PARK AND CE/nCTERY 
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CEMETERY NOTES. 
I 3 y the will of Sarah J. Fearing, the sum of $1,500 has been 
bequeathed to the proprietors of the Hingham, Mass., cemetery. 
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More than one-seventh of the area of Newtown, Long Is- 
land, N. Y. , is set aside for cemetery purposes, audit is esti- 
mated that 35,000 burials are made in the town yearly. An ef- 
fort has been under way to set aside four acres additional in the 
heart of the village for cemetery purposes, which aroused the 
residents of the village. 
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The new gateway for the South Side Cemetery at Ware- 
house Point., Conn., is the gift of the late Mrs. A. C. Colton, 
and is to be built of granite with gates of iron. It will be erect- 
ed at the south gate of the cemetery and form a recess into the 
cemetery. On one side post is to be the date “1896,” and on 
the other the words: This Gateway is Erected to the Memory 
of 1 illian C. Colton by her Mother, Adelaide F. Colton.” The 
design was submitted by Miller Bros., Ouincy, Mass . and the 
contract has been awarded to them at a cost of Ifqoo. 
The report at the annual meeting of the trustees of Oak- . 
wood Cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y., showed the number of in- 
terments for the year to be 282, and the total number on record 
9,020. Total receipts including a balance of $7,577.20 from 
last year were $21,351.86; total disbursements $11,292.40. Sup- 
erintendent Chaffee reported that during the past season the 
amount of monumental work erected was less than usual but 
that the quality was better. The total permanent fund of the 
cemetery is now 137,288,31 of which $16,545 has been left to 
Oakwood for the care of individual lots. A large amount of 
grading and general improvement was done during the past 
year. 
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In the report of Woodlawn cemetery, Boston, it appears 
that one of the most extensive improvements was the laying out 
of a section to be devoted entirely to single graves. The com- 
mittee felt dissatisfied with the former policy of the cemetery in 
crowding the single graves, and determined that the people, 
compelled by circumstances to bury in single gr;#es, should be 
treated with more consideration, therefore in laying out this 
territory allowance was made for a path between each two rang- 
es of graves, making it possible for every grave to face on a path. 
The price of a single grave has been placed at twenty five dol- 
lars which includes one interment and perpetual care. It would 
seem that this is a wise innovation. 
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The Report of Fairmount Park Cemetery Association, New- 
ark, N. J., shows receipts from March 1895 to March 1896, in- 
cluding balance of March 4, 1895 of $16,362.04 to be $35,859.76. 
There was deposited for care of lots $550.00. Expenditure $24,- 
701.51. Supt. Chas. Nichols reports that he laid out three new 
sections last year, 86 lots were sold and 593 single graves. Lots 
cared for, 1.574, — 605 on old sections and 969 on new. 1 31 monu- 
ments, 69 headstones, and 70 soldiers’ headstones were set. 
There were 1,208 interments for the year, making a total to De- 
cember 31, 1895, of 30,295. There were 150 trees set out to lots. 
The association has some $24, 1 50.00 in securities, the income 
from which is devoted to care of lots and cemetery purposes. 
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The report of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for 
Cambridge, Mass., for 1895, shows receipts of $17,388.56 and ex- 
penditures of $16,999.40. The receipts include burial and tomb 
fees, $4,872.00; care of lots, $3,2 1 1 .31; sale of lots and graves, 
*^5)956. 13- The receipts from sale of lots and graves was about 
the same as 1891, the smallest amount during the past eight 
years. The Board has resolved to lay out the remainder of the 
cemetery ground on the “Lawn” plan. A commendable inter- 
est has been aroused among the old lot-owners looking to the im- 
provement arid care of the lots, for which the Board gives credit 
to the superintendent. The Perpetual Care Fund amounts to 
$33,657.39: the total number of lots now under perpetual care is 
254, of which 57 were so placed in 1895. During the year a new 
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ lot was laid out, having room for 220 bur- 
ials, upon which the several Woman’s Relief Corps will place an 
ornamental memorial vase. 
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Fairviev Cemetery, the new cemetery of Halifax, N. S., is 
now open for the disposal of lots. The modern American sys- 
tem of cemetery improvement is rapidly being adopted in Can- 
ada, as the following points in the rules and regulations show: 
“There are to be no mound -graves. The sod will be cut and 
taken up carefully and relaid after interment in the same man- 
ner, trie broken ground having been first reduced to a level sur- 
face. The sod will be always kept in good order by renewal, if 
necessary, and by the regular use of the lawn mower. No slab 
or grave mark higher. than two feet, which is sufficient to record 
name, age, nativity and death will be permitted to be erected.’ 
One portion of the property is set aside for the purpose of ful- 
filling the agreement with the city authorities. The cemetery 
company covenant with all lot holders to care for the lots for all 
time. The area of the cemetery is some sixty acres, and the 
plans have been prepared by Earnshaw & Punshon, landscape 
engineers, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
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A writer in London J)V. Paul's, speaking of the Turkish 
cemetery at Scutari says: The coup d’oeil is picturesque in the 
extreme. As far as one can see, the long slender shafts of mar- 
ble rise beneath the shadow of the massive cypresses — the tree 
of Allah the Osmanli call it, which points its finger to the sky — 
while the luxuriant vegetation of the East clusters around the 
base of the slabs, emphasizing their snowy whiteness and pre- 
venting them from being too dazzling to the eye. Each tomb 
bears its own decoration. A single leaflet, the drooping petals 
of a rose, or graceful frond of fern indicate that a female form 
lies below. A turban or a fez shows that the dead person was a 
man. Lamps, ostrich eggs, sashes, fringed and colored hand- 
kerchiefs of varied hue, all have their own signification; while 
here and there will be some tall stone sculptured from end to 
end. its ornamentation in high relief, encircled by a number of 
smaller ones, which proves that the father of a family — a man of 
w'ealth, rests here surrounded by his wives and children. A 
curved scimitar shows that a man of war reposes there; an an- 
chor marks the sleeping place of a sailor; a wand of office proves 
that the dead man held some post of command. So on, till 
something is learned of all, even though one may not be able to 
decipher the fantastic Arabic characters which tell with more 
detail the history of the dead. The terms in which the Turk ex- 
presses his lamentations are often very pathetic, especially when 
they refer to the loss of his wife or child. Here is one, taken 
from the tomb of a young girl, which effectually combats the 
common Western delusion that the Osmanli believe that women 
are born without souls or hope of a future life: “The cold blasts 
of fate caused this nightingale to wing its way to heaven. There 
it has found its awaited bliss. Zeinab is the name of her who 
lies below, and for her Lababa, who wrote these lines, offers hum- 
ble petition. Weep not for her, for though dead, she has be- 
come a sojourner in the gardens of Paradise.” 
