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PARK AND CEME.TER.Y 
Cemetery Notes. 
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has affirmed 
the decision of the lower court in favor of the Oakland Cem- 
etery Association in its suit against the city of Yonkers, N. 
Y., in which the court decided that the cemetery was not 
liable to assessment for public improvements. An assess- 
ment of $2,000 was levied upon the Oakland Cemetery for 
building a sewer in Walnut street and Ashburton avenue. 
'I'he trustees claimed exemption under a law of 1879 ; the city 
claimed that the exemption was not applicable to the city of 
Yonkers, but both the higher and lower courts decided in 
favor of the cemetery. 
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Tranquility Cemetery, Tranquility, N. J., is one of the 
old and prosperous burying grounds of that state. It w’as 
incorporated in 1878, and has had a total of 1,000 interments. 
It embraces 15 acres of rolling ground in the Lehigh Valley 
among the sandy hills of Sussex county, near the Lehigh 
and Hudson River Railroad. Interments take place from 
New York City, Newark, and the counties of Warren and 
Sussex in New Jersey. Mr. H. S. Wintermute, the present 
superintendent, has been in charge continuously since the 
incorporation of the cemeter}". 
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An interesting case involving the right to erect a monu- 
ment on a lot or remove a body therefrom is now before 
the Probate Court at Springfield, Mass. James W. Carney 
of Galesburg. 111 ., executor of the estate of the late Julia 
Sullivan, of Holyoke, Mass., has brought suit against Michael 
D. Sullivan, her son. The body of Mrs. Sullivan is buried in 
a lot in Calvary Cemetery, belonging to her son. the defend- 
ant. In her will she directed that a monument be erected over 
her body, but the son refused to allow the executor to erect 
the monument or remove the body to another cemetery. The 
plaintiff asks for the right to erect the monument and an in- 
junction restraining Michael D. Sullivan from interfering. 
The decision has not yet been handed down. 
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The legal right of the Cambridge Cemetery Company. 
Camijridge, Mass., to transfer land to the Metropolitan Park 
Commission will be passed upon by the Massachusetts Su- 
preme Court next month. Legislative acts prohibit to a 
certain extent the transfer of land which base been used for 
burial purposes, and no transfers can be made without a 
favorable judgment from the Supreme Court. The present 
hearing is given in order that the cemetery officials and the 
park commissioners may e.xchange pieces of land which will 
be for their mutual advantage. The state wants two strips 
of land along the Charles River for a parkway, and the ceme- 
tery wants two strips back of the river, which are owned 
by the state. It is proposed to exchange these pieces of land 
with the addition that the state is to pay $1,300 to the city of 
Cambridge. 
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Mr. Geo. Van Atta, superintendent of Cedar Hill Ceme- 
tery, Newark, Ohio, writes of a movement toward the aboli- 
tion pf Sunday funerals in two Ohio towns. The Board 
of Directors of Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima, Ohio, have passed 
a resolution prohibiting them, and will not issue any 
permits for that day. The trustees say that Sunday 
burials are in nearly all instances unnecessary ; that they re- 
sult in spread and parade, and compel the cemetery force 
to work on Sunday without any excuse. In Newark the mat- 
ter is being vigorously agitated by the newspapers and the 
clergy, and Mr. Van Atta believes that the trustees of Cedar 
Hill will soon take action to prohibit the Sunday burials. 
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The annual report of the Cemetery Board of Boston, 
Mass., has just been issued, containing the first of a series of 
historical sketches of Boston burial grounds. Copp’s Hill 
cemetery was the subject of the first sketch. Cotton Mather’s 
tomb, and many of the other gravestones and inscriptions 
are reproduced. Plans of all the cemeteries, locating lots, 
graves and tombs, are being prepared. A card catalogue 
of every tomb and gravestone, showing the inscription and 
exact location has been prepared. About 65,000 cards were 
required for the catalogues of Mount Hope and Evergreen 
cemeteries. The department has 19 cemeteries in its charge, 
in which there were 2,081 interments during 1900; of these 
1766 were in Mount Hope. The expenses for maintenance 
during the year were $62,914; receipts from sale of lots, dig- 
ging and care of graves, etc., amounted to $30,931. 
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Additional territory has been acquired by the following 
cemeteries : Zion Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn., will pur- 
chase the Mount Pleasant Cemetery of seven acres adjoining 
it. It will cost $7,000. * * !f: Langcliffe Cemetery, Avoca, 
Pa., has purchased an additional plot of ground, 265 x 150 
feet, and are grading and improving it. * * * Coffeyville, 
Kas., has bought a new cemetery of 80 acres about a mile 
from the city. It is well-drained farm land, and cost $1,500. 
* * * St. Lawrence Cemetery, Sayville, L. I., has se- 
cured an addition of 8 acres of ground. It will be used by 
both the Sayville and Bohemia Roman Catholic parishes. 
* * * The city council of Quincy, Mass., has appropriated 
$28,000 for the purchase of additional land for Mt. Wallaston 
cemetery. There are but 50 lots unsold in Mt. Wallaston, 
and the addition is imperative. * * * Mt. Home Ceme- 
tery, Kalamazoo, Mich., has added six acres to its terri- 
tory. * * * Elmwood, Montpelier, Vt., has purchased 4 
acres of ground, as only a few lots remained in the old 
grounds. * * * Fayette Cemetery Improvement As- 
sociation, Fayette. Mo., will lay out a new cemetery, and 
has purchased 50 acres of land for the purpose. The price 
paid was $1,575. 
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The following improvements to cemeteries are noted this 
month : Oak Grove. Fall River, Mass., has been presented 
with a fountain by C. P. Stickney; the fountain was made 
in Paris, and cost $350. * * * Oakwood Cemetery, Grand 
Rapids, Mich., is erecting a new memorial entrance, given 
by the late Josephine Southworth in memory of her hus- 
band. It is to be of granite, in the Greek style of architec- 
ture. The association is also erecting a steel bridge 150 feet 
long across a ravine near the entrance. * * * The Char- 
lotte Cemetery, Charlotte, Mich., is to build a receiving vault 
this summer to cost $1,200. Several new drives are also being 
laid out. * * * Pine Grove Cemetery, Leicester, Mass., is 
to be surrounded by a new wall of block stone, and a new 
gate will be hung on pillars of Milford granite. * * * 
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va., is to build a new 
mortuary chapel and receiving vault after plans by Stewart 
Barney, of New York. It will be of stone and will cost $10.- 
000, half of which was contributed by Chas. B. Rouss, of 
New York. * * * St. Adalbert’s cemetery, Niles township, 
111 ., will build a receiving vault to cost $20,000. It will be 
of fireproof construction. 32 x 74 feet, and will have room 
for 400 bodies. 
