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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Cemetery Notes. 
At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the 
Pittsfield Cemietery Corporation, Pittsfield, Mass., it was 
decided to restrict parades to certain portions of the grounds, 
owing to the damage done in different sections of the ceme- 
tery by the large number of persons who- follow parades. 
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At the meeting of the East Walpole (Mass.) Cemetery 
Association, plans for perpetual care and other improvements 
for the year were discussed and the following officers elected : 
President, Edmund Grover; treasurer, Thos. W. Corbett; 
secretary, Frank L. Gould. 
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At the recent annual meeting of the Easton Cemetery Com- 
pany, of Easton, Pa., the- following statistics were presented : 
During the past fiscal year $1,628.25 was collected from the 
sale of plots ; $2,725 from bequests and deposits ; $2,673.98 
from interest and $5,677.41 from work done. Among the 
expenditures were $6,996.51 for labor and about $850 for a 
new vault. The deposit and bequest fund contains $40,337.50 
and the perpetual care fund $5,558.83, making a total of $45,- 
89633- * * * 
District Judge Calhoun, Austin, Tex., granted a temporary 
restraining order in the case of the City of Austin against 
Austin City Cemetery Association, to prevent the latter, or 
its assignees, from violating city ordinance and contract there- 
under, in the matter of the cost of cemetery lots. The com- 
pany had been charging more for lots than authorized by the 
city, and the Court of Appeals has just sustained the validity 
of the contract, holding in favor of the city. An attempt to 
secure an injunction in the Court of Appeals failed, that 
court holding it was without jurisdiction. 
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A grass fire started by boys in a vacant lot in San Fran- 
cisco spread to the plots of the Jewish and Italian burying 
ground in the City Cemetery, and a large area was burned 
over. Many of the headstones in the cemetery were of wood, 
and the destruction of these makes it impossible to identify 
the graves of the dead in that section of the cemetery. * * * 
Much damage was done by a recent fire in Pine Grove Ceme- 
tery, East Templeton, Mass. About 1.000 feet of new fence 
will have to be rebuilt, and many trees were damaged. 
* * * 
The annual meeting of the new Rosedale and Linden Park 
Cemeteries, comprising about 200 acres of land near Linden, 
N. J., was recently held, and showed a successful year of 
improvement work accomplished. The annual report of Sec- 
retary-Treasurer C. 0 -. Smith was read, noting that during 
the last year a public mausoleum, the largest in the state, 
constructed entirely above ground, has been erected. The cat- 
acombs are built of slate and are independent of each other. 
Over $20,000 additional has been expended during the year 
in developing and beautifying the properties. The associa- 
tion has reserved 40 acres of park land for roads, walks, lakes 
and ornamental purposes, and a trust fund of $1,000,000 guar- 
antees perpetual care to all lots. The following officers were 
re-elected: President, M. T. Wilbur; vice-president, Henry 
L. Dyer; secretary and treasurer, C. O. Smith. 
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City Engineer Hamilton Flood of Quincy, Mass., is making 
an accurate plan of the old historic Hancock cemetery, in City 
Square, in accordance with a recent vote of the city council. 
This ancient city of the dead is 250 years old, and contains 
many ancient memorial tablets, the inscriptions on which are 
fast becoming indistinct. Every stone and tomb will now be 
numbered, and a record of the names on each will be kept. 
There rest in this ancient cemetery the bodies of more illus- 
trious persons of pre-revolutionary times than in any other 
burial spot in the vicinity of Boston. The first memorial tab- 
let erected in the ancient in-closure was to the memory of 
the Rev. William Thompson, the first pastor of the old First 
Meeting House, in 1666. The first tomb was erected in 1675 
for Leonard Hoar, M. D., who was third president of Har- 
vard College, and ancestor of Senator George F. Hoar. 
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IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. 
The improvements for the year at St. Edward’s Cemetery,. 
M'onson, Mass., include the establishment of a waterworks 
system, including a windmill and an artificial lake. * * * 
St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery, Lowell, Mass., has completed 
a new office building. * * * The parish of the Immacu- 
late Heart of Mary Church, Winchendon, Mass., has bought 
from the town six acres of land from adjoining Riverside and 
Calvary Cemeteries, for burial purposes. This plot of land 
will double the size of Calvary Cemetery. * * * A fund 
of about $5,000 has been raised for the improvement of Spring 
Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, N. Y. It is hoped to increase 
this sum to $10,000, when the cemetery will be extensively 
improved. A new entrance and a chapel and receiving vault 
are ainong the improvements planned. * * * Lakeside 
Cemetery, Wakefield, Mass., is to erect a new receiving tomb. 
It will be of the Tuscan order of architecture, 29x33 feet in 
ground dimensions, built of blue Westerly granite, with 
woodwork of Georgia pine. It will contain 24 catacombs. 
* * * Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Mass., is to build 
a conservatory, 85x22 feet, containing a palm-house 22 feet 
square in the center. Hitchings & Co., of New York, have 
been awarded the contract. * * * A new receiving vault 
has been completed at the Cote des Neiges Cemetery, Mont- 
real, Que. The structure is of sandstone, 50x100 feet in 
ground dimensions, and two stories high. It has accommoda- 
tions for 3,000 coffins. * * * The Woodlawn Cemetery 
Association, Canandaigua, N. Y., has adopted plans for a 
new chapel, and expects to let contracts for its erection this 
summer. * * * Improvements to cost $3,000 are to be 
made in Grandview Cemetery, Alton, 111 . They include a new 
entrance, grading, and building of roadways. * * * Oak 
View Cemetery, Frankfort, N. Y., has contracted with the 
Rogers Iron Co., of Springfield, O., for a new arched en- 
trance gate. It will consist of one main arch twelve feet wide, 
with side gates for pedestrians. 
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NEW CEMETERIES. 
Options are being secured on extensive tracts of land north 
and south of Youngstown, Ohio, for the establishment of two 
new cemeteries. Eastern capitalists are said to be financing 
the movement. * * * A new Lithuanian Cemetery con- 
taining 13 acres of land was recently dedicated in Water- 
bury, Conn. Vincent S. Zubrickas is chairman of the asso- 
ciation. * * * The Green Lawn Cemetery Association has 
been incorporated with a capital stock of $1,500, at Darling- 
ton, Ind. The association is to purchase and improve the 
grounds of the old Friends’ Cemetery, and some adjoining- 
land. Daniel Lewis is secretary of the association. * * * 
The Jewish Cemetery Association, of Des Moines, la., has 
purchased five acres of land from the city for cemetery pur- 
poses. * * * The Woodlawn Cemetery Association has 
been incorporated at Louisville, Ky., with a capital stock of 
$100,000. The incorporators are: John II. Frank, D. L. 
Knight, C. H. Parrish, and others. 
