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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 m this department. 
A flourishing little country cemetery is Chepachet Cemetery, 
Gloucester, R. I., according to the report of the recent annual 
meeting. Total assets are $5,109.09; of this amount $1,409.09 
is available funds, and $3,700 is a trust fund, permanently in- 
vested for use in the perpetual care of lots. The income for 
the year was $888.38. The late Alexander Eddy served as sec- 
retary for an unbroken period of 45 years and was promi- 
nently identified with the association from its organization. 
* * * 
The contract for further improvement in the new High- 
land Park Cemetery, on Kinsman St., Cleveland, O., will be 
let at an early date, and it will be the largest city burial ground 
in Cleveland. It comprises 440 acres, 23 of which have been 
improved, and plans are in progress for the improvement of a 
further 25 acres, which will be adequate for a few years. The 
cost of improving the 48 acres will probably reach $45,000. 
The site is a commanding one, and the arrangement for 
burials will be facilitated by the fact of the electric railway 
running through the middle of the grounds. 
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The Searsport, Me., Village Cemetery Association has been 
organized for the purpose of improving the village cemetery, 
and by-laws and rules have been adopted to systematically 
conduct its affairs. The movement has met with a liberal re- 
sponse from the lot owners, and a superintendent has been 
appointed to carry out the work. Funds are to be provided 
by an assessment plan, two dollars being the annual dues on 
single lots. The by-laws provide for an executive committee 
empowered to control all work and improvements, the ex- 
penditure of funds and the investment of trust funds. 
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The corner stone of the chapel, depot and administration 
buildings of Pinelawn Cemetery, Babylon, L. I., was laid re- 
cently with appropriate ceremonies and a large attendance of 
prominent people. The cemetery comprises 2,319 acres, is 
four times the area of Prospect Park, and is practically as 
large as the territory on Manhattan Island from 14th Street 
to the Battery. The main arteries of travel consist of 45 miles 
of roads, with 100 miles of auxiliary paths. The grounds 
have a rolling surface, with porous gravel and sandy soil, and 
a rich, loamy topsoil requiring no artificial drainage. The 
cemetery is guarded day and night, and modern electrical ap- 
pliances have been utilized to protect the property. 
* * * 
The proposal of the Board of Directors of the old Mechan- 
ics’ Cemetery, Philadelphia, to dispose of that property and 
purchase new ground in the northeast part of the city, re- 
sulted in a very stormy meeting and the trouble did not end 
with its adjournment. Another meeting was held by the lot- 
holders at which a committee was appointed to investigate and 
report upon the necessity of removing the cemetery as claimed 
by the officials. At the next regular meeting in November 
an effort was made to elect a new board of directors. The 
value of the old cemetery, eight acres in area, is placed at 
$225,000 and the proposed new grounds of fifty acres at $60,- 
000. 
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Mr. Roderick Campbell, for twenty years superintendent of 
Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, N. Y., is now busily engaged in 
Greenlawn Cemetery, the new cemetery at Syracuse, N. Y., of 
which he was appointed superintendent and manager in May 
last. This new cemetery, which is located at Warner, a short 
distance from the city limits, has many things to commend it 
in view of making it an ideal cemetery, and the new super- 
intendent, whose record is an excellent one, is bending his en- 
ergies towards making the most of the opportunities presented 
to him. During Mr. Campbell’s regime at Forest Hill, the 
cemetery was enlarged from 90 to 240 acres, and is esteemed 
one of the fine cemeteries of the country, with records and 
business details in exemplary condition. A large force of men 
has been employed at Greenlawn and the cemetery is rapidly 
being brought into an attractive property, the landscape details 
receiving special attention. 
* * * 
THE NEW ENGLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. 
The association met at Boston on September 22d, at 2 o’clock 
for a trip in carriages through the Boston Park system, the 
Arnold Arboretum and other interesting points. In the Ar- 
boretum the Viburnum, Thorn, Ash, Crab Apple and other 
berried trees and plants were at their best, the magnificent 
coloring of some of the Sumacs attracting special attention. 
In Franklin Park section an inspection of shops, storehouse 
and out-buildings was made and an exhibition of spraying ap- 
paratus at work was given the visitors. Dinner was served at 
Copley Square Hotel at 6:30 p. m., and at 7:45 the meeting 
was called to order by President McCarthy and the president 
of the National Society was called upon for remarks on his 
visit to Chicago. After the discussion of several topics of 
interest to cemetery management and the association a very 
interesting talk on the Boston Park system was given by Mr. 
J. W. Duncan, calling special attention to the different kinds 
of grass suitable for the particular uses there; also describing 
the building of a bowling green. The meeting afterwards ad- 
journed to meet upon the second Wednesday in November. 
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CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS. 
Oakridge Cemetery, Marshall, Mich., has added six acres to 
its property, which it is intended to conduct as closely as pos- 
sible upon the lawn plan. 
The trustees of Washington Cemetery, Washington C. H., 
Ohio, have adopted a rule prohibiting Sunday funerals except 
in the vault or as provided by statutory law. It is to take 
effect on and after Nov. 1. 
Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa., has long been 
troubled by the theft of flowers and other decorations placed 
upon graves, and to guard against such petty depredations a 
special watchman is now employed to patrol the grounds dur- 
ing the hours the cemetery is open to visitors. 
Oak Ridge Cemetery, Sandwich, 111., is to have a receiving 
vault, and the remainder of the available ground is to be laid 
out on the lawn plan. The sale of lots in the proposed im- 
proved portion will be made on a perpetual care basis. The 
rules for the new portion will prohibit all copings and mound- 
ings, leaving nothing to interfere with the mowing machine 
in the care of the lawns. The vault will be built of concrete, 
into the bluff, with an ornamental brick or stone front, and 
