Mo., has been stimulated by recent an- 
nouncements from the Bellefontaine 
and Calvary cemetery associations that 
automobiles will hereafter be permit- 
ted to enter the burial grounds. The 
■only restriction to be placed upon them 
will be to prevent speeding and the 
improper use of the privilege. 
CEMETERY ADDITIONS AND 
IMPROVEMENTS 
Mr. Louis T. Houghton, who was 
born in Sutton, Mass., and whose par- 
ents and relatives are buried in the 
South Sutton Cemetery, being dissatis- 
fied with the appearance of the family 
lot on a recent visit determined to im- 
prove it and expended some $2,000 in 
doing so. This contrasted so seriously 
with the condition of the rest of the 
burial ground that he made a further 
donation to the selectmen, and the peo- 
T)le are delighted with the improvements 
resulting. 
The iMedia, Pa., Cemetery Company 
has purchased adjoining lands. This 
■will provide room for laying out a 
large extension, and the new grounds 
will be placed in good condition. 
The new mausoleum for Oak Hill 
Cemetery, Evansville, Ind., is now un- 
der construction, the concrete founda- 
tion having been completed. The walls 
will be laid in brown brick and mor- 
tar, with trimmings of cream glazed 
terra cotta, and roof of green Spanish 
tile. It will have bronze doors and the 
floor will be laid in encaustic tile, with 
wainscoting of marble. Provision will 
be made for nine caskets. Cost $3,000. 
The granite memorial fountain pre- 
sented to Prospect Hill Cemetery, Brat- 
tleboro, Vt., by Mrs. Starr Clement was 
last month formally presented to the 
trustees and accepted. 
The Cemetery Committee of the City 
Council of Augusta, Ga., has decided 
to open up the 15-acre extension of the 
West View Cemetery. 
A large amount of improvement 
work, including a new approach, has 
been carried out in Evergreen Ceme- 
tery, Jacksonville, Fla. A receiving 
vault and certain park effects are con- 
templated for the near future. 
An addition of area for about a hun- 
dred lots has been made to Greenwood 
Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Forty acres of ground has been add- 
ed to Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapo- 
lis, Ind., by the purchase for $55,000, 
of the property adjoining the cemetery 
and fronting Thirty-eighth street. The 
ground will be platted in cemetery lots. 
Quite a sum of money has been ex- 
pended the past few months on repairs, 
additions and improvements in the cem- 
etery of Hartsville, Tenn. 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
South Nashville, Tenn., celebrated on 
the afternoon of October 13, when the 
cornerstone to the southeastern gate 
of the City Cemetery was laid with in- 
teresting ceremonies. The new gate 
is a gift from the Woman’s Federation 
of South Nashville, and when complet- 
ed will be an ornament to the historic 
old burying ground, as well as to the 
entire community in that section of the 
city. 
Improvements in the Old Burying 
Ground of Orange, N. J., have been 
continued during the past season, which 
has attracted much interest in the com- 
munity. An effort is under way to 
establish an endowment fund for the 
future care of the grounds. 
The regular cleaning up and repairs 
of the five cemeteries controlled by the 
city authorities of New Orleans, La., 
were completed in time for All Saints 
Day, November 1. 
Work on the e.xtensive improvements 
planned for Calvary cemetery, Youngs- 
town, O., is now under good headway 
and a large force of men are bringing 
about great changes in the general ap- 
pearance of some parts of the ceme- 
tery. The main feature of the present 
improvements is the incorporation of 
23 acres laying just to the east into the 
body of the cemetery proper. The work 
is being carried out under Mr. William 
Wilson, and some $8,000 will be ex- 
pended. 
Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Ore., 
about the improvement of which to 
meet the up-to-date requirements of its 
location, considerable stir is being made, 
must either be abandoned or improved, 
say those working for it, and strenu- 
ous efforts are in progress to better 
conditions of the old cemetery. 
The Woman’s Cemetery Association, 
of Milton, Ind., will make some de- 
cided improvements at the Westside 
Cemetery. There will be a new street 
opened up on the east side and a new 
entrance with new drives put in at the 
southeast corner. 
Improvements in the new Hollywood 
Cemetery, the outgrowth of the merged 
Hollywood and Rose Hill cemetery 
companies, have begun. The new com- 
pany proposes to spend some $20,000 
on the property, putting both ceme- 
teries into the best of condition. In- 
cluded in the improvements are a stone 
and cement chapel, a waiting room, re- 
ceiving vaults, archway and side-track 
for the street cars. The Hollywood 
Cemetery Company was capitalized at 
$100,000, and the Rose Hill Company 
at $50,000. Dr. S. W. Foster is presi- 
dent of the new corporation, E. B. Spal- 
ding, ice-president, and A. T. Spalding, 
secretary. 
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The first interment in the Grace Hill 
negro cemetery, located near Mason 
City, Ala., the negro settlement beyond 
Elyton, was made September 28. The 
cemetery enclosure will cover 20 acres 
of rolling land with driveways and is 
about a mile from Elmwood on the 
Columbiana pike. It is to be main- 
tained from the proceeds of a fund to 
be provided by a 10 per cent deduction 
from sales of lots. 
The Bethel Cemetery Association of 
Jamestown, N. Y., has been incorporat- 
ed with the secretary of state with the 
following as directors for the first 
year: David Schine, Meyer Schine and 
Samuel Davis of Jamestown. The pur- 
pose of the association is to establish 
a Jewish cemetery, land for which has 
been purchased at Lakewood. 
More land is to be aded to the De- 
catur, Ind., cemetery. 
FROM ANNUAL REPORTS 
The annual report of Tacoma Ceme- 
tery, Tacoma, Wash., for the year end- 
ing with June 1 last, showed receipts 
amounting to $49,875.24, which includ- 
ed : Sales, $13,357.00 ; single graves, 
$4,947.50 : opening graves, $3,978.00 ; 
care of lots $2,553.00 ; perpetual care, 
$11,808.65 ; greenhouse, $3,791.65, etc. The 
expenditures amounted to $18,961.10, 
of which labor consumed $16,108.50. A 
strong appeal is made for perpetual 
care and there are 315 whole lots and 
789 half lots now under that provision. 
Fifteen hundred lots were cared for 
during the year and 649 interments 
made. All monies received for Per- 
petual Care, and 30 per cent of sale of 
all lots and single graves, are placed in 
the “Irreducible Fund,” which is pro- 
tected by state law, to provide for the 
future care of the cemetery. The “Ir- 
reducible Fund” now amounts to 
$131,387.17 and the general fund to 
$49,142.74. 
A statement of the receipts and dis- 
bursements of the Cemetery of Spring 
Grove, Cincinnati, for the year ending 
Sept. 30, 1911, is just at hand. The 
total receipts with balance were $168,- 
634.40, which included Sale of Lots, 
$45,061.65 ; Interments and Foundations, 
$32,536.54 ; Myrtle and Special Care, 
$35,751.29. The total disbursements 
were $159,086.95, among them being: 
Interments and Foundations, $14,431.14 ; 
Myrtle and Special Care, $5,552.83 ; Op- 
eration and Maintenance, $39,715.75; 
New Grounds, $6,284.36 ; Gray Road 
Gate and Shelter House, $4,089.36 ; Sala- 
ries, $19,157. Lots sold, 104 and 22 frac- 
tions equal to 47,264 sq. ft. There are 
15,808 single graves occupied ; number 
of interments to date, 81,206, and Spring 
Grove has 11,839 lot holders. 
