PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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CEMETERY NOTES. 
The committee appointed for the purpose of collecting 
funds to improve the entrance to the Center Cemeter}^, Win- 
sted, Conn., early in Februar}’ had secured $2,630 out of the 
required amount of $4,000. 
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The directors of the Evergreen Cemetery Association of 
New Haven, Conn., propose the building of a new mortuary 
chapel on the cemetery grounds this year. There is a fund of 
over $8,200 which is available for this purpose, Init it is esti- 
mated that it will require about $15,000 to erect the chapel. 
The cemetery .sjmdicate, which has acquired so many ceme- 
teries in the east, is extending its operations to the south. It 
has now purchased land on .Seawell’s Point road, Norfolk, Va., 
for the creation of a modern cemetery. The organization is 
under the name of the Atlantic Park Cemeter}' Company. 
The annual report of Green Lawn Cemetery Association, 
Columbus, ()., gave the following figures: Sale of lots, 
$>5ot3-42; vault charges, $4,957; graves, $4,020; with a grand 
total in receipts of $45,108.39. Disbursements included: Labor, 
$20,640.70; salaries, $1,900. 
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At the annual meeting of the Fairmount Cemetery A.ssocia- 
tion, Newark, N. J., the treasurer’s report gave the following: 
Total receipts $56,526.18, which included, sale of 98 lots^ 
$36,199; sale of 513 single graves, $7,878; opening graves, 
$4,702.10: labor on lots, $3,1980.04. The expenditures were; 
$28,670.96, which includeu, labor and salaries $20,874.45; 
flowers, fertilizers, etc., $740.30; Civil engineering. $524. etc. 
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At the annual meeting of the Amher.st, Mass., Cemetery^ 
.As.sociation recently held, it was voted to accept the gift of 
Mrs. Joseph Dickinson, amounting to over $5,000, for the pur- 
pose of building a chapel on the grounds, and the thanks of the 
association were conveyed to her for her very generous gift. 
Mr. Olmsted, the landscape architect, has made several 
important improvements in the grounds of the cemetery and its 
outlook to the hills beyond, which have added much to their 
attractiveness and beauty. 
Here is another good chance for .salutary discipline by 
the courts. The cemetery of Trinity Church at Georgetown, 
near Wilke.sbarre, Pa., was invaded recentl}- and much damage 
was done. Memorials were thrown down, and the larger ones, 
too heavy to be moved, were battered and chipped, evidently by 
hammers. Particular spite was manifested again.st the big 
granite cross over the grave of .Anthony Reggies, for whose 
murder two years ago .six men were put on trial and acquitted 
for lack of evidence. The arms of the cross were broken off, 
and the part that remained standing was badly damaged by the 
hammers. Graves were also trampled and abused. 
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The annual report of the cemetery commissioners of Skan- 
eateles, N. Y., for the year ending March i, 1900, gives some 
interesting figures as relating to the country cemetery. The 
trust fund for the perpetual care of the lots now amounts to 
$4,214.85, covering 49 trusts, an increase of 8 during the past 
year. The total receipts were $2,838.99. which included $549 
for sale of lots and $488.15 for care of lots. The balance on 
hand is $1,555-68 an increase over that of last year, and there is 
no outstanding indebtedness nor deficiencies to he made good. 
The improvements last year consisted chiefly of sewerage and 
additional water supply, with other permanent improvements' 
There were 51 interments last year making a total in the ceme- 
ter)' of 2524. The showing is an excellent one. 
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A suit has been commenced in Grand Rapids, Mich., b}- a 
Air. Russell K. Brown against the members of the board of 
cemetery conimis.sioners, with damages at $5,000, for the 
removal of the body of his wife into the potter’s field without 
his sanction. The offense is alleged to have been committed 
la.st Augu.st, and he did not learn of the act until a few weeks 
later, when he went to vdsit his wife’s tomb. He also alleges 
that he has been unable to locate the exact burial place of the 
remains of his wife. It is further .stated that the commi-ssioners 
procured the pos.session of the lot for a site upon which to erect 
an office for the cemeter}- superintendent, and when the remains 
of his wife were removed he was not notified, and he is now 
unable to di.stingui.sh the mound of his wife from that of other 
persons buried in the cemeterj’. This may be serious for the 
commissioners, for the sanctity of burial is held in peculiar 
reverence b)- the courts throughout the country, and the greatest 
care has always been advised in such matters. 
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The sixty-eighth annual report of the trustees of Mt. 
.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass., has just been submitted. 
Among the principal points to be noted are the following: 
The perpetual care fund amounts to $1,054,841.50, the increase 
of the past 3’ear being $68,576.06. The permanent fund, 
accumulating for the care of the cemeterj- after all its lots have 
been dispo.sed of, amounts to $403,970.85, showing a gain of 
$10,171.53. The general fund, which inav be used for construc- 
tion and other purpo.ses, stands at $128,760.34, an increase in 
one year of $10,611.87. Tlie chief work of the year was 
remodelling the old chapel for the purpo.se of a crematory. As 
a result, Mt. Auburn now has a cremator}’ chapel, containing 
retorts in its basement nearU’ finished, which will be read}’ for 
use early in the present year, on final approval by the state 
board of health. The total number of interments for the year 
ending Dec. 31, 1899, was 505. The entire number of inter- 
ments in the cemetery is now 32,920. The treasurer's report 
shows a balance on hand of $18,148.47. 
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The Fifty-second Annual Meeting of Swan Point cemetery. 
Providence, R. L, was held last month. Thejtotal receipts for the 
year 1899, from all sources, were $106,275.57, which included; 
Sales of lots, $16,422; Labor and material, $12,791.13; Tomb 
rent, $379.25. The total expenditures were $105,822.51, leaving 
a balance of $453.06 for January i, 1900. Among the ex])endi- 
tures were; Stone crusher, steam roller and building for same, 
$6,221.49; Labor in the cemeter}-, $27,444.09; Labor in green- 
house, $884; Labor, team.sters, etc. $4,402.92; Lumber, brick, 
cement, etc., $5,570.23; Greenhouse shrubs, trees, plants, ccal, 
repairs and manure for grounds, etc,, $2,053.49; Salaries, 
$7,300. The perpetual care and bequest fund amounts to 
$283,239.15, and the permanent fund to $60,796.65. The im- 
provement of certain portions of this cemetery has been carried 
on vigorou.sly, and the purchase of stone crushing machinery 
and a .steam road roller ensures perfect roads. The following is 
given in the report of the directors. The expenditure of money 
during the year upon the stone crushing plant and roller, and 
the labor in fini,shing the work along the boulevard at the new 
entrance, have engrossed the attention of our Superintendent, 
who has succe-ssfully completed what would ordinarily have 
taken a number of years to accomplish had it not been for his 
energy and the concentrating of labor to this end, and there- 
fore no progress has been made in the con.struction of a new 
receiving tomb, chapel and crematory, but it is hoped that we 
shall be able to report at the next meeting of the proprietors 
that the work has been begun. 
