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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
cmciEirf note. 
The Cemetery'Trustees of the City of Boston, Mass., have 
called for proposals for erecting a chapel and gateway at Mount 
Hope cemetery. 
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The mayor of Battle Creek, Mich., has signed an agreement 
■with the Quakers of the vicinity to transform the latter’s ceme- 
tery into a park. This is the end of a bitter h^ht which has ex- 
isted here for years. 
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A contract has been awarded for the construction of a stone 
administration building for Oak Hill cemetery, Evansville, Ind. 
The bids varied between $9908.50, the lowest and which se- 
cured the contract, to $1 1 ,coo, the highest. It is to be built from 
designs by Messrs. Harris & Shopbell, architects, and com- 
pleted by September i. 
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At a recent meeting of the Ballston Spa Cemetery Associa- 
tion the directors voted to have the trees sprayed in the ceme. 
tery and the brambles cut down along the rear fences in an ef- 
fort to eradicate the worm pests. Contributions from lot own- 
ers and others to meet the necessary expenditure were asked^ 
and it is to be hoped that this excellent suggestion met with 
generous response. 
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building has been erected, and plans are being considered for a 
receiving vault which will soon be erected. 
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The 45th annual report of the Cambridge, Mass., Cemetery 
for year ending Dec. i, 1898, shows total receipts of $19,086.37, 
a decrease of expected revenue of $413 63. The city appropri- 
ated $20,000 at the beginning of the fiscal year. Among 
the receipts were: Burial and tomb fees, $3,842; care of lots, 
$3,258.01; sale of lots and graves, .18,672.55. The total expendi- 
tures were $19,832.66. Twelve monuments were erected and 
too headstones. Humber of interments for year 564 making a 
total in the cemetery of 22,206. The report records a growing 
tendency to provide for perpetual care, and 22 lots were added 
to the list, which has reached 323. An additional cost of 75 cents 
per square foot is stated as the price for which the city will in- 
sure perpetual care. The fund now amounts to $43,273 78. 
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The committee on cemetery of the South Bend, Ind., Com- 
mon Council have recommended the acceptance of the Wurzer 
& Co., proposition to provide a cemetery on the Rezeau Brown 
farm, three miles north of the city, the only condition being 
that the city enter into contract to not take stock in any other 
outside cemetery and agree to bury the paupers of Portage 
township there. The proposition was accepted by a decisive 
vote. This would seem to settle the cemetery question of South 
Bend, which has been under discussion for some 4 years. The 
site is a beautiful one, situated on the St. Joseph river, with 
charming river scenery and the tract contains some 139 acres of 
level and rolling ground. The old cemetery which was donated 
to the city nearly 70 years ago, is now surrounded by dwellings 
and streets and cannot be extended. 
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The cemetery committee of New Britain, Conn,, held a 
meeting recently and accepted a design for the mortuary chapel 
by Briteo & Bacon, architects. New York. The design selected 
js modelled after the Pantheon and is a handsome piece of 
architecture. 
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The trustees of Oak Hill cemetery, in the progressive vil- 
lage of Herkimer, N. Y., have published the following scale of 
prices in connection with care of lots, etc. Tax on lots for gen- 
eral purposes; Lots 10 X 25, .50; lots 12 X 25, .75; lots 14 X 25, 
$1. Private care of lots: Small lot, $2; medium lot, $2.25; 
large lot, $3. For use of vault to lot owners; For adults, $2; 
for children, $i ; for other than lot owners, $5. For opening 
ordinary graves for children $2 and $3; graves bricked up with 
stone cover, $18, children's $12 to $15. 
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One of the syndicates cemeteries in the Fastis that recently 
acquired at Coxsackie station. New York, and which is to be 
devoted to the interment of valued animals and birds. For this 
purpose the Dell Wood National Cemetery Association has 
been organized, and the ground purchased comprises no acres, 
near the line of the N. Y. C. R. R., at the above place. The 
perspectus states that this cemetery will be conducted on the 
“Lawn System,” and the price of lots according to location will 
range between one and three dollars per square foot. 
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Another syndicate cemetery, to which attention has been 
directed for some time past, has been dedicated at Somerton 
Hills, N. J. The new cemetery is situated in a picturesque re- 
gion, about 30 miles from Philadelphia, on the New York Division 
of the Reading Railroad, and the tract of about 230 acres is in 
process of planting and development. A number of .cpccial 
features are proposed among others a specially-designed fun- 
eral car. At the grounds a spacious granite station and office 
The following paragraphs occur in the by-laws of the Elm- 
wood Cemetery Co., Sherbrooke, P. O., Canada: “Proprietors 
of lots who wish to erect thereon any enclosure or monument of 
any kind shall first notify the trustees or officers appointed by 
them, and if required shall submit a drawing or plan of such in- 
tended erection, and no erection shall be permitted to be made 
which shall have met with the disapproval of the trustees then 
in office.” “The trustees shall have the right to make such 
regulations for the care of the cemetery, and for the use of its 
driveways, walks and common property, and for the arrange- 
ment of the grounds as they may deem best, and from time to 
time to alter the same, provided they be consistent with the free 
access of all lot holders to the property owned by them, during 
the hours of daylight, which hours shall be defined by regulation 
of the trustees.” 
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The report of the Transactions of the Cremation Society of 
England, recently received, shows a marked increase in that 
country of the cremation method of disposing of the dead. At 
Woking, the principal crematory, 240 cremations were carried 
out, an increase of 40 per cent, over the previous year. At 
Manchester 62 bodies were incinerated, 12 at Glasgow and 27 at 
Liverpool. Several municipal corporations have taken out par- 
liamentary powers to provide for cremation, while the corpora- 
tion of Hull, is now building a crematorium. The English So- 
ciety has been in existence for 25 years, but had an uphill strug- 
gle to secure the approbation of the government in its efforts. 
In the conclusion of his speech at the annual meeting, the presi- 
dent, Sir Henry Thompson, called attention to an important ques- 
tion: “whether cremation, while of course remaining optional 
for all in every ordinary case of death, should not sooner or later 
become imperative in all cases of death caused by contagious di- 
sease in its worst forms, such as small pox, scarlet fever, diph- 
theria and m ilignant cholera, at least— at all events in the chief 
centres of population ” 
