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improvement of the lots and the planting 
of trees and shrubs. While it is not the 
intention to take care of other than the 
fraternal societies’ burial plots, work on 
other lots and graves will be done at cost 
for those desiring to join the movement. 
The Plainville Cemetery Association, 
Plainville, Conn., is planning to make ex- 
tensive repairs at the local cemetery this 
year. Last year a new fence was con- 
structed and crushed stone was rolled down 
into the roadways. 
St. Joseph’s Cemetery, at Whittenton, 
Mass., is to be considerably improved this 
season. Rev. Fr. Flanagan now has charge 
of the grounds and a new schedule of rates 
will go into effect at once. Under the old 
system the income was barely sufficient to 
meet running expenses ; hereafter a certain 
proportion will be set aside for improving 
and beautifying the cemetery. 
With the purchase of the Stone tract 
adjoining Evergreen Cemetery, Vinton, la., 
the trustees intend to make extensive im- 
provements on the present grounds, as well 
as to plant and improve the new tract. To 
this end Mr. Arthur W. Hobert, of Min- 
neapolis, Minn., has been engaged to plat 
and landscape the Stone property. This 
will be made to lap on the present ceme- 
tery, to make a harmonious whole. 
Considerable improvement has been car- 
ried out at Walnut Hill Cemetery, Coun- 
cil Bluffs, la., the past year. A new stone 
and iron entrance, opening into a beautiful 
drive, has been constructed, and not far 
from the gate is an artistic fountain, which 
adds to the charm of the surroundings. 
The drives throughout the grounds have 
been improved and graded up, and they 
will be oiled during the summer. Two 
new additions to the cemetery have been 
opened up, and practically all the cemetery 
is now under perpetual care. 
Oak Lawn Cemetery, Baltimore, Md., is 
making every effort to keep abreast with 
the times. A new section, costing $6,000, 
has recently been opened and 700 lots have 
been platted. Oak Lawn, in making sales 
of lots, includes the corner posts, which 
helps to give symmetry and uniformity in 
its landscape effects. Oak Lawn is beauti- 
fully located, overlooking the Patapsco 
River and Chesapeake Bay, and is one of 
the most picturesque spots in Maryland. 
The Forest Cemetery Improvement As- 
sociation. Gadsden, Ala., is spending some 
$2,000 in the immediate betterment of the 
cemetery. Among the costly items will be 
an expenditure of $1,000, or thereabouts, 
for main entrance gates. It is probable 
that all future lots will be sold under a 
provision to keep them in an attractive 
condition. 
Granite gate posts are to be placed at 
the North Maple street and Oak street 
entrances of Spring Grove Cemetery, Flor- 
ence, Mass., as a gift from Luther Martin, 
of Florence. The work will be done by 
the Hampshire Marble Company, and the 
cost will be about $1,700. The posts will 
be of Barre granite, 10 feet high by 3 feet 
square. 
The work of preparing for summer in 
Riverside Cemetery, Three Rivers, Mich., 
was begun about a week earlier this year 
than last. 
The women of Rensselaer, N. Y., who 
have charge of the improvements at Bever- 
wyck Cemetery, will build a concrete wall 
on the Washington avenue side of the 
grounds when the permanent grade of the 
avenue is established. The work will cost 
about $800. 
After the problem of where Muskegon, 
Mich., could find more cemetery lots has 
perplexed four or five successive city ad- 
ministrations, it has been put to rest for a 
time by the platting of about 300 additional 
lots in Oakwood Cemetery. The bulk of 
the new lots are laid out in the wide bor- 
der beween the outer fences in Oakwood 
cemeteries, and the present outer rim of 
lots. This seems like begging the ques- 
tion and is short-sighted policy. 
The seventh annual Flower Day of 
Greenwood Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn., 
was held on May 22, the exercises being 
conducted in the temporary chapel. This 
is made an interesting annual event in 
Greenwood Cemetery and the officials 
spare no pains to make the program in- 
teresting and call out a good attendance. 
Mr. Sid J. Hare, of Hare & Hare, Kan- 
sas City, Mo., is preparing plans for the 
laying out of an addition to Oakwood 
Cemetery, Geneseo, 111., of which Mr. R. 
D. Boice, a venerable member of the As- 
sociation of American Superintendents, is 
secretary and treasurer. The addition 
comprises twenty-six acres and Mr. Hare 
will make a plat of the old cemetery and 
connect it with the new sections. 
New Cemeteries. 
A tract of four acres, known as the 
Polish Cemetery, east of Brookside Cem- 
etery, South Deerfield, Mass., and which 
was a gift of Toseph Secoski, was ded- 
icated last month. 
There being practically no more de- 
sirable lots in the present cemetery at 
Rocky Ford. Colo., the city authorities are 
facing the necessity of providing more land. 
There is a promising tract adjoining on 
the south, but prohibitory prices are an ob- 
stacle to its immediate acquisition. 
A new burial ground is to be opened six 
miles east of Muncie, Ind., by the Hawk 
Cemetery Association. 
An association has been organized in 
Bristol, Tenn., to establish a new cemetery 
on the Weaver pike, near the city limits. 
A new cemetery is needed, as East Hill 
Cemetery, which has been used for years, 
is rapidly filling. The health committee of 
Bristol is making an investigation to de- 
termine whether a cemetery in the location 
selected would effect King spring, the for- 
mer source of the city’s water supply. No 
water is being used from this source, it 
being held in reserve in case of emer- 
gency. 
From Annual Reports. 
The annual report of the trustees of 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Boston, Mass., shows 
net receipts for the year 1912 to have been 
$70,895.64. This includes : Sales of lots, 
$18,893.40; graves, $6,380; care of lots, 
foundations and interments, $28,564.32. 
The disbursements, including labor, sup- 
plies, fence, office requirements, etc., 
amount to $43,679.85. The repair fund is 
now $287,357, and the maintenance fund is 
$20,800. The net income from the receipts 
of the chapel is now set aside to establish 
an assurance fund for this building. The 
superintendent’s report gives the number of 
interments for the year as 1.025, making 
the total in the cemetery to December 31, 
1912, 40,145. There were 74 lots sold and 
19 old lots placed under perpetual care. 
Work on exterminating and spraying 
canker worms, gypsy moths and elm 
beetles consumed 26 days’ time. 
Some interesting figures are given in the 
eighty-fifth annual report of Mount Au- 
burn Cemetery, Boston, Mass., for 1912. 
Continued prosperity is noted. The sale of 
lots amounted to $16,372 ; crypts for cre- 
mated ashes, $436, and $210 additional was 
received for the perpetual care of crypts. 
The perpetual care fund reached a total of 
$1,818,987.24; permanent fund, $589,723.27 ; 
general fund, $193,510.58. Bv purchase and 
acquirement twenty acres was added to the 
cemetery, making over thirty acres unsold. 
The number of interments for the year 
were 420, making a total in the cemetery 
of 38,905. During the year 1912 there 
were 269 incinerations, giving a total of 
2,493 for Mt. Auburn. 
The annual report of the Marion Cem- 
etery Association, Marion, O., showed to- 
tal receipts for the year of $12,794.38 and 
expenditures of $9,514.27. The endowment 
fund now amounts to $45,858.25, the gen- 
eral fund to $23,780.25, and receipts for 
endowment of entire grounds, $17,244.87, 
giving a total of cash of $86,883.37. It is 
proposed to grade and plat three acres of 
ground this year, and the main driveway 
is to be sprinkled with calcium chloride 
and No. 4 standard road oil to keep dust 
and weeds down. Mr. E. A. Sloan, su- 
perintendent, sends us a copy of the auto- 
mobile license ticket which has been 
adopted by the directors to control auto- 
mobiles in the cemetery, which are now 
allowed under very drastic rules and regu- 
lations and which are printed on the back 
of the ticket. A number of new rules 
were adopted, it being the view of these 
officials to maintain the cemetery on up- 
to-date lines. 
The receipts for the year of the Ot- 
tumwa Cemetery Association, Ottumwa, 
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