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PARK AND CEACTCRY. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
The annual meeting of Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass., 
showed receipts for the year 1895, $28,961.02 and expenditures 
$29,658.29. The total in perpetual care fund amounts to $87,- 
840, increased during the year by sales of new lots and deposits 
on old, by $5236. Interments during the year were 663; total 
interments in cemetery to January 1896, 14,996. 
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Kensico Cemetery, one of New York’s newer cemeteries, 
situated on the Harlem division of the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R., 
15 miles from New York city, was organized in 1874 but the first 
interment was not made until 1891. It is beautifully situated, 
and it is the endeavor of the association to make it the rival of 
the best eastern cemeteries. The report for 1895 gives the total 
number of iiiterments as 722, of whxh 275 were made m 1895. 
In 1894-5, 39 monuments were erected at a cost of $20,730 and 
4 mausoleums at an estimated cost of $47,000. The platted and 
prepared sections now include 44 acres of land. 
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The report of the directors of Evergreen Cemetery Associa- 
tion, New Haven, (Jonn., shows that the income from sales of 
lots and other sources amounted to $1,800 over that of 1894, with 
about the same expenditures as for that year, and that an addi- 
tion of over $800 was made to the perpetual care fund. The 
New Chapel Fund now amounts to $5,800, and urgent appeals 
are made to help complete the necessary amount. In their re- 
port the directors say; “The development of the lawn system 
recommends itself more and more, and they heartily wish for the 
CO operation of all lot owners in doing away with the old lot sys- 
tem, as rapidly as possible.” The desirability of perpetual care 
is urged upon the lot owners and is rapidly finding favor. 
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Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, L. I., contains about eighty 
acres of land and was founded in 1853. It has been conducted 
solely in the interest of its lot owners and is well kept and cared 
for. Since its opening six thousand interments have been 
made. For some years all lots sold have been disposed of under 
a perpetual care clause, but where perpetual care has not been 
provided for a fund is created by charging ten cents per square 
foot. This may be paid at once, or in installments with interest, 
care commencing with first installment. The officials are mak- 
ing strenuous efforts to bring the whole cemetery under this pro- 
vision, and the method adopted, which is frequently brought to 
the attention of lot holders by the use of printers ink, should se- 
cure good results. 
A couple of generations ago when horses were comparative- 
ly expensive, and locomotive engines not yet introduced, it 
was no uncommon practice for two persons to travel upon one 
horse upon the plan of ride and tie; one man would ride forward 
and at a proper distance would hitch or tie the horse to a gate 
and walk on, when his companion came up with the horse he 
would mount, and when he had in turn left his companion at a 
proper distance in the rear would likewise hitch or tie and walk 
on, and so on to the end of the journey. I’rofessor Darwin, in 
the following extract from his Voyage of the Beagle, tells of a 
similar course being pursued at a funeral in Chili. “We met,” 
he says, “a party of Chilian miners in full costume — a very long 
shirt of some dark colored baise, with a leathern apron, the 
whole being faster ed around his waist by a bright colored sash, 
his trousers are very broad and a small cap of scarlet cloth is 
made to fit his head closely’’, carrying the body of one of their 
companions to be buried. They marched at a very quick trot, 
four men supporting the corpse, one set having run as hard as 
they could for about two hundred yards were relieved by four 
others who had previously dashed on ahead on horseback. They 
thus proceeded encouraging each other by wild cries: altogether 
the scene formed a most strange funeral. 
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Many cemeteries organized in the past as private specula- 
tions, and consequently in some cases becoming the property of 
non-interested parties, do not receive the necessary care to keep 
them up, and become eyesores to the community. In such 
cases lot owners can take time by the forelock, as is the case in 
a Kansas City cemetery, where prominent lot owners and others 
concerned are organizing to raise a fund for perpetual good of the 
cemetery. The property has not been allowed to deteriorate, 
but the conditions of its ownership justify some such action as 
is proposed, and this should be an incentive to other commun- 
ities similarly embarrassed. 
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The annual meeting of Forest Hills Cemetery Association, 
Boston, Mass., showed receipts for the past year of $138,780.67 
and expenditures $132,620 40. During the year the receipts for 
perpetual care, including $40,000 matured investments, amount- 
ed to $95,415.02, and the payments included $16,451 for care of 
lots, $431 for cleaning stones, and $76,000 investments made 
The total number of interments for 1895 was 881, making a total 
number of interments in the cemetery to January i, 1896, 28,830. 
Total number of lots to February 1,1896,4572. During the 
year 71 monuments and 421 headstones, markers, etc., were 
erected; and 2 iron fences, 1 hedge and 6 curbings were remov- 
ed. The average number of men employed were 90. Over 500 
Perpetual Care lots were regraded, a work which will be contin- 
ued this spring. More attention is being given to single graves. 
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In the report for 1895 of Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn 
N. Y., the sales of lots for 1895 amounted to $187,162.95, a larger 
amount than that for any previous year. For single graves $14,- 
921 was received. The total amount of receipts including bal- 
ances was $568,243.68. Among the disbursements were: Labor, 
$135,664.76; Improvements, $21,621.49; Maintenance, $16,595. - 
42. During the year $143,263.26 was added to the general fund 
for the Improvement and Permanent Care of the cemetery, in- 
creasing this fund to $1,848,065.32. For the Trust fund for the 
special and permanent care of lots, $34,917.39 was received, 
the largest yearly sum recorded, increasing this fund to $437,- 
174 80 A hedge now completed surrounds the cemetery which 
in a few years will comparatively isolate it. The average num- 
ber of men employed is 244; ranging between no and 366. The 
cemetery owns 21 horses and others are hired as wanted. 
A chapel and receiving vault combined is being built for 
Mount Olivet Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal., the new burial 
grounds now being laid out in San Mateo Co., about a mile south 
of Ocean View. The design is by Thomas P. Ross, architect- 
The style IS early English and it will be constructed in rough 
faced rubble from a quarry in the county. On either side of the 
interior of the chapel conservatories will be arranged. The 
walls will be tinted on sand finish. The ceiling will be of Port 
Orford cedar waxed and oiled. It will be lighted by colored, 
windows. The receiving vault will form the rear of the struc- 
ture separated from the chapel by he ivy doors. It will contain 
104 crypts with marble facings each ventilated to a central tow- 
er, and each supplied with electric communication with the of- 
fice. The entire building will be filled with modern improve- 
ments. Mount Olivet Cemetery was incorporated on June \ ifh, 
1895: president, M- C. Walton; secretary, H. T. Graves. 
