PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Cemetery Notes. 
A bill has been introduced and favorably reported in the 
Michigan Legislature authorizing county and township treas- 
urers to serve as trustees for cemetery improvement funds 
placed in their hands by private parties who wish to have 
their burial lots cared for. The bill provides that the treas- 
urers shall receive funds of not less than $50 nor more than 
$200 to be held in trust, the income to be used in caring for 
the lots in cemeteries. They are to serve in this capacity 
without compensation. 
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Owners of property adjoining Lakewood Cemetery, Minne- 
apolis, Minn., have taken legal steps to prevent the associa- 
tion from acquiring additional territory by condemnation pro- 
ceedings. The case came up for a first hearing before Judge 
Brooks, in an effort of the association to have a commission 
appointed to appraise the value of the property to be taken. 
The attorney for the property-owners based his objections 
on the ground that a cemetery association is not a public 
service corporation, and has no right to acquire property by 
condemnation. 
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A recent issue of the Lexington, Ky., Leader contains a 
communication concerning the name of the well-known and 
beautiful cemetery of that city, commonly known as the Lex- 
ington Cemetery. It suggests that a title be chosen in which 
the name Bell shall stand out prominently, as a mark of 
honor and esteem for the man who for 54 years has been the 
guardian, improver and caretaker of this beautiful City of 
the Dead. The suggestion is so appropriate and meritorious 
that we cordially endorse it. Mr. Bell, who has grown aged 
and feeble in loving service to the cemetery, and, moreover, 
whose care and taste has given it a national reputation, de- 
serves such a recognition, and it is to be hoped that the au- 
thorities will hasten to adopt the suggestion and select a name 
that will inseparably and forever associate the name of its 
superintendent with the cemetery for which he labored so 
wisely and lovingly so many years. 
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After several meetings and very full discussion of the 
question a local association to be known as the “New Eng- 
land Cemetery Association” has been formed. It is thought 
the influence of such a body may bring about the attendance 
at the annual convention of the Association of American 
Cemetery Superintendents of some of the officials of the 
smaller cemeteries which have heretofore been unrepresented. 
The constitution provides for one meeting a year and such 
additional meetings as the executive committee may call. Such 
other meetings will probably take the character of visits to 
cemeteries or social gatherings. The following officers have 
been elected : President, Timothy McCarthy, Swan Point, 
Providence, R. I. ; vice-president, George W. Creesy, Har- 
mony Grove, Salem, Mass. ; secretary-treasurer, J. C. Scorgie, 
Mount Auburn, Cambridge, Mass. 
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Recent additions to the rules and regulations of Forest 
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis., are as follows: The num- 
ber of cremated remains to be allowed on lots will be regu- 
lated by the Cemetery Committee ; but on no lot will more 
mounds, markers or index stones be permitted than the num- 
ber of graves that would be allowed as hereinbefore provided. 
Two or more interments of cremated remains may be allowed 
together, or with other remains, in one grave with the consent 
of the Cemetery Committee. 
No work will be done on any lot against which there are 
unpaid charges. 
Settees or chairs of wood will not be allowed in the Ceme- 
tery, but lot owners may provide themselves with small, single 
chairs of wrought iron or wire, which must be kept properly 
painted. Not more than two such chairs will be allowed on 
each lot or lots owned by one proprietor. 
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IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS, 
Contracts have been let for the erection of the administra- 
tion building chapel and catacombs at Roselawn Cemetery, 
St. Paul, Minn. They are to be completed by August 15th. 
* * The Legislature of Texas has passed a bill authorizing 
the superintendent of public buildings and grounds to expend 
$2,500 for the improvement of the state cemetery. * * Oak 
Grove, Paducah, Ky., has dedicated a new addition which is 
to be improved this spring. * * Eastern Cemetery, Jeffer- 
sonville, Ind., has secured an option on nine acres of land 
for $2,700 as an addition to the cemetery. * * Elm Grove, 
Bluffton, Ind., has ordered 500 trees for planting and has a 
new greenhouse under construction. The trees include about 
fifty varieties, elms predominating. * * Lakewood, Lake 
City, Minn., will this spring install a new water-works sys- 
tem to be connected with the city water main, and will make 
other improvements. * * St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Pittsfield, 
Mass., has purchased 75 acres of adjoining farm land for an 
addition. * * The German Lutheran Cemetery, Ft. Dodge, 
ia., has added three acres of territory at $500 an acre. * * 
Mt. Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Pawtucket, R. I., will extend its 
boundaries and do considerable work in grading and laying 
out avenues. * * Mount Olivet, Salt Lake City, Utah, will 
make improvements to cost between $1,500 and $2,000, includ- 
ing the laying out of new sections and the extension of the 
water-works system. * * St. Dominic's Cemetery, Phila- 
delphia, Pa., will add two acres of territory. * * The City 
Council of Pontiac, Mich., has authorized the purchase of 
additional territory for Oak Hill Cemetery. * * A resolu- 
tion has been introduced into the City Council of Colorado 
Springs, Col., providing for the issuing of $25,000 in cemetery 
bonds to be redeemed by the sale of lots. 
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NEW CEMETERY STRUCTURES. 
St. Adalbert’s Cemetery, Niles, 111 ., near Chicago, has just 
completed an elaborate receiving vault after designs by Jo- 
seph Molitor. The building is a two-story pressed-brick and 
stone structure, 32x70 feet, with space for 540 caskets. It 
cost about $20,000. The cemetery is used by Bohemian and 
Polish Catholics of Chicago, numbering about thirty congre- 
gations. * * Bluff City Cemetery, Elgin, 111 ., has a new receiv- 
ing vault under construction. * * E. M. Grant and Mrs. 
Alice Moorhead have presented eight memorial iron gates to 
Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, W. Va. * * Calvary Cem- 
etery, Fond du Lac, Wis., is planning to construct a new 
receiving vault. * * The late George Bradford, of Glouces- 
ter, Mass., bequeathed to Oak Grove Cemetery, in that city, 
$30,000 for the erection of a granite chapel. Plans for the 
structure are now in the hands of the Cape Ann Granite Co. 
* * The “Messinger Memorial” receiving vault has been 
completed at the cemetery in Norton, Mass., as a gift from 
Mrs. Mary E- Sweet in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Austin 
Messinger. * * The late John T. Brown bequeathed to Oak 
Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, Mass., $12,000 for the construc- 
tion of the Ellen Brown Memorial Chapel. 
