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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
which was in a wild and wooded state, has 
been thoroughly grubbed, dug over to a 
regulation depth, all obstructions removed, 
graded and seeded and attractively embel- 
lished with trees, shrubs and evergreens. 
The growing popularity of perpetual care 
for lots, so strongly advocated by the board, 
is becoming more apparent. The number 
of lots placed in perpetual care in 1913' was 
66. Additional deposits were made to 26 
lots. The total number of lots now in per- 
petual care is 1,444. The amount deposited 
during the year was $9,450, making the 
total amount of the perpetual care fund 
$173,176.62. In Rural Cemetery the general 
work of maintenance has been performed, 
while land constituting three new sections 
has been dug over and prepared for burial 
use under the careful management of Act- 
ing Superintendent H. E. Thomas and Sex- 
ton Nelson L. Pike. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
Oregon City, Ore., was one of the first 
towns to be established on the Pacific coast, 
the original plat of San Francisco being 
filed for record in Oregon City. It is to- 
day a thriving manufacturing town of 10,000 
population. The old cemetery is now well 
filled and the City Council has recently pur- 
chased a tract of fifteen acres adjoining the 
old tract and will now establish a modern 
cemetery with perpetual care features. 
Howard Evarts Weed, of Portland, has 
been engaged to make the plans and super- 
vise the construction of the new addition. 
A new $100,000 cemetery is to be started 
as soon as the weather will permit the im- 
provement of an eighty-acre slice in Gary, 
Ind., purchased for this purpose by In- 
dianapolis investors several years ago. The 
site contains eighty acres and is located on 
Broadway, south of Forty-fifth avenue. 
Robert Snapp, of Indianapolis, is the prin- 
cipal owner of the land. The land was 
bought about two years ago and a company 
was formed at that time. About $500 was 
spent for shrubbery, but as soon as this was 
planted the construction stopped and noth- 
ing further was done until the company was 
reorganized this spring. This is the third 
cemetery to be laid out in or around Gary 
in the past few years. There are now the 
Oak Hill Cemetery on Fifty-fifth avenue, 
the new Calvary and Woodmere cemeteries 
at East Gary, and the present one, which is 
not yet named. 
Incorporated : Mt. Carmel Cemetery Co., 
Mt. Carmel, Ky., by F. C. Coulter, Charles 
Marshall, J. P. Lukins and others. 
The Ladies’ Committee of the City Cem- 
etery Association, Austin, Tex., is further- 
ing the parking of the new addition to the 
City Cemetery. 
Under the direction of the City Cemetery 
Association, Vicksburg, Miss., the main 
drive is being improved and drains will be 
laid. 
Plans for the immediate improvement of 
Oakland Cemetery, Waycross, Ga., are be- 
fore the Park and Tree Commission. H. 
Lester Marvil, chairman of the Committee 
on Cemeteries, prepared the plans. 
The present cemetery of Pike, W. Va., is 
proving inadequate to the needs of the city 
and the Dallas Cemetery Association has 
purchased a tract adjoining. The work of 
grading and improving the land will be be- 
gun at once. 
Work will be begun at once on the new 
memorial stand in Riverside Cemetery, 
Martins Ferry, W. Va. 
GERMAN DESIGN FOR CROSS-TABLET. 
A new plat has been made of Hazelwood 
Cemetery, Springfield, Mo., by the cemetery 
committee, composed of G. D. Morgan, J. 
P. Ramsey and H. L. Green. 
Richmond Chapter, United Daughters of 
the Confederacy, Richmond, Va., passed 
resolutions endorsing the efforts now being- 
made by the Hollywood Cemetery Company 
to purchase from the city the Clark’s 
Spring property in order to enlarge the 
cemetery. Mrs. N. V. Randolph is presi- 
dent. 
Incorporated : St. Mary’s Cemetery As- 
sociation, Muscatine, la., by Rev. J. I. 
Greiser, Rev. F. J. Leonard and others. 
The city of Vancouver, Wash., has voted 
to go out of the cemetery business and the 
site for the new cemetery recently pur- 
chased will now be offered for sale. A 
private company, headed by the leading un- 
dertakers, will soon lay out a modern cem- 
etery as the best solution for the problem 
which has stirred up much strife in the city 
for the past two years. 
The above illustration shows a small 
monument from a German art exhibit. It 
is a simple little tablet of Labrador gran- 
ite with a new decorative feature in the 
manner in which the cross is introduced in 
the little recess in the die. It was de- 
signed by L. Fuchs, and is one of the prize 
designs selected in a competition of Ger- 
man artists and architects and executed in 
Germany exclusively by the Association of 
German Granite Workers. We are in- 
debted to this organization for permission 
to reproduce it in this country. 
