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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The Board of Park Commissioners, of 
Louisville, Ky., has accepted the offer of 
James P. Whallen to erect in Shawnee 
Park a bronze statue to his brother, the 
late John H. Whallen, to cost not less than 
$10,000. D. X. Murphy & Bros., archi- 
tects, were instructed to draw up plans for 
a $6,000 shelter house to be erected in 
Shawnee Park. 
Conditioned only on the raising of $5,000 
by public donation, the Park Board of 
Springfield, Mo., recently adopted a motion 
providing $40,000 for payment for forty- 
three acres of what is known as the Phelps 
Grove Park. The tract of land acquired 
contains improvements made under the su- 
pervision of W. J. Johnson. The Park 
Board also authorized the purchase of ten 
acres in the northeastern part of the city, 
known as Walnut Grove, for $4,000. 
The City Council of Little Rock, Ark., 
has voted $400,000 to establish a civic cen- 
ter on plans prepared by John Molen, 
landscape architect, Cambridge, Mass. 
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CEHETERY NOTES 
The following statistics from the annual 
report of Superintendent F. D. Willis, of 
Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, give interest- 
ing details of the 3 'ear’s work: Sales of 
lots, $19,512; sales of single graves, $1,674; 
special deposits on lots and perpetual care, 
$442; on lot contract accounts, $3,273; 
total receipts, $50,368.75. Perpetual care 
fund increased from sales of lots and sin- 
gle graves, $5,431.80; ordinary expendi- 
tures, $35,541.67 ; gross expenditures, $48,- 
782.27. Assets : Land, including sewers, 
$95,393.0 2 ; buildings, furniture, fences and 
water service, $55,924 ; greenhouse stock 
and equipment, $4,347.55 ; tools and imple- 
ments, $712.95 ; horses, vehicles and stable 
equipment, $1,711 ; foundation material, 
etc., $423.35 ; perpetual care funds, invest- 
ed, $142,000; net area of land sold, square 
feet, 23,974; used for avenues, walks and 
lawns, square feet, 2,509 ; total used during 
year, square feet, 26,483; total area of un- 
sold land, acres, 52.47 ; interments to Oc- 
tober 31, 1912, 19,136; interments during 
year, 476. 
Riverside Cemetery Association, Albany, 
Ore., is making extensive plans for beauti- 
fying the grounds, and recently had How- 
ard Evarts Weed’s stereopticon lecture on 
beautiful cemeteries given in that city to 
stimulate interest in the work. The plan 
of the cemetery association is to bring the 
management under one head and to pro- 
ceed to beautify it in a systematic way. 
It will take between $10,000 and $12,000 
to complete the work, but only one-half of 
this will be required from the stockholders, 
as the Board of Directors has secured as- 
surances that the balance will be forthcom- 
ing as soon as the first half is subscribed. 
The officers of the association are ; F. H. 
Pfeiffer, president; C. Williamson, treas- 
urer, and F. C. Veal, secretary. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
The City Council of Elyria, Ohio, has 
just announced its decision to purchase 
Ridgelawn Cemetery at a price of $3,000. 
A tract of twenty acres just north of 
Wheeling, W. Va., has been purchased by 
Rev. Father McElligott for use as a Cath- 
olic cemetery. 
W. H. Reins, commissioner of parks and 
cemeteries, Saginaw', Mich., has installed a 
card index system for Forest Lawn Cem- 
etery. 
With the object in view of improving 
Springwood Cemetery, Greenville, S. C., a 
special committee of the City Council will 
make a thorough investigation of the im- 
provements necessary. It is probable that 
the committee will recommend an appro- 
priation of $3,000 for the work. 
East Lawn Cemetery, Salem, 111., is in- 
adequate for the present needs of the city, 
and at a recent meeting of the City Coun- 
cil Alderman J. D. Telford, chairman of 
the Cemetery Committee, advised the pur- 
chase of fifteen acres adjoining the ceme- 
tery. 
Incorporated : Mill Creek Cemetery As- 
sociation, Danville, Ind., by W. H. Tinder 
and others. 
A society has been formed, with Rev. 
Father Trotaux as president, St. Martin- 
ville, La., to raise money to improve the 
local cemetery. As soon as $300 is col- 
lected the work will be begun. 
A fund of $2,300 has been raised to put 
Walnut Grove Cemetery, Tremont, 111., in 
good condition. They will invest $2,000 
as an endow'ment to provide for future 
care of the burying ground. 
A charter has been granted to the Jef- 
ferson Park Cemetery Co., Danville, Va. 
John T. Watson is president ; T. A. Fox, 
vice-president, and J. O. Boatwright, sec- 
retary. 
A petition is before the City Council, 
South Bend, Ind., recommending the pur- 
chase of more land adjacent to Bowman 
Cemetery. 
The annual meeting of the Newton Cem- 
etery Corporation, Newton, Mass., was 
held at the chapel, February 4, and the re- 
port showed the corporation to be in a 
flourishing condition. It was voted to 
erect a new office building of Weymouth 
seam faced granite, finished in white oak, 
outside dimensions of building 36 feet by 51 
feet, cost to be about $15,000. 
C. Schubert, superintendent of the Alma 
City Cemetery, Alma, Kan., has made cred- 
itable improvements in this old-time burial 
ground and will • build a new office and 
tool house. Last summer’s drought killed 
nearly all the young trees, which wall be 
replanted, and the hillside will be planted 
in red cedars. Mr. Schubert is working 
hard to get lot owners interested in the 
perpetual care plan. Quite a number have 
placed their lots under care. The City 
Council, however, is not yet willing to sell 
the remaining lots under a perpetual care 
contract. The only income is the grave 
fee, the sale of lots and an annual tax of 
$100 for each lot. Mr. Schubert would like 
to hear from other small town cemeteries 
in Kansas which have had experience with 
perpetual care. 
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