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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
Steps are being taken to make the burying ground at Fort 
Russell, VVyo., a national cemetery. 
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The City Council of Atlanta, Ga., has voted $4,000 for the 
erection of a public comfort building at Oakland cemetery. 
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The Oneida Cemetery Association, Oneida, N. Y., is to be- 
come the recipient of the gift of a Memorial Chapel to be erected 
at Glenwood, by Coring Munroe. 
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The Rev. E. J. Donnelly, pastor of St. Michael’s Roman 
Catholic Church, in Flushing, N. Y., has presented thirty acres 
of ground to the church for a cemetery site. The land adjoins 
St. Mary’s cemetery. 
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The sequence of the recent strike of gravediggers in Janes- 
ville, Wis., was the increase in daily pay from $1.25 to I1.50 as 
demanded by the gravediggers at Protestant and Catholic ceme- 
teries. No further trouble is expected. 
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The directors of the Bronson cemetery, Bronson, Ky., have 
decided to remove the remains of persons buried on lots that 
have not been paid for, to the pottersfield and will sell the lots 
again. Before doing so, the directors had better be sure of their 
ground, for there has been much conflicting opinion of the 
rights of the buried dead in such questions. 
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At the annual meeting of the Evergreen Cemetery Associa- 
tion, New Haven, Conn., the report of the treasurer showed that 
the total receipts for the year, were 1616,267.18 and expenditures 
$12,921.07, leaving a balance of $3,346. 1 1 on hand. The per- 
petual care fund now amounts to $4,036.67, and chapel fund to 
$7,934.99. Number of interments the past year were 420; mak- 
ing a total to date, 15,957; number of lots sold, 50; number of 
single graves sold 67. 
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The financial standing of the city cemeteries of Cleveland 
O., for the year 1898, is reported as follows: Woodland ceme- 
tery, receipts $18,458 71. expenses $14,585.09; Erie Street ceme- 
tery, receipts $793.25, expenses $3,157 99; Monroe Street ceme- 
tery, receipts $4,371.25, expenses $3,526.77; Harvard Grove 
cemetery, receipts $2,485.85, expenses $2,12996. The new 
West Park cemetery is about completed, and $27,741.38 was 
spent on it. 
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It is gratifying to note the increasing desire to improve the 
appearance of cemeteries and to maintain a constant care, a con- 
dition which is fast spreading to our northern cousins. In this 
connection we note that the Army and Navy Veterans at To- 
ronto, Canada, have asked the mayor of the city that a member 
of that society be appointed caretaker of the Portland street 
cemetery. He states that the Veterans hope to erect a suitable 
monument in this cemetery, in which lay the remains of Gen- 
eral Simcoe’s daughter and fifty- four old veterans of the British 
army. 
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If you cannot raise funds to erect a Receiving Vault secure 
.an old bank safe, would seem to be a moral to be drawn from 
the action of the authorities of the Yantic cemetery, Norwich, 
Conn., for the old vault of the FirstJNational Bank, Boston, has 
been taken to the Yantic cemetery to .serve as a Receiving vault. 
It is five feet wide, six feet deep and seven and a half feet high 
and weighs 15,000 pounds. It'has been sunk into the ground 
until only about six inches project. The doorwill be protected 
from the weather by a wooden cover. The steel door is three 
inches thick and weighs about 800 pounds. The vault will hold 
six bodies. 
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Cleveland, O., helped solve a problem always present in 
large cities during such weather as the past winter furnished. 
Aid in the form of provisions and coal was furnished to numbers 
of men who promised to work out the value of such supplies at 
the new West Park cemetery. Director Akers in an interview 
remarked: “The willingness of these poor men to redeem their 
promise is commendable and speaks well for them. For the 
men who work for groceries, coal and shoes we pay in propor- 
tion about $1. 50 a day. For a ration of groceries we charge $1.07, 
wholesale price, and we also charge only the wholesale price, 
for coal and shoes. The latter run from 95 cents to $1.10 a pair. 
In addition we furnish the men car fare both ways, dinner, and 
rubber boots to work in at the cemetery. 
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Superintendent Chaffee, Oakwood cemetery, Syracuse, N. 
Y., is quoted as speaking as follows on a growing fad of fancy 
outside boxes: “There is one thing, that I’d like to speak about, 
and that is the recent fashion of fancy outside boxes, ‘rough 
boxes’ they are called in the profession. Some of them are 
made of fancy woods and are quite as elaborate as the plainer 
coffins. If the public knew that those handsome chestnut boxes, 
which look so well at the funeral, fell all to pieces within a month 
after the burial if the ground is at all wet, they might be more 
partial to the plain but substantial pine boxes. Some of the 
fancy boxes are glued in strips, and I have discovered, when for 
some reason it has been necessary to reopen a grave, that they 
lay in slats upon and alongside the coffin.” 
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At the annual meeting of the Swan Point cemetery. Provi- 
dence, R. 1 ., held February 7, the treasurers’ report showed that 
including a balance on hand from the previous year of $12,071.43, 
the cash receipts for the year ending December 31, 1898 
amounted to $124,487.16. Cash payments during the year 1898 
amounted to $122,029.19, leaving a balance of $2,457.97. The 
perpetual care and bequest fund amounts to $271,578. 15. The 
permanent fund amounts to $56,613, which has accumulated 
since 1880 when 13 cents a foot of all land sold was set aside to 
create it for the permanent care of the cemetery. 'Phe annual 
report of the director.s contains plans for the enlargement of the 
cemetery by making use of the Cortland and Perry farms for 
cemetery purposes. The statistics of work done during the year 
include the following: Average number of men employed per 
month during the year, 59; interments, including 42 to the re- 
ceiving tomb, 295; total number of interments to date, 14,352; 
slate vaults built, 33; plain graves opened, 156; foundations to 
monumentsj;,built,i‘4i;Joundations to'tablets built, 174; curbing 
removed from lots, 3; catch basins 6; land sold,'square feet, 13 - 
257; land purchasedJTn] the cemetery and taken in exchanc^e 
square feet, 32i4;^number of lots under perpetual care, and upon 
which bequests^have been made, 1,524; number'd lots under an- 
nual care, 5 i 8 :.number of lots under partial care, 300; number 
of lots not under care, 936; whole number of lots sold to date 
3,278. An amendment to the by-laws was adopted whereby 15 
cents per foot of land sold is set aside to increase the permanent 
fund, which with interest is to be added to the principal every 
year until a sum of at least $300,000 is secured. 
