PARK AND CEMETERY 
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W'oodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, O.. is to erect a new lodge 
and entrance, gates to cost $5,000. Bids have been opened, 
but as they all exceeded the appropriation, the board will 
probably readvertise. 
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The report of Cyrus D. Phipps, seventeen years superin- 
tendent of the cemetery at Franklin, Pa., shows the follow- 
ing statistics for the year ending April i, 1901: Interments 
for the year. 106; total interments, 2,000; receipts. $2.20,5; 
expenditures, $1,859; assets, $5,703. 
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The annual report of the Utica Cemetery Association 
shows the following statistics: Cash on hand April i, 1901, 
$1,081.84: receipts from sale of lots, $5,712.88: receipts from 
all sources. $25,165.65: expenditures for the year, $20,355.73; 
new investments made, $3,728.08; total amount of trust funds 
and interest April i, 1901, $78,081.69; number of inter- 
ments, 481. 
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The annual report of the president of the board of cenie- 
tery commissioners. Grand Rapids, Alich., calls attention to 
the following improvements: Substitution of hedges and 
shrubs for picket fencing, macadamizing of roads and drive- 
ways. plotting and improving of additional ground for ceme- 
tery purposes, improvement of entrances and a new office 
building at a cost of $2,500. 
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Two instances of strikes among cemetery employes are 
reported this month. At Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Mass., 
all the employes, numbering between twenty and thirty, quit 
work owing to an increase in their time of labor from nine 
to ten hours. They claim that they are city employes and 
should receive the benefit of the eight hour day allowed 
other workmen for the city. Thirteen grave-diggers at 
Holy Cress Cemetery, Philadelphia, quit work in sympathy 
for one of their number who was discharged. Their places 
were supplied but the strikers induced several of the new 
men to quit. 
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The proposed use of the old North Street Cemetery, Buf- 
falo. X. Y., as a site for the armory of the 65th regiment, has 
again become a matter of litigation in the Supreme court of 
New York. Proceedings have been begun to set aside the 
order ai)i)ointing commissioners to appraise the value of the 
land. The action is brought by Bernard Huber to prevent 
ihe removal of the bodies of relatives, and is based on legal 
(luestions involving alleged irregularities in the work of the 
commissioners, and on the constitutionality of the act appro- 
priating the site. The county auditor has begun the paying 
out of $100,000 in land awards to lot holders in the old 
cemetery, and the work of exhuming the bodies is pro- 
gressing rapidly. 
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Two cases of o|)posit;on to proposed highways through 
cemetery grounds are reported: The Borough of Totowa. 
X. J.. wants to open Union avenue through the cemeterx' 
of the Holy Sepulchre, and ha\-e made offers of considerable 
sums to the cemetery officials. The Very Rev. Dean Mc- 
Nulty. who is in charge of the cemetery, refused to consider 
the proposition, but it is said that the avenue may be opened 
in spite of his objections. A trolly road now being built 
between two Pennsylvania towns contemplates running its 
line directly through the Stark & Wilcox burying ground. 
Plains, Pa. This is one of the historic cemeteries of the 
state and descendants of families buried there will oppose 
the construction of the trolley line through it. 
A bill has been introduced in the Illinois legislature and 
referred to the Appropriations committee for the erection of 
a mausoleum in memory of Abraham Lincoln. The bill ap- 
propriates $500,000 and contemplates the appropriation of 
$250,000 more. In addition to this, $250,000 is expected 
from Congress, making a total of $1,000,000. Five commis- 
sioners are to be appointed by the governor to decide on 
the location, and superintend the erection of the mausoleum. 
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The city council. iMobile, Ala., has passed an ordinance 
providing for and requiring perpetual care of lots in a new 
division of Magnolia Cemetery which has been opened. After 
stating the boundaries of the prescribed territory, the ordi- 
nance privides that lots shall be sold only on the conditions 
contained in the following section: 
Section 2. Be it further ordained, that lots twenty feet l)y 
twenty-four feet in size, shall be subject to sale in that por- 
tion of Magnolia Cemetery described in section one of this 
ordinance upon the following terms and conditions: E\ery 
purchaser of any lot of the size defined, shall pay for the 
same and for coping it (said coping to be in all cases of a 
uniform height of ten inches) the sum of $75. and also the 
sum of $175 shall be paid into the city treasury, the interest 
from said last named sum to be used solely for the purpose 
of keeping said lots and the graves, tombs and monuments 
thereon in good order and condition perpetually. 
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The trustees of the old Congressional Cemetery on the 
eastern outskirts of Washington. D. C.. are petitioning con- 
gress to deed them the remainder of the 400 lots for ordi- 
nary burial purposes. This cemetery was originally estab- 
lished as a burial place for congressmen who died in ser- 
vice, but the usual custom has been to merely erect a ceno- 
taph there and take the body home for interment. There are 
now 160 of these cenotaphs standing, very few of which mark 
the actual burial places of the deceased. They are. with two 
exceptions, plain blocks of masonry covered with cement 
and inscribed with the name and state of the congressman. 
The two exceptions are a pyramid-shaped marble monument 
to Elbridge Gerry and one to George Clinton of New York. 
In 1876 a law was passed forbidding the erection of memo- 
rials except over actual graves, and it is probable that the 
next congress will grant the trustees the right to sell the re- 
maining lots. 
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Four cemeteries which claim especial distinction on ac- 
count ot their age are the following: Old Prospect Ceme- 
tery, Jamaica village, near Brooklyn, N. Y.. has been a bury- 
ing ground for more than 200 years. The plot that started 
the present cemetery was ten rods of ground established as 
a burial lot in 1665. Many of the original headstones are 
still extant, though some of the in:scriptions on them have 
entirely disaitpeared. The old Mt'ravian Cemetery of Gnad- 
enhuetten, ne.ar Leighton. Pa., was established about 1740. 
The little \illage was a Moravian mission station and was 
burned by Indians in 1755. The mounds can hardly be dis- 
cerned, save in a few cases where tablets were erected in 
memory of settlers who were killed by the savtiges. At 
Stonington, Conn., is another ancient cemetery which was 
laid out about 1649. It contains the bodies of the first set- 
tlers of the town and its crumbling gravestones arc marked 
with many (|uaint inscri])tions. The Seventh Day Bai>tist 
ljurying ground, Warwick township. Pa., is imjre than 150 
years old and had its last interment about twenty-five years 
ago. It is the resting place of the founders of the Seventh 
Day Baptist church. The oldest inscription which can be 
deciphered is dated May 21, 1744. 
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