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The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals is trying to establish in Boston a cemetery for 
the burial of pet animals and birds. Subscriptions are being 
solicited. One Massachusetts woman is having a $500 marble 
monument erected on an island off the coast for a dog which 
recently died. 
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The cemetery employes of New Bedford, Mass., recently 
enjoyed a half-holiday, picnic and clam-bake. There were 
70 people fed at the clam-bake, and a fine dinner was served. 
After the feast athletic sports, including a baseball game, 
tug-of-war, etc., were indulged in. The ball game was won 
by the Rural Cemetery nine and the tug-of-war by the Oak 
Grove team. The festivities were under the direction of 
Charles F. Cornell, superintendent of cemeteries, and P. A. 
MacoVnber, clerk of the cemetery board. 
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At the annual meeting of the Fairmount Cemetery Associ- 
ation, Davenport, la., Secretary J. C. Johnson reported that 
the sum of $2,000 had been spent during the last year in im- 
provements. There were 140 interments during the year, 
making a total of 2,593 since the opening of the cemetery in 
1882. A tower 35 feet high is to be erected on the highest 
point in the cemetery, and will give a view of 36 miles. 
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Under the auspices of the American Jewish Historical 
Society and the American Scenic and Historical Preservation 
Society the old Hebrew cemetery on the New Bowery near 
Oliver St., New York City, was reconsecrated last 
spring, and a tablet was erected which bears this brief but 
significant inscription : “This tablet marks what remains of 
the first Jewish cemetery in the United States, consecrated 
in the year 1656, when it was described as ‘outside the city.’ 
During the war of the Revolution it was fortified by the 
patriots as one of the defenses of the city. Erected under 
the auspices of the American Scenic and Historical Preserva- 
tion Society and of the American Jewish Historical Society.” 
This cemetery was first consecrated in 1656 and is the oldest 
Hebrew burying ground in the United States. It was at that 
time outside the city, but is now in the center of a densely 
populated tenement district. 
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Architect Raymond F. Almirall has completed plans for a 
mortuary chapel and a series of underground catacombs mod- 
eled after those of ancient Rome to be built in Calvary Ceme- 
tery, New York City. The catacombs are to occupy a space 
of about two acres underground, and are to be used solely 
for the burial of priests. The plan was conceived by Arch- 
bishop Farley while traveling in Rome, and will entail an 
expenditure of about $200,000. Outwardly there will be little 
to indicate the size of the catacombs, it being intended that 
the chapel shall stand over them. The plans contemplate 
that a shaft shall be sunk about fifty feet. When that depth 
is reached a cavern shaped in the form of a cross is to be 
dug. This will be walled with granite. The underground 
cavern is to be divided into compartments having a capacity 
of from twelve to fourteen bodies. Each body is to be sep- 
arated from the other by cemented walls. The chapel above 
the catacombs is to be 60x120 feet in size. It is to be con- 
structed in the shape of a Roman cross. A round tower is 
to surmount the chapel and it is to be ninety feet in height. 
It is to be tipped with the figure of the “Risen Christ.” Be- 
tween the two stairways of the sanctuary in the chapel is to 
be the main entrance of the underground cemetery. A steel 
door will reveal the entrance to the catacombs. At the extreme 
end of the cavern a chapel is to be arranged where the last 
services over the dead priests are to be held. 
LEGAL NOTES. 
Property owners of Saunders’ Park, a suburb of Minneapo- 
lis, Minn., will appeal to the Supreme Court of the state to 
test the constitutionality of the law giving cemetery associa- 
tions the right of eminent domain and the justice of Judge 
Cray’s decision that public necessity is such as to allow the 
Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, to exercise that right. Upon 
application of the association Judge Cray appointed a com- 
mission to determine whether a public necessity existed and 
if so to appraise the land in Saunders’ park which the asso- 
ciation desired to acquire. The case was fought at every 
point, but Judge Cray held for the association. The com- 
missioners decided that the land should be condemned and 
fixed valuations. These do not meet with the approval of the 
property owners and the condemnation will be resisted. 
Officials of seventeen Chicago and Cook county, 111 ., ceme- 
teries have been summoned before the board of review to show 
cause why they should not pay taxes. Some of the associa- 
tions are already assessed, but the board proposed to look 
carefully into each case to see if the personal property and 
the land not used for burial purposes are on the tax books. 
A suit was recently filed at Mt. Pleasant, la., by H. N. 
Payne and others, against the town of Wayland, to prevent 
the establishing of the new cemetery in that place. One of 
the reasons alleged why it should not be done is on account 
of the sanitary conditions resulting ; another is the price was 
too high, and that the resolution authorizing the purchase did 
not receive the necessary two-thirds vote. An injunction is 
asked for. 
NEW CEMETERIES. 
R. P. Laurian of Springwells, Mich., is planning to form 
a new Catholic Cemetery Association. Thirty acres of land 
near Woodmere Cemetery are to be purchased. * * The 
Crown Hill Cemetery Association has been organized at Bal- 
lard, Wash., with a capital stock of $8,000. The association 
has bought ten acres of land on a knoll overlooking the head 
of Main street. The officers are : President, A. W. Mackie ; 
vice-president, A. F. Bethe; secretary, W. F. Freudenberg. 
* * A territorial charter has been granted to the Forest 
Cemetery Association of Mills, Lincoln county, Oklahoma, 
with $500 capital stock. The incorporators include G. W. 
Smith, E. S. Oliphant and G. E. Kunkle. * * The Ever- 
green Cemetery Association has been organized at Detroit 
with a capital of $100,000 to operate a cemetery on land 
adjoining Woodlawn Cemetery. The promoters of the enter- 
prise are E. C. Miller, John C. Hickey, and A. G. Pitts. The 
board of directors is made up of prominent members of the 
Masonic fraternity, chosen from among the 10 Detroit lodges. 
* * The Locust Grove Cemetery Association of Schofield, 
Oklahoma, has been incorporated by O. M. Clark, B. L. 
Hancock, W. M. Tomlinson, and others. * * The Aline 
Cemetery Association, of Aline, Oklahoma, has been incor- 
porated by John E. Mincher, Ezra E. Hartshorn, M. M. Cully, 
and others. * * Grovelawn Cemetery has been organized at 
Pendleton, Ind., by C. L. Henry. It is to be dedicated Sep- 
tember 20. 
