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issue of $10,000 for the construction of a river park and drive- 
way on which work is soon to be begun. 
James Gordon Bennett, of New York City, will lay out and 
improve a large park in that city in memory of his father, 
the founder of the New York Herald. It will be north of 
i82d street, between Broadway and the Boulevard Lafayette, 
and will contain a monument to the elder James Gordon Ben- 
nett. 
An ornamental entrance gate is to be erected at Miller Park, 
Bloomington, 111 . 
The Joliet Improvement Association, Joliet, 111 ., is forming 
plans to convert the banks of the Drainage Canal in that 
city into a park. 
Charles Leavitt, Jr., has prepared plans for the improve- 
ment of the southern portion of Palmer Park, the large tract 
recently presented to Colorado Springs, Col., by General 
William Palmer. 
Cemetery Notes. 
An injunction has been granted Asa Backus, of Norwich, 
Conn., to prevent the city from narrowing River avenue in 
Yantic Cemetery to make room for additional single grave 
space. The officials have decided not to contest the injunction, 
and will let the avenue remain as it is. 
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At the 105th semi-annual meeting of the Boston Catholic 
Cemetery Association recently held at Roxbury, Mass., the 
total number of interments in Mount Calvary, New Calvary, 
Mount Benedict and Old Dorchester cemeteries, of Boston, 
was given as 119,200. 
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Thompsonville Cemetery, Thompsonville, Conn., has just 
completed a handsome new entrance. The gates are of iron, 
five feet high, hung on two finely carved posts of polished 
Quincy granite nine feet high, and surmounted by two polished 
balls of the same material. The approaches are also of gran- 
ite, and describe a part circle with two posts at each end. On 
the polished surface of the post at the left is the inscription, 
“Until the day break,” and on the post to the right is in- 
scribed, “And the shadows flee away.” 
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A company to be known as the Inter-State Cemetery Com- 
pany has purchased 250 acres of land between Trainer and 
Claymont, Pa., and will improve it for a cemetery. The capi- 
talization of the company is $250,000 and all the stock is sub- 
scribed and the charter applied for. The work of improve- 
ment will begin as soon as the weather permits. It is said 
that a number of capitalists of Chester, Pa., are interested in 
the enterprise. 
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Pine Hill cemetery at East Taunton, Mass., was laid out as 
a burial place in 1750. Between that date and 1800 there 
were 46 interments, or a little less than one a year for the half 
century. Of the first 46 buried there, 34 bore the name of 
Dean. 
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The stockholders and lot owners of the Union Cemetery 
Corporation, Brockton, Mass., decided at a recent special meet- 
ing to raise a fund of from $25,000 to $50,000 for the per- 
petual care of the cemetery. A committee of 25 is to be ap- 
pointed to determine ways and means for raising the fund. 
* * The Highland Cemetery Association, Wichita, Kas., has 
started a movement to raise $10,000 for the perpetual care of 
Highland Cemetery. 
The New England Cemetery Association held a banquet 
at the Quincy House, Boston, Dec. 21. Pres. Timothy Mc- 
Carthy presided. Fourteen new members were admitted and 
the by-laws perfected. The only other important business was 
the appointment of a committee to arrange for a ladies’ night 
sometime in March. * * * 
William Allen, of New Castle, Pa., was recently convicted 
of destroying ornamental evergreens in Graceland Cemetery 
in that city. The Pennsylvania statutes prescribe a penalty of 
one year’s imprisonment or a fine of $100 for such an offense, 
but the officials agreed to suspend the sentence on the payment 
of costs by the defendant, as this was the first offense of this 
kind ever perpetrated in the cemetery. 
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The reports of officers at the annual meeting of the Oakland 
Cemetery Association, St. Paul, Minn., showed a prosperous 
condition of affairs. Supt. John M. Boxell reported that 
one and one-half acres of ground have been graded and seed- 
ed, about 1,000 square feet of cements walks laid, 227 monu- 
ments and grave marks placed, 370 trees, shrubs and ever- 
greens planted, and 1,270 vases and flower beds filled for 
owners, besides more than 21,000 plants used by the associa- 
tion to decorate lawns. Less than one-half of the cemetery 
has been sold for burial purposes. During the year to Oct. 
31 there were 317 interments, making a total of 14,827. The 
receipts for the year were $31,928.20. The principal items of 
expenditure were as follows: Operations, $21,417.66; invest- 
ments for the perpetual care fund, $9,300; salaries and wages, 
$15,629.31; fuel, $1,372.45; lots and single graves surrendered, 
$1,252; investments for perpetual care fund amount to $123,- 
300. The officers were all re-elected. 
NEW CEMETERIES, IMPROVEMENTS AND 
ADDITIONS, 
The Catholic churches of Lorain, O., have bought 20 acres 
of land for $4,600 to be laid out as a union cemetery. 
St. Joseph’s church, Aurora, 111 ., has bought 25 acres of land 
to be improved at St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery. The tract 
cost $100 an acre. 
A new and attractive entrance has just been completed at 
Poquetanuck Cemetery, Poquetanuck, Conn. It comprises 
two iron gates, a boulder wall, and 1 four rough-faced stone 
posts 8 feet high, with pyramid tops. The total cost was 
about $500. 
McCully & Plenderson, civil engineers, have been employed 
to lay out the 90-acre cemetery of the Watch Tower Bible 
and Tract Society, near Westview, Pa. 
Architects are preparing plans for a new arched rough- 
stone entrance for Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, Ind. The 
main arch will be 35 feet high, and there will be two side en- 
trances for pedestrians. The total cost will be about $1,400. 
French residents of Haverhill, Mass., have purchased ten 
acres of land on Hilld'ale avenue from the Taylor estate for a 
cemetery. 
The Cashion Cemetery Association, Cashion, Oklahoma, has 
added three acres to its territory and is to erect a new fence. 
Franklin Cemetery, Rocky Grove, Pa., will make improve- 
ments in the main entrance, and may build a new chapel. 
The Board of Cemetery Commisssioners of Grand Rapids, 
Mich., contemplate building a pumping station to supply the 
City Cemetery with water. The amount of water annually 
required 1 is estimated at 5,000,000 cu. ft., and a system of drive 
wells is planned. An abundant supply of water can be reached 
at a depth of about forty feet. The territory to be supplied is 
about ninety acres, with varying elevations of 25 feet. They 
would like to receive suggestions from those experienced in 
such work. 
