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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
The 99th semi-annual meeting of the Boston Catholic cem- 
etery Association was held Nov. 14th. The intermenls to 
date in the four cemeteries, have been as follows; Calvar}-, 
60,625; Dorclnster, 34,129; Mt. Benedict, 14,793, and New Cal- 
vary, 393. Total, no, 120. 
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Important improvements have been under way at the 
Green River cemetery, Greenfield, Mass., the past fall. There 
is also under consideration ihe erection of an oflSce building 
and superintendent’s house combined, plans for which have 
been drawn, at an estimated cost of from $1,500 to $5,000. 
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Port Washington, L. I., which has been in great need of a 
new cemetery for some years, has recently secured a tract of 30 
acres of available rolling land. Ii has been laid out on modern 
lines under expert care and a number of lots have been dis- 
posed of since its opening a short lime since. It is proposrd 
to make it a beautiful cemetery. 
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Last month the mayor of Boston trammitted to the council 
a communication from Leonard W. Ross, comptroller cf Knoll- 
wood cemetery, offering to sell to the city of Boston under 
agreement of perjretual care and maintenance sufficient land 
beautifully located, dry and well adapted fcr the purpose to 
receive the remains on the present basis in Me Hope cemetery 
for .somewhat ni'-re than 50,000 bodies, for 1175,000. It was 
also stated that the land is all high, dry, gravelly .soil, with a 
sufficient covering of loam over its entire snrfoce. 
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At a meeting of the trustees of the Utica Cemetery .Asso- 
ciation, Utica, N. Y., held November 13, resolutions were 
adopted which provided that hereafter all foundations for 
monuments and headstones be laid by the Utica Cemetery As- 
sociat'on; that no white bronze or other metal monuments or 
headstones be permitted to be erected in the cemetery; and that 
lot owners desiring to erect a monument or headstone must 
submit design to the executive committee of the association for 
their approval, without which the superintendent will not per- 
mit the erection of a monument or headstone. 
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Tae oldest cemetery in Minnesota is at Fort Snelling. 
When the old post that is now deserted, was built, the ceme- 
tery was located just outside its walls and the only vestige re- 
maining of the wall that stretched across the southwest side of 
the fort is the round tower which is an object of interest to 
every visitor at the post. Recently the government spent con- 
siderable money in fencing in the old cemetery, placing marble 
headstones at many of the graves where pine boards had been 
used, and so improving the condition of the cemetery as to 
materially change its appea-ance. The oldest tombstone there 
and the oldest in the state is of limestone, and w'as evidently 
quarried and cut at the fort. The inscription bears the date, 
1S26. 
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.\t the annual meeting of the Lakewood Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Minneapolis, Minn., held November 12, the secretary's 
rrport showed total burials for the past year 702, lots to the 
amount of $24,641 sold and the total receipts $47, .126. 70. The 
total disbursements were $49,660, of which $14,062 65 wire for 
labor and $21 406 05 for addiiional land, ti'he total assets are 
$479,907.50. The association has at the present time 132 acres 
of available land for burial purposes and the above sum of 
$21,406.09, made for the purchase of land, was all made in 
Saunders Park addition to the city of Minncajolis, which was 
considered the best available land for the purpose. In this 
addition there is a total of 40 acres, 25 acres of which have 
already I een acquired and the balance is expected to be secured 
during the coming year. 
A writer in Ihe Boston Herald describing All-Saints Day 
in Paris at the cemeteiies has the following to say of the ceme- 
tery at Mont Parnasse; The cemetery of Mont Parnasse, second 
in importance to Pere la Chaise, and differing from it only 
slightly in size and magnificence, presents the same thickly 
planted rows of small stone chapels, hardly more than a man’s 
height, and with only space enough between for one to thread 
his way through. Broad cobbled or asphalted avenues inter- 
sect the cemetery geometr icall}’ to the exclusion of grass plots, 
and innumerable statues and busts and monuments add to the 
chaotic vista of dwarfed buildings, so horribly pretentious of 
architectural effects. Each little tomb or chapel has its altar 
behind an iron gate and here the family has gathered toda}- to 
leave its flowers, its bead wreaths, to light its candle and say its 
prayer. 
Rules established thirty years ago in Holy Trinity Roman 
Catholic cenieter}-, near EistNew York, Brooklyn, has led to 
peculiar conditions now\ The cemetery is owned by the Holy 
Trinity church corporation, and the tlun pastor, years ago 
resolved that t„ere should not le the slightest dis inction in 
the appearance of the graves of rich and juoor. It w'as on this 
account that he established the rule that no .stone monnnients 
should be erected. G.^lvanized iron monuments are pirmitted, 
but they must be pi .in. Some of these are painted to resemble 
granite and Italian marble. They are niuih cheaptr than 
stone and peo] le in moderate i ircums'ances are al le to provide 
them. Probably ihe most striking feature of this cemetery is 
the profusion of crucifixes. It very grave, no matter b.ow 
humble its memorial, is surmountid by a crucifix. T1 e cinci- 
fixes are mostly of wood, some five feet high, and the carving 
o‘' the figure of Christ is generally rather coarse. 
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The work of repairs on the old Garden Street cemetery, 
Cambridge, Mass., has been completed to the satisfaction of all. 
The oldest .stones are all very much alike. The death’s head, 
the cherub, the hourglass and other insignia of death are to be 
seen on most of them. Now and then there is an appiopriate 
inscription such as ‘‘Memento te esse mortalem. ITigit hi ra.” 
The epitaphs are invariably skillfully cut and are well worth 
minute inspection on this point alone. The stones of this early 
period w'ere made in England and Wales, ard brought over 
here by sailing vessels. On one stone, that of John Watson, 
who died in November, 1678, there is a mournful a'rav of thete 
gloomy insignia. There is the hour glass, a pick-axe, a coffin, 
and a death's head besides innumerable flouri.shes. The ceffin 
is partly chipped, probably by vandals. There has not been 
much vandalism in the old yard, for there has been nothing to 
take. The eiiqity places in the sarcophagi where once family 
crests and coats of arms were placid were made so doubtless by 
the Revolutionary soldiers, who took the metal for bullets. A 
stone upon which was inscrilied the name of Mary Remington, 
was found lying at the eastern end of the yard. A diligent 
search discovered where it belonged and it was replaced. 
