PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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CmETERT n0TE5. 
Mr. Rufus King has recently built a receiving tomb at the 
cemetery of Monmoutb, Me., and presented it to the town. 
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A Ladies’ Cemetery Association lias been organized at 
Woodstock, 111 ., for the purpo.se of improving the Oakland 
Cemetery. A constitution lias been adopted and officers elected, 
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By the will of the late John Eastman of Cambridge, Mass, 
a bequest of 1 1,000 is made to the town of Dennysville, Me,’ 
the income of which is to be devoted to the care, preservation 
and ornamentation of the town cemetery. 
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At the .semi-annual meeting held recently of the directors 
of the Bohemian National Cemetery, Irving Park, Chicago, it 
was shown that during the half-year from April to October, 
this year, the' total income was 120,719,49 and the expenditures 
1118,236.35. Since April 530 bodies were buried in the ceme- 
tery, making the total 13,950. 
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The citizens of Staten Island are worried over the fact that 
three new cemeteries have been laid out on the island. The 
Borough of Richmond now has more cemeteries than any other 
borough in Greater New A'ork. Property for Inirial purposes 
is exempted from taxation, and the revenue from many acres of 
land will now be lost. The new cemeteries are St. Agnes' and 
and Ocean View in Gifford's and the Baron Hirsch in 
Graniteville. 
What any organized body can do to improve our smaller 
cemeteries is well exemplified in the case of the cemeteri’ at 
Charlevoix, Mich., which contains the remains of a number of 
soldiers. The Woman’s Relief Corps of that place some time 
since resolved to mark the soldiers’ graves, and this was fol- 
lowed by the work of general improvement. The latest 
achievement is the erection of a .steel windmill for water facili- 
ties, and the women having enlisted the practical sympathies of 
the .summer visitors and residents, may be relied on to com- 
plete the good work. 
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A number of descendants of the earh' settlers interred in 
the old Sebring graveyard in Solebury township, Pennsvlvania, 
have evinced a great intere.st in the ancient burial ground, of 
which they had no knowledge until recently. They have 
determined to have the graveyard restored to its original condi- 
tion so far as pos.sible, and in pursuance of this purpose have 
requested Mr. Warren S. Ely of Doylestown, a well-known 
genealogist and who first called attention to the graveyard, to 
procure power of attornej- to commence the work of restoration 
and to take charge of the property. The restoration of the old 
historic graveyards is receiving considerable attention. 
The Clark mausoleum now being erected in Homewood 
Cemetery, Allegheny, Pa., will be a conspicuous feature on its 
grounds. Its de,sign is in the form of a Greek temple, the 
front having four Corinthian columns; the exterior is of 
granite and the construction is marked bv the use of very large 
stones, Tennessee marble is used in the interior with a wains- 
coting of Italian marble. The floor is of white Italian marble. 
There will be four crypts on each side, constructed of white 
marble with panels of pink Tennessee, on which will be cut the 
in.scriptions. The double doors and rear window frames and 
grilles are of bronze, of handsome design. 
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It will be remembered that a few years ago an explosion of 
dynamite seriously injured the O'Neill monument erected in 
Norwood cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. As a sequel to this Mr. 
James B. O’Neill has entered suit against the Norwood Cenie- 
ter>' Company to recover #5,000 damages. The plea recites that 
the monument cost upwards of #10,000, and was constructed of 
granite, ornamented with Italian marble .statues. It is alleged 
that the company contracted to protect the monument from 
defacement, but that it failed to perform this dut\-, inasmuch as 
explo.sives were stored in the cemetery and not properly guarded. 
The plaintiff avers that on Nov. 8, 1S96, the monument was 
blown up by dynamite belonging to the company, the statues 
were broken and injured, and the granite badl} cracked. 
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A novel proposition was recently referred to the District 
Commissioners of Washington, I). C. Mrs. Rvan of New York 
proposed to build for the Community of Sisters of Washington 
a home for the sisters, containing a chapel. Under the altar in 
the chapel she wished to have constructed a tomb which should 
contain the remains of herself and the members of her faniilv 
when they die. No expense would be spared in building the 
home and the chapel, but the construction of the tondr was a 
necessary condition of the offer. The proposition was laid 
before the Di.strict Comnii.ssioners and referred to the District 
health officers. They decided that the building of the tondj for 
the purpose of receiving dead bodies would be a violation of 
the laws regarding cemeteries and could not be allowed. 
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The case of the Johnstown Cemetery .-^.ssociation, Johnstown, 
N. Y., vs. William Parker, has just been decided by the apel- 
late court on an appeal. The defendant who was neither a 
member of the a.s.sociation nor a lot owner, was doing work on 
certain lots for their owners, contrary to the by-laws of the ceme- 
tery a.ssociation, which also pre.scribed a penalty for the offense. 
It was suing to recover this penaltvthat led to the court’s deci.s- 
ion “that the act of the legi.slature under wdiich the cemetery 
association acted in passing the regulation in que.stion, was un- 
constitutional and that therefore, the penaltj- therein provided 
and for which the a.s.sociation sued, could not be collected. The 
court held however that the a.s.sociation had the right to pa,ss 
regulations which are binding upon its members — that is lot 
owners acting as .such. Also that the association had the right 
to pass regulations excluding per.sons not lot owners from 
their grounds, and also to sue them as trespa.ssers at common 
law.’’ 
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According to the Boston Transcript a New York man has 
collected .statistics regarding cremation in the United States, 
which go to show that more incinerations have been made in 
Bo.ston than in any other city in the country, e.xcept New York, 
St. Louis, Philadelphia and San Francisco, although it is onlv 
six years since cremation began in that city. It appears that 
the first crematory in the United States was established at 
Washington, Pa., in 1876, and the second was built in Lan- 
ca.ster, Pa., seven or eight years later. The whole number of 
cremations made in the United States from 1876 to 1899 is 8,885, 
these being the annual figures from the year 1883; 25, 16, 47, 
114, 127, 190, 249, 372, 471, 561,647, 831, 1017, iioi, 1391, 
1699. There are crematories in New York, Buffalo, Troy, 
Swinburne Island, Waterville, St. Louis, Philadelphia, San 
Francisco, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, 
Pittsburg, Baltimore, Lancaster, Pa.; Davenport, Iowa; Mil- 
waukee, Wis.; Washington, I). C.; Pa,sadena, Cal.; Washington, 
Pa.; St. Paul, Minn.; Fort Wayne, Ind., and Middletown, Conn 
