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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PUBLIC-SPIRITED WORK for the VILLAGE CEMETERY 
Following are two brief stories of 
two small cemeteries that are credit- 
able to their communities. One is 
managed as a private corporation and 
the other as a city institution. Both 
are carefully managed and intelli- 
gently improved. The accompanying- 
illustrations, taken in cemeteries of 
Leicester and Melrose, Mass., present 
some concrete evidence of the fact 
that even a small country cemetery 
may be neatly kept and well man- 
aged. 
A generation or two ago, many of 
these presented an unkempt and al- 
most hideous aspect. While this ap- 
plies in too many instances today, 
the march of improvement is making 
1-ieadway in no uncertain manner. 
Credit for this is due in large meas- 
ure to the intelligent care and self- 
sacrificing interest of trustees and 
managers, and especially to public- 
spirited and generous friends who 
have from time to time donated 
goodly sums of money for the em- 
bellishment and adornment of the 
cemetery. 
Pine Grove Cemetery, Leicester, 
Mass., has been especially fortunate 
in this respect. 
This cemetery was incorporated in 
1841 , and has always been very well 
cared for, more so than a majority 
of country burying grounds. The 
original purchase of about six acres 
was increased in 1873 by the addition 
of about thirteen acres. 
In 1891-2 two wealthy and public- 
spirited residents, Mrs. John E. Rus- 
sell and Mrs. Julia T. Murdock, 
caused to be erected and presented to 
the corporation, the present massive 
and ornamental entrance. This was 
constructed of granite from Redstone, 
N. H., and was flanked on either side 
on the line of the highway by a rough 
native stone wall. 
In 1906 Mrs. Russell offered to 
remove this wall and erect in its 
place one of granite of the sarne 
style and character as the entrance. 
This offer was accepted, the wall was 
built at a cost of about $ 2,500 and 
with the entrance makes a very pleas- 
ing approach. 
In 1888 a receiving tomb of red 
brick with brown stone trimmings 
was erected at a cost of about ’$ 1 , 400 . 
This was placed in a conspicuous 
and wind-swept situation, with noth- 
ing for a background to relieve its 
bare outline. In the autumn of 1909 
Mrs. Russell again came forward with 
a proposition to remove the tomb to 
a more secluded and less exposed site. 
This offer was gladly accepted, and 
in the spring of 1910 the work of re- 
moval was done, with no injury to 
the building, or to the ampelopsis 
which adorned it. This work was 
done at a cost of nearly $1,000. 
The photograph with the over- 
arching trees shows its present set- 
RECEIVING TOjMB THAT WAS MOVED FROM AN OPEN LAWN TO THIS 
SHELTERED SITE, PINE GROVE CEMETERY, LEICESTER, MASS. 
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NEW RCSTIf BRIDGE, WYOMING CEMETERY, MEI.ROSE, MASS. 
