PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Interments from the Receiving tomb 15 
Removals from other cemeteries.... 11 
Removals from the cemetery 11 
Total number of interments to date 18,953 
Slate vaults built 99 
Plain graves opened 148 
Foundations to monuments and tab- 
lets built 245 
Curbings removed from lots 2 
Old lots of proprietors regraded and 
sodded 3 
Avenues regraded and macadamized, 
square feet 37,950 
Land sold, square feet 18,937 
197 
Land purchased in the cemetery, 
square feet 3,151 
Land graded and seeded, square feet 5,147 
Number of lots under perpetual care 2,404 
Number of lots under annual care.. 434 
Whole number of lots sold to date.. 3,738 
Tarvia gutters laid, linear feet 2,084 
ST. CLAIR CEMETERY, GREENSBURG. PA. 
The entrance to the new St. Clair Ceme- 
tery at Greensburg, Pa., is to be beautified 
and greatly enriched by the erection of an 
extensive set of solid bronze entrance 
gates. The privilege of adding the im- 
provement was requested of the St. Clair 
Cemetery Association by Mrs. Elizabeth 
Stauffer Moore and her children, Mrs. 
Nathan Hopkins Heft, Mrs. Edward E. 
Robbins, Mrs. Herbert Llewellyn Wigmore 
and James Pressly Moore, the gates to be 
in memory of the late John William Moore 
and other members of the family. The 
directors of the association at a meeting the 
other day unanimously favored the plan 
and expressed their pleasure in granting 
the request of Mrs. Heft from whom the 
first suggestion came. 
The contract for the immense granite 
columns and solid bronze gates has been 
let to the Harrison Granite Company, of 
New' York and Barre, Vt., who were also 
the designers from suggestions offered by 
Mrs. Moore and J. A. Lawson, superintend- 
| ent of the cemetery. The gates will be 
: located at the turn in the entrance to the 
cemetery, and will be exceptionally wide. 
At the other end of the mammoth gates 
there will be foot gates of the same design 
as the larger ones. The columns of the 
center gates will be four feet six inches 
square, and the side gates three feet six 
j inches square. The work will be completed, 
it is expected by November 1. 
With the completion of the work designed 
the St. Clair Cemetery will practically stand 
alone in all of the country in the posses- 
sion of the Barre granite columns and 
solid bronze gates. The material was 
selected with a view to beauty and of long 
period of use, for it is claimed that the 
bronze will outwear iron and stone, such 
as the gates to the great body of cemeteries 
in this country are constructed. When the 
gates are completed the entire front of 
the cemetery will be beautified. 
J. A. Lawson, general superintendent of 
this cemetery, says : “One year ago we 
started to remodel the cemetery and place 
it on a perpetual care basis, placing 40 cents 
per foot of all lots sold to this fund and 
also allowing the old lot owners to come 
in on the same basis, which they are doing 
very fast. 
“The cemetery was organized twenty-one 
years ago and contains a great many lot 
owners who are very wealthy. For some 
reason there was no interest taken in the 
places, but now they see the difference be- 
tween the old style of cemetery and the 
new, and they are all becoming very much 
interested. The new entrance will, with- 
out doubt, be one of the finest in the coun- 
try, being built very substantially, well pro- 
portioned, quite plain, but very artistic. 
The entrance will stand back from the 
main highway a considerable distance, from 
the front part of the cemetery and about 
two acres inside of the entrance being kept 
for park purposes only. 
“Last year the cemetery spent $5,000 on 
improvements in the way of a record 
system, new tools and implements. This 
fall we will build a new office and waiting 
room and construct our own water system. 
“The principal change made in the ceme- 
tery which appeals most strongly to the 
directors and everyone else is the doing 
away with all Sunday funerals and busi- 
ness. The office is open during the week 
at regular office hours, the superintendent’s 
residence having been moved to town and 
all tire old buildings torn down. Before we 
started to remodel the cemetery they sold 
their lots at 17 cents per foot. The price 
now is 70 cents with perpetual care, and the 
business has increased nearly double in one 
r^ear. This speaks well for the modern 
cemetery.” 
Description: 
Number Acres — One hundred and fifty- 
two. 
Soil — Light loam. 
Topography — Rolling, from front noil 
the view can be seen for miles in all direc- 
tions and overlooks the city; one mile and 
a quarter from center of city, on the Lin- 
coln highway. 
Number of Acres in Use — About fifty. 
ST. CLAIR CEMETERY, GREENSBURG, PA. 
