PARK AND CEMETERY. 
THE BONNEY MEMORIAL, 
LOWELL CEMETERY, 
LOWELL. MASS. 
The Ronney memorial 
illustrated herewith stands 
in the Lowell cemetery, 
Lowell, Mass., and is one 
of the growing number of 
artistic cemetery memor- 
ials scattered over the 
country. The statue en- 
titled “The New Life,” 
was modelled by Mr. 1'. 
Edwin Elwell, the New 
Tork sculptor, and was 
first conceived by the 
artist some eleven 3 ears 
ago. It was purchased b}" 
Mr. Charles S. Lilley after 
a visit to Mr. Elwell’s 
studio, at the suggestion 
of Mr. D. C. h'rench, and 
is about the only case on 
record in America where 
an ideal statue of heroic 
size was ever sold in the 
clay. The design of the 
monument was by Mr. 
Henry Bacon, architect, 
and it is constructed of 
Milford, Mass, pink 
granite, the blocks being 
of large dimensions, very thoroughly secured, and 
it rests on a foundation of hard brick laid in Portland 
cement on a bed of concrete. The letters of the 
inscription on the back are cast in bronze and sunk 
into the granite, being secured by pins and a spec- 
ial cementing material, so as to ensure permanent 
conditions. 
NOTES, CHIEFLY HISTORICAL, ON LONDON BURIAL 
PLACES.— V. 
Eor a while the reform in the London burial 
places went no further than the closing of the 
crowded inter-urban grounds against further 
burials, and the leaving of them to neglect and 
to abuses nearly as great as those to remedy 
which the reform legislation had been sought. 
They became the dumping grounds of all sorts of 
rubbish and were eyesores of the worst character. 
Two notable cases of exceptions are worthy of 
mention. The burial grounds of the Jews and 
those of the PTiends or Quakers. The Hebrews 
are particularly pledged to preserve their burial 
places. It is not in deference to a specific law that 
they do so, but a binding obligation handed down 
THE BONNEY MEMORIAI., LOWEI.I. CEMETERY, EOWEI.L, MASS. 
frem the most ancient times inhibits any distuib- 
ance of an existing burial place and prompts the 
keeping of it in good order. The Society of 
Priends also keeps its burial grounds in good 
Older, though some of them in London have dis- 
appeared. In fact many of the burial grounds in 
London have passed out of existence since the 
general closing in the middle of the century. This 
has been due to the encroachment of streets that 
had to be opened or widened, buildings that were 
erected and railroads which have been built. In 
all over one hundred burial places have thus 
W'holly or in part disappeared in London during the 
past half centurjE 
The “Burials Acts” by which the intra-urban 
burial grounds and vaults were closed to the recep- 
tion of further bodies left the burden of the care of 
these places of sepulture upon the “Burial Board 
or Churchwardens as the case might be.” They 
were required to maintain the churchyard or burial 
ground in decent order and in good repair at the 
expense of the “overseers,” to be paid out of the 
“poor rates” unless some other fund were provided 
