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PARK AND CEMETERY 
A bill has been passed by the Massachusetts legislature 
authorizing the state treasurer to hold moneys devoted to 
the care of cemeteries and lots. 
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A fire in Beaver Meadow Cemetery, Haddam, Conn., 
swept over the entire place, destroyed the fence, injured the 
ornamental trees and shrubs and smoked and discolored 
many of the gravestones. 
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A bill is before the city council of Troy, N. Y., which em- 
powers the city to remove bodies from cemeteries and to 
extinguish the rights of lot-owners in such cemeteries. There 
is strong opposition to the bill, 
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Politics is causing trouble in the management of the ceme- 
tery at Fall River, Mass. The committee on burial grounds 
has undertaken to limit the power of the superintendent., and 
has interfered with the perpetual care of the lots. 
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Articles of incorporation have been filed for the iMount 
Washington Cemetery company, Kansas City, Mo. The 
corporation has a capital stock of $10,000 and $90,000 more 
is to be raised by the sale of 900 participating shares. iMany 
prominent business men are among the directors. The new 
cemetery contains about 3(So acres of land. 
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The Fairmount Cemetery Association, Davenport, Iowa, 
has started a fund for the perpetual care of lots. An addi- 
tional charge of $io for each lot willl be made for this pur- 
pose. By this means and by donations they expect to in- 
crease the fund until the income from it will provide for the 
care of all the lots. 
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At Hartsdale, twenty miles from New York, the New 
York Veterinary Ffospital has established a cemetery for 
dogs and although it has been in existence only three 
months, there have been seventy interments. Expenditures 
of from $10 to $50 are made for caskets and marble head- 
stones are erected by owmers of the dogs. 
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The Palo Alto stock farm, Palo Alto, Cal., has estab- 
lished a cemetery for horses in which are buried many fa- 
mous trotters that have held records. This equine cemetery 
contains twelve graves over which neat markers have been 
erected by Mrs. Leland Stanford. Flowers and shrubs are 
planted and cared for, and the grounds are carefully kept. 
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The owners of Gerber Cemetery, Cumru, Pa., have re- 
cently won a suit in the lower court and had it affirmed by 
the superior court to establish their title to ground belong- 
ing to the cemetery tract which had been occupied by a 
railroad. The tracks of the railroad bar the entrance to the 
cemetery and the cemetery people will now sue for posses- 
sion. 
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The Teutonia Lutheran Realty Co., which was refused the 
right to operate a new cemetery in Bloomfield, N. J., by the 
local board of health, has appealed to the state board. The 
company claims that the law allows the incorporation of 
another cemetery, and that the refusal of the Bloomfield 
board is not based on sanitary grounds. Those opposed 
claim that it is merely a money-making scheme. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Spokane, Wash., has begun the 
erection of a new reservoir with a capacity of 1,000,000 gal- 
lons. A new rock fence is being built which, with other im- 
provements, will cost $2,000. 
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The trustees of Calvary Cemetery, Toledo, O., have added 
a new section to their grounds and authorized other exten- 
sive improvements. INIr. Henry Bresser, the landscape gar- 
dener, has been given carte blanche in the construction of a 
new greenhouse. 
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The Elmwood Cemetery Association, Batavia, N. Y., has 
resolved that hereafter all monuments and headstones 
erected in the cemetery shall be placed on foundations built 
by the sexton under the supervision of the trustees. The 
association has 534 lot-owners, and an endowment fund of 
$2,000. 
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The Elower Hill Cemetery company, Newark, N. J., re- 
cently appeared before the state board of taxation in an ap- 
peal for a reduction of the assessment of $16,000 on its prop- 
erty in north Bergen township. They claim exemption un- 
der a law of 1859 exempting cemetery property from tax- 
ation. The land in question is owned by the cemetery com- 
pany, but is not used for cemetery purposes. The township' 
officials claim that the exemption applies only to land ac- 
tually used for burial purposes. The state board has reserved 
its decision. 
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After encountering strong opposition a bill has passed the 
legislature at Ottawa, Canada, by a majority of one. allow- 
ing the Mount Royal Cemetery company, Montreal, to erect 
and operate a crematory. Sir William C. Macdonald had 
offered to construct one but it was opposed on the grounds 
that it was a relict of Paganism, and that the English gov- 
ernment had always refused to sanction it. Amendments 
were finally added providing that the deceased must be eligi- 
ble for burial in the cemetery and must have expressed in 
his' will a desire to be cremated. 
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The cemetery of Pekin, 111 ., is one of the number of ceme- 
teries in the country having a woman as president of the as- 
sociation, iMiss Eliza Hodgson. In an appeal in the local 
press all interested in the appearance of the cemetery are 
urged to place the care of their lots in the hands of the of- 
ficials, and a scale of charges has been arranged. The diffi- 
culty of maintaining interest so that the finances may be 
satisfactorily arranged in our smaller cemeteries is a common 
one, but persistent efforts in the direction of keeping in- 
terest alive in an educational way will triumph in the end. 
Improvements in the Pekin cemetery will be made under the 
direction of a competent landscape gardener. 
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The following are some proposed cemetery improvements: 
Oaklands Cemetery, W. Chester. Pa., proposes to erect new 
entrance gates by public contributions to cost $2,500. * * =•= 
The Mount Olive Cemetery, N. Ridgeland and Bernice ave- 
nues, Chicago, is to build a new ornamental entrance struc- 
ture, 36x107 feet, and two stories high to cost $12,000. * * * 
The Woman’s Relief Corps will erect a new residence for the 
superintendent, and make other improvements to cost $5,500 
at the National Cemetery, Andersonville, Ga. * * * The 
Mount Royal Cemetery company, Montreal, P. Q., will erect 
a new and larger office building in place of the one destroyed 
by fire. * * * Fort Howard Cemetery, Green Bay. Wis., 
will build roads, erect a fountain and form a terraced basin 
to cost $2,000. * * * Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Me., 
a new waiting room and gate at south entrance. 
