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necessary grade of the street. 
Work was commenced recently on 
a white marble mausoleum to be 
built in North cemetery, Saint Charles, 
111., at a cost of $4,500. It is to be 
erected by Mrs. Delora Gates, wife 
of the late John W. Gates, for the 
burial place of her sister, Mrs. 
Laverne Angell, who died last winter. 
The mausoleum will measure 15x13 
feet on the ground and is to be 18 
feet high. The contractors are Karl- 
zen & Co. of Geneva. 
Work of cleaning up and grading 
the Catholic Cemetery at North Ar- 
lington, N. J., belonging to the New- 
ark Diocese, for which the contract 
was secured by a New York firm, is 
progressing, a large force of workmen 
having been employed. New road- 
ways have been laid out through the 
tract and other improvements made. 
About 200 bodies are buried there. 
The city authorities of Marysville, 
Mo,, having been unable to maintain 
Oak Hill Cemetery in any thing like 
a proper condition, a committee of lot 
owners decided to raise a fund and 
begin the work of improving condi- 
tions and appearances. 
Judge Hewitt, of the district court, 
Des Moines, la., recently gave Mary 
C. Watt and Forest Huttenlocher, ex- 
ecutors of the estate of James Watt, 
who died a year ago, authority to 
build a $5,000 tomb in Woodland 
Cemetery for the body of Mr. Watt. 
The will required the executor to 
spend not more than $5,000 for a 
mausoleum. Plans and specifications 
for a structure to cost $4,400 have 
been prepared and a site in the 
Woodland Cemetery has been pur- 
chased. Mr. Watt was worth about 
$150,000. He gave, in his will, $35,000 
to the widow, $10,000 to the Iowa 
Humane Society for the protection of 
dumb animals, and $10,000 to the 
home for the aged and other bequests. 
The board of cemetery trustees of 
Taylorville, 111., have awarded the 
contract for a one-story bungalow to 
be erected near the north gate in the 
cemetery. The building will be 34x40 
and the exterior will be concrete 
blocks. Inside there will be lavatories, 
two rest rooms and an office for the 
cemetery sexton. 
Rev. Fr. Atfield, pastor of St. Pat- 
rick’s Church, has recently invited 
members of his congregation having 
relatives buried in the Catholic Cem- 
etery, West Hancock, Mich., to give 
their assistance in a movement to im- 
prove the appearance of that ceme- 
tery. 
A monument of beautiful design 
will soon be erected by C. N. Clark 
& Co., Urbana, 111., in the cemetery 
in their city. This monument, of a 
pergola design, is for Jos. C. Smith, 
now a resident of Birmingham, Ala., 
and it is being cut from Vermont 
marble by the Vermont Marble Co. 
NEW CEMETERIES. 
A municipal cemetery is one of 
the latest plans of the city council 
of San Pedro, Cal. Recently the 
council adopted the recommendation 
of the Harbor Commission that the 
San Pedro Cemetery, which came 
into the possession of the city 
through a bequest from a sea cap- 
tain, be resurveyed, lot stakes set and 
the place fixed up, and that a sexton 
be appointed. 
The work of grading “Wild Rose” 
Cemetery, Webb City, Mo., is under 
way. Wild Rose Cemetery will join 
the present Webb City Cemetery on 
the north and contains ten acres; it 
will be the only tile drained burying 
ground in that section of the country. 
Surrounding the cemetery lot will be 
a hedge of wild roses. In this hedge 
only genuine Missouri wild roses will 
be used. 
Minerva, O., will soon have a new 
cemetery. The work of plotting is 
about completed and lots will soon 
be put on sale. 
Incorporation papers of the Tre- 
mont Cemetery . Association, of 
Whitehall, Pa., have been filed. The 
object is to conduct a cemetery at 
Whitehall. The capital stock is to be 
$25,000 — 500 shares at $50 each. The 
directors are: J. Edgar Gomery, Al- 
bert D. Gomery, Fred H. Sterner, 
Charles S. Troxell, Edward F. Berke- 
meyer. 
Chillicothe, Mo., is to have a new 
cemetery, a charter having been 
granted to the Chillicothe Cemetery 
Co., for Forest Park Cemetery. 
Twenty-five acres of land have been 
purchased in the west part of the Fair 
Grounds, north of the city, which 
will be laid out by Ezra Downs, of St. 
Joseph. 
Elaborate plans have been prepared 
for Mount Olive Cemetery, a new 
cemetery at Los Angeles, Cal., by Mr. 
A. A. Genevant. 
The city council of Elyria, O., is 
considering the purchase of land for 
a new cemetery. The Cottesbrook 
farm has been in contemplation; it 
is located on the east bank of the 
west branch of Black River, and is 
directly across the river from the 
Country Club grounds. 
Memorial Day and the dedication 
of a new cemetery were combined at 
Gordon, Wis., on May 30. 
CEMETERY REPORTS. 
The annual meeting of the Wood- 
lawn Cemetery Association, Winona, 
Minn., was held on June 9. The re- 
ports presented for year ending May 
31, 1912, showed very little done the 
past year along the line of permanent 
improvement on account of a lack of 
available funds, except some planting 
of shrubbery and laying out of some 
54 new lots. There was, however, an 
increase of $2,355 in the perpetual 
care and improvement fund, which 
now amounts to $57,587.30. Inter- 
ments for the past year numbered 
153. On the records now show a total 
of 6,754 burials in the cemetery. The 
value of monuments placed during 
the year was about $4,000. The re- 
ceipts of the general fund, including 
cash on hand June 1, 1911, were $12,- 
210.16 and the disbursements were 
$11,440.24, leaving a balance to the 
credit of the fund of $769.92. Strong 
recommendations were made to the 
old lot-holders to put their lots under 
perpetual care, which would be a mat- 
ter of economy in many ways, and a 
very desirable fact for the cemetery’s 
future. Considerable improvement 
work is under consideration for the 
present year. The officers elected 
were: President, Charles Horton; 
vice-president, A. B. Youmans; secre- 
tary, A. C. Dixon; treasurer, S. L. 
Prentiss; superintendent, J. E. 
Thompson. 
PERSONAL. 
Olmsted Bros., landscape archi- 
tects, of Brookline, Mass., have been 
engaged by the Pittsfield Cemetery 
Corporation, Pittsfield, Mass., to lay 
out the large section of land owned 
by the corporation and lying west of 
Onota street, just opposite the pres- 
ent cemetery. The Olmsted com- 
pany will lay it out along the simple 
lines followed in the old section, and 
with a view to harmonizing the entire 
property. 
Mr. E. B. Cooke, landscape architect. 
Augusta, Ga., who has opened an of- 
fice in that city, has recently been 
retained by the commissioners of the 
City of Mobile, Ala., to prepare plans 
for their park development. 
Mr. Frank H. Nutter, Landscape 
Architect and Engineer, of Minneap- 
olis, Minn., has prepared plans for the 
new park recently donated to the city 
of Lewistown, Montana. He is also 
preparing plans for the campus of the 
new Catholic College for young men 
at Winona, Minn., and for the grounds 
of St. Teresa College for young ladies 
at the same place. 
