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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Annual reports or extracts from them , historical sketches, 
descriptive circulars, photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department . 
“Lake View Cemetery Employes Discipline Themselves” is 
the title of an illustrated article in a recent issue of the Cleve- 
land. 0 ., Leader. It describes an admirable system of man- 
agement worked out under the direction of Mr. Frederick 
Green, the secretary and treasurer, which has given Lake 
View a force of efficient and faithful workmen. The system 
and some of the rules adopted for the employes will be the 
subject of an article in a subsequent issue of this paper. 
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“The North Point Improvement Cemetery Company" has 
been incorporated at Towson, Md. In addition to the power 
to establish a cemetery, the company is authorized to “conduct 
and carry on the general business of a wholesale and retail 
grocer)-, provision and supply store.” Its capital stock is 
limited to $2,500 and is divided into 500 shares of $5 each. 
The incorporators are Edward W. Russell, Samuel Gillian, H. 
J. Lowers, and others. 
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Mary L. Hunter, of Glendale, Long Island, N. Y., has 
transferred to the Lutheran Cemetery Association, for a nom- 
inal consideration of $10, eight acres adjoining the cemetery, 
upon the agreement that she and the association shall share 
and share alike in the sale of burial plots, lots and graves. 
It is also part of the contract that the association shall keep 
a set of books showing the transactions in detail and shall 
pay to Mary L. Hunter every two weeks any money which 
may be due to her. 
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W. N. Rudd, president of the Illinois Association of Ceme- 
teries, sends us the following letter as an illustration of some 
of the difficulties of promoting a state cemetery association. 
The letter was received in answer to a request for the writer 
to become a member of the lately organized Illinois Associ- 
ation : 
, HI 
Rudd & Co. Sirs I am not a sucker We have the nicest 
cemetery in the county. The cemetry belong to the U. B. 
church we have nearly $1000 dollars in the treasure and you 
cant draw it out. We have taken care of the cemetry so far 
and I think we dont need any of your help neither can you 
have any of our money 
Sect & Treasurer 
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The ninth annual report of the Board of Cemetery Commis- 
sioners of New Bedford, Mass., is a handsomely illustrated 
and printed book, giving a complete report of the work done 
during 1903, and recommendations for the future. The four 
larger cemeteries are : Rural, Oak Grove, Pine Grove, and 
Griffin Street, and the total expenditure was $32,093.98, divided 
as follows: Rural, $15,573.18; Oak Grove, $13,153.15; Pine 
Grove, $808.28; Griffin Street, $52.95. The report of Super- 
intendent Charles F. Cornell shows that there were 31,183 plants 
and 684 trees and shrubs set out in the spring of 1903. There 
were 66 lots placed in perpetual care during the year, making 
the total number 821. There were 672 interments during the 
year. The report is illustrated with half-tones printed in color, 
showing many beautiful scenes in the cemeteries. 
A CEMETERY PROBLEM, 
As the time of our annual convention draws near, the one 
subject uppermost in my mind is, How are we to provide for 
the future care of cemeteries where the ground has been sold 
out at a low price, say from 10 cents to .20 cents per square 
foot, as is true of a large majority of the cemeteries in the 
State outside of Chicago? Correspondence with a large num- 
ber of superintendents in the State the past year reveals the 
fact that very few made any provision for perpetual care. 
Take Dodge Grove Cemetery for an illustration. It has 
always belonged to the city. The first ten acres was sold 
for almost nothing, and the second ten at from 10 cents to 20 
cents per square foot. If any surplus was left at the end of 
the year it went into the city treasury. Consequently we are 
now about out of ground and without funds. We must either 
go ' on doubling our prices indefinitely, or find some plan to 
provide a permanent income for the twenty acres we now 
have in use. 
Will some kind superintendent tell me how it is to be done? 
If we were just starting a new cemetery it would be an easy 
matter to regulate, but we have now an annual expense roil 
of from $1,500 to $i,8co, which must be met, and to saddle 
this burden onto those who purchase lots in the new addition, 
when made, would be very unjust indeed. What I would 
prefer to do would be to sell the lots in the new addition at 
a price that would include a certain per cent for a perpetual 
care fund, and raise a fund for the permanent care of the old 
part by some other means. Will some kind friend who has 
had experience tell me how to do it? 
John E. Miller, 
Supt. Dodge Grove Cemetery, Mattoon, 111 . 
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CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS, 
Hope Cemetery, Salem, O., is raising a fund for improve- 
ment, and will incorporate. A fund of $10,000 is pledged. 
The Stafford Springs Cemetery Association, Stafford 
Springs, Mass., will soon let the contract for a receiving vault 
to cost about $2,000. The funds will be obtained from the 
sale of the standing timber given to the association by the 
late Josiah Converse. 
Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass., will place labels on the 
trees giving the names of the different varieties. A contract 
has also been let for the enlargement of the receiving tomb. 
The Alta Mesa Cemetery Association, Los Angeles, Cal., 
is making extensive improvements. The contract has been 
let to G. Laumeister for a chapel, gate house and receiving 
vault, to cost $17,335. It will be of cement and brick, in 
Modern Mission style of architecture. Perpetual care is in 
force, and a landscape gardener is engaged in beautifying the 
grounds. A crematory is to be erected within a year. 
The Union Cemetery Association, Scituate, Mass., has 
awarded the contract to a Boston firm for the erection of a 
receiving vault to cost $542. 
The Norwood Park Cemetery Association, Chicago, has 
purchased an additional tract of 23 acres from Elbert C. Smith. 
The tract cost $99,800 and is located at Sandford street and 
Higgins road. 
Riverside Cemetery, Davenport, la., has purchased eight 
acres of adjoining land for $1,600. 
St. Gerome Cemetery, Holyoke, Mass., has bought twelve 
acres of additional territory. 
