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least 1,000 years, and the evidence 
also leads to the conclusion that the 
people who built them were an ex- 
tremely barbarous race. The new 
addition to Mound Cemetery is lo- 
cated a half mile north of it. It is 
called Graceland and is a very pretty 
piece of ground. In due time a topo- 
graphical map will be made in prep- 
aration for the landscape architect. 
An ordinance was introduced in the 
Rockford, 111., city council the last 
of May, which resulted from a re- 
port on the petition of north end 
residents of that city opposing the 
erection of a community mausoleum 
opposite the West Side Cemetery, 
which is within city limits. In the 
main it provides that no interments 
shall be made in any land, crypt, 
vault or mausoleum or other place 
within corporate limits or outside cor- 
porate limits and within one mile of 
said corporate limits not actually 
used as a cemetery on the 1st of 
May, 1912, etc. It furthermore pro- 
vides that no person or persons shall 
establish or open a cemetery, vault, 
crypt, mausoleum, or other place of 
burial within the above named limits; 
that the boundaries of existing ceme- 
teries, etc., are fixed as they existed 
May 1; and that no enlargements of 
present cemeteries may be made. 
Among the criticisms made in the 
report of the auditors who recently 
audited the books and records of Oak 
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, 111., 
were: that there appeared to be no 
control over the revenue derived from 
“care of lots,” “single graves re- 
served,” “foundations and excava- 
tions;” a number of lots found to have 
been selected during years 1909 to 
1913, inclusive; deed orders issued 
and interments made without any 
money having been paid to the city 
treasurer; interment reports of single 
graves in confused state, records prac- 
tically useless. The auditors made a 
number of recommendations including 
the installation of a system construct- 
ed in such a way as to safeguard at 
all points the revenue and expenses 
of the cemetery and also show a prop- 
er distribution of expenses and their 
relation to the revenue, thereby to 
insure a proper accounting of funds. 
At a recent meeting of the citizens 
of Arcadia, 111., the old and the new 
cemeteries of Arcadia were consoli- 
dated and put under one manage- 
ment. The old cemetery was plotted 
between 1820 and 1830. This old cem- 
etery contained two acres and it be- 
came so full of graves that it was 
abandoned about thirty years ago and 
the new cemetery plotted out, which 
contains 8 acres. Both cemeteries 
adjoined each other. It is the in- 
tention of the management to see that 
both cemeteries are kept in the best 
of repair and make the burial grounds 
of that community an honor to the 
citizens. It is proposed to raise $700 
to clean up both cemeteries. 
In anticipation of the time when 
there will be a dearth of cemetery ac- 
commodation, Commissioner G u y 
Blackwelder, of Oklahoma City, Okla., 
is promoting the idea that North- 
west Park should be converted into 
a cemetery. The transformation is to 
be gradual, say to cover the next five 
or ten years, but in the interval prop- 
er attention should be given to im- 
proving and planting the tract. North- 
west park contains 160 acres of splen- 
did alfalfa land. It was bought sev- 
eral years ago by the old park board 
at the fancy sum of $50,000. It is 
located one mile north of Linwood, 
in the open country, and has a few 
scattering trees. 
Wealthy colonists of the Meadow 
Brook Hunt Club section at Mineola, 
Long Island, N. Y., are again worried 
over the application made to the su- 
pervisors for permission to use for 
cemetery purposes the 216 acres of 
the Isaac U. Willets farm, near Man- 
hasset. The Willets land has long 
been the hunting ground of the 
Meadow Brook pack. A public hear- 
ing will be given on July 8. Within 
the last six years several New York 
cemetery corporations have tried to 
obtain permission to establish ceme- 
teries, but opposition and interests 
have been too strong, and their ef- 
forts have failed. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Columbia 
Falls, Mont., was burned over in the 
latter part of May. Wooden markers 
were destroyed or charred, and the 
marble tombstones blackened, while the 
shrubbery and small trees were burned. 
A fund of $10,000 is being raised 
for the maintenance of the interior of 
Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, 
Conn. Much interest is being mani- 
fested in the work and a goodly pro- 
portion^ of the fund is already in 
sight. 
The problem of the care of Is- 
land Pond Cemetery, Ludlow, Mass., 
is again facing the town officials, the 
grounds becoming more and more a 
reflection on the community. There 
is no regular caretaker, and the time 
has come when the matter must re- 
ceive practical attention. It is be- 
lieved that if some- reasonable busi- 
ness oversight and care were bestow- 
ed upon it the situation might be 
greatly improved. 
In a number of cemeteries through- 
out the country the setting apart a 
certain day as “Flower Day” has 
helped to maintain respect and con- 
sideration by the community for their 
place of burial, and it is a helpful 
idea from other points of view. Green- 
wood Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn., 
appointed June 13, as its special 
“Flower Day,” and printed and cir- 
culated a program of exercises to be 
held in a temporary chapel for the 
occasion. It is a custom well worth 
attention. 
Among the improvements in course 
of completion in Crown Hill Ceme- 
tery, Indianapolis, Ind., where Mr. 
John J. Stephens has recently as- 
sumed the office of superintendent, is 
a new water service, calling for 2,870 
feet of 6-inch water main, laid 5 
feet deep with standpipes and hy- 
drants and other connections for fu- 
ture service. Some 700 feet of new 
sewage has also been constructed. 
Other spring work included the plat- 
ting of a new section of 477 lots 
and the resodding of 1,700 graves. 
The Women’s Co-operative Civic 
League of Baraboo, Wis., whose 
progress we noticed on several oc- 
casions last June, is again actively at 
work on improvement affairs in that 
pretty town. Among the spring ac- 
complishments have been: the distri- 
bution of twelve park seats and twelve 
waste cans in the Baraboo and St. 
Joseph’s cemeteries, and the purchase 
of 100 terra cotta numbered markers 
to mark graves in the single grave 
section of both cemeteries. Mrs. A. 
T. Ringling reports that there never 
was such interest taken in the two 
cemeteries as has been shown this 
year; she also says that civic work 
is progressing finely. Another pleas- 
ing incident of the League’s work is 
that Mr. Rodney True, of Washing- 
ton, D. C., sent the League fifty Doro- 
thy Perkins roses for distribution as 
"pleased the members of the Board 
of Directors;” a number of these were 
planted in the Baraboo Cemetery and 
also in St. Josephs. The success of 
this woman’s league will certainly in- 
spire others to go and do likewise. 
NEW CEMETERIES. 
The board of park and cemetery 
commissioners of Grand Rapids, 
Mich., have been considering the sale 
of two acres of the Greenwood ceme- 
tery tract to one of the west side 
Jewish societies for cemetery pur- 
poses. There is one Jewish cemetery 
adjacent to Greenwood and it is de- 
sired to open another. The board 
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