the cemetery. Work has also been 
done in the second cemetery. For the 
present nothing will be done in the old 
cemetery to the south of the church, 
where Indians and the first settlers of 
the village are buried. In time it is 
the desire of the commission to have 
this leveled off and all the rough field 
stones replaced by small granite mark- 
ers. The cemetery is one of the oldest 
in Worcester county, man)' of the 
stones dating back to years before 1700. 
Conrad Wolfe, of West Duluth, the 
new park superintendent, has assumed 
his new duties at Hibbing, Minn. The 
cemetery will be the first place to re- 
ceive improvement under the campaign 
of improvement outlined by the park 
board for the coming summer. Its con- 
dition has been a frequent source of 
complaint and there is general satisfac- 
tion over the prospect of immediate im- 
provement. 
The new addition to Woodlawn ceme- 
tery, Tampa, Fla., will be available in a 
short time. 
The first monument in the Tod Me- 
morial cemetery, Youngstown, O., was 
erected late in May. The work of im- 
provement is progressing quite rapidly, 
and a great many lots have been sold. 
An acre lot reserved for the Tod fam- 
ily is at the highest point in the coun- 
ty, and all drives terminate at this 
memorial plot. A large nursery and 
greenhouse will furnish an abundance 
of planting material. 
At a special session of the City Coun- 
cil of Farmington, 111., the latter part 
of May, it was decided to purchase the 
three acres of land of the Pardun estate 
just north of Oak Ridge cemetery for 
an addition to that cemetery, to cost 
$ 2 , 200 . 
The Flynt Granite Co., of Monson, 
Mass., has been awarded the contract 
for the building of the proposed mortu- 
ary chapel in Park Lawn cemetery, 
Bennington, Vt., at a cost of $8,833.90. 
The specifications provide for random 
ashler masonry similar to that of St. 
Peter’s Episcopal church. The floors 
are to be of marble tile, the interior 
finish in cypress with copper flashings 
and the roof of black Munson slate. The 
building is to be electrically lighted and 
green cathedral glass is to be used in 
the windows. The plans also call for a 
basement of sufficient size to accommo- 
date a heating plant and for a super- 
intendent’s office in the vestibule. Plans 
were made by William C. Bull, archi- 
tect, and give the following dimensions : 
main wing, 48 feet 6 inches long. The 
chapel will be 32-6x23-6, the chancel, 
14x12 feet, the vault, 17x20. The vault 
and chancel will be 39 feet over all. 
The chapel will seat a hundred persons, 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
and the vault will he of sufficient size 
to accommodate 40 full sized bodies. 
A mausoleum to cost $5,000 will be 
erected in Flushing cemetery, Long- 
Island, N. Y., by Mrs. Eliza Baumann, 
of Elmhurst, widow of John C. Bau- 
mann The mausoleum will be of 
rough stone and twenty feet in height. 
The Grinnell, la., cemetery associa- 
tion has just added 22 acres to Hazel- 
wood cemetery. This tract adjoined the 
south side of the old grounds and was 
purchased from the J. B. Grinnell es- 
tate at $175 per acre. 
The Women’s Improvement Club of 
Lincoln, Placer Co., Calif., is raising 
funds with which to purchase addition- 
al land for the citv cemetery. They 
have in contemplation extensive im- 
provements for the old and new ceme- 
teries, including a water supply from 
the city mains. 
The directors of the Agawam, Mass., 
cemetery association have appointed 
George H. Reed superintendent of the 
work at the cemetery. It is planned to 
have the cemetery mowed at least twice 
a year in addition to the special care 
given many of the lots. Plans are also 
maturing for enlarging the cemetery 
grounds and making new and more ex- 
tended driveways. 
A mausoleum to cost, it is said, $20,- 
000 is to be erected in Greenwood ceme- 
tery, Decatur, 111., by Mrs. James Milli- 
kin, the contract for which has been 
let. 
The Hamilton county road commis- 
sion, Chattanooga, Tenn., has awarded 
the contract for the extension of the 
paving on Georgia avenue, St. Elmo, 
to entrance of the cemetery. This con- 
tract was given to the West Construc- 
tion company, and calls for an expen- 
diture of about $3,000. 
The Daughters of the Confederacy 
who have been quietly working, since 
1907, over the project to erect a Con- 
federate soldiers’ monument on the 
central mound of the Confederate 
section at Arlington Cemetery, are 
hoping to lay the corner stone when 
the U. D. C. meet in convention at 
Washington in November next. At 
the close of the war Arlington, the 
beautiful residence of General Rob- 
ert E. Lee, was sold for taxes and 
bought in by the government which 
afterwards paid $150,000 to the son of 
General Lee for the property. In 
1900 a bill was passed in Congress 
making an appropriation for the suit- 
able marking of graves of Confeder- 
ate soldiers, and since that time the 
Confederate section has been kept in 
perfect condition. 
Planting operations have recently 
been completed in St. Columbia Cem- 
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etery, Ottawa, 111., by the Blooming- 
ton Nursery Company, to whom the 
contract had been awarded. The rec- 
tory grounds were also improved and 
considerable planting material was set 
out upon the grounds of Reddick’s 
Library. 
Among other things the Boston, 
Mass., cemetery trustees report states 
that there are 12 cemeteries under 
control of the trustees that are more 
than 100 years old, for which an ap- 
propriation of $20,000 is needed imme- 
diately to put the grounds in proper 
condition. The report also announces 
the fact that the trustees have adopt- 
ed a rule to the effect that, except 
in unusual cases, no bodies shall be 
permitted to remain in receiving 
tombs for a period exceeding one 
year. This rule was made neces- 
sary by the large number of appli- 
cations for the permanent keeping of 
bodies in tombs. 
The cemetery committee of the 
Lenox, Mass., cemetery has not been 
selling lots to any but residents of 
Lenox for some time. The old cem- 
etery, which has been in use since 
about 1765, is so filled that within a 
short time a new cemetery must be 
secured. This condition has been 
known, but the cemetery commit- 
tee has not yet obtained any option 
on land, as the town must take the 
initial step. Several prominent men 
in Lenox favor a crematory, but it 
is hardly likely that the town will 
adopt that more modern method of 
disposal of the bodies of its dead in 
sufficient numbers to allow the use of 
the crematory for many years. 
Mound Cemetery, Racine, Wis., de- 
rives its name from a group of Indian 
mounds located within its area. There 
are fourteen of them and all will be 
preserved. A couple of years ago 
Mr. Louis F. Mohr, superintendent, 
placed a rough stone monument on 
top of one in the center of the group, 
and marked it “Indian Mounds” for 
the information of visitors. The lot 
owners are also desirous that every 
care be taken of these relics of the 
past which, by the way, have made 
the cemetery famous. Dr. Hay, who 
came from the region of the Ohio 
mounds is convinced that the Ra- 
cine mounds were the work of the 
same race. In 1852 some 60 mounds 
were platted of this group, but only 
those in the cemetery now remain. 
Excavations proved them to be sep- 
ulchral mounds. Besides human re- 
mains fragments of rude pottery were 
found in them. From facts investi- 
gated in connection with the mounds, 
their antiquity may be placed at at 
