PARK AND CEMETERY. 
and the cemetery association to disinter 
Rnbin and bury him elsewhere. 
The board of health of Pittsfield, 
Mass., has decided to take no action 
on the petition of the Love of Peace 
society for appro^'al of a location selec- 
ted near South mountain for a ceme- 
tery site. The petition has been dis- 
missed without prejudice, so that it can 
be taken up by the board of health 
for next year. 
The National Cemetery Corporation 
Syndicate, of which Reese Carpenter, 
New York Cit}', is Syndicate agent, has 
been organizing a corporation that will 
control the holdings of the stockholders 
of a number of syndicate cemeteries 
distributed over the country. Forest 
Park Cemetery, Troy, N. Y., is in- 
cluded in the list, together with the 
following: Capitol cemetert-, Washing- 
ton, D. C. ; Kenwood cemetery, St. 
Louis, Mo.; Somerton Hills cemetery, 
Philadelphia, Pa. ; Mount Royal ceme- 
tery, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Lakeside ceme- 
tery, Erie, Pa. ; Lakeside cemetery, 
Buffalo, N. Y. ; Greenmount cemetery, 
.Syracuse, N. Y. ; Knollwood cemetery, 
Boston, Mass. 
In an effort to induce lot owners to 
provide funds for the better care of Glen- 
wood cemetery, Homer, N. Y., both for 
the present and future, Mr. C. O. New- 
ton, President of the Association, has 
been addressing a communication to all 
that could be found having relations 
or friends buried therein, urging them 
to subscribe to funds for the purpose 
of maintaining the cemetery in good 
condition as well as to provide for the 
future care of the lots, and memorials. 
Some success is attending the effort, 
and the letters have been well received. 
At its meeting in November last, the 
City Council of Albuquerque, N. M., 
granted permission for the establishment 
of a cemetery in the southeast portion 
of the city, just without the city limits. 
Citizens of the neighborhood believing 
that this cemetery would seriously affect 
property values, at the next meeting of 
the council petitioned that body to res- 
cind the permission, which was carried 
unanimously. 
The proceedings brought by Kansas 
City, Mo., to close Union Cemetery 
were to come before the Supreme court 
this month for argument on the appeal 
from the circuit court. In the mean- 
time burials in the cemetery are dis- 
continued except in unused spaces in 
family lots. The ordinance to close 
the cemetery was sustained by the low- 
er court. 
The recent purchase at Mount Car- 
bon, below the anthracite coal belt, of 
ground for a new cemetery for St. Pat- 
rick’s Roman Catholic parish, of Potts- 
ville, was made necessary, says a Potts- 
ville, Pa., press dispatch, by the fact that 
it has been decided that no more lots 
will be sold for cemetery purposes in 
those portions of the coal region where 
there is any douljt as to the surface 
conditions. There are a number of 
points in this region where cemeteries 
and undermined, and the long-buried 
dead are in daily danger of clattering 
down to the depths of mine workings, 
many of them years ago abandoned, 
hundreds of feet below. This had been 
the fact in several instances in the up- 
per basin within the last two years. 
Residence voters have defeated the 
proposition before the board of aider- 
men of Asheville, N. C., to extend Riv- 
erside Cemetery to within 300 feet of 
Pearson drive. It is claimed that the 
cemetery is already too close to the city. 
Shade trees along the main avenues 
in Forestvale cemetery, Hudson, Mass., 
a source of pride with the cemetery 
committee, were harmed by unknown 
people at Christmas time. The trunks 
of nearly all the trees on the avenue 
leading into the cemetery have been cut 
with an ax, and it is believed that the 
mischief was done by boys on their 
way to cut Christmas trees. 
The State Board of Health was re- 
quested by the County Board of Super- 
visors, St. Louis, Mo., to visit the St. 
Clair County Cemetery, on the Bun- 
cum road, near East St. Louis, and in- 
spect conditions there with a view to 
beginning prosecution for the alleged 
careless way in which the cemetery has 
been handled. A visit was made and 
a partly exposed coffin with a hole in 
it, was discovered. It was the second 
time in the last few months that this 
condition has been found, it is said. The 
slack methods of burial on the part of 
a former sexton are responsible for 
conditions. 
The bodies of 700 Philadelphians who 
died in the nineteenth century will be 
taken from their graves in the old ceme- 
tery adjoining Trinity Protestant Epis- 
copal Church, Second street near Cath- 
arine street, Philadelphia, Pa., within 
a few months to make way for the erec- 
tion of a group of tenements. In the 
days before and about the time of the 
civil war Trinity's was one of the most 
flourishing congregations in Philadel- 
phia, and the parish directory con- 
tained the names of many men and 
women prominent in the political, busi- 
ness and social life of the city. In 
recent years few worshippers have 
crossed the portals of the old church. 
Most of the bodies will be removed to 
Mount Moriah Cemetery, where a plot 
has been obtained by the trustees. The 
church will be converted into an 
amusment hall. 
Because the Dayton & Muncie Trac- 
IGG 
tion Company c.xcavated a gravel pit 
on tile land of George T. Orr, in Ran- 
dolph County, Ind., too close to the 
graves of members of Orr’s family, the 
Supreme Court on Nov. 22 , reversed 
the Randoliih Circuit Court and award- 
ed Grr damages from the traction com- 
pany. Orr had leased the gravel pit 
adjoining the family cemetery to the 
company, and it had been agreed that 
the excavation should not proceed past 
the limits of the burial ground. The 
land caved in and endangered the 
graves. 
A strong movement has started in 
Quincy, 111, to create a National Cem- 
etery in this city, in connection with the 
Soldiers’ Home. The present burial 
ground is favored for the site, and 
Congress will be asked for an appro- 
priation. 
The graves at the Media cemetery, 
Chester, Pa., long neglected, are now 
being fixed up and the cemetery com- 
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THE COVER ILLUSTRATION 
On the cover of this issue, we illus- 
trate a style of Cemetery Gateway of 
the popular modern type, artistic, yet 
modest in design. This is the Main 
Entrance to “Beautiful Glendale,” a new 
cemetery located about twelve miles 
from the heart of Cincinnati. This at- 
tractive acreage containing some 312 
acres, presents an unusual scenic ef- 
fect. Forty acres have thus far been im- 
proved along modern lines and it will 
doubtless take its place among the well- 
known burial grounds. 
Our illustration represents two orna- 
mental iron drive gates with double 
walk gates on either side. These gates 
are hung on massive granite piers, 15 
feet 6 inches high, with 54 inch base. 
Each of the drive gates is 13 feet 6 
inches wide. The walk gates on either 
side are 8 feet high and 7 feet wide : 
the granite piers on which they are hung 
being 9 feet 6 inches high and 34-inch 
base. A noticeable feature of these 
gates is their construction, which is of 
exceptionally durable. All of the gates 
are hung on heavy bronze “Y” lugs and 
all the other parts entering the granite 
piers are made of bronze in order to 
eliminate the possibility of the granite 
being marred by weather conditions. 
The total weight of the ornamental 
iron in these gates is about 10,000 
pounds. 
The owners of high-class cemetery 
property will appreciate the importance 
of an imposing front such as the Glen- 
dale entrance. This especial design was 
executed, built and erected by The 
Stewart Iron Works Company of Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, who have built a num- 
ber of fine gateways of a similar char- 
acter throughout the country. 
