PARK AND CEMKTERY 
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Cemetery Notes. 
The commission arranging for the construction of the new 
city hall in Cleveland, O., is considering the old Erie street 
cemetery as a site for the building. They have asked the city 
law department to report on the legal steps involved in get- 
ting possession of the property, and the removal of the bodies. 
The cemetery is centrally located, and the business district is 
gradually encroaching upon it. It is very old, and has had 
a total of 25,000 interments. 
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The National Cemetery, the military burial ground at the 
Presidio, San Francisco, Cal., is rapidly filling up as a result 
of the frequent deaths due to the late war, and the quarter- 
master’s department is already seeking a new site. There are 
room for 3,000 more bodies, and it is estimated that the space 
will be filled in two years. The National Cemetery was laid 
out in 1885 with a territory of eight and one-half acres, but 
has since grown to fifteen and one-half acres with a total of 
3,250 interments. Owing to the fact that an ordinance for- 
bids further burials within the city limits, the cemetery will 
have to look for a site outside of the city. 
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The Linden and Rosedale Cemetery has just been opened 
at Linden Park, N. J. The site is naturally adapted to ceme- 
tery purposes in both surface and soil, and embraces over 200 
acres of land. It is on the main line of the Pennsylvania 
Railway, 14 miles from New York City, from where it ex- 
pects to derive much of its patronage. Modern methods of 
cemetery management will be in force. 
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The perpetual care fund held by the cemetery commission- 
ers. Grand Rapids, Mich., now amounts to $2,330, the im- 
provement fund to $3,678.08, and the ten per cent fund to 
$6,000. The latter is derived from the laying aside of ten per 
cent of the gross receipts to be used in caring for neglected 
graves, repairing streets, buildings, etc. The council has been 
asked for permission to consolidate Valley City and Oak Hill 
cemeteries, under the name of Oak Hill. As soon as the two 
cemeteries are consolidated, the commissioners will begin a 
system of extensive improvements. 
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The Supervisors’ Committee on Finance, Buffalo, N. Y., 
has granted the petition of the Buffalo Burial Park Associa- 
tion to utilize 166 acres of land 7^4 miles from the city for 
cemetery purposes. The board has elected Mr. Bellett Law- 
son, Jr., formerly of the Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa., 
secretary and manager, and the work of improvement which 
contemplates the expenditure of $30,000 will begin at once. 
The grounds are conveniently located, being accessible from 
two street car lines, and a paved street, Delaware ave., from 
the city. The land is slightly rolling, and will be laid out on 
modern plans. 
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In the case of the Odd Fellows’ and Masonic cemeteries 
against the city of San Francisco to enjoin the city from en- 
forcing an ordinance prohibiting burials within the city limits. 
Judge Seawell rendered judgment in favor of the city, on the 
ground that an injunction was not the proper means of re- 
dress, since the action is of a quasi-criminal nature. The 
court held that the proper course for the cemeteries was to 
wait until an arrest had been made for the violation of the 
act, and then set up the alleged invalidity of the ordinance 
as a defense. In another case against the same ordinance in 
which the Laurel Hill Cemetery was the plaintiff. Judge Heb- 
bard granted a temporary injunction to the cemetery. This 
case has not yet been heard upon its merits. 
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Cemetery improvements as follows, are reported: Mt. 
Hope Cemetery, North Attleboro, Mass., is constructing a 
new office building and tool house. Prairieville Cemetery, 
Prairieville, III, will purchase additional land and construct a 
number of new driveways and waks, among which will be a 
nine-foot driveway extending through the middle of the ceme- 
tery and circling around the outside. Park Lake Cemetery, 
Beverly, Mass., will build an artificial lake, 300x100 feet, encir- 
cled by a ten-foot walk along the irregular shore line. Wood- 
lawn Cemetery, Nashua, N. H., will erect a greenhouse at a 
cost of $500. Rochester Cemetery, Topeka, Kas., will install 
a new wateriworks plant at a cost of $800. 
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The story of regeneration of Oakwood Cemetery, Redwing, 
Minn., told in another column, should encourage citizens and 
cemetery officials who see similar conditions in their own 
towns, to arise to herculean efforts, and do likewise. A copy 
of a local paper from Redwing gives an inkling of how this 
improvement was brought about. It contains a well written 
article by a prominent citizen urging lot owners to contribute 
to the cemetery work by taking advantage of the perpetual 
care provision, or pay their annual assessments. This course 
can not be too strongly urged upon other communities. Con- 
stant publicity and agitation will reform many a cemetery, just 
as it reforms people, cities, and nations. 
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The high prices of burial plots in the older cemeteries of 
New York City has led to the establishment of a number of 
rural cemeteries both in New York and New Jersey. One of 
the largest of these undertakings is the purchase by William 
H. Locke, of Manhattan, of 1,700 acres of land for cemetery 
purposes at Pine Lawn, L. I. The purchase price was $60,000. 
ten per cent of which was paid down, and ten per cent to be 
paid annually. The land has been re-conveyed to eight differ- 
ent cemetery associations, as the law forbids the establish- 
ment of a cemetery larger than 200 acres. The tract lies in 
the town of Babylon, on the Long Island Railroad, and a sta- 
tion will be built on the ground. Many prominent under- 
takers of New York are said to be behind the movement. As 
the newly purchased territory cost only $35 per acre, charges 
will be much lower than in many of the large New York 
cemeteries, where plots 8 by 8 feet it is said have been sold 
for $300, and charges of $8 for opening a grave are common. 
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The following new cemeteries have been established: 
Twenty citizens of Fayette and Howard counties, Missouri, 
have purchased 50 acres of land for cemetery purposes. The 
price paid was $i,575- * * * The city surveyor of Marinette, 
Wis., is engaged in surveying and plotting a new catholic 
cemetery to cover an area of about 20 acres. * * * Business 
men of Lafayette, Ind., have purchased the Shigley property 
just north of that city, and will establish a modern cemetery. 
Landscape engineer Herbert Earnshaw, of Earnshaw & Pun- 
shon, Cincinnati, O., has been engaged to lay out the grounds. 
* * * A new cemetery, The Rosedale and Linden Park, in 
Linden township. New Jersey, fourteen miles from New York 
City, has just been formally opened. It is on the line of the 
Pennsylvania railroad, and embraces about 230 acres of land. 
It is well-adapted to cemetery purposes, and has been laid out 
on modern principles by competent landscape gardeners. * * * 
Maple Hills Cemetery, Princeton, Ind., has been established 
by the Odd Fellows. It contains 34 acres of rolling ground, 
and will be developed on strictly modern principles at an ex- 
pense of $10,000 for improvements. 
