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Cemetery Improvements 
-Work on the improvements at the 
Chalmette National Cemetery, New 
Orleans, is nearly completed. 
The Cemetery Association of Barnes- 
ville, Ga., under the leadership of Mrs. 
A. O. Murphey, has begun its work 
again for this year and is appealing 
for generous support. For the past 
two years it has done a most commend- 
able work, and to such an extent that 
the city’s cemeteries have been wonder- 
fully improved in appearance. 
Cedar Bluff Cemetery, Rockford, 111., 
has secured an addition to its area to 
the extent of some 500 lots. 
The wave of improvement in the 
care of the smaller cemeteries of the 
country is gradually spreading. The 
El Cajon Cemetery Association, El 
Cajon, Cal., has decided to urge upon 
contiguous communities the desira- 
bility of co-operation in making this 
cemetery a beauty spot in the valley. 
Maplewood Cemetery Association, 
Rockland, Mass., has added three acres 
to its area on the south. An avenue 
is to surround this tract. 
The Grace Reformed Cemetery As- 
sociation of Harmony, Pa., has ac- 
quired some additional land adjoining 
their cemetery and have been seeking 
a charter so that their property may 
be properly cared for and the associa- 
tion conducted along modern business 
methods. The charter provides that at 
least ten per cent of the moneys re- 
ceived from the sale of lots shall be 
set apart for the perpetual care and 
preservation of the grounds. 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, 
N. Y., is constructing a new crematory 
to cost $20,000, which will be equipped 
with modern furnaces. The crematory 
will adjoin the chapel of the old en- 
trance to the cemetery and the old 
building will be remodeled later and 
used as a columbarium. It is expected 
that the crematory will be ready for 
use late in September. 
Extensive improvements are to be 
made this spring to the Jewish ceme- 
tery at Brookhaven, Pa. The roadways 
will be made over with macadam and 
the building improved. 
The directors of the Swedish Ceme- 
tery, Worcester, Mass., are laying plans 
for a festive occasion on the approach- 
ing twenty-fifth anniversary of the or- 
ganization of the corporation, May 30. 
It is also intended to commemorate the 
day by arranging for some important 
improvement. 
The officers of the Winnebago, 111., 
Cemetery Association are figuring on 
the erection of a receiving vault. 
At the annual meeting of Oakwood 
Cemetery Association, Bucyrus, O., it 
was decided to construct a permanent 
improved roadway through the center 
of the grounds, and for the early fu- 
ture an appropriate entrance to cost 
not less than $2,000. 
At a recent meeting of the Board of 
Directors of Riverhurst Cemetery, 
Endicott, N. Y., George Ames was 
elected president of the board, in place 
of George W. Holyoke, resigned. The 
contract for the landscape gardening in 
the cemetery was given to George Jack- 
son, of Walton, N. Y. Some 1,000 
shrubs and trees are to be set out. 
The Queen Victoria Park Commis- 
sion, Niagara Falls, Ont., has taken 
over a part of the new Drummond Hill 
Cemetery, with all its historic connec- 
tions, and will spend considerable 
money beautifying it. 
New Cemeteries 
Articles of incorporation have been 
filed by the Empire-PIughson Cemetery 
Co. for the purpose of maintaining a 
cemetery near Hughson, Cal. The 
company is incorporated for a term 
of fifty years, and with a capital stock 
of $2,000. The five directors of the 
company are: Albert Holmquist, A. 
L. Aldrich, F. M. Hudelson, W. H. 
Frazine and J. K. Sharp. 
The Chico, Cal., Cemetery Associa- 
tion ffias purchased another tract of 
fifty acres for cemetery purposes. It 
lies about one and a half miles north- 
east of the city, directly opposite the 
forestry station. The present cemetery 
of the association comprises thirty and 
one-half acres. 
Three acres of ground, located near 
Kulpmont, Pa., have been purchased by 
the trustees of St. Marys Roman Catho- 
lic church at that place for cemetery 
purposes for the use of all the Catholic 
churches between Mt. Carmel and 
Shamokin. 
Robert Sapp, of Indianapolis, Ind., 
has secured a tract of 400 acres of land, 
lying south of Gary, Ind., a large part 
of which will be laid out for cemetery 
purposes, and on which improvements 
are to begin at once. 
Thirty-five Jewish gentlemen of Fort 
Wayne, Ind., have organized the Ortho- 
dox Cemetery Association, with a capi- 
talization of $1,000. The association 
has an option on a three-acre tract of 
land located one mile from the city car 
line. There will be no dividends de- 
clared, but the profits will be employed 
in improving the cemetery. 
The Park Lawn Cemetery Association 
will develop in South St. Louis, Mo., a 
non-sectarian cemetery. The site con- 
tains 33 acres and is located on the 
Lemay Ferry road and the extension of 
Grand avenue just south of Point 
Breeze. It will be conducted on the 
lawn plan with perpetual care, and it 
is stated that the annual care is pro- 
vided for in the details of the organi- 
zation business. Officers of the new 
company are : President, Charles A. 
Moder; vice-president, Adam Linck; 
secretary, Charles Hertenstein ; treas- 
urer, Frank J. Dardis. 
A proposition for the establishment 
of a negro cemetery has been accepted 
by the city commissioner of Fort 
Worth, Texas, from William J. Bailey. 
The burial ground will be located two 
miles west of the city. Mr. Bailey 
agrees to set aside twenty acres for 
the burial of the negro pauper dead in 
consideration of the city giving $12.50 
a month toward the salary of the negro 
sexton. 
The Fairlawn Cemetery Company has 
been incorporated in Providence, R. I., 
with a capital of $100,000. Incorpora- 
tors are William D. Goff, of Provi- 
dence ; Robert J. Macnair, of Warwick, 
and Harold Holt, of North Providence. 
The offices will be located in Provi- 
dence. 
From Cemetery Reports 
The annual report of the Woodlawn 
Cemetery of Everett, Mass., just to 
hand, is largely taken up with the very 
interesting dedication exercises of the 
new Mortuary Chapel, a beautiful edi- 
fice, which took place on September 
16th last, and which was erected at a 
cost of $25,000, to which some 700 lot 
owners contributed. The largest dona- 
tion was that of the children of the late 
Elisha S. Converse, a former president 
of the corporation, who provided $15,- 
000. The total receipts of the ceme- 
tery for the year 1911 were $99,255.42, 
which besides the balance from the pre- 
vious year included : Sales of lots, 
$17,568.42 ; grave, $6,640, and income 
from funds, etc. The disbursements 
consumed $89,493.77, of which $84,014 
was expended in salaries, rents, tele- 
phone, office requirements, etc., and $10,- 
584.96 in care of lots. The repair fund 
now amounts to $279,796.50 and the 
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