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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
of a general nature is that the super- 
intendent is given more control in the 
matter of monuments and other de- 
tails, particularly coming under his 
supervision and care. No curbing 
around lots, no corner posts above 
grade, platforms, steps, or buttresses 
will be allowed, except by the approv- 
al of the board of trustees. In certain 
sections of the cemetery the size of 
headstones and monuments is limited. 
Particular attention is called to the 
rules regarding monuments and inter- 
ments. Several illustrations give very 
attractive views in the cemetery. 
Cemetery Improvements. 
The Woman’s Relief Corps, Ritz- 
ville, Wash., is working through the 
Commercial Club to have the Cem- 
etery which is now owned by the 
First German Congregational Church, 
made a municipal property. The asso- 
ciation is also raising funds to im- 
prove the grounds. 
The Dublin Cemetery Association. 
Freeport, 111., is organized to im- 
prove and care for the old cemetery. 
Dublin cemetery is one of the oldest 
in northwestern Illinois, and was es- 
tablished in the early forties, by the 
pioneer settlers from England, Ire- 
land, Germany and France, who set- 
tled there in those early days, bring- 
ing their religious zeal with them 
from their native lands. No sooner 
were their homes secured for them- 
selves, than they set to work to erect 
a church and rectory and secure a 
plot of ground to be used as a final 
resting place for themselves and their 
descendants. 
Plans are being completed by Herbst 
& Hufsschmidt, architects, for a 
brick and stone chapel in St. Adel- 
bert’s Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis., to 
cost $20,000. The chapel will be 40 
by 60 feet. 
On September 29 there was dedi- 
cated in Pine Hill Cemeterj-, Dover, 
N. H., the handsome new mortuary 
chapel recently erected as a gift to 
the city from the late Mrs. Mary A. 
Ricker, who bequeathed it as a me- 
morial to her daughter, Mrs. Mamie 
E. (Ricker) Gallagher. The chapel is 
of Gothic design and is constructed of 
light gray brick with granite trim- 
mings. It has a seating capacity of 
about 250 and is equipped in the most 
up-to-date manner with everything 
needed for a structure of this kind. 
The work was supervised from the 
start by Frank F. Fernald, the execu- 
tor of the Ricker estate. 
In preparation for All Saints Day, 
the six cemeteries owned by the city 
of New Orleans, La., have been re- 
ceiving their annual cleaning up. 
The Forest Cemetery Memorial 
Association, Gadsden, Ala., is consid- 
ering a plan, from Geo. E. Kessler, 
landscape architect, of St. Louis, for 
the improvement of the Cemetery. 
The topography offers distinct advan- 
tages for fine effects. 
Work of improving the proposed 
Hebrew cemetery, on Rollstone road, 
Fitchburg, Mass., so that the burial 
of Hebrew dead can begin at once, 
is to be undertaken without delay if 
the plans of the Congregation Agu- 
dath Achim mature. 
A meeting has been held at Gran- 
ville, Mass., to form a corporation 
to own and care for the cemetery 
on the Blandford road. This cem- 
etery was given to the east parish of 
Granville in 1811 by Elihu Stow. 
The appellate division of the New 
York Courts has unanimously sus- 
tained the decision of Yates county 
Surrogate Baker in the matter of the 
will of the late Henrietta J. Morrell. 
Under this decision, a chapel will be 
erected in Lake View cemetery, Penn 
Yan, N. Y., as provided for in the 
will. 
Attractive entrance gates have re- 
cently been completed at Thornrose 
cemetery, Staunton, Va. 
The new office building at Edgell 
Grove Cemetery, Framingham, Mass., 
is almost completed. It is a hand- 
home brick building in Colonial style 
from plans by Mr. George F. Mar- 
lowe, architect. It contains a large 
room, 18 ft. by 24 ft., for superinten- 
dent’s office and trustees’ room, with 
open fireplace and office accessories. 
There is also a public room, and toilet 
rooms; a furnished basement and attic 
story, and the building is heated by 
a furnace and lighted by electricity. 
The Holy Sepulchre Cemetery As- 
sociation, Omaha, Neb., has complet- 
ed a new macadam avenue and re- 
paired all roads in the cemetery at a 
cost, it is said, of over $20,000. 
Mr. Sid. J. Hare, of Hare & Hare, 
landscape architects of Kansas City, 
Mo., was in Joplin, Mo., last month 
looking over the situation for park 
development. The park commission 
has commissioned the firm to out- 
line a plan for a connected system of 
parks and boulevards. 
Mr. John R. Richards', director of 
athletics at Ohio State University, has 
been appointed director of the Chica- 
go South Park system of playgrounds 
to fill the vacancy caused by the res- 
ignation of Mr. E. B. De Groot. The 
position is under civil service rules 
and Mr. Richards was the best man 
in the recent examinations held to fill 
the place. He is to take charge De- 
cember 15. At first he will have 
charge of 12 completely equipped 
parks, five partially equipped and 
some under construction and will 
also supervise the public recreation 
centers where such sports as tennis 
and golf are provided for. Salary for 
the first year is placed at $3,600. 
Edgar A. Smith and Claude E. 
Eighmy, landscape architects, under 
the firm name of Smith & Eighmy, 
have opened a new office in Room 
508, Broadway Central Building, De- 
troit, Mich., and are prepared for bus- 
iness. 
Mr. E. B. Cooke, landscape archi- 
tect, late of Augusta, Ga., has moved 
his offices from Augusta to Atlanta, 
Ga., formed a partnership with Mr. 
H. B. Swope of Chicago and will prac- 
tice in that city as landscape archi- 
tects at Hillyer Trust Building. Mr. 
Swope has had quite an extensive ex- 
perience in the offices of Olmsted 
Brothers, Brookline, Mass.; O. C. 
Simonds & Co., Chicago, and in the 
landscape department of Mr. George 
W. Vanderbilt’s estate at Biltmore, 
N. C. Mr. Cooke has also had a wide 
and diverse experience in landscape 
work. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. R. N. Kesterson, secretary of 
Greenwood cemetery, Knoxville, 
Tenn., sends word of the death of 
“Uncle” Jordan Gibbs, the champion 
grave digger of East Tennessee, who 
also dug the first grave in Greenwood 
in 1900, which occurred October 14th. 
The aged black man had been ill for 
some time in his little cabin home at 
Oakland, near Beverly, but was cheer- 
ful and had made all his preparations 
for passing away. He had once been 
a slave, and then a professional grave 
digger for the Union armies which 
swept over East Tennessee. After the 
war he turned to gardening and work 
in the neighborhood of his home at 
Oakland for a living, until Dr. Kes- 
terson employed him as his gardener; 
and later he was pressed into the 
service of Greenwood cemetery. One 
paramount request he had made that 
his body be placed in a nice grave, 
and Dr. Kesterton had long prom- 
ised him “that he would have as nice 
a grave as any colored man ever had 
in Knox county.” Hence the grave 
for the old darky was lined with 
flowers and was fitted up as no col- 
ored man’s grave was ever fitted up 
in East Tennessee before. 
