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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
Among the proposed improvements in Pine Grove ceme- 
tery, Manchester, N. H., is the sodding of nnmbers of the small 
paths through the sections so as to conform to the lawn plan. 
Cemeteries in the smaller cities are rapidly falling into line on 
modern practice. 
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The trustees of Ravenna township have recently added 25 
acres to INIaple Grove cemetery, Ravenna, O., which increases 
its area to nearly 100 acres. Improvements will be carried out 
next year. The addition is on the north and includes a good 
residence for the superintendent. 
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Lakeside cemetery, Oswego, N. Y., is to undergo extensive 
improvements, to prepare for which the city engineer has been 
making a complete survey. Considerable ornamental planting 
is to be done and a park like appearance given to the cemetery. 
A direct water supply is also to be provided. 
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The trustees of Gray cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn., hav'e 
appointed the first Saturday after the first of November of each 
year as “Chrysanthemum Day.” They request that lot owners 
place chrysanthemums on the graves in both tte old and new 
Gray cemeteries. Chrysanthemum Day is to be a citizens’ 
Decoration Day. 
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The Cemetery Board of Findlay, O., have resolved upon 
drastic measures to compel lot owners to settle up the balances 
remaining against them on the cemetery books. A certain 
time is to be given delinquents, and if no satisfactory settle- 
ments are made, bodies buried on these lots are to be exhumed, 
reinterred in the potter’s field and the lots resold. 
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Mount Carmel, a new Catholic cemetery for Chicago, was 
recently dedicated by Archbishop Feehan. It is located on the 
Illinois Central R. R., at Hillside, fifteen miles from the city. 
It comprises 160 acres. The cemetery is naturally wooded and 
a fine receiving vault has been erected. Macadamized roads 
have been constructed through the tract and a large and com- 
modious waiting-room erected for the accommodation of visit- 
ors. The cost of the cemetery was $ 68 , 000 . It is to be con- 
ducted on the lawn system. 
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The West Davenport Cemetery Association, Davenport, la., 
adopted a novel scheme to secure a good name for its grounds. 
It offered a cemetery lot as a prize to the author of the accepted 
name, for which some 200 suggestions were received from all 
parts of the country. The name selected was “Fairmount,” 
because it covers the general lay of the laud and its natural 
conditions. The tract commands a magnificent view and many 
of the suggestions were based on that alone, but the name 
adopted is more applicable to the cemetery itself and gained the 
prize for its author. ^ , 
To provide against the calamity of being buried alive, a 
Buffalo inventor has devised an electrical scheme of communi- 
cation between the buried casket and the surface of the ground. 
In operation it is simple; a pair of contact points are attached 
to the under side of the coffin lid, in close proximity to the 
hands and chest of the body, so that the slightest movement 
will cause the points to touch and complete an electric circuit 
which starts a bell ringing on the surface. The wires run 
through a tube in passing from the circuit closer to the bell, 
and this tube allows a circulation of air and also provides a 
means of communication with the buried person. 
Among the rules and regulations governing monuments in 
the public cemeteries adopted by the town of Ware, Mass., 
this year are the following: “If any monument or effigy, 
cenotaph or other structure whatever, or any inscription be 
placed in or upon the said lot, which shall be determined by a • 
majority of the said commissioners for the time being, to be 
offensive or improper, the said commissioners or a majority of 
them, shall have the right, and it shall be their duty to enter 
upon the said lot and remove said offensive or improper object 
or objects. No tomb shall be constructed within the bounds of 
this cemetery, except by permission of the commissioners, and 
in such manner as they shall approve.” 
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The Mount Royal cemetery of Pittsburg and Allegheny is 
the name of the new cemetery now in the first stages of im- 
provement near Pittsburg, Pa. Negotiations for the requisition 
of the desired land have been noted from time to time, and it is 
now announced that the tract consists of some 200 acres, on the 
line of the Pittsburg & Western railroad, about eight miles 
from Pittsburg, and besides Pittsburg and Allegheny, it will be 
convenient for Sharpsbnrg, Millvale, Etna, Glenshaw, and 
other places. The site is beautiful with very attractive scenery 
and it will be improved on the latest ideas connected with the 
lawn plan of cemetery development, with permanent and com- 
modious buildings. The work of development is under the 
charge of Mr. Edward D. Bolton, landscape architect, of New 
York. The offices of the company are located in Pittsburg. 
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The government census of the living has suggested to cer- 
tain authorities of Cleveland, O., that a census of the dead 
would be of interest. The figures, given as accurate, make the 
number of dead of Cleveland 152,123, distributed through 26 
cemeteries. The municipality under the direct supervision of 
the director of charities, maintains five of these and in them 
over half of Cleveland’s deceased are buried. Erie street ceme- 
tery is the oldest and Woodland cemetery the largest of the 
city cemeteries. Erie street conta'ns 17,969 and Woodland 
40,386 bodies. Harvard Grove, Monroe and West Park ceme- 
teries contain together 26,574, making a total of 84,924 people 
reposing in the burying grounds of the city. The Catholics 
have four cemeteries containing some 45,050 bodies. Lakeview 
and Riverside have had some 12,465 interments. There are 
ten Jewish and five other cemeteries belonging to different re- 
ligious organizations. 
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One of the most interesting cemeteries in all America is the 
old Granary Burying Gronnd, situated in the very heart of the 
business centre of Boston. It is closely related to the history of 
our country, for it contains the remains of men and women 
intimately associated with the stirring events which character- 
ize that history. The old Park street church stands at one 
corner and here there was once a public granary, which has 
given the name to the burying ground. Many of the old stones 
are also worthy of preservation. Here were buried Josiah and 
Abiah Franklin, the father and mother of Benjamin Franklin, 
and among the crowd of celebrities whose remains repose here 
are: James Otis, of Revolutionary war fame, John Hancock, 
Samuel Adams, Peter Faneuil, who gave old Faneuil Hall to 
Boston, Judge Samuel Sewall. There are graves of eight colon- 
ial, provincial and state governors in the grounds. Paul Re- 
vere lies buried here as well as Robert Trent Paine, one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence. The graves of the 
victims of the Boston massacre of 1770 are also to be found. 
Many of the graves are more than 200 years old, and the in- 
scriptions on the stones marking them can scarcely be deciph- 
ered. There are many curious epitaphs, and altogether the old 
Granary burying ground should be studied on every visit to 
Boston. 
