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applying to cemeteries remains a live sub- 
ject, and attention is being given to se- 
suring early legislation to settle the ques- 
tion. The assessors of the city of Boston 
have begun levying on the personal prop- 
erty of the large cemeteries. 
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, O., is 
facing trouble in securing more land for 
extension purposes, the residents in its 
vicinity opposing the proposition. 
Members of three Methodist congrega- 
tions are planning to oppose the move of 
the trustees of the old Methodist burying 
ground on the Philadelphia road, Balti- 
more, Md., to sell the property. The bury- 
ing ground is very old, many of the stones 
being dated back as early as 1830. Many 
members of the congregation of the above 
churches own lots in the cemetery, while a 
still greater number have relatives buried 
there. The trustees claim that their move 
is legitimate, as the graveyard has been 
allowed to run to ruin by those who have 
relatives buried within its boundaries'. 
The cemetery at Chisholm, Minn., will 
probably be taken up as a municipal en- 
terprise. The City Council is securing ad- 
vice on the best plan to handle it. 
Cemetery Improvements and Additions. 
One of the finest water towers in this 
part of Michigan is that which has just 
been completed by the Roseland Park Cem- 
etery Association, about three miles south 
of Birmingham and a few miles from the 
city limits of Detroit. The tower, which 
stands about 100 feet from Woodward 
avenue, is fifty-four feet high and is built 
entirely of reinforced concrete and repre- 
cents an old German battlement or look- 
out. The building was designed by J. A. 
Wendorph, superintendent of the cemetery. 
A stairway built inside leads to the top of 
the tower. Few cemeteries are better 
equipped as to water supply than Roseland 
Park, and pipes have been laid to all sec- 
tions of the developed portion. The public 
mausoleum is fast nearing completion and 
by the first of the year will be entirely in- 
closed. 
The Woodtnere Cemetery, Detroit, Mich., 
is erecting a brick and stone rest room. 
The Board of Park and Cemetery Com- 
missioners of Grand Rapids, Mich., has 
decided to prohibit the building of brick 
burial vaults in cemeteries, due to the ef- 
forts of Superintendent Goebel, who is 
very much opposed to them. That brick 
vaults are unsightly and tend to ruin the 
beauty of a cemetery, and, further, that 
they are not permanent and in later years 
will become a burden upon the general 
taxpayer, are the chief arguments against 
them made by Mr. Goebel. 
A number of improvements have been 
made by the Hanover Cemetery Associa- 
tion the past season on its grounds in 
Hanover, Kan. Near the entrance a foun- 
tain was erected which cost $135, and a 
quarter of a mile of sidewalk was built, 
four feet wide, along the road leading to 
the cemetery, at a cost of over $400. The 
distance from the city limits to the cem- 
etery is a half mile, which leaves another 
quarter of a mile for next year’s opera- 
tions. The money for these improvements 
is raised by subscription, and it shows 
commendable spirit on the part of those 
interested. Some planting was also done. 
General Horace Porter heads the list of 
subscribers to the Old First Methodist 
Church Cemetery fund, West Long Branch, 
N. J., for improvements. The committee 
raised more than $700, in addition to the 
$300 appropriated by the West Long Branch 
Borough toward the retaining wall. 
The Bath (N. Y.) Village Improvement 
Society has undertaken to raise sufficient 
money to construct an iron fence on the 
West Steuben and Howell street sides of 
the old cemetery. In this plot rest the 
remains of many former prominent resi- 
dents of this community, but the cemetery 
has been sadly neglected and had grown 
to be an eyesore. 
The ornamental design for a grave 
marker shown herewith has been patented 
as design No. 43223 by Theodore La Porte 
and Dona Lebeuf, New Market, N. H. 
At a recent meeting of the Greenwood 
Cemetery Association, Altoona, Pa., it was 
decided to improve and beautify the cem- 
etery. An attractive entrance with stone 
and cement columns will be erected and 
the grounds inclosed by a stone fence. 
The grounds will be beautified by the lay- 
ing out of new walks and drives, under 
the direction of a landscape gardener. The 
work will be started at once 
Work has begun on the cement founda- 
tions for the arch at the entrance of Pine 
Grove Cemetery, Spencer, Mass. The arch 
will be erected in the spring. This is a 
gift to the cemetery of an anonymous 
woman. 
Bids have been received by the city of 
Colorado Springs, Colo., for the construc- 
tion of an office building at Evergreen 
Cemetery. 
A movement is on foot for the purpose 
of raising sufficient funds for the care and 
maintenance of the Quaker Cemetery, an 
old burial plot located about three miles 
northwest of the village of Waterloo, N. Y. 
The city of Boston, Mass., is expending 
some $17,600 in the construction of a con- 
crete-wall fence around the three and a 
half acre cemetery at Upham’s Corner, 
Dorchester, known as the Dorchester North 
Burying Place. The cemetery is not owned 
by the city, but the fact that the old 
wooden fence was out of repair aroused 
the artistic proclivities of the cemetery 
trustees. The cemetery department recom- 
mended that, as a new fence was needed, 
it should be in harmony with the sur- 
roundings, and the Common Council, un- 
der personal aid of Mayor John F. Fitz- 
gerald, pushed through an appropriation 
for $21,000. The work will cost $17,631, 
this being the bid of the Concrete and 
Expansion Metal Co. 
Improvements are in order for Pleasant 
Hill Cemetery, Pleasant Hill, Ore., for 
which the new cemetery board, recently 
elected, is to make plans. 
The Prospect Hill Cemetery Association, 
York, Pa., contemplates adding a hothouse 
to its equipment this winter. During the 
recent months considerable attention has 
been paid to putting down gutters, laying 
curbs and trimming trees. The hothouse 
is to be ample in size and modern, and is 
expected to be ready for use by spring. 
New Cemeteries. 
Sheridan, Wyo., is to have a municipal 
cemetery. The plan has been worked out 
by the mayor and commissioners. After 
making a thorough investigation, a com- 
mittee representing the local commercial 
bodies has reported to the joint executive 
committee in favor of a municipal ceme- 
tery, owned and controlled by the city, 
and recommended the purchase of fifty 
acres of the Loucks tract. The land to be 
converted into a cemetery plot adjoins the 
fair grounds on the southwest corner. 
The increase in the population of the 
Hebrews of Worcester, Mass., as well as 
in the membership of the Chesed Shelemes 
Burial Society, demands increased ceme- 
tery facilities. The directors of the so- 
ciety have under consideration a piece of 
land near Hope Cemetery. 
Glenwood Springs, Colo., is to have a 
municipal cemetery. The matter is in the 
hands of a committee of the City Council. 
The Friends’ Cemetery Association has 
been incorporated for the town of Clinton, 
N. Y. 
The Cemetery Commission of Atlanta, 
Ga., recently met and recommended to the 
general council that the Thomas property, 
near Rock Springs church, be purchased 
for a new city cemetery site. The prop- 
erty consists of about 400 acres’. About 150 
acres of the tract is level land, with a fine 
forest of original trees, making it very 
suitable, according to members of the 
Cemetery Commission, for immediately 
converting into a cemetery. 
The City Council of Eveleth, Minn., has 
decided to sink two test pits on the site 
which the Oliver Iron Mining Co. proposes 
to deed to the city for cemetery purposes, 
provided no merchantable ore is found on 
the property. The site lies one mile north 
of the city. If the test pitting does not 
bring ore, the cemetery will be established 
without delay. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, W. 
Va., is to be enlarged by the addition of 
sixteen acres. It will bring up the total 
area to approximately 100 acres. 
