PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Eastlawn Cemetery Co., has purchased a tract of land for 
cemetery purposes in Delaware Co., Pa , at a point about equi- 
distant from Swarthmore, Morton, Rutledge, Folsom, Millmont 
and Ridley Park. It is rapidly being put into shape, a few sec- 
tions being ready for sale. Modern ideas including perpetual 
care are to be prominent features in its maintenance. The 
property lays generally high with sandy soil and excellent drain- 
age facilities. Benj. J. Passmore is superintendent. 
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The total number of interments in Woodlawn Cemetery, 
New York, to December 31, 1897, was 52,565, the number for 
1897 being 1,944. Of monuments there were erected 177 at an 
estimated cost of $115,145, and ten mausoleums of estimated 
value of $178,000. The cemetery contains 10.3 miles of roads, 
of which 54,108 feet are macadamized and 558 feet gravel. Of the 
1 1.3 miles of paths, 11,415 lineal feet are cement pavement, 21,- 
901 lineal feet scrimshaw, 5,511 macadam, and 21,014 gravel. 
Since March 1, 1898, all lot boundary posts have been set by 
the cemetery. 
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The report of the Marion, O., Cemetery Association shows 
gratifying results for the year ending April 1, 1S97. The receipts 
from all sources were $7,762.12 and expenditures $4,18990. 
There was a large increase in available assets for the past year 
over that previous. A striking feature of the management of 
this cemetery is the long service of its trustees. The recent death 
of John L. Hane, draws attention to the fact that he had served 
as trustee or secretary and treasurer for 30 years. Mr. P. O. 
Sharpless, an active trustee is in his 34th year of service. The 
association evidently does not believe that too much change is 
beneficial in cemetery management. 
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The care of the cemetery of Little Falls, N. Y., is vested in 
the Board of Public Works, under a city ordinance. According 
to the report of the city engineer, Mr. Stephen E. Babcock, C. 
E., the section of the ordinance, which requires all payments of 
whatever kind for cemetery work to be paid in advance, has 
proved its value, but the section permitting lot owners to employ 
masons to build graves, foundations, etc., has not only reduced 
revenues, but the work as a general thing is not nearly so satis- 
factory. The tax levy for the year 1897 for the care of lots was 
$2 per lot, but about one-third of the gross amount of this at 
time of preparing report remained unpaid. This condition will 
need remedy. 
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In consequence of unsatisfactory cemetery conditions in the 
past the citizens ol Audubon, la., have formed a cemetery asso- 
ciation. They have secured a tract of about eleven acres on the 
western slope of one of the rounded prairie hills so characteristic 
of the scenery oi Western Iowa, and from which an extensive 
view of the surrounding country is obtained. Mr. Frank H. 
Nutter, landscape architect of Minneapolis, Minn. , has spent 
several days upon the ground in consultation with the directors, 
and prepared a design for the new cemetery. It is intended to 
proceed at once with the improvement of the grounds. Here, 
as in so many other localities, the ladies of the city are taking 
an active interest in the matter. 
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Quite an interesting event in Union Dale cemetery, Alle- 
gheny, Pa., was the burial of Lieut. F. W. Jenkins, one of the 
U. S. naval officers who perished on the “Maine” when it was 
treacherously destroyed in Havana harbor. It will be remem' 
bered that the body was recovered from the wreck and trans- 
ported by the government to its final resting place at home. 
From a description and several photographs kindly sent by Mr. 
W. Harris, superintendent, it was probably the most impressive 
and grandest funeral ever witnessed in Western Pennsylvania. 
None but relatives, friends and the military pageant were ad- 
mitted to the grounds. The entire lot was covered with matting, 
and the grave hidden by palm leaves. Among the many beauti- 
ful floral offerings was a model of the “Maine” a memorial from 
his classmates of the Western LIniversity of Pennsylvania. The 
obsequies which beginning with the church service, was succeeded 
by a lying in state at the Court House, consumed many hours of 
the day and concluded at the cemetery with “taps” over the 
grave, the mournful notes o( the bugle telling of the rest that 
had finally come to one of the nation’s heroes. 
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The propriety, and in fact the duty of the clergy to take a 
hand in the welfare of the cemetery has often been urged in 
these columns, and it is gratifying to record that a Sunday Even- 
ing Easter Sermon, on “Beautiful Cemeteries” was delivered by 
the Rev. O. L. White, of the Presbyterian Church at Skaneateles, 
N. Y. In the course of the sermon he said: “What shall we 
say of those country graveyards where the myrtle and the ivy 
run at will, where the slabs stand aslant, the mounds have fallen 
in, and the ground is a pasturage for cattle? Next to a ruined 
life a neglected grave is about the saddest sight. Ah! you can- 
not care much for the memory of father and mother if you allow 
their graves to suffer from neglect. Some day, go back to the 
old spot, pull up the weeds, trim the willows, cut the grass, 
straighten the slab, and when you are through put flowers on the 
graves; and then, as long as you live, keep the place in neat con- 
dition and charge your children to do the same after you. There 
is no want of harmony between the idea of a garden and a sepul- 
chre. Yes; turn your cemeteries into gardens. Plant them with 
trees and shrubbery. Lay them out in plats and drives and 
walks. Keep the grounds in perfect order. If possible provide 
lor their perpetual care. Faith in the risen Christ brings cheer 
into the cities of the dead. It lights up the gloom with hope and 
glorious expectation." 
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Cemetery Reports. 
The recently published annual report of Forest Hills ceme- 
tery, Boston, Mass., to January 31, 1898. and which also marks 
the 50th year from its consecration, June 28, 1848, gives the fol- 
lowing information: The perpetual care fund now amounts to 
$670,732.02, a gain of $34,7 10.47 during the past year. The 
permanent fund for the care of avenues and paths now amounts 
to $40,649.20, an increase for the year of $6,586.23. The net re- 
ceipts from sales of lots were $34,887 50, and for single graves 
$3,703. Other receipts were: Interments, $7,391 ; foundations, 
$4,709.25; annual care of lots, $10,678.35. There was expended 
for labor and salaries $47,766.31; material, $8,251.42; repairs and 
improvements, $5,025.03. The total receipts were: $110,368.06; 
the total expenditures $87,551.92. There were 799 interments,' 
making a total 0130,513 in cemetery. 101 monuments and 288 
markers, etc., were erected. Two hedges and three curbings 
were removed. The number of lots sold was 90, and single 
graves 225. Average number of men employed 77. A large 
amount of grading was done in preparing lots during the year, 
and 5,257 lineal feet of grass paths were changed to gravel paths. 
These are covered with crushed Roxbury stone. 
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The three city cemeteries of New Bedford, Mass., which 
are managed by a cemetery board, according to the last report 
for the year ending Dec. 6, 1897 received by appropriation $18,- 
