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it would. The management of many cemeteries will not send 
their superintendent and pay his expenses, because they do 
not look at it from a business standpoint. There are super- 
intendents who could attend and have their expenses paid, 
but they do not think it would be of any advantage to them 
as they know it all, not thinking what a benefit they would be 
to many of us who do not know it all. 
Another communication appears in your paper and the writer 
signs himself ‘‘Another Member,” in which he advances some 
good ideas. He advocates writing to one another. And I 
would advocate signing their names. I dislike anonymous com- 
munications. I have always held a pleasant correspondence 
with many of our members and it is a good way to shake 
hands through the year and it keeps up the interest. 
A man that takes an interest in his work will always make 
it known and he will not fall by the wayside through non- 
payment of dues. 
We are all looking forward to our next convention at Wash- 
ington and in the meantime let us do all we can to obtain 
some new members. I think we can add a few new eastern 
men. Let us write to one another and write to Park and 
Cemetery, and I hope to see another communication from an 
“Old Member” and “Another Member” with their names, for 
it seems much more sociable. Hoping we will all meet at 
Washington with unnecessary expenses curtailed, and a Happy 
New Year to all the members. 
Lynn, Mass. William Stone. 
Animal reports or extracts from them, historical sketches, 
descriptive circulars , photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department . 
FROM THE ANNUAL REPORTS. 
At the annual meeting of the proprietors of Swan Point 
’ Cemetery, Providence, R. I., plans were discussed for the 
erection of the new office building which is now under con- 
struction. It will be of stone 32I4 by 15 feet, and will con- 
tain waiting rooms for men and women and offices for the 
superintendent and his assistant. The architects are Stone, 
Carpenter & Willson, of Providence. There were 303 inter- 
ments for the year, making a total of 16,168. The perpetual 
care fund amounts to $350,888.15, an increase of $12,382 in 
1904. The total receipts were $141,020.13, and the expenditures 
$130,836.99. Alfred Stone was re-elected president and Tim- 
othy McCarthy superintendent. 
* * * 
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburg, Pa., recently held its an- 
nual meeting. The former manager and officers were re- 
elected for 1905, and the following statistics of the year pre- 
sented : Lot sales, $62,848.25 ; interments, 863 ; improvements 
by cemetery, $37,078.43 ; improvements by lot owners, $68,- 
643.50; cash on hand, $128,355.00; improvement and perpetual 
maintenance, $182,386.95. The improvements commenced in 
1904 are under contract and will entail large expenditures, but 
will be greatly to the advantage of Homewood when com- 
pleted. * * * 
The annual report of J. C. Cline, of Woodland Cemetery, 
Dayton. O., records a number of substantial improvements. 
There were 22,247 square feet of ground sold during the 
year, including 2,520 family lots and 5,400 single grave and 
two grave lots. Of this area 7,241 square feet were sold 
under perpetual care, and deposits made for 15,800 square 
feet additional, making a total area of 270,791 square feet or 
about 6.22 acres now under perpetual care. Foundations were 
built for 32 monuments and two mausoleums. Among the 
other improvements accomplished were: The laying of 1,650 
feet of water pipe, the installing of a new card index system 
and the laying of 612 feet of cement curbs and gutters, which 
Mr. Cline regards as the best way of keeping the gutters and 
roadsides free from weeds. There were 821 interments dur- 
ing the year, making a total of 25,906 to date. 
* * * 
Oakland Cemetery Association, St. Paul, Minn., closed its 
50th fiscal year at the annual meeting in November. The 
trustees’ report showed that the cemetery had suffered se- 
verely from the tornado of Aug. 20. Nearly $1,000 has 
already been expended for repairs, which are not yet com- 
plete. 
The ordinary net receipts of the year were $19,225, and 
from the perpetual care fund $14,203, making the total re- 
ceipts $36,410. The total expenses were $36,097, of which 
$11,542 was on account of the perpetual care fund. The chief 
item of expense was the pay roll, amounting to $17,423. The 
balance on hand is $313.44. During the year nearly an acre of 
new land was graded and seeded, and nearly an acre was 
regraded and sodded. A cement pavement was built at the 
main entrance gateway and the contract has been let for re- 
building the entrance arch damaged by the tornado. Trees, 
shrubs and evergreens to the number of 522 had been planted; 
159 foundations built, 48 monuments set, and 107 graves 
marked. The interments for the year number 325, which 
makes the total to Oct. 31, 15,152. The association has used 
less than one-half of the original eighty acres set aside for 
burial purposes. The association membership is in the neigh- 
borhood of 3,000, and is scattered all over the continent, with 
a few in foreign lands. * * 
The report of Superintendent A. D. Smith, of Mountain 
View Cemetery, Oakland, Cal., for 1904, records much im- 
provement work accomplished. There were 999 interments 
during the year, making a total of 24,134. A large area of 
new ground was opened up, which will be laid out on the lawn 
plan with perpetual care throughout. The most notable per- 
manent improvement was the completion of the new receiving 
tomb. It is of concrete lined with Italian marble, and con- 
tains 136 catacombs. A peristyle 65 feet long, composed of 
twelve masonry columns nine feet high, was built over the 
main walk and will be covered with creeping vines and shrubs 
selected for variety and richness of foliage and beauty of 
flower. Much time and labor have been devoted to the beau- 
tifying of the grounds. South of the main avenue a stretch 
of lawn 1,200 feet long was sown with Kentucky blue grass, 
and bordered with a planting of white Marguerites from 15 
to 20 feet wide. Some of the elms, planted many years ago, 
have been judiciously thinned out to open up beautiful vistas 
from the drives. The water distributing system has been ex- 
tended by laying two-inch pipes along the main avenue and 
around the new receiving tomb and approaches. A net profit 
of $441.70 was realized from the cemetery’s hay crop. Dur- 
ing the year there was received from the sale of family lots 
$14,205.89; from the sale for single graves, $4,939; from in- 
terments, $5,192.40; from foundations for coping, etc., $1,394 1 
from tomb rents, $1,500.50; care and culture of family lots, 
$13,197; perpetual care, $23,607.45 ; the total receipts during the 
year amounting to $91,099.28. The total expenditures during 
the year amounted to $65,346.51. 
