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CmiTERY NOTES 
At a recent session of the trustees 
of Cedar Bluff Cemetery Association, 
Rockford, 111., it was decided to fur- 
ther beautify the cemetery by setting 
out hard maples along the drives 
and other ornamental trees and shub- 
bery throughout the grounds. In all 
the new sections, on lots where there 
are monuments, grave makers will be 
set level with the surface of the 
ground and only one monument will 
be allowed on a lot. 
Extension of the Maury Cemetery, 
South Richmond, Va., has been rec- 
ommended by the City Council Com- 
mittee on Cemeteries. The city owns 
a tract adjacent to the present 
grounds which will be made over to 
the Cemetery Committee. 
The Hart Cemetery Association, 
Litchfield, 111., has been incorporated. 
Incorporators: S. Barry, A. D. Simp- 
son, F. M. Jones. 
The orthodox Jews of Fort Wayne, 
Ind., have dedicated a cemetery of 
eleven acres on the Piqua road just 
south of the city limits. 
The drives of Oakland Cemetery, 
Freeport, 111., are being improved 
with a Tarvia surfacing. Some time 
ago a short piece of tarvia pavement 
was placed on one of the west drives 
of the cemetery and the material 
stood well in spite of the steep in- 
cline of the drive and the water which 
rushed over it. 
The Cemetery Board of Bath, Me., 
has been improving the Sewall ex- 
tension on the west side of Oak Grove 
Cemetery. New roads have been 
made, new sections laid out and the 
reclamation of the big swamp has be- 
gun. 
The board of Park and Cemetery 
commissioners of Grand Rapids, Mich., 
has decided to prohibit the building of 
brick burial vaults in the local ceme- 
teries. Recently there have been sev- 
eral suggestions made by persons own- 
ing cemetery lots that they intended 
building vaults made of brick. Supt. 
Goebel is very much opposed to allow- 
ing these structures to be placed in the 
cemetery. 
After an ownership extending over a 
period of nearly 100 years, the old East 
Eleventh Street Cemetery, New York 
City, has passed into the hands of a 
building loan operator. The cemetery 
which was opened in 1817 is sold by the 
trustees of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the 
price being $357,000. There have been 
no burials in the cemetery since 1851, 
and in 1909 the remains of 5,000 people 
were transferred °to Calvary Cemetery, 
Queens. Since then the plat has been 
used as a playground, the Cathedral 
trustees having loaned it to the National 
Playgrounds Association. 
Early last month vandals went 
through Harlington Cemetery, Waverly, 
la., overturning monuments, breaking 
and defacing many, and desecrating all- 
told some 40 graves. It appears to have 
been perpetrated by one person only, 
whose idea was simply broadcast de- 
struction. 
An association to be known as the 
Charleston, 111., Cemetery Association, 
has been formed in the town, and it has 
petitioned the authorities to be permit- 
ted to take over the old portion of 
the Mound Cemetery, for the purpose 
of improving and beautifying it. 
Many interesting matters are con- 
tained in the annual report of the Park 
Department of Cambridge, Mass., for 
year ending March 31, 1912. The ef- 
fort to exterminate the Brown Tail 
Moth and Elm Leaf Beetle cost $6,999.53 
and about 2,300 private estates were 
cleaned and some 2,781 street trees. For 
private work of this nature 28 cents per 
hour is charged for each man engaged. 
About 2,781 street trees were cleaned 
and the report says that the condition 
of the city in relation to the gypsy and 
brown tail moths is excellent. The 
Leopard moth continues to spread and 
does a great amount of harm to trees 
and shrubs owing to its destructive 
habits, and unfortunately no reliable 
economic remedy has been found to 
check the pest. The removal of 125 
dead trees cost $19.40 per tree by con- 
tract, and the city labor removed 117 
dead trees and 198 stumps. There were 
in all 430 dead trees removed during the 
year and 462 young trees planted. The 
total expenditures for the year were 
$19,341.46. 
Improvements and Extensions 
Four new greenhouses were recently 
completed by the West Laurel Ceme- 
tery Co., Pencoyd, Pa., which added to 
their old plant gives them ten houses 
of uniform size 28x150 feet. The 
Florist’s Exchange furnishes the fol- 
lowing interesting particulars : 
“The service shed, of wood and con- 
crete, is 50x300 ft., underneath which 
is a concrete basement of the same di- 
mensions, containing three high power 
return tubular steam boilers, of the la- 
test design to heat the range. Coal 
bunkers and storage departments are 
also in this basement. This department 
is complete in every detail, even to the 
washroom for the employees, which 
contains the latest sanitary equipment 
of finest porcelain. 
Bedding stock is grown here in enor- 
mous quantities, for grave and design 
planting in this beautiful cemetery. 
Some 135,000 Alternantheras are grown 
here and 140,000 Coleus; half of this 
stock is already potted up for Winter 
propagation. About 70,000 Geraniums 
were used last spring, and a larger 
quantity will be grown for the coming 
year. Altogether 100,000 Ivies are 
grown here annually; and something 
like 17,000 Lilies will be forced for next 
Easter.” 
The new office building, on the site 
of the old one that was destroyed by 
fire, is approaching completion. 
Forest Cemetery, Gadsden, Ala., has 
been cleaned up with the financial help 
of the citizens, assisted by city labor. 
This cemetery has suffered long years of 
neglect, but under more modern views 
on cemetery management continued im- 
provement is expected on modern ideas. 
The contract for grading and improv- 
ing Wayne cemetery, near Lucerne, O., 
has been completed. This is a very old 
cemetery containing the remains of set- 
tlers who came into the county in 1803. 
The women of the Nichol Cemetery 
Association, of Marseilles, 111., solved 
the question of hiring a painter to paint 
their new iron fence by turning out and 
painting it themselves, and most of them 
belonged to the “elite” at that. 
A new brick building with red tile 
roof has been completed in Union cem- 
etery, Lincoln, 111. 
The annual meeting of the Baraboo, 
Wis., Cemetery Association was held 
last month, and the old officers were 
re-elected. One of the new regulations 
that has worked well is the accumula- 
tion of a perpetual care fund. During 
the past year a large number of lot 
owners have subscribed to this on a 
basis of $50 for a full lot, and the plan 
promises to be one of the most effect- 
ive for the future of the cemetery. At 
the meeting to be held in the spring, 
plans are to be discussed for the future 
development of the grounds. 
The latest improvement at Fairview 
cemetery, Waterloo, la., is the new iron 
fence which has been erected at a cost 
of $1,500. In general style it harmonizes 
with the handsome gates installed at 
the entrance a year ago. 
The Albany Rural cemetery, Al- 
bany, N. Y., has purchased from the 
