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CEMETERY. 
PARK AND 
PARK MEMORIAL GATEWAY 
INTERESTING 
Newburyport:, Mass., recently dedicated 
a very unusual and original form of 
soldiers’ monument in the form of a me- 
morial gateway that is one of the most 
of nearly 1,500 soldiers, are from the 
foundry of the Woodland Bronze Works 
department of the Albert Russell & Sons 
Co. of Newburyport, also local contract- 
and Cemetery. From this several replicas 
have been placed elsewhere. This statue, 
standing on a boulder in the center of a 
large circular plat, while admirably and ar- 
MEMORIAL GATEWAY TO FAEK AT NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 
interesting and useful structures of this 
kind that has been executed in recent years. 
The memorial stands on Atkinson Com- 
mon and was dedicated June 17 to the 
memory of the soldiers and sailors of the 
civil war who enlisted from Newburyport. 
The design is by George P. Tilton, New- 
buryport. The monument itself is of Mil- 
ford, N. H., white granite, erected by 
Daniel Canning & Son, prominent local 
builders. The twelve bronze tablets at- 
tached, carrying in 5^-inch letters the names 
TWO NEW 
House Bill No. 1242 in the Pennsyl- 
vania legislature, providing that ceme 
teries be required to keep accurate record 
of interments, has been passed by both 
houses of the legislature, and has now 
received the Governor’s signature. The 
bill reads as follows: 
An Act requiring burial ground and cemetery com- 
panies or associations in the cities of the first 
class to record certain information relating to 
the burial of every person therein and provid- 
ing a penalty. 
Whereas, Owing to the loose and inefficient meth- 
ods of listing and indexing now employed by many 
burial ground and cemetery companies and associ- 
ations in the cities of the first class it has become 
exceedingly difficult and at times impossible to dis- 
cover the location of certain graves or even to find 
a record of names of persons known to be buried 
therein, therefore. 
Section 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House 
of Represntatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- 
vania in General Assembly met and it is hereby 
enacted by the authority of the same That every 
burial ground or cemetery company or association in 
the cities of the first class shall keep a complete 
list of the names of every person buried in such 
burial ground or cemetery arranged alphabetically 
with the date of burial, the exact location of the 
grave and the number and owner of the lot in 
which the grave is situated. This shall be accom- 
plished by means of a card index or other system 
in such a way that knowledge of the name of a 
person or of the lot in which he or she is buried 
or of the date of burial will furnish a ready ref- 
erence to the complete record. 
Sec. 2. Within two years after the passage of 
ors. One of the tablets, containing a 15- 
inch head of Lincoln in bas relief and his 
Gettysburg speech, was donated by the A. 
W. Bartlett Grand Army Post, No. 49. 
The total cost of the entire work has been 
about $4,000. 
About eleven years ago the Memorial 
Association crowned a period of devoted 
effort by the erection at Atkinson Com- 
mon of an heroic bronze statue by Theo 
Alice Ruggles Kitson, entitled “The Vol- 
unteer,” which was illustrated in Park 
this act every burial ground or cemetery company 
or association in the cities of the first class shall 
have on file for [public] the inspection of all per- 
sons having an interest therein a complete record 
if such information is obtainable of all past burials 
made in such burial ground or cemetery arranged 
in conformity with the requirements of section one 
of this act. 
Sec. 3. Every person, firm, or corporation violat- 
ing any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be 
sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one [thou- 
sand] hundred dollars. 
Senate Bill No. 1261 has also been passed 
and approved by the governor, and pro- 
vides for the abandoning of unused ceme- 
teries. It reads as follows: 
An Act to authorize incorporated or unincorpor- 
ated churches, cemteries or burial associations 
owning burials grounds, located wholly or in 
part in any city, township or borough of this 
Commonwealth to purchase other grounds and to 
sell and convey in fee simple such portions of 
their land not used or conveyed by them for 
burial purposes or which may have been re- 
oonveyed to them or shall have reverted or be- 
come acquired by them under the terms here- 
of or otherwise and providing- for and author- 
izing the several courts of quarter sessions of 
the several counties of this Commonwealth upon 
petition of the managers, officers and other per- 
sons vested with the management of said burial 
ground to make orders and decrees for the re- 
moval of all bodies interred in such burial 
grounds or cemeteries belonging to any incor- 
porated or unincorporated church cemetery, or 
burial association and to provide for the pur- 
chase of new lots, the cost of the removal 
of such bodies and compensation to the owners 
tistically portraying the ideal volunteer, 
had no place for the names of the men in 
whose memory it was erected, and to in- 
clude this record and complete the work 
the memorial gateway was erected. It 
stands on an axis with the statue of the 
Volunteer and some 80 feet in its rear and 
opens the circular drive to a farther sec- 
tion of the park. The gate • posts are set 
against walls having wings at right angles, 
which with the passage between spread 33 
feet, with an extreme height of 8 feet 8 
inches and 12 feet depth of angle. 
of the lot or lots therein, the sale of the 
ground and disposition of the proceeds derived 
from such sale. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and 
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is 
hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That 
whenever any incorporated or unincorporated church 
cemetery or burial association own [round] burial 
grounds wholly or in part in any city, township or 
borough in this Commonwealth and by reason of 
the growth therof as well as for sanitary purposes 
it is deemed necessary or desirable in the opinion 
of the said church cemetery or burial association 
to change the location therof, or if by reason of the 
opening of streets, roads or public passages around 
or through the same, a portion of the property has 
become angular and partly surrounded by improve- 
ments or, if by reason of the proximity of ad- 
jacent property the interment of the dead may in 
the interest of public health be prohibited in any 
part or parts of the ground belonging to any in- 
corporated or unincorporated church cemetery or 
burial association aforesaid or from other causes any 
burial ground belonging to, or in charge of any in- 
corporated or unincorporated church cemetery or 
burial association has ceased to be used for inter- 
ments and has become so neglected as to become a 
public nuisance or that the remains of bodies in- 
terred in any such neglected or disused cemetery 
in any city, township or borough interfere with, and 
hinder the improvements, extensions and general 
progressive interest of any city, township or bor- 
ough, it shall be lawful for such incorporated or 
unincorporated church cemetery or burial association 
and they are hereby authorized and empowered to 
purchase new and more suitable grounds in the 
vicinity of such city, township or borough of such 
extent and area as they shall deem expedient or 
to purchase lots or sections in other properly regu- 
lated burial ground or cemetery in the vicinity of 
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