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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Vermont Marble Co., from Riverside 
Vermont marble. 
The Kenosha Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Kenosha, Wis., has in the last 
three weeks, or so, received two 
anonymous subscriptions totaling 
$5,000. Both gifts were in drafts 
issued by banks in Chicago. The 
donors simply asked that the money 
be used for the permanent improve- 
ment of the cemetery. 
The Board of Supervisors of Nas- 
sau Co., Long Island, N. Y., has re- 
ceived a strong protest from the tax- 
payers in the town of North Hamp- 
stead, L. I„ against the petition of the 
Repose Mausoleum to establish a 
cemetery on the ground known as I. 
U. Willet’s farm. This property ad- 
joins the estates of Mr. William K. 
Vanderbilt, Jr.; Mr. Joseph P. Grace, 
Mr. William R. Grace and Mr. Wil- 
liam R. Pendleton. 
What is perhaps the most remark- 
able graveyard in the United States 
adjoins the old Spanish church in the 
ancient Indian pueblo of Acoma, N. 
M., and took over forty years to con- 
struct. The village is situated high 
in the air upon a huge, flat-topped 
rock many acres in extent and en- 
tirely bare of soil. In order to cre- 
ate the graveyard it was necessary to 
carry up the earth from the plain 300 
feet below, a blanketful at a time, on 
the backs of Indians who had to climb 
with their heavy loads up a pre- 
cipitous trail cut in the face of the 
cliff. The graveyard thus laboriously 
constructed is held in place on three 
sides by high retaining walls of stone. 
Mr. Louis N. Gilbert, of the George 
H. Gilbert Co., Ware, Mass., has 
bought 13 acres of land on the shores 
of Snow’s pond adjoining Aspen grove 
cemetery and has presented it to the 
town through the cemetery commis- 
sioners. Aspen Grove cemetery is 
noted as one of the most finely situ- 
ated cemeteries in the New England 
states, and Mr. Gilbert’s purchase was 
to avoid having the land bought by 
others and put to uses that would de- 
tract from the natural beauty of the 
cemetery. This is indeed public spirit 
exemplified. 
The Board of Local Improvements 
of Bloomington, 111., upon which the 
duty of selecting a site for a new city 
cemetery had fallen, reported to the 
city council that a number of sites had 
been offered and they would leave to 
the council’s consideration the selec- 
tion out of four parcels of land sub- 
mitted. The prices ranged between 
$325 and $1,000 per acre. 
A petition of certain stockholders 
in the Pinelawn Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Suffolk Co., L. I., N. Y., asking 
for the visitation of a Supreme Court 
Justice for an examination into the 
books and accounts of the association 
has been granted. Pinelawn Ceme- 
tery is made up of eleven other ceme- 
teries, which were combined into one 
some time ago. Among the stock- 
holders in the association are Justice 
William H. Jaycox, of Patchogue, and 
other prominent Brooklyn and Long 
Island men. Clinton L. Rossiter was 
formerly a stockholder. The petition 
presented alleges that some of the 
directors have been misappropriating 
the funds of the association and have 
been diverting them for other pur- 
poses than that for which they were 
intended. The proposed sale of a 500- 
acre section of the cemetery is re- 
strained. 
The petition of the St. John’s Luth- 
eran Cemetery Association, Westfield, 
Mass., to establish a cemetery in 
Hampton Plains, was recently favor- 
ably entertained by the Board of 
Health. Objections were offered on 
the ground that Timber Swamps 
brook drained from the tract and that 
ice was cut from the pond into which 
it flowed. It will be acted upon, by 
the voters. The tract contains nine 
acres. 
The proposal that the Boston city 
council merge the cemetery depart- 
ment with the park, public grounds, 
bath and music departments into a 
department of public grounds and 
park has met with the decided op- 
position of lot owners and others in- 
terested. The plan has been char- 
acterized as ridiculous. The proposed 
consolidation is said to have origi- 
nated in the city council so far as the 
cemetery is concerned, while the 
other features of the merger were 
suggested by the mayor. 
Mount Calvary Cemetery has been 
a bone of contention with the citizens 
of Denver, Colo., for over 50 years, 
and was closed by the city for burial 
purposes many years ago. It is now 
proposed that it should be abandoned, 
the bodies removed and the ground 
added to Cheesman Park, which it ad- 
joins. Members of the Mount Cal- 
vary Cemetery Maintenance Associa- 
tion, representing the owners of burial 
plots in the cemetery, propose to re- 
sist, through all the courts, if neces- 
sary, every proposal looking toward 
the permanent abandonment of the 
cemetery as a burial ground. They 
maintain that there is a plot among 
interested parties to secure the prop- 
erry and to deprive 5,000 owners of 
burial plots of all their rights without 
compensation. According to the com- 
mittee, 5,000 plots in Mount Calvary 
have been sold for burial purposes 
since the cemetery was established, 
and they maintain that at least 25,000 
people have sentimental and mone- 
tary interest therein. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS. 
The Ladies’ Cemetery Association, 
Birmingham, Ala., has been organized 
for the purpose of improving Forest 
Cemetery, a work which will claim 
their attention at once. 
The trustees of Pine Grove Ceme- 
tery Association, Spencer, Mass., will 
expend over $500 on improving the 
section bought last year, adjoining the 
( Id cemetery. 
The Mount Pleasant Cemetery Co., 
Sioux Falls, S. D., have been improv- 
ing the main road in the cemetery, 
between the main entrance and the 
south entrance in the new part. 
The improvements which the man- 
agers propose to carry out in the 
I. O. O. F. Cemetery, Sterling, 111., 
will be confined mainly to improving 
the fences, roads and the construction 
of a new iron gateway. 
The season’s improvement work is 
under way at Elmwood Cemetery, 
Methuen, Mass. Since the town voted 
to purchase the cemetery a few years 
ago, considerable of such work has 
been done and this year the town ap- 
propriated money to erect a receiving 
tomb. The work on this tomb will 
be started immediately and it will be 
completed some time this summer. 
The land purchased by the town cov- 
ers several acres, a good part of 
which has been cleared. 
Park Superintendent Conrad Wolfe 
has completed temporarily the cam- 
paign of improvement in the Hibbing 
cemetery, Hibbing, Minn. Over 500 
shade trees have been planted, flow- 
er beds have been laid out and the 
grounds have generally been given 
a much needed overhauling. 
At a recent meeting of the Stafford 
Springs Cemetery Association, Staf- 
ford Springs, Conn., Mr. Freeman 
F. Patten, president of the Associa- 
tion, offered to give a new entrance 
of two granite columns, 16 feet high 
and about five feet square at the base, 
to be erected by the Flynt Granite 
Company of Monson, provided the 
Association would erect an iron fence 
along the entire front of the cemetery 
and place a curbing and concrete 
walk from the south corner of the 
cemetery property in West Main 
street to the entrance. The propo- 
sition was accepted by unanimous 
vote and $2,000 was appropriated, 
provided the borough establish the 
