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taken to secure the award from the 
N. Y., N. H. & H. railroad and to 
treat with the city regarding the 
seizure of Mulberry Street Cemetery. 
This was done at a meeting of owners 
and heirs. It was learned at the 
meeting that an attempt was made 
to get the cemetery people together 
some 15 years ago but the attempt 
was blocked as no one knew where 
the records were. It was not until 
within the last few weeks that some 
of the heirs were able to locate them 
and they are now in the possession 
of the corporation. The records 
show that the cemetery was incor- 
porated in 1848 and for four or five 
years the corporation was cpiite ac- 
tive. The place at that time was one 
of the beauty spots of North Bridge- 
water. A State Supreme Court de- 
cision rules that the village associa- 
tion owns the cemetery land. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
The improvements in Lone Hr 
Cemetery, Portland, Ore., for which 
the Lone Fir Cemetery Lot Owners’ 
Association has been raising funds, is 
being pushed with energy so as to 
make the best possible showing on 
Memorial Day. It was generally run 
down, overgrown in parts with weeds 
and brush, everything out of repair, 
and will require considerably more 
money to finish the job. This the 
association is endeavoring to pro- 
vide. 
A contract has been awarded in 
Freeport, 111 ., for mowing in the city 
cemetery for this season. The low- 
est out of a dozen bids was $975, and 
it was given to H. F. Stebbins, one 
of the contractors for the same work 
last year. 
The trustees of Evergreen Ceme- 
tery, Elizabeth, N. J., have awarded 
the contract for the erection of a new 
receiving vault, soon to be built in 
the cemetery, to Charles Eilbacher. 
The cost will be approximately $7,000. 
It will be constructed of stone and 
cement. 
The erection of an ornamental gate 
and the possible building of a mortu- 
ary chapel are included in the plans 
for the improvement of the Ogden 
City Cemetery, Ogden, Utah. Plans 
have been prepared for the chapel. 
Extensive improvements are to be 
made at the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, 
Paris, Texas. The grounds will be 
cleaned off, leveled and laid out with 
walks and driveways, and a new fence 
is to be placed around the inclosure, 
with a handsome arch at the en- 
trance. 
PARK AND CEMETERY 
The Board of City Commissioners 
of Ogden, Utah, awarded the contract 
for the erection of ornamental iron 
gates at the city cemetery entrance 
on Jefferson avenue, to Joseph Parry 
& Sons for $480, the bids including 
concrete bases for the gates. It will 
be completed, if possible, before Dec- 
oration Day. The entire structure 
will cost in the neighborhood of $800. 
The burial grounds committee of 
the Brockton, Mass., city council re- 
cently inspected Melrose Cemetery in 
connection with proposed improve- 
ments suggested by the superintend- 
ent. These include the remodeling of 
the old office building or the construc- 
tion of a new one and the improve- 
ment of the cemetery wall on the 
Pleasant street side. An artificial 
lake is also proposed. 
The board of county commissioners 
at Victor, Colo., has decided to build 
a road from the county road to the 
main gate of the Mt. Pisgah Ceme- 
tery. 
The Cemetery Commission of Wa- 
terloo, N. Y., has been authorized by 
the village board to purchase for 
$1,500 a strip of land adjoining the 
cemetery, together with the house fin 
it, the latter to be used as' a residence 
for the superintendent of the ceme- 
tery. 
Taking advantage of the idle period 
about the mines, the men of St. Vin- 
cent’s parish, Plymouth, Pa., have been 
grading and preparing to pave the roads 
throughout the new St. Vincent’s Ceme- 
tery under the supervision of Thomas 
Tobin, the sexton. Men from the var- 
ious parts of the parish were assigned 
each day. There is need of much work 
to be done. 
Nearly a hundred persons the major- 
ity of whom were women, armed with 
rakes and other implements, partici- 
pated in the clean-up work in the old 
part of Park cemetery, Carthage, Mo., 
on April 23. The beautifying of that 
portion of the cemetery is undertaken 
by the newly formed Plot Owners Aux- 
iliary to the Park Cemetery Association. 
Some trouble has been experienced in 
securing water for the new cemetery, 
Negaunee, Mich., which has been 
brought from two springs. It is pro- 
posed now to pipe it from Horseshoe 
lake at some time in the near future. 
The Memorial Park Cemetery board, 
Grand Forks, N. D., having liquidated 
most of its indebtedness for last year’s 
improvement work, is preparing to go 
ahead with a more elaborate scheme of 
improvement, which will include a re- 
platting of the entire cemetery and the 
planting of a large number of elm trees 
and considerable shrubbery. A perma- 
nent care fund has been started and lot 
owners have been urgently invited to 
contribute. 
NEW CEMETERIES 
Despite the opposition of the city of 
New York and a large number of tax- 
payers of Rockville Centre, N. Y., the 
Rockville Centre Cemetery Association 
on April 9 obtained permission from the 
Board of Supervisors of Nassau county 
to acquire eight acres of land adjoining 
the cemetery of the old Sand Hole 
Methodist Church. When the associa- 
tion tried to get possession of the ad- 
ditional land two years ago the city of 
New York, through its corporation 
counsel, objected, taking the ground 
that the stream that runs about 600 feet 
from the property and which helps to 
feed the Brooklyn water supply might 
be polluted. Depreciation of property 
in the vicinity was also claimed by num- 
bers of property owners. The case is to 
be carried to the Supreme Court on be- 
half of the taxpayers. 
Work has begun by the contractors, 
the Meyers & Thomas Construction 
Company, on the sewering, grading and 
paving the roadways in the new St. 
Peter's cemetery on the bluffs, corner 
Lebanon road and the O’Fallon electric 
line, St. Louis, Mo. This cemetery is 
controlled by the Ev. Lutheran St. 
Peter’s church, and all owners of lots 
in the old cemetery are to be given one 
in exchange at the new one. 
Bishop Farrelly, of Cleveland, O., has 
made a purchase of several acres of land 
in Avon to be used for the express pur- 
pose of a new Catholic cemetery. The 
land was bought for the benefit of the 
Immaculate Conception Parish of Avon. 
The new land adjoins the old cemetery 
and includes part of section 11, Avon 
township, a total of 3.42 acres, except- 
ing a right of way before deeded to 
the South Lorain and Eastern Traction 
Company, and that part of the land 
lying south of the right of way. 
A site has been purchased by the 
village council of Chisholm, Minn., for 
cemetery purposes, located on the Stur- 
geon Lake road, less than two miles 
north of the village. Funds have been 
provided for its improvement. 
Development work is in rapid progress 
in the new Highland Cemetery, Great 
Falls, Mont., which is being conducted 
from plans and under the care of Mr. 
A. W. Hobert, of Lakewood Cemetery, 
Minneapolis, Minn., whose representa- 
tive on the ground is Mr. Charles Barck. 
The Commercial Club of Grand Forks, 
N. D., has a proposition in hand to pro- 
vide a cemetery for East Grand Forks. 
Negotiations are in progress 
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