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sodded. In addition to the road building, 
office addition and grading, many other 
smaller works of a special nature were at- 
tempted, although the planting of trees, 
shrubs and flowering plants should rank in 
importance with any. For planting ma- 
terial there was spent during the year over 
$700; planting and care amounted to $866. 
The combined amount of the severel per- 
petual funds is $104,350. 
The eighty-second annual report of Mt. 
Auburn Cemetery, of Boston, is published 
as an interesting illustrated book of twenty- 
four pages, giving details of the year’s op- 
erations. The routine business of the cor- 
poration has not varied materially from 
what it has been in former years. The re- 
ceipts of the corporation, however, are 
somewhat less than usual, partially due, no 
doubt, to unsettled business conditions. The 
proceeds of the sale of lots amounted to 
$12,822; of the disposal of crypts for cre- 
mated ashes, $710, with $330 additional for 
the perpetual care of the crypts. The de- 
tails of the three funds held by the corpo- 
ration are as follows : Perpetual Care 
Fund — -Additions during the year, $54,- 
170.14; total amount January 1, 1914, $1,- 
873,157.38. Permanent Fund — Additions 
during the year, $15,600.65 ; total amount 
January 1, 1914, $605,323.92. General Fund 
— Additions during the year, $1,605.42; to- 
tal amount January 1, 1914, $195,116. Some 
eight thousand dollars has been expended 
during the year in resurfacing the cemetery 
roadways and in drainage and other gen- 
eral improvements ; $2,214.45 was expended 
in providing an additional gate on each side 
of the main entrance to the cemetery 
sufficiently wide to admit automobiles and 
other vehicles. The change is one which 
has added greatly to the convenience of 
proprietors, particularly on days like Me- 
morial Day, when the number of vehicles 
is large, and at the same time the archi- 
tectural effect of the entrance has been 
enhanced , rather than diminished. The 
trustees are gratified to report that the 
last legislature passed an act releasing 
cemeteries which are not run for profit 
from taxation of their funds. This ex- 
emption is wide and just and absolutely 
necessary to enable garden cemeteries 
like Mt. Auburn to fulfill the purposes for 
which they were chartered and carry out 
the perpetual care contracts by which 
they are bound. In this report is in- 
serted a picture of Dr. Jacob Bigelow, 
president of the corporation from 1845 to 
1871. He was designer of the front gate, 
the tower and the old chapel, and also 
presented the sphinx to the corporation. 
He ranked among the ablest men of his 
day in New England. 
The following facts and figures from W. 
H. Graves, superintendent of the Hudson 
City and Cedar Park cemeteries of Hud- 
son, N. Y., give in condensed form the op- 
erations of the cemetery for the year 1913- 
1914. All of the income outside of 50 
per cent from the sale of lots, which goes 
into the bond sinking fund, is applied to 
the maintenance and development of the 
grounds, whose condition is being improved 
yearly as rapidly as the funds permit. The 
total receipts were $8,365.15; total expendi- 
tures, 1913-1914, $8,128.36; total bonds out- 
standing, $16,000; perpetual care fund, Jan- 
uary, 1914, $20,575 ; added to perpetual care 
fund this year, $2,596 ; new water pipe laid, 
1,200 linear feet; old avenues resurfaced 
with stone, 4,000 linear feet; foundations 
built, 75 ; cement walks and steps built, 500 
linear feet ; spent in regrading in the old 
section, $522.18; trees set out, three-year 
transplants, white and Austrian pine and 
English oak, 1,600; tree inventory shows, 
exclusive of above, 1,500 trees ; total num- 
ber of interments, 255 ; vaults set, all kinds, 
41 ; estimated number of burials to date, 
35,000. One new section in Cedar Park is 
set aside for sale only with perpetual care 
at 75 cents a foot, including care. 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION MEETS. 
The United Kingdom Association of 
Cemetery Superintendents held a meeting 
January 13 at the Hammersmith Town 
Hall, with President J. D. Robertson in the 
chair. 
The secretary submitted the names of 
twenty-five applicants for membership and 
they were duly elected. 
The new Deaths Registration and Burials 
bill, and how it would effect cemetery su- 
perintendents, was discussed, and it was 
decided to bring the matter before a spe- 
cial meeting, to be held in February, for 
further consideration. 
The first annual convention was arranged 
to be held in July at a place to be decided 
later. 
J. D. Robertson, City of London Cem- 
etery, is president of the association, and 
C. F. Tate, superintendent of Kensington 
Cemetery, Hanwell, London, W., is secre- 
tary. 
The association has for its main objects: 
To provide an organization for cemetery 
superintendents, with a view to encourage 
and advance all matters connected with the 
administration of cemeteries; to provide fa- 
cilities for discussion and interchange of 
opinions and ideas on matters appertaining 
thereto. All cemetery superintendents, as- 
sistant superintendents, curators, registrars 
and secretaries are eligible for membership. 
HANDSOME CEMETERY 
ENTRANCE. 
The new entrance to Woodland Ceme- 
tery, Indianapolis, shown on the cover of 
this issue, is a fine type of monumental 
entrance that has been carefully planned to 
secure an impressive, harmonious effect in 
both iron work and the architectural fea- 
tures. 
The work includes two pair double en- 
trance gates, 16 feet wide; two pair double 
walk gates, 7 feet wide, with radius panels 
on each side 7 feet high. The gates and all 
lugs which fasten into the granite piers are 
made of bronze. The walk gates are of 
material to harmonize with the large drive 
gates. Each set of gates is provided with 
heavy bronze locks and brass handles. 
The circular panels are 7 feet high and 
of the same material as used in the fence. 
The relief shields shown in the center of 
each half of the drive gates are cast iron 
with monogram of Woodland Cemetery. 
The fence includes 1,500 feet, to stand 
7 feet high when set, made of 54-i n ch 
square pickets set diagonal 5 inches on 
centers, 114-inch points. The horizontal 
rails are 2x54 inches, ' Stewart’s patent 
three-rib channel. 
At the end of each panel is a 1-inch 
square line post with anchor plates pro- 
vided with ^4-inch round brace. These line 
posts extend 30 inches into the ground. In 
the center of each panel an adjustable cen- 
ter support was used, which gives the fence 
a bearing every 4 feet and prevents sag- 
ging. 
This is practically the same design of 
iron fence which was furnished for Glen- 
dale Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. This en- 
trance and fencing was designed, built and 
erected by the Stewart Iron Works Co., of 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
TREES — Carloads of them, up to 6-in. caliper 
in sorts: Silver and Sugar Maple, Carolina 
Poplars (free from borers), Box Elder, Black 
and White Walnuts, Elm, Ash, Oak, Syca- 
more, Linden, Tulip, Larch, etc. 
SHRUBS — Spireas, Deutzias, Quince, Sym- 
phocarpus, Tamerax. Lilacs, Syringas, etc. 
ROSES — Lucida, Blanda, etc. 
VINES — Wild Grape, An. Ivy, Wisteria, 
Honersyckle, Cleastris, Cinnamon, Honeysuckles, 
etc. 
EVERGREENS — American Arbor Vitae, 
White Spruce and 20 other sorts. 
BULBS — 2,000 Clumps Dahlias — separate col- 
ors — some named. 
PERENNIALS — Iris, Columbine, Phlox, etc. 
HARDY NATIVE PERENNIALS — We have 
several thousands of these in stock, but collect 
over 1,000,000 of them annually — Ferns, Lilies, 
Trilliums, Orchids, Hepaticas, etc. 
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR WANTS. 
HOPEDALE NURSERIES, Dept. D. 
Hopedale, 111. 
THE VISIBLE LOT MARKER 
Place these markers at the corners of the lots, and it 
is easy to locate the lot. as the growth will not cover 
it, and the number is plain. 
The growth is directed at an angle of about 25 de- 
grees, and when it reaches a height of three or four 
inches, it naturally falls away from the top of the 
marker, and leaves the face and number clear. 
The complete set for moulding, stamping, and an 
auger for placing in the ground, for the sum of $15 
F. O. B. Urbana. 
A. H. HAVARD 
1210 Stoughton :: Urbana, III. 
