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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Four hundred young shade trees, SCO 
rose bushes and 100 climbing vines have 
been planted in Fairlawn Cemetery, Okla- 
homa City, Okla. A recent improvement 
at the cemetery is an outdoor telephone 
system, which facilitates the giving of or- 
ders and general management of the 
grounds. Five stations have been installed, 
each with a gong signal. The Board of 
Directors has just appointed L. H. Bailey 
to act as supervising architect and it will 
be among his duties to pass on plans for 
mausoleums to be erected in the cemetery 
in the future. It is the aim of the board 
to refuse to permit any being built there 
except such as will enhance the beauty of 
the grounds. The cemetery now comprises 
130 acres. 
The Yates City Cemetery Improvement 
Association, Yates City, 111., has been or- 
ganized to buy the cemetery from the city. 
The county judge is made supervisor of 
cemetery properties by law, and Judge Ri'e 
is handling the necessary papers in the 
transaction. 
Three acres have been added to the cem- 
etery at Kirbyville, Tex. 
Ridgelawn Cemetery, Elvria, O., has been 
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deeded to the town. 
The Hinsdale Cemetery Co., Hinsdale, 
111., has changed the name of the cemetery 
north of Hinsdale from Oak Forest to 
Bronswood. 
A company has been organized to de- 
velop the new Highland Cemetery at South 
Bend, Ind., recently mentioned in these 
pages. The following is a list of its offi- 
cers: President, Homer J. Miller; first 
vice-president, Dixon W. Place; second 
vice-president, Adam Wunsberger; treas- 
urer, Clarence Sedgwick ; secretary, Bruno 
Nehrling. The company is incorporated 
for $100,000 and owns 115 acres of land. 
Of this, fifty-seven will be layed out this 
year on plans by O. C. Simonds, of Chi- 
cago. Bruno Nehrling was selected as su- 
perintendent. Mr. Nehrling is a graduate 
of the Missouri Botanical Garden and was 
until the time of his selection instructor in 
landscape gardening and floriculture and 
superintendent of grounds of the Illinois 
State Normal University. He is also sec- 
retary of the Horticultural Society of Cen- 
tral Illinois. 
Evergreen Cemetery, Louisville, Ky., 
was dedicated May 24 with interesting for- 
mal exercises that included the following 
program : Invocation, Rev. Richard Wil- 
kinson ; “Come, Ye Disconsolate,” St. An- 
drew’s Male Quartet; dedication of the 
Evergreen Cemetery, Rt. Rev. Charles E. 
Woodcock, D. D., Bishop of Kentucky; 
prayer, Rev. William W. Landrum ; un- 
veiling of the Moose monument and ad- 
dress, Arthur H. Jones, member of Su- 
preme Council of the Loyal Order of 
Moose of the World; “Tarry With Me, 
O My Saviour,” St. Andrew’s Male Quar- 
tet; benediction, Rev. William W. Lan- 
drum. The city office of the Evergreen 
Cemetery Co. is at 602 Louisville Trust 
Bldg. The grounds are reached by the 
Okalona interurban cars. 
Cypress Lawn Cemetery, San Francisco, 
Cal., the old cemetery in the heart of the 
city whose grounds have been closed to 
interments by a law forbidding burials in 
the city limits, announces the erection of 
a combined columbarium and mausoleum 
containing 10,000 niches for the interment 
of incinerated remains and 300 crypts for 
permanent overground vault burial. Prices 
of columbarium niches range from $40 
upwards ; community vault niches, $400 
each. These prices include perpetual care, 
the perpetual care of this building being 
guaranteed by the perpetual care fund of 
the Cypgess Lawn Cemetery Association, 
which now amounts to over $400,000. 
PENNSYLVANIA CEMETERY 
ASSOCIATION. 
The next meeting of the Pennsylvania 
Cemtery Association will be held in Phil- 
adelphia, Tuesday, June 23, 1914, at the 
Hotel Adelphia. 
The officers of the Association are Geo. 
M. Painter, of “Westminster,” Philadel- 
phia, President; Mr. Gunster, of “Oak 
Lawn,” Wilkes-Barre, Vice-President; W. 
B. Jones, of “Highwood,” Pittsburgh, Sec- 
retary; and the members of the Executive 
Committee are H. M. Barnes, of “Harris- 
burg,” Harrisburg; G. W. German, of 
“Wildwood,” Williamsport; W. H. Drucke- 
miller, of “Pomfret Manor,” Sunbury, and 
R. J. Miller, of “Glen Dyberry,” Honesdale. 
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL. 
H. Wilson Ross, formerly superintendent 
of Newton Cemetery, Newton, Mass., and 
one of the best known members of the 
A. A. C. S., has moved to Worcester, 
Mass., and has severed his connection with 
Newton Cemtery. As a recognition of his 
faithful and efficient service, the Newton 
Cemetery Board presented Mr. Ross with 
an engraved testimonial, in a solid silver 
frame, bearing the following text : 
“It was with genuine regret that we accepted, 
at a recent meeting, your resignation as super- 
intendent of the Newton Cemetery, and we can- 
not permit you to sever your connection with us 
without having you understand how fully we ap- 
preciate the services which you have rendered. 
During the thirteen years that you have been our 
superintendent, you have grown constantly in our 
regard. The administrative ability which you have 
shown in conducting the business of the cemetery, 
as well as the frank, courteous and willing man- 
ner in which you have met us in and out of the 
meetings, and have carried out our directions, have 
made us realize your value as a superinendent and 
to esteem you as a friend. It is because of our 
cordial interest in your welfare, and the knowledge 
that we cannot offer you any inducement to remain 
with us, which would equal the advantages of the 
new position you are about to assume, that we 
have not attempted to dissuade you from making 
the change. 
In order that we may still retain your personal 
interest in the cemetery and that we may continue 
our association with you as far as possible, we 
have at our last meeting unanimously elected you 
to our board of trustees, and it gives us much 
pleasure to learn that you will accept this office. 
You have our heartiest wishes for your prosperi- 
ty and happiness, and we hope that you will 
always recall with pleasure the years which you 
spent with us as our superintendent.” 
The following officers have recently been 
elected by cemetery organizations: 
Weatherford, Tex., Cemetery Associa- 
tion: Mrs. F. O. McKinsey, president; 
Mrs. R. A. Randall, secretary. 
Leon Cemetery Association, Leon, la. : 
Dr. F. A. Bowman, president ; Eva Rhea, 
secretary. 
The cemetery lot owners of Venice, O. : ; 
C. R. Brown, president; Henry Brown, i 
secretary and treasurer. 
Evergreen Cemetery Association, Atlan- 
tic, la.: B. D. Forshay, president; J. D. 
Young, secretary. 
Oakwood Cemetery Association, Fre- 
mont, O. : I. H. Burgoon, president; Clar- j 
ence W. Cox, secretary. 
Marseilles Cemetery Association, Mar- 
seilles, 111.: A. L. Trager, president; Flo 
Boroughf, secretary. 
The lot owners of Union Cemetery, 
Princeton, 111.: H. A. Jackson, president; j 
P. P. Michael, secretary-treasurer; A. M. 
Jackson was appointed superintendent. 
Florence, S. C. : John Kuker, president; \ 
A. A. Cohen, secretary and treasurer. 
The Blood’s Point Cemetery Association, 
Flora, 111.: Captain O. F. Lucas, president; 
W. D. Lambert, secretary. 
ROSELAND PARK CEMETERY 
ENTRANCE. 
The same spirit of progressiveness and 
civic pride manifested in the develop- 
ment of Detroit’s manufacturing re- 
sources has been carried out in the mod- : 
era improvement of her cemeteries. Sit- 
uated at the northwest corner of Wood- 1 
ward avenue and the Twelve-Mile road, : 
far removed from the factory district 
and city conditions, is Roseland Park 
Cemetery, one of Detroit’s most beautiful 
burial parks. Possessing all the natural 
advantages in landscape features character- 
istic of a model “City of the Dead,” man’s 
art has been moderately employed to de- j 
velop and conserve the natural beauty, j 
rather than supplant any disadvantages in 
topographical effect of this exceptionally 
beautiful and rural tract of over one hun- 
dred acres. To add the “finishing touch” 
to all that nature has done to beautify 
Roseland Park Cemetery, massive iron en- 
trance gates have in recent years been 
erected at the main entrance. An illustra- 
tion of these gates, which were built and 
erected by the Stewart Iron Works Co., 
Cincinnati, O., from specifications by Ar- 
chitect Louis Kamper, are shown on the 
front cover of this issue. 
They are said by the manufacturers to 
be the largest gates ever erected to any 
cemetery in this country. There are four 
pairs of these gates, which form the front 
entrance to the cemetery. Each is 18 feet 
wide between piers and 22 feet high at 
hinge bars. Although of immense propor- 
tions, the artistic scroll work and orna- 
mental wrought malleable picket tops form 
a relief to the extreme size of material, 
giving the gates a refined and ornamental 
appearance. They are hung to light Barre 
granite piers 6 feet square and 27 feet 
high. 
