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braces seventeen acres. Oakland Cemetery 
has been improved during the last three 
years to the extent of $15,000. Macadam 
has been placed in the driveways, the 
grounds graded and substantial retaining 
walls built. It joins Ashland at the rear 
and a driveway will be constructed to con- 
nect the two cemeteries. The Board of 
Directors of Zion’s Church comprises Fred 
Wenz, Adolph Goerman and P. Schneider. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
Fairlawn Cemetery, now in the course of 
construction in Decatur, 111., by . Sims & 
Sims, will probably be opened this year. 
Work has been pushed forward on the new 
cemetery as fast as possible. 
Papers of incorporation of the Lock Ber- 
lin Cemetery Association at Lyons, N. Y., 
have been filed. The three directors are : 
John W. Stokes, Samuel Richmond and 
William T. Jordan. 
William Speed, a Louisville landscape ar- 
chitect, has just completed a contract with 
the Grove Hill Cemetery Co., of Shelby- 
ville, Ky., for further beautifying its prop- 
erty by planting a large number of forest 
trees and evergreens along its Mt. Eden 
pike frontage and in the addition. The 
improvement cost $1,000. Recently the 
company expended $3,000 for an orna- 
mental entrance gate. 
The Mound Cemetery Association, of 
Charleston, 111., has been incorporated and 
has purchased from Alex Briggs twenty- 
five acres of land adjoining Mound Ceme- 
tery and will take over fifteen acres of it 
for a cemetery at once, the other ten acres 
to be taken on later when needed. Mr. 
Briggs is to be paid $10,000 for his land 
and is to receive 50 per cent of the price 
of each lot as paid in until the fifteen 
acres are paid for, then the ten acres is to 
be taken over and 'paid for in the 
same way. Mr. Briggs is the only 
member of the corporation who puts 
any money in the undertaking, it be- 
ing understood that he pays over $500, 
which, together with the money derived 
from the sale of fifty lots which the asso- 
ciation intends to put on the market imme- 
diately, will form the capital to pay for 
preliminary improvements, such as fencing, 
roadways, etc. After Mr. Briggs’ 50 per 
cent is paid the remaining 50 per cent of 
all sales is to be applied one-half in im- 
provements and upkeep and the other half 
going into a permanent fund which cannot 
be used for any purpose. When the tract 
has been fully improved the 50 per cent 
will be divided differently, about 10 per 
cent going for upkeep and 40 per cent into 
the permanent fund. After the land has 
been paid for the rate of division of in- 
come will be about ninety and ten. When 
the amount of money on hand has reached 
$50,000 nothing but the interest can be 
used. Under this plan it would seem that 
the cemetery question will be very satis- 
factorily settled for many years to come. 
The affairs of this corporation are to be 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
conducted for the present by a set of offi- 
cers and a board of trustees elected by the 
stockholders. The officers elected are as 
follows : President, George Griffin ; vice- 
president, C. L. Lee; treasurer, W. FI. Shu- 
bert; secretary, John FI. Marshall. 
Rev. Mutshnick has taken the initiative 
at Belfield, N. D., to secure a plot of 
ground to be used for a city cemetery. 
Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, 
Term., announces the opening of the first 
of a group of up-to-date greenhouses, 
scientifically built and fully equipped for 
first-class floral work, under the special di- 
rection of G. A. Kimmel, a well-known 
florist. 
A plot of ground, comprising about one 
and one-half acres, has been purchased by 
the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church 
at Binghamton, N. Y., for cemetery pur- 
poses. 
The new cemetery of St. Hedwig’s Cath- 
olic parish at Dunkirk, N. Y., was con- 
secrated recently by Bishop C. H. Colton, 
of Buffalo. The cemetery comprises twelve 
acres in the Bennett road. 
From Annual Reports 
The following statistics of the year’s busi- 
ness are from the annual statement of re- 
ceipts and disbursements of Spring Grove 
Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio : 
Receipts: From sale of lots, $47,255.55; 
interments and foundations, $31,116.50; 
Myrtle and special care account, $26,906.52; 
trust fund account, $31,412.80. Total re- 
ceipts, $168,395.69. 
Disbursements: For lots repurchased, 
$846.90; interments and foundations, $13,- 
652.86; Myrtle and special care account, 
$8,039.75 ; carriage and automobile account, 
$1,020.89; purchase of large passenger au- 
tomobile, $2,710.70; planting and seeding, 
$2,236.73; implements, $201.50; fuel, $1,- 
844.53. For operations and maintenance : 
Grounds and buildings, $31,830.85; water 
plant, $3,907.66; stables, $4,591.66. Total dis- 
bursements, $168,709.61. 
Number of lots sold during the year, 118; 
fractions,- 11; area, 47,389 square feet. 
Number of vault permits issued, 35; burial 
permits, 1,377, of which 45 were removals 
from other grounds ; single graves occupied, 
16,305 ; interments to date, 83,907 ; lot hold- 
ers, 12,121. 
The Board of Park and Cemetery Com- 
missioners of Saginaw, Mich., has issued 
a 152-page annual report telling in detail 
of the work of the year. The most impor- 
tant improvement under the direction of 
this board has been the reclaiming of the 
middle ground or island marsh, now a por- 
tion of Ezra Rust Park, and the deepen- 
ing of the river and bayous surrounding 
the same. This work was performed un- 
der contract by the Great Lakes Dredging 
Co., requiring two years’ time to raise this 
island swamp or marsh with fill from the 
river and bayous to heights, in certain 
locations, of five and six feet above city 
datum. During the past year the Mershon- 
Whittier Natatorium was also opened. 
During the first season of its use it was 
patronized by 37,000 bathers at Forest 
Lawn Cemetery. The Jefferson Avenue 
entrance gates and parking were con- 
structed and improved from a fund pro- 
vided by the late William L. Webber. The 
Washington avenue entrance is now im- 
proved with wrought iron gates of neat 
design and with simple but massive gran- 
ite piers. O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, has 
prepared a plan for planting at this en- 
trance. The trust fund for this cemetery 
now amounts to $73,150. Daniel H. Ellis 
is superintendent of parks, and A. H. 
Arnold and A. Lutzke are sextons of cem- 
eteries. 
The Harrison Granite Co., of New York 
City and Barre, Vt., has juSt been awarded 
a contract for the new receiving vault for 
the Rome Cemetery at Rome, N. Y. The 
building will have a capacity of 1000 bodies 
and will be erected out of Gouverneur 
marble. . The building will have bronze 
doors and grilles, two large art glass win- 
dows and a Spanish tile roof, making a 
very effective plan. The design was ex- 
ecuted in the Harrison studios in New 
York and was sold through their Syracuse 
office by FI. L. Davis. 
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