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CEMETERY NOTES. 
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The eleventh annual meeting of the Glen wood Cemetery, 
Sherbrooke, Prov. Quebec, Canada, was held on June 12. The 
perpetual maintenance fund has now passed the f5,ooo mark, 
and continued effort is being made to include all the old lots in 
the cemetery under this provision. The assets of the corpora- 
tion amount to 114,111.35. 
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The ladv stenographer of Mr. Samuel J. Knight, secretary 
of the Kensico Cemetery Company, New York City, has been 
arrested and placed under bonds, for selling to a friend stock of 
the Kensico and other cemeteries, the signatures to which she 
had forged. She had obtained in some way or the other blank 
stock certificates and had filled them in and sold them to her 
lady friend, involving that person in an outlay of a large sum. 
As the time for dividends came round the interest was paid for a 
time and a failure to continue the interest led to investigation. 
The woman is of good and well-to-do family connections and 
her crime is unaccountable. 
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A new cemetery is in course of development at Kos Angeles, 
Calif., called Holl\"wood Cemetery, comprising some 100 acres 
of land situated about eight miles from the city. The improve- 
ments are being completed from plans by Earnshaw & Punshon 
of Cincinnati, O. The tract is beautifully situated and com- 
mands magnificent scenery. It will be developed and con- 
ducted on the lawn plan after the latest modern practice, and 
the permanent structures will be model buildings. The officials 
of the association taking time by the forelock have issued a 
beautifully gotten up manual, giving particulars present and 
prospective of the new cemetery, with carefully and intelligently 
illustrated views from other modern cemeteries designed to 
educate prospective lot-owners on the advantages of modern 
methods of conducting a cemetery. The manual also contains 
rules and regulations and details of perpetual care. This is an 
excellent way to advertise a new cemetery, instructive and edu- 
cational at the same time. 
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Morningside Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vt., one of the more 
recent new cemeteries, is rapidly progressing in its develop- 
ment. It contains one hundred acres situated only about ten 
minutes walk from the business center of the town, and is nat- 
urally beautifully endowed. The receiving vault and chapel 
completed in the spring is 24 feet by 31 feet on the outside and 
is constructed of Dunierston granite with interior finish of \ er- 
mont marble. It contains 42 catacombs. Ten miles of avenues^ 
24 feet wide, have been completed and a large amount of drain- 
age work carried out. The lawn system is to be strictly ob- 
served, with perpetual care. Among a number of lots sold 
were four whose area amounted to 5,470 square feet, a very sat- 
isfactory beginning in a cemetery in which the work of improve- 
ment has but begun. Prices for lots range from $2 down to 45 
cents per square foot, and in single grave sections a lot 5 ft. by 
10 -feet costs $25. Granite posts, 6 in. square and 2 l 4 ft. long 
are used for corner posts. The grounds were laid out and 
platted by Mr. G. D. Baltimore, Assistant City Engineer of 
Troy, and Mr. E. Estabrook is now in charge as superintendent. 
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The annual meeting of the Allegheny Cemeter3-, Pittsburg, 
Pa., was held June 25 . According to the report of the president 
the companj^ owns 270 acres of ground, which has co.st $290, 
861.55. The total c6st of land and improvements to date has 
been as follows: Co.st of grounds, 1290,861.55; permanent im- 
provements, #278,925 63; labor, >729,971.15; expenses, >374,- 
483.45; materials, #48,468.22, making a total of #r, 722, 720. 
During the 55 years the compan\-’s receipts have been: Lots 
sold, #r, 382, 341. 34; interments, #330,959.95; foundations, #60,- 
108; plants, #63,747.45; receiving vaults, #8,117; interest on in- 
vestments, #515,803.62; total, #2,361,077.36. During the past 
year the sales of lots have amounted to #46,869.10, one of the 
largest in the history of the cemetery. The total amount of 
inve.stments and cash now on hand is #577,072.67, an increase in 
the 3-ear of #44,293.59. During the same periotl the amount 
received from interest and investments was #24,269.81. The 
expenses of all kinds amounted to #42,344.43. During the same 
time the cenieterv received from its different .sources, #19,736.98, 
which leaves a net outla3- of #22,607.45. The report of the 
superintendent showed that 108 lots were sold for #49,208; 119 
new names were added to the list of lot holders, making the 
total number 5,479. The estimated value of memorials, head 
marks, tombs, monuments, etc., is #72,888. There were 1,007 
interments in the grounds, bringing the total to 42,445. Out of 
a total of some 100 iron fences remaining around burial lots 10 
have been removed. 
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Under the auspices of the Ruth Wyllis Chapter, D. A. R., 
and through the generositN- of the Mis.ses Stokes of New York 
and Mr. Goodwin of Hartford, a fine wrought iron fence, gate- 
wa3- and memorial tablets are to be erected on the Gold street 
line of the ancient bur3-ing ground of Hartford, Conn. The 
cost will be approximateh’ #10,000. The work is to be executed 
from designs by Messrs. IMcKim, Mead & White, architect, of 
New York, and a tablet setting forth the work that has been 
done b}- the Chapter has been designed bv J. Masse}- Rhind, 
sculptor. The full length of the fence on the Gold street side 
will be 336 feet and of this 200 feet will abut the bur^-ing ground 
proper. Midwa}- of the bur3'ing ground front will be an orna- 
mental gatewav-, recessed with quadrant segments. Thisgat:- 
wa}- will be the gift of the blisses Stokes in meniorv of their 
ancestor, John Ha3-nes, the first colonial governor of Connec- 
ticut, and will be known as the ''Ha3’nes Gate.” The fence 
will be known as the “Goodwin Fence.” Upon each of the 
gates there will be an ornamental circle inclosing the letters “J. 
H.”, and on the pillars at either side of the gatewa}- will be 
tablets of bronze commemorating the services of John Havnes. 
On the west tablet the inscription will be as follows: “1594 — 
1646. In memor}- of John Ha3-nes, First Governor of the Col- 
on}- of Connecticut, this gateway is given to the City of Hart- 
ford, by his descendants, 1900.” The inscription on the east 
tablet will set forth .some of the services of Governor Havnes, 
as follows: “John Haynes, one of the three distinguished men 
who created the first written Constitution known to the world, 
upon which was founded the Constitution of the United States 
of America.” The gateway will be 18 feet wide, the gates hav- 
ing an opening of 6 feet. The fence will surmount a brick wall 
with a coping of Indiana limestone, buff in color, and owing to 
the grade will be in several sections of graduated height, the 
uniform height of each section, from the wall, being 8 feet and 
6 inches. There will be five supporting pillars of Colonial pat- 
tern, made of red brick with pediment and capital of buff lime- 
stone and each of the five pillars will be surmounted by a Col- 
onial urn patterned after the urn upon the monument to Roger 
Newberry in the old cemetery at Windsor, which is one of the 
finest examples of that type of decoration in any known burr- 
ing ground of Colonial times. The pillars will be 16 feet high 
and the iron sustaining posts for the lengths of the fence will 
be 10 feet high. 
