
the cemetery at that place. 
A people’s campaign has been in- 
augurated for the beautifying of 
Lone Fir cemetery, Portland, Ore., 
where many of the soldier dead lie 
buried. Of the $10,000 required for 
the improvements ovi r half has been 
pledged. 
A new entrance to Magnolia Ceme- 
tery, Mobile, Ala., opening on Vir- 
ginia street, is being constructed by 
the city. By using the new entrance 
autos will be permitted to enter the 
cemetery, but funeral processions 
must have the right of way at all 
times. 
The 22-acre addition to St. 
Matthews Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo., 
was dedicated and consecrated on 
September 17 th. 
Beth Emeth cemetery, which lies 
to the west of the Rural, at Albany, 
N, Y., has this year been almost com- 
pletely developed as far as its pres- 
ent bounds. Only those of Jewish 
faith are buried in the cemetery. 
The application of the Middle Pat- 
ent Cemetery Association for permis- 
sion to extend its cemetery by add- 
ing 3 1-2 acres that have been pre- 
sented to the association for ceme- 
tery purposes, was made to the 
Board of Supervisors on Monday, 
Sept. 11. The cemetery is located in 
the upper part of the town of North 
Castle, N. Y. Permission was grant- 
ed. 
A note from Fremont, Neb., says, 
the Danish residents of Maple town- 
ship have taken advantage of a new 
law, and have organized a Danish 
Cemetery association. The new law 
gives the cemetery association a right 
to condemn land for burial purposes 
when the owner refuses to sell at a 
reasonable price. The owner of the 
land adjoining the cemetery last fall 
refused to sell any more land for 
burial purposes, although the ceme- 
tery was full. If the land in ques- 
tion cannot be purchased by the 
Cemetery association it will be con- 
demned under the new law. 
St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N. Y., 
a beautiful “city of the dead,” has re- 
cently added to its original area an 
additional tract of some 62 acres, 
bringing to total area of the ceme- 
tery up to 112 acres. The new land 
formerly belonged to the John Hart 
estate, adjoining the old cemetery, 
on the south. The new superinten- 
dent, Mr. Charles T. G. Flaherty, is 
putting through considerable changes 
in the improvement of the grounds 
by the inauguration of the town plan, 
which in the new portion, will be 
compulsory, and in the old, will be 
carried out for the lot owners who 
wish it. 
(Concluded on page VIII) 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION 
On the front cover of this issue we 
illustrate a pleasing design of cemetery 
entrance, which offers a practical sug- 
gestion in properly protecting and beau- 
tifying burial grounds. The entrance 
shown is that of the Washington Ceme- 
ter}’, located on the beautiful parkway 
at Parkville, Long Island. It was de- 
signed and built by the Stewart Iron 
Works Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
over ten years ago. Approximately 
2,500 feet of iron fence was required 
to enclose this acreage, situated as it 
is conveniently near to New York City. 
The ornamental iron gateways to the 
Washington Cemetery, of which there 
are six, are each 15 feet wide by 8 feet 
high in center. The fence is 6 feet 
high, made in 8 foot panels with ^- 
inch long pickets and 5^-inch short 
pickets of square bars, tipped with 
malleable spear ornaments. Both dura- 
bility and simplicity are predominating 
characteristics of this fence, which is 
of sufficient height and strength to give 
that sense of security necessary to all 
high class cemetery property. 
