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City Council. The fence will be 
-wrought iron some 1,000 feet long, 
and the contract was awarded to the 
Enterprise Foundry & Fence Co., of 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
The addition to the City Cemetery 
of Muscatine, la., is to be laid out on 
the lawn plan, and is expected to 
make Greenwood Cemetery an attrac- 
tive burial place. The new addition 
is about three and a half acres in ex- 
tent. 
At the annual meeting of Oakland 
Cemetery, Freeport, 111., a cheerful 
report was made and steps inaugu- 
rated for the instalment of an effi- 
cient water system in 1912. 
Barnes & Spaulding of Pittsfield. 
Mass., have prepared plans for the 
development of the new part of the 
City Cemetery of Hinsdale, Mass. 
The officers of Cedar Grove Ceme- 
tery, New London, Conn., are experi- 
encing the usual difficulties of collect- 
ing delinquent bills for the care of 
lots, and at the last meeting the sub- 
ject was seriously discussed, and reso- 
lutions passed to collect for payment 
for such work in advance. 
The cemetery commissioners of 
Hartford, Conn., have recommended 
to the City Council the purchase of a 
plot of land as an addition to Zion 
Hill Cemetery. 
The Baraboo, Wis., Cemetery As- 
sociation are preparing to secure 
plans for a “mortuary chapel,” at a 
cost limit of $6,000. The Women’s 
Givic League of that city are quite in- 
terested in the matter. 
The new service building in Mount 
Auburn Cemetery, Berwyn, 111., a 
suburb of Chicago on the C., B. & 
Q. R. R., has been erected from de- 
signs by Mr. A. J. Buerger,' Jr., archi- 
tect. The structure proper is 30 by 40 
feet; over the verandas it is 50 by 40 
feet. It is built of dark brown rough 
faced pressed brick, with Bedford 
stone trimmings; the roof is of green 
glazed tile, with copper gutters and 
■down spouts, and there is a dormer 
window on front and rear, having cop- 
per trimmings. The waiting room is 
18 by 40 feet, with beamed ceiling; 
the oak trimming is finished in dark 
green. Wainscoting, window sills and 
'floors are of mosaic tiling. The lava- 
tories for women and the rest room 
are similarly finished, and have the 
latest sanitary equipment. The build- 
ing is lighted by electricity and heat- 
ed with 'a hot-water system, and a 
water system has been installed ex- 
pressly for this structure. The wait- 
ing and rest rooms are adequately 
provided with mission furniture, the 
comfort of the patrons being carefully 
of considered. Mount Auburn Cemetery, 
of which Mr. George Schrade is 
superintendent, and for which plans 
were made by Mr. O. C. Simonds. 
was described in these columns a few 
years ago, not long after it was 
opened. 
NEW CEMETERIES 
The Congregation Agudas Achem, 
Newburgh, N. Y.. dedicated a new 
cemetery last month: it lies adjacent 
to Woodlawn Cemetery. With the 
purchase of the new plot of land near 
Woodlawn Cemetery, the Congrega- 
tion Agudas Achem wilt own two 
cemeteries, f’he other one is near 
Chrystal Lake. The new cemetery of 
the Agudas Achem is opposite the 
cemetery of the B’Nai Israel Congre- 
gation. 
The new St. Vincent’s Cemetery, at 
Plymouth, Pa., was consecrated last 
month by Rt. Rev. M. J. Hoban, 
bishop of the Scranton diocese, in 
the presence of a large gathering. 
Mine caves ruined the old cemetery, 
and the company, whose workings de- 
stroyed it, donated a new plot of 
ground and paid the expense of the 
removal of the bodies. 
The Board of Public Works of 
Antigo, Wis., have recommended the 
fixing up of twenty acres of the eighty 
acres of land owned by the city just 
southeast of the city, for cemetery 
purposes. The land in question was 
purchased by the city in 1907 at the 
time the attention of the council was 
called to the crowded condition of the 
present site. 
Early next spring the new Catholic 
burying ground, lying four miles 
south of the Hartman stock farm, 
and ten miles south of Columbus, O., 
will be thrown open. It will contain 
250 acres and will be one of the larg- 
est cemeteries in the state. Its open- 
ing means that after this winter no 
more lots will be sold in Calvary, the 
Catholic cemetery which has been 
used for years. 
News from New Castle, Pa., says 
a charter for the iMountville Ceme- 
tery has been granted. The ceme- 
terj' is located in Perry township. 
The incorporators are: Elam Z. 
Thomas, Alexander I. Young, Ersk- 
ine E. Aiken, R. Calvin Weller, and 
Charles C. Wilson. It is stated in 
the charter that the cemetery will 
not be run for profit. 
A corporation has been organized 
to plat and develop a tract of land 
recently purchased on Adams and 
Green Bay road, north of the city lim- 
its, Milwaukee, Wis. It is a choice 
location for a cemetery, and the 
trustees claim to intend to make it 
one of the finest cemeteries in \'/is- 
censin. It is named Evergreen Ceme- 
tery. 
Graceland is the name of the new 
cemetery of 51 acres, which is to he 
opened next year by the cemetery 
commissioners of Racine, Wis., and 
which is to supplement Mound Ceme- 
tery, now nearly all sold out. Mound 
Cemetery, of (i.j acres, was named 
from the many mounds found on the 
tract, of historic origin, some prob- 
ably 1,000 years old. In 1852 sixty 
mounds were platted in its vicinity, 
most of them were investigated and 
contained skeletons. A vast amount 
of interest attaches to these mounds, 
and they make the cemetery a noted 
one; it is earnestly desired that they 
be preserved. Mr. Louis F. Mohr is 
superintendent of both Mound and 
the new Graceland Cemeteries. 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION 
The illustration on the front cover 
shows one of the most elaborate cem- 
etery entrance gateways in America. 
Its architecture, of the Italian Renais- 
sance style, has been closely followed 
in the artistic Barre granite piers, 
and the elaborate iron work so beau- 
tifully wrought out in the ornamental 
gates and fence. 
Some idea of the massive propor- 
tions may be obtained from a few 
of the dimensions given. The gran- 
ite piers, or posts, are each 2.5 feet 
high, and six feet square at the base 
Each of these stately columns contain 
upwards of 50 tons of Barre granite. 
Two hundred and fifty cubic feet of 
concrete was used in the foundation 
of each of these posts. The ornamen- 
tal iron gates are each 18 feet wide, 
17 feet high at the hinge side, and 12 
feet high in the center. The approxi- 
mate weight of the iron in these mag- 
nificent gates was over ten tons, there 
being a total frontage at the main 
entrance of about 114 feet. 
The contract for building and erect- 
ing the ornamental gateways and 
fence was awarded to the Stewart 
Iron Works Company, of Cincinnati, 
whose reputation for exceptional work 
of this character insured that the 
work would be carried out in the 
spirit of the architect’s design. 
The Roseland Park Cemetery en- 
trance was completed in 1909 , at a cost 
of about $ 25 , 000 . That the necessary 
expenditure has more than warranted 
the directors in carrying out this elab- 
orate idea is proven by the fact that 
these attractive grounds are one of 
the show places of visitors to De- 
troit. 
