PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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CEMETERY NOTES. 
The perpetual care fund of Elmwood cemetery, Sherbrooke, 
Canada, now amounts to over |5,ooo, a fact considered very 
satisfactory by the officials, as promising that eventually all lot- 
owners will ava 1 themselves of its advantages. 
The new addition to the grounds of the Riverview Cemeter}' 
Co., Wilmington, Del., are being laid out on plans designed by 
the superintendent, Mr. O. C. Nailnr, and under his super- 
v’e’on. Perpetual care and lawn plan are the guiding principles. 
The work of removing the bo lies from the old St. Johns 
cemetery, Clinton, Mass., is about completed. Already there 
have been over 3600 bodies taken up and transferred to the 
new cemetery in Lanca.ster, Ma.ss. 
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West Superior, Wis., which has unt l a recent date lacked 
somewhat for cemetery accommodation, has turned over a new 
leaf and is liable to have a surplus. Over six organizbtif ns 
have been laying plans for new cemeteries, four of which have 
purchased ground. 
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The Ladies’ Cemetery association of Grinnell, la., have 
purchased an additional 12 acres of land to be laid out and 
intend to move and enlarge their present greenhouse. They 
have found the greenhouse a profitable adjunct and besides 
propagating all their own plants they dispose of quite a number 
adding considerably to the income. 
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Commissions as deputy marshals have been issued to Sid- 
ney J. Hare, superintendent, and E. J. Walter, assistant super- 
intendent, of Forest Hill cemeter}’, Kansas City, Mo. The 
neie .sity for these commissions arises from petty lawlessness of 
drivers and boys who carelessly injure shrubs and flowers in 
and about the cemetery. This is a suggestive bit of news which 
might be of benefit elsewhere. 
The burial ground at Saltillo, Mexico, wherein are interred 
the remains of the 500 Ame.ican soldiers who were killed in the 
battle of Buena Vista or died in hosp tal has been a neglected 
spot. Many of the bones have been forever lost — washed away 
by a stream that cuts through a corner of the original cemeter}’. 
The I'. S. government has awarded the contract for the removal 
of the remains to the National cemetery at San .\ntonio, Texas, 
and the preliminary steps are now 1 e'.ng taken to that end. 
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The annual meeting of the Newton, Mass., Cemetery as.so- 
ciation held in June was satisfactory. The sales of lots for the 
year amounted to $10,003 50, and the receipts for perpaturl care 
for the year reached f r4,739 50, being 13,461.50 o 1 new lots and 
$11,278 on old. There now remain some 200 lots not under 
pe-petual care. Considerable money was spent during the } ear 
on maintanance and improvement. The cemetery was incor- 
porated .\pril 5, 1855, and purchaser of 'and gave an area of be- 
tween 30 and 35 acres; it now covers iiS ac es. 
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Oakridge cemetery, Marshall, Mich., now contains an area 
of 55 acres, including 17 acres recently purchased and which 
has been laid out partly under perpetual care and on the lawn 
plan. It has connection with the city water supply givingf 
ample water facil ties. .Lbout one hundred, lots in all are under 
perpetual care. At a re< eat meeting t'le cemetery board do- 
nated a fine plot of ground to the Grand Army Post upon which 
it is intended to erect a monument. The cemetery is in ex 'el- 
lent condition financially and other wi e. 
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The cemetery association of Mitchell, S Dak., in which 
the wcmen are actively interested, is rapidly transforming the 
cemett ry, and the co itrast bet veen the pr s nt and past is vary 
marked. The lawn plan is being worked up to as fast as pas- 
sible and among the latest imp-ovements is a new artesian well 
for better water service. A neat cattage with parch and climb- 
ing vines, trees planted, avenues 1 lid out. two flowing wells 
with w.rter service throughout the grounds, are among the per- 
manent results of the work of the association. 
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St. Mary’s cemetery, Kingston, Ontario, has been greatly 
developed and improved in the past year. The vault has been 
rebuilt, a large amount of planting done and new sections devel- 
oped. More la.^d has been added which has been laid out and 
partially improved under the direction of Mr. H. P. Smith, 
architect. The work will be proceeded with as rapidly as funds 
will permit. 
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The public demand for a crematorium in Mount Royal 
cemetery, Montreal, C.mada, in connection with w’hich there 
were legal complications touching the financial requirements, 
has resulted in ih; offer of Sir Wm. C. Macdonald to build the 
Structure at his own expense. The offer has been accepted by 
the cemetery authorities and a committee has been appointed 
to carry the project through, work on which will be vigor )U^ly 
prosecuted. 
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The North Bergen, N. J., board of health seem determined 
to push the case con.e-ning the improper interment of the 
victims of the North German Lloyd fire by the Flower Hill 
Cemetery company. The cemetery officials declare that the 
laws of the state board of health were complied w ith and repu- 
diate the ordinances of the Nor h Borgen board. In case of 
suit going against cemetery company the fines w’ill amount to 
$8,000. 
In the matter of perpetual care in small cemeteries, Mrs. 
AdelaMe W. Wright, secretary Rocky Hill cemetery, Ro;ky 
Hill, Conn., informs us that some half a dozen p-ears ago two 
ladies took into consideration the providing of a fund for such 
a purpose and formed an association called the Rocky Hill 
cemetery trust fund, with four men and tw’o women as trustees, 
and a d'-posit of $go to start with. They have now $1200 on 
deposit, mostly in sums of $roo per lot. They consider it very 
successful, both from the perpetual care side and the influence 
it has had in the better care of the whole cemetery. 
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The Boston, Mass., Record gives the following: The most 
extraordinary development of the “Jim Crow’’ law appears in 
the Arlington National ceme'ery, located upon land formerly 
owned by Gen. R. E. Lee. In a remote portion a space has 
been set apart for the bodies of colored troops who die from 
wounds in battle or by the ravages of pestilence, and no white 
sold;e.-s’ bodies are permitted, under any circumstance,= , to be 
buried in the ground set ; s de for colored soldi- rs. This j i es 
a gr ;at opportunity to the Virgini ms accused of discriminating 
against the colored ritizens of the Old Dominion by making 
them ride in c. rs separate from the whites. They retort that 
Arlington cemetery is a justification of their prohil ition if a 
mixmg of the whites and blacks. 
