PARK AND CEMETERY, 
77 
I CEMETERY NOTES $ 
+ 4 . 
It is proposed to issue bonds of the City of Boston to provide 
a chapel for Mt. Hope cemetery. This is one of the cemeteries 
controlled by the city. 
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In reporting a regular meeting of the Women’s Cemetery 
Association, the Nunda, N. Y , News, closes with this commend- 
able remark: All notices in regard to cemetery grounds are 
published gratuitously in the News, as we are compensated b) 
seeing the cemetery kept in good order. 
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By the will of the late Miss Alice Thompson a sum of $2,500 
is bequeathed, the interest of which is to be applied annually to 
the care of the village cemetery of Ballston, N. Y., providing 
the cemetery be incorporated. Papers of incorporation have 
been presented to the board of trustees for its approval and con- 
sent duly given. 
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The ninety-fourth semi annual meeting of the Boston Catho- 
ic Cemetery Ass iciation was held on May nth. The treasurer’s 
report showed the following: Sinking fund $25,103 08, perpet- 
ual care fund $10,750 85, special fund $5 389 47; total amount 
deposited in the name of the Boston Catholic cemetery associa- 
tion $43,716.77. The total number of interments in Calvary, 
Benedict and Dorchester cemeteries amounts to 101,146. 
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Through the efforts of the ladies’ of Riceville, la., a beauti- 
ful tract of seven acres has been secured as an addition to the pub- 
lic cemetery at that place; in order that the new portion might be 
laid out in accordance with the principles of modern cemetery 
usage, the citizens subscribed a sufficient amount to secure the 
services of a landscape architect and Mr. Frank H. Nutter of 
Minneapolis, Minn., has the work in charge. 
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The recent order of the Philadelphia Board of Health for. 
bidding the interment of more than one body in a grave is arous- 
ing considerable opposition. Representatives of the various 
cemeteries in the city limits have met and discussed the matter. 
It was determined in the event of a committee being unsuccess- 
ful in having the order rescinded or modified, to carry the fight 
into the Courts, and to that end a permanent organization was 
effected. 
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During May the State Funeral Director’s Associations’ of 
Missouri, Indiana and Iowa held their annual meetings. The 
most marked features of these gatherings were the increased at- 
tendance and interest shown in the proceedings, and the pro- 
nounced inclination to educational influences. The Illinois, 
Nebraska and Michigan Associations are next in order and will 
be holding their yearly conventions within the next few weeks. 
The benefits of educational effort in all lines of public usefulness 
is being clearly demonstrated in the active results of association 
work. 
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The Arlington Cemetery Company, Lansdowne Heights, 
Delaware county, Pa., near the Philadelphia county line, on the 
declaration of war with Spain tendered to three of the Philadel- 
phia regiments and other military organizations a cemetery lot 
prominently located and of suitable proportions for the inter- 
ment of any of the men of these regiments who might be unfort- 
unate enough to fall upon the field of battle, upon which the 
country was entering. The ofter was made to the commanding 
officers with the following preamble: “We herewith respect. 
fully beg leave to submit an offer made in sincere faith and with 
an earnest hope that the occasion for its acceptance may never 
arise." 
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The Cil y of A ton, 111 ., has received from the Mississippi Val- 
Dy Trustand Savings Company $1,500 set aside by the will of the 
late Jas, T. Drummond, to be held in trust for the care of the 
Drummond lot at Grandview cemetery. There had been some 
doubt as to the city’s established right in the premises but City 
Counselor Baker in a written opinion found the case analagous 
to several upon record in which municipalities have held park 
and similar funds in trust and expressed his opinion that the pro- 
ceeding would be perfectly proper. The money will be held by 
the city in trust and the earnings will be applied to the improve- 
ment of the lot, which is one of the most beautiful in the ceme- 
tery. 
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The Newton, Mass., Cemetery Corporation is to receive the 
sum of $700 from the city of Newton in settlement of a claim 
which has been pending for some time. One of the heretofore 
greatest beauties of the cemetery was its chain of natural lakes 
fed by springs. Last year the lakes began to fail and it was dis- 
covered that the springs were being drained by the under drains 
of the sewers which had just been completed in that part of the 
city. This year indications pointed to a complete drying up of 
the sources of supply and a claim was filed with the city govern- 
ment. The justice of claim was acknowledged, and besides the 
above payment the lakes will be supplied from the city water 
supply. 
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At the annual meeting of the Spring Grove Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, Hartford, Conn., the report showed a large amount of 
improvements made during the past twelve months principally 
in erecting the new office and in repairs on the Allyn chapel. 
The new office is one of the most commodious in the State for 
the purposes for which it was erected, and cost $2,500. The re- 
pairs on the Allyn chapel, including the new steam heating sys- 
tem, cost not less than $3,000. The new quarters of N. C. 
Wilder, Supt., who has been in charge of the cemetery grounds 
for a number of years, are all that could be desired. The wait- 
ing room for ladies has been arranged with special care and is 
very superior to the old place. 
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A petition for an injunction to restrain the congregation 
“Ghebra Thilim” from refusing petitioner, Solomon Heyman, 
from visiting the graves of deceased relatives interred in the 
cemetery of said association and preventing him from erecting 
headstones and coping around the graves was recently filed in 
the first city court, New Orleans. It appears according to the 
suit, that the congregation, in order to start the cemetery, agreed 
to inter the remains of petitioner’s brother-in-law, Julius Stein, 
and later his wife (the sister of petitioner), Mrs. Julius Stein- 
Subsequently Heyman sought to have a coping and headstone 
placed at the grave, but the congregation refused to permit this 
or to allow him to visit the grave unless he paid $25, although is 
was understood that the interments were to be gratis. 
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The annual meeting of the Hollywood Cemetery Company, 
Richmond, Va , was held May 10. The treasurer’s report showed 
total receipts for the year, $45,817.07, while the invested surplus 
was increased to $81,000. Among the receipts were: For in- 
terments $3,156.50; for work on lots, etc., $1,065.80. Forty- 
eight lots sold realized $10,069. The number of interments for 
the year were 336, making a total 16.992. The number of lots 
under annual care is 625 and under perpetual care 36. In re- 
gard to the latter a very active interest has been developed and 
