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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
NEW ENTRANCE TO OAK XAWN CEMETERY, DWIGHT, ILL. 
NEW ENTRANCE GATE 
One of the recent improvements at 
Oak Lawn Cemetery, Dwight, 111., is 
the massive, simply designed entrance 
gate illustrated here. 
The concrete posts are 33 inches 
square at the top and 36 inches at the 
bottom, and the gate is of iron, very 
substantially built. On the west post 
is a bronze tablet with “Oak Lawn 
Cemetery” and on the east post one 
bearing the inscription “Erected in 
Memory of the Veterans of the Civil 
War, by Major Curtis J. Judd.” The 
gate, posts and tablets were presented 
to the Association by Major Judd, 
who was a soldier in the 129th Illinois 
Volunteer Infantry for three years. 
The cost was about $400. 
The Supreme Court of Georgia af- 
firms a judgment refusing an injunc- 
tion in the case of Harper vs. City 
of Nashville, 70 Southeastern Report- 
er, 1102, brought to enjoin the estab- 
lishment of a cemetery upon a lot of 
land contiguous to the lands of the 
plaintiff, where it was alleged that 
the site of the proposed cemetery 
lay in very close proximity to the 
On either side of the gate a con- 
crete block fence has been erected 
both east and west covering the full 
front of the cemetery. This improve- 
ment cost about $2,000. 
The driveways in the cemetery 
have all been resurfaced and other 
substantial betterments made about 
the grounds. 
The grounds receive excellent care 
and Oak Lawn is one of the best kept 
cemeteries in Illinois. 
The officers of the Association at 
present are: 
J. R. Oughton, President. 
F. A. Haise, Secretary. 
M. R. Keeley, Treasurer. 
C. M. Baker. Superintendent. 
residence of the plaintiff; that, if 
the injunction was not granted, the 
location of the cemetery and its use 
as a place for the burial of the dead 
would greatly endanger and damage 
the plaintiff, in that it would cause a 
depreciation in the market value of 
her property, and because the rela- 
tive situation of her land to the land 
purchased by the city was such that 
the water would flow from the cem- 
etery onto her land, etc. 
Cemeteries, the court says, are a 
necessity. A place where the dead 
may be given decent Christian burial 
must be established, and the location 
of such must necessarily be upon 
some tract of land more or less suit- 
able and commodious; and it is im- 
possible to find a tract of land that 
is not contiguous to the lands of 
some one else. And inasmuch as 
cemeteries must be established, and 
should be located where they are rea- 
sonably accessible, it is rarely pos- 
sible to so fix their location, when 
they are designed for the use of a 
populous town or city, where they 
will not be in more or less proximity 
to some residences; and unless the 
soil of the land used as a cemetery 
and that of the contiguous owners is 
such as to cause drainage which will 
produce a contamination of the 
waters, thereby putting in jeopardy 
the health or lives of the owners of 
the contiguous lands and the health 
of their families, or unless the air 
would be contaminated, courts of 
equity will not interfere by the grant 
of injunctive relief to prevent the es- 
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CEMETERIES NOT NUISANCES 
