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CEHETERY NOTES 
A Modern Pacific Coast Cemetery. 
Tacoma Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash., has 
recently issued a neatly printed illustrated 
descriptive book of information, from 
which we show two illustrations. 
Tacoma Cemetery is well located, man- 
aged along modern lines and is one of 
the most beautiful cemeteries on the North 
Pacific coast. Its good condition is largely 
due to the fact that all lots now sold in- 
clude perpetual care and lots formerly sold 
without care are rapidly being placed 
under perpetual care by the owners. 
All money from the perpetual care of 
lots goes into the irreducible fund and is 
invested by the trustees in warrants, first 
mortgages on real estate and similar 
securities. 
A modern and complete greenhouse has 
been established. 
Burial lots are exempt from taxation, 
execution, attachment or other claims, 
liens or processes. The Tacoma Cemetery 
belongs to the lot owners. The association 
itself is effectually precluded from doing 
its business with a view to profit to itself 
or to its trustees or members. No trustee 
can receive any compensation for his 
services as trustee; nor can there be any 
division or profits among members. All 
receipts for lots or otherwise must be ap- 
propriated to the care and improvement of 
the grounds. 
The irreducible fund was increased by 
$12,660.57 during the past year and now 
amounts to $144,047.74. There are 343 
whole lots and 888 half lots under perpet- 
ual care at this time, and 200 select single 
grave lots. 
Seventeen hundred lots were cared for 
during the past year and 474 interments 
were made. The expenditures for the year 
amounted to $20,406.76. 
Following are the officers of Tacoma 
Cemetery : 
President, Charles H. Manley; Secretary 
and Treasurer, Richard A. Ketner ; Super- 
intendent, Thomas Topping. 
A new chapel in Mount Olivet Ceme- 
tery, Frederick, Md., costing $7,000, has 
been completed. It is built of bluestone, 
with terra cotta trimmings, and an inte- 
rior finish of oak. The windows are 
stained glass of artistic design. 
At the annual Town Meeting of Mar- 
blehead, Mass., the sum of $2,600 was ap- 
propriated for the cemetery. 
It was arranged that a delegation of 
the lot owners of Cedar Hill Cemetery, 
St. John, N. B., should appear before the 
legislature at Frederickton to urge the ne- 
cessity of incorporating that cemetery, 
with power to conduct the burying ground 
and keep it in good condition. 
Lot holders in the Odd Fellows’ cem- 
etery, Philadelphia, Pa., gained at least a 
temporary victory on March 19, when 
Judge Magill, in Common Pleas Court 
No. 1, awarded a preliminary injunction 
to Abraham Kohn, restraining the ceme- 
tery management from enforcing a rule 
preventing grave owners from employing 
their own gardeners. The same rule ap- 
plied to Mount Peace Cemetery, which is 
controlled by the same management. 
Rabbi Stephen Wise, of Manhattan, N. 
Y., has taken sides in the crusade started 
by residents of Queens to make the big 
cemetery corporations in that borough bear 
some of the expense of public improve- 
ments in their neighborhood and for which 
up to this time abutting property owners 
are compelled to bear not only their own 
share, but also that of the cemetery. A 
bill to require such payments from ceme- 
teries is now being pushed in the legisla- 
ture at Albany by Senator Bernard Patten, 
from Queens. 
The Hope Cemetery, Galesburg, endow- 
ment fund is growing rapidly and it is 
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MAIN AVENUE, TACOMA CEMETERY. 
MAIN ENTRANCE TO TACOMA CEMETERY, TACOMA, WASH. 
