PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Reports were read showing the organization to be in a very 
prosperous condition. A beautiful mortuary chapel has been 
erected the past season at a cost of $13,000. 
At the recent meeting of the Wiltwyck Rural Cemetery 
Association, Wiltwyck, N. Y., Treasurer Augustus Hayes 
reported total receipts for the year $7,135.98; amount expended 
for improvements of grounds, $4,251.37; assets aside from 
lands, $15,407.32. Henry Downs, the superintendent, reported 
124 interments during the year and that 500 tons of crushed 
stone had been used for working driveways and walks. It 
was decided to employ a landscape gardener to lay out the 
new addition on the lawn plan. 
The recent annual report of the Island Cemetery Corpora- 
tion, Newport, R. I., a number of substantial improvements 
were reported. The new administration building is complete 
and occupied, and some work in road building accomplished. 
The following statistics were presented : Receipts for the 
year, $13,964.91, including the following items: Sale of lots, 
$3,712, one-half of which goes to the improvement fund ; 
labor and material, $6,541.33; interest, $1,467.19. The ex- 
penditures included the following : Balance for new office 
building, $1,978.14; labor and material, $6,238.18; salaries, 
$1,550. The perpetual care fund now amounts to $55,000, 
$9,035 of which was added during the past year. 
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RULES GOVERNING AUTOMOBILES, 
Although automobiles cannot be said to have come into very 
general use in cemeteries, they have already been made the 
subject of new rules in many places. At Spring Grove, Cincin- 
nati, they are prohibited from entering the grounds. In the 
principal Chicago cemeteries the practice is to treat them the 
same as carriages. At West Laurel Hill, Philadelphia, a great 
many automobiles are in the cemetery every day and have 
caused no trouble. The question of admitting automobiles is 
now under consideration at Mt. Auburn, Boston, where it is 
likely that similar rules to those that govern bicycles will be 
adopted. These rules restrict the rate of speed of bicycles to 
five miles an hour. 
In Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, automobiles are not 
allowed to transgress the speed limits, which is a “slow trot.” 
If it is found difficult to enforce the rule they will be prohib- 
ited entirely. 
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PERPETUAL CARE RULES. 
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, 0, 
The corporation will receive in trust from the proprietors 
of cemetery lots sums of money ascertained by multiplying 
the number of square feet in such lots by the price per square 
foot proposed in the following schedule : 
300 square feet or less, at 50 cents. 
Over 300 square feet and under 600 square feet, at. .45 “ 
Over 600 square feet and under 900 square feet, at. .40 “ 
Over 900 square feet and under 1200 square feet, at. 35 “ 
Any excess over 1200 square feet, at 30 “ 
And will invest the same as herein provided, and apply the 
income perpetually for the care of said lot and the grass, trees 
and shrubbery, according to the terms and form of trust, as 
follows : 
All money so advanced shall collectively be kept by the Cor- 
poration as a separate Trust Fund, and invested only in bonds 
of the United States, or of any of the States which has never 
made default in the payment of its debts or the interest there- 
on, or of any city or county in this State which has never 
made any such default ; or in loans secured by first mortgage 
on lands in this State of the value of double the loan, exclusive 
of improvements, timber or minerals subject to destruction or 
exhaustion ; or in ground rents. 
The principal sum paid for the care of any lot, and a pro 
rata part of the yearly income of said aggregate fund, shall 
be credited to such lot, and a special book and account of said 
trust fund be kept by the Secretary. 
At the end of each year the unexpended income of said fund 
shall be re-invested in like manner, and accumulate for the 
benefit of such lots as shall not have had their proportion ex- 
pended upon them. 
A list of all such lots shall be kept by the Superintendent, 
and it shall be his duty each year to make a general inspection 
of them, 3 nd report to the directors in writing at their meet- 
ing in September, annually, the condition of each lot and an 
estimate of the expenditure necessary for its proper care. 
The care of myrtle graves, flowers, shrubs, grave marks, 
monuments and vaults is not embraced in the foregoing list, 
but special estimates will be given for such cases when de- 
sired. 
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Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis. 
The following is a copy of the contract issued by the 
Trustees of Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis., to the 
donors of funds for perpetual care, and fully explains the 
plan and conditions under which deposits, gifts or bequests 
are received : 
$ No 
secretary’s office 
FOREST HOME CEMETERY. 
Milwaukee 19. . 
Received of the sum of dollars, to be invested, 
and the income of which is to be expended in the manner 
hereinafter stated, for the perpetual care of Lot number 
in Block number in Section number in 
Forest Home Cemetery, in the County of Milwaukee, Wis., 
in doing work on said lot as follows: Said 1 sum of 
money has been received on the following conditions, to- 
wit : That the amount received shall be invested, together 
with such other sums as have been or shall be received for 
like purposes, to the best advantage and kept in a separate 
fund, and the income arising from such invested fund shall, 
on the first day of May in each year, be apportioned as 
follows : One per cent, of the total amount of said fund 
shall be retained and carried into the General Reserve Fund 
of the Cemetery, and the balance of the income of such 
first named fund shall be apportioned pro rata to the several 
amounts in said funds, and the amounts so apportioned shall 
be the amounts that may be expended during the current 
year on the lot or lots or graves, for the care of which said 
sums of money shall have been received. Any amount left 
over unexpended for any year or years on any given lot or 
lots or graves, shall be added to the amount allowed to 
be expended in any subsequent year or years. 
No gift or bequest shall be entitled to any benefit from 
the income of the fund, unless such gift or bequest shall 
have been received at least one year prior to any first day 
of May. No gift shall be received for a less sum than one 
hundred dollars. 
The Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of 
St. Paul’s Church, Milwaukee, 
By Secretary. 
Entered on the Records of the 
Forest Home Cemetery, 
Secretary. 
