PARK AND CEMETERY 
143,000 were done away with. Next spring, however, hard 
work will be again required, and the authorities of adjacent 
sections have asked the co-operation of the Beverly Society 
in this important labor. 
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The Beverly Improvement Society, Beverly, Mass., is stir- 
ring up a campaign against the tree butchers. Many trees 
have been ruined in putting up wires, and the board of 
aldermen through the society’s influence has passed an ordi- 
nance forbidding the trimming of trees without the consent 
of the tree warden. 
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The Marion Improvement Association, Marion, Mass., now 
has a membership of 86. A committee has been appointed 
to prepare a booklet showing views of the town and giving 
interesting facts about it. William A. Andrew is secretary of 
the society. 
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The annual meeting of the Sandwich, Mass., Village Im- 
provement Society, was held last month. Although in exist- 
ence but a single year, the organization has made an excellent 
showing and has accomplished several things for the benefit 
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of the town, aside from lighting the streets. The receipt 
amounted to $486.82, and the expenditures, which were princi- 
pally for the original outlay for street lamps and the main- 
tenance of the same during the year, amounted to $406.16, leav- 
ing a balance in the treasury of $80.66. The membership is 
approaching the 300 mark, but the association urges an in- 
crease in membership. 
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The Barnstable Village Improvement Society, Barnstable, 
Mass., has organized and adopted a constitution. Article 2 
states the object of the society as follows: 
“Its object is to promote a healthy village pride and loyalty 
in old and young by creating sentiment, and uniting action in 
the following lines : 
“1. For improving our roadways. 
“2. For giving the historic names to our lanes. 
“3. For securing suitable tablets for historical places. 
“4. For properly observing the Fourth of July. 
“5. In general, for keeping clean and beautifying all public 
places in such way as shall preserve the time-honored char- 
acteristics of our village.” 
The following officers were elected: President, William H. 
Crocker ; secretary, F. S. Kent ; treasurer, A. F. Sherman. 
Oahwood Cemetery 
The new chapel and receiving vault of 
Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Minn., was 
dedicated with interesting ceremonies by 
the Austin Cemetery Association last fall. 
It is built in Gothic style, with high, 
sloping roof and shingled sides, and is 
located near the Lansing avenue entrance 
in the new addition to the cemetery. The 
building is 28x42 feet in ground dimen- 
sions, and cost, complete and furnished, 
$4,200. The main entrance is through a 
portico six feet wide, supported by four 
columns ; and a porte cochere thirteen 
feet wide, furnishes ample accommoda- 
tions for carriages. 
The superintendent’s office, immedi- 
ately within the doorway, has separate 
communication with the outside as well 
as with the main auditorium. The chapel 
is finished on the interior in oak and has 
pews to seat 125 people, with gallery and 
space for chairs to accommodate 200. 
The floor is of cement on brick arches, 
and a lowering device in front of the 
pulpit communicates with the receiving 
vault below. The latter is fireproof, of 
cement and iron construction, and has 
space for 75 caskets. A separate en- 
trance closed by iron doors also com- 
municates with the vault from the exte- 
rior. 
The use of the chapel is free to the lot-holders, and 
the work of the association in securing its erection has 
been much praised by citizens and the local press. 
The association was organized in 1862, and now 
Chapel, Austin, Minn. 
CEMETERY, AUSTIN, MINN. 
controls in Oakwood a tract of 200 acres. The present 
officers are : President, D. IT. Stimson ; secretary, Dr. 
W. L. Hollister ; treasurer, S. A. Smith; superintendent, 
A. Frederich. 
CHAPEL OF OAKWOOD 
