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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
CmCTERT nOTE. 
A syndicate of Pittsburg capitalists have been negotiating 
for the purchase of a tract of land near Grapeville. It is stated 
the land will be used for a large cemetery for the burial of peo- 
ple from Pittsburg and Allegheny. This location is some 30 
miles away from Pittsburg. 
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A gentleman of Galt, Ontario, offers to defray the expenses 
of constructing a pyramid to be faced with the tombstones scat- 
tered about old St. Andrew’s cemetery. The tombstones fac- 
ing outward many of the inscriptions could be deciphered, and 
it would form a memorial pile to the dead who sleep there. 
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The trustees of the Dunmore cemetery, Scranton, Pa., have 
awarded a contract for a new receiving vault to the New En- 
gland Granite company. The exterior is to be constructed of 
granite and will be in the Doric style of architecture. The in- 
terior will be finished with polished imported Italian marble and 
bronze fixtures. There will be sixteen crypts closed by bronze 
doors. The vault will be constructed on the most approved 
principles and is to be completed in a few months. 
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The matter of burying in the colored cemeteries of Rich- 
mond, Va. , is becoming a great question in that city. Some 
time ago an injunction was obtained prohibiting further burials 
in certain six cemeteries, and the corpcrations cwnirg them have 
now engaged eminent counsel to test the matter in the higher 
courts if necessary. The original injunction was granted on the 
plea that a public nuisance was likely to be created by further 
burials in the enjoined cemeteries. 
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The officials of the Catholic cemeteries in our larger cities 
are not lagging far behind in their efforts to reform cemetery 
management and allied interests. In Cleveland, O., Rev. G. 
F. Houck, chancellor of the diocese, has designed and had con- 
structed a funeral car to run by electricity on the street railway 
tracks, embodying the best features of modern design and ar- 
rangement, with such further details as the necessities of the 
service suggested to him. The dimensions of the car are 28 feet 
long by 8 feet wide. 
A new receiving vault is under construction at Mountain 
Grove cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn., from designs of Mr. Joseph 
W. Northrop, architect. It will be of arched construction, 
with exterior of granite. The catacombs, 17 in number are 
placed in the rear; they will be slate, with pink marble panels. 
The walls and arched ceiling of the interior will be of enamelled 
brick and the floor of stone. The entrance door will be of 
bronze, and all the latest ideas regarding ventilation and drain- 
age have been considered in the design. 
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Mr. Edmund Ira Richards has recently made a present to 
the town of North Attleboro, Mass,, of a granite monument in 
the Old North burying ground, tobean ornament to thegrounds 
and a source of information to the school children and others 
passing by the cemetery. It is erected to commemorate the 
placing of the first body in the cemetery which occurred in the 
spring of 1676. Four or five years ago this burying ground was 
fixed up, the stone slabs cleaned and newly erected and the 
cemetery enclosed by a granite wall. 
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Mr. F. Z. Dickinson proposes to supplement the improve- 
ments which he has made in the Dickinson family burial lot in 
Prospect Hill cemetery, Brattleboro, Vt,, by the erection of a 
granite water basin which will be given to the cemetery associa- 
tion in due legal form for its perpetual use. The basin, of 
Quincy granite, will be of oblong shape and will be surmounted 
by an urn for flowers. The water supply for the basin will also 
be provided by Mr. Dickinson, thus relieving the association of 
all expense, and making this handsome and useful gift complete, 
with the use of the water free to all lot owners. At either side 
of the basin will be receptacles for discarded flowers. The de- 
sign of the fountain is by a New York architect. The gift has 
been accepted by the cemetery trustees. 
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The directors of the Fernhill Gemetery Company, St. John, 
N. B., at a recent meeting decided to recommend to the next 
annual meeting in April the following changes in the charges 
for the perpetual care of lots: For i lot $80 instead of $60. lor 
lot $40 instead of $60. For i lot and monument, third-class, 
$120 instead of $100 For yi lot and monument, third-class, 
$60 instead of $100. It was also decided that $10 additional be 
charged on all third-class lots for each additional stone placed 
there now or hereafter. These recommendations are due to 
the fact of the continual decrease in the earning capacity of 
money, which is an important consideration for all cemeteries 
conducted on this plan. The general improvement of Fernhill 
on modern ideas is being rapidly brought to completion, and 
every year finds considerable progress made in this direction. 
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The annual report of the cemetery of Spring Grove, Cincin- 
nati, O., to September 30. 1899, has recently been submitted. 
The total receipts for the year amounted to 1126,328 25; which 
included: From sales of lots, 136,756 65; interments, foundations 
and single graves, 126,538.48; gardener’s service, ^9 560.10: 
trust fund for perpetual care of lots, 16,934 20. The expendi- 
tures amounted to 1144,832.02, w hich included among the others: 
Labor, material, watch and gatekeepers, $31,070 54; interments 
and foundations, 18.705. 53; salaries and stationary. .$1 1 .593 10; 
the balance from last report was I24 845 63 and the b;,h nee c, r- 
ried to next year is 16,341.86. There were 99 lots and 35 fract- 
ional lots sold, of an area of 5 1 .985 square feet. Vault permits 
issued, 65. Burial permits, 1460. The number of single graves 
now occupied is 12.394. Total interments to date 63,857, and 
number of lot holders 10,058. 
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The finishing touches are being put to the crematory in 
Mt. Auburn cemetery, Boston, which will make it one of the 
best equipped crematories yet established. The chapel on the 
hill has been entirely remodeled, the interior of lath and plaster 
partitions being removed and a new interior of fire proof decora- 
tive material substituted, which closely resembles some of the 
work on the interior of the new public library. In the center of 
the chapel floor there is a space for the bier, which after the re- 
ligious services descends to the basement, whence it is taken to 
the operating room and furnaces in a rear building. Here the 
body is reduced to ashes through the action of kerosene furn- 
aces, supplied with a strong, forced draft from powerful fans 
operated by a dynamo. The whole process is entirely noiseless. 
The chapel is of granite, the style of architecture composite, 
with the Egyptian predominating. The interior contains two 
waiting rooms and two lavatories, bes'des Hhd operating rooms 
in the basement. The plans and designs (or the remodeling of 
the interior were made by Mr. W. T. Sears, architect of Boston. 
