374 PARK AND CCnCTCRY. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
No fewer than 1,173 persons have been buried in Westmin- 
ster, Abbey. 
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By the recent action of the Board of Trustees of the village 
of Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y., the town burial ground, on 
Fulton Street, of that village is to converted into a public park. 
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Improvement work has been vigorously prosecuted at For- 
est Hill cemetery, Utica, N. Y., the past season. The con- 
servatory, 40 ft. by no ft., has been entirely rebuilt, and the in- 
terior of the chapel remodeled, with an enlargement of each of 
the 144 crypts; a barn, store house and ice house have been com- 
pleted, and a great improvement of the sewer system carried 
out. 
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A genuine interest has been awakened and a spontaneous 
determination reached to rescue the old Beckley cemetery at 
Berlin, Conn., from further decadence, which has gone, as in 
many other places, far, enough. Public meetings have been 
held and money, labor. and materials subscribed to renovate this 
little “city of the dead,” and it is possible that a new association 
will be formed to take care of its interests to ensure its improve- 
ment and future maintenance. Let the good work go on. 
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The trustees of Oak Grove cemetery, Delaware, O., after 
years of effort believe they have finally solved the question of 
“Perpetual Care,” and have brought round the lot-owners to 
their views. It being an old cemetery the difficulty attaching 
to older lots is the same as prevails elsewhere — absentees and loss 
of interest. Since 1894 all lots have been sold under perpetual 
care, a sum having been set aside from the sales. It is now the 
permanent work of the Trustees to make Oak Grove a beautiful 
Memorial Park. 
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The financial report of the St. Lawrence and St. Bernard 
cemetery association. New Haven, Conn., for 1895, showed a 
continued improvement. The Catholic cemeteries are rapidly 
realizing the spirit of the times, and improvements on modern 
lines are progressing. In the above cemetery the total receipts 
from all sources in 1895 were $7287.50, which with previous bal- 
ance on January i, 1895, made a total of $i 1,515.12. The total 
running expenses for 1895 were $4329,51, leaving a balance 
January 1, 1896 of $7185.61. 
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An article in a New York daily draws attention to a new 
branch of real estate business, — that of cemetery lot agents. 
The depressed times have forced many lot owners to consider the 
fact of turning their unused lots into cash, or disposing of parts 
of them, and besides lot owners moving to other parts of the 
country find it often convenient to also transfer their cemetery 
associations. The lot agent hunts up his customers, and as the 
business has presented many features for development, it may 
become quite a department of real estate operations, and it re- 
quires no mean ability. Of course the cemetery corporations 
are in radical opposition. 
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A large party of well-known Brooklyn and New York citi- 
zens paid a visit to Cedar Grove cemetery, between Flushing 
and Corona, Long Island, recently. The cemetery is situated 
about 5J^ miles from New York, and from its picturesque loca- 
tion upper New York can be seen across the sound. The ceme- 
tery comprises between forty and fifty thousand lots and is con- 
I ducted on modern ideas. No fences are allowed, and granite 
boundary posts are supplied by the cemetery Trees and 
shrubbery abound in beautiful association. In a sequestered part 
of the cemetery, a grove of fine old locusts protects one of the old- 
est burials grounds of Long Island, dating back before the 
Revolutionary War, some stones are still to be seen with their 
inscriptions. The attendants at funerals are uniformed, a tent 
is used and details are carried out on the most approved practice. 
An old mansion has become the superintendents office and resi- 
dence. 
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The handsome marble memorial belonging to Lieut. -Col. 
James B. O’Neill in Northwood cemetery, Germantown, Phila- 
delphia, was the object of a vandal’s dynamiteexploit on the 
night of November 7, which resulted in damage to the amount 
of several thousand dollars. The monument was valued at 
$20,000, and is mainly constructed of Westerly granite with Car- 
rara marble statuary. The shaft crowning the monument is 29 
ft, 7 in. high cut from one block and it was shaken out of plumb, 
while of the four marble figures adorning the sides, only one es- 
caped injury. These figures were 5 ft. 6 in. high. The me- 
dallion portraits were also injured. The cemetery has been suf- 
fering from disaffected labor, and changes in foremen for some- 
time, and to this condition of affairs many acts of vandalism in 
this cemetery are attributed. Indications suggested by current 
reports point to the question being raised again of the cemetery 
association’s liability for such damage. 
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A comprehensive scheme of cemetery work is that of the 
London Necropolis Co., of London, England, which controls 
perhaps the largest cemetery in England, consisting of some 500 
acres of beautiful country. The cemetery, called “Brookwood,” 
is situated some thirty miles from London, and is reached by 
trains operated by the company from a private station in the 
metropolis. An undertaking business, complete in all its de- 
tails, also forms a part of the enterprise, and on the grounds a 
monumental establishment is maintained, with facilities for furn- 
ishing designs and carrying out such monumental and statuary 
work as may be required. In fact the company is established 
to furnish all material necessities, in all grades, as well as con- 
duct the ceremonies attending the final obsequies of departed 
humanity. The company was organized under an Act of Par- 
liament in 1850. A crematory is also operated and maintained 
at the cemetery grounds. The grounds are in excellent order 
and the location is a beautiful one. 
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Ground has been broken in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, 
N. J., on the circular plot, 150 feet diameter, owned by Judge 
Gottfried Krueger, for his family mausoleum. The main edifice 
will be 26 feet square, with two small wings on either side and an 
apse in the rear. The height from the ground to the emblem, 
symbolic of eternal life, on the top, w'ill be 46 feet. The four cor- 
ners of the structure will be surmounted by urns, with torches. The 
wings will accommodate twenty caskets. The apse will be semi- 
circular, and will contain two sarcophagi of Tennessee marble, 
cut from a single piece of stone, hollowed to receive the casket. 
The covers will also be of single stones. The front is graced by 
a pure Grecian Ionic portico, with the name and appropriate 
emblems upon the frieze and gable. The columns rest upon a 
solid granite platform, with granite steps. The doors will be of 
heavy bronze. The building will be lighted mainly from the 
dome and from circular openings in the sides. The lower win- 
dows will be protected by heavy bronze railings. The principal 
material of construction will be high-grade Barre granite. The 
interior will be finished largely in Italian marble. An aisle will 
run from front to rear, with side aisles into the wings. Arches 
