PARK AND CEMETERY 
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The announcement made on this page last month regard- 
ing the opening of the new Greenlawn Cemetery at “Warren,” 
N. Y., should have read Warners, N. Y. Improvements on 
the grounds have been in progress for two years and are 
being rapidly pushed to completion. 
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An am'endment to the charter of the Greenwood Cemetery 
Company, Nazareth, Pa., providing for an increase of capital 
stock from $S,ooo to $10,000, has been approved by the court. 
The additional stock will be divided into 100 shares of $50 
each. 
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An ordinance to repeal an act passed by the municipal 
assembly of St. Louis, in 1898, providing for the widening 
of Louisiana avenue by using a thirty-foot strip of the Ger- 
man Evangelical Protestant Cemetery, has been introduced 
into the assembly and referred to committee. It is in re- 
sponse to the objection of abutting property owners to paying 
for the removal of 1,300 bodies at an expense of $15,000, 
which would be necessary if the street cuts off a part of the 
cemetery. The cenretery officials oppose the divergence of the 
street from the direct line, which is across the edge of the 
cemetery. 
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The city council of New Orleans, La., is seeking legal opin- 
ion as to its right to make special assessments against ceme- 
teries for pavement around their grounds. A bill of $500 
for paving in front of a cemetery has been presented to the 
city for payment. The contract provides that the expense 
shall be met by the abutting property owner, but the abutting 
property owner is a cemetery and exempt from taxation. The 
council, however, does not think that the general exemption 
from taxation includes exemption from special taxes for iirf- 
provements which enhance the value of the property, and a 
legal opinion will be necessary to define the status of ceme- 
teries as regards taxation. 
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Greenwood Cemetery, Newcastle, Pa., has been formally 
transferred from the Greenwood Cemetery Company to the 
lot owners, who will hereafter have full charge of the man- 
agement. The president of the company turned over to the 
lot owners $2,116 in cash and two lots valued at $1,700. The 
transfer is the result of a provision in the charter which 
provides that the lot owners should have possession when the 
returns from the sale of lots should equal the original invest- 
ment after the interest on indebtedness and general expenses 
were deducted. The new management contemplates an exten- 
sive system of improvements, to involve the expenditure of 
about $40,000. 
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Cemetery improvements are reported this month as fol- 
lows; Rosemond Grove Cemetery, Rosemond, 111., has built 
a new entrance gate, consisting of a double wrought-iron 
gate fourteen feet wide, spanning the driveway, and two 
side gates for pedestrians, making the total width twenty- 
eight feet. An arch fourteen feet high rises front the posts. 
The gate is a gift from Mrs. Mary F. Kitchell in memorj 
of her father. * * The city council of Boston, Mass., has 
voted an appropriation of $40,000 for the improvement of 
Mount Hope Cemetery. The work will comprise the erec- 
tion of a new administration building, an addition to the 
greenhouse and the construction of an iron fence to the end 
of the cemetery property on Walk Hill street. * * The 
Riverside Cemetery Association, Anamosa, la., has just com 
pleted a new receiving vault, which was begun last August. 
The interior dimensions are 16 by 25 feet, witli thirty-five cata- 
combs. The cost was about $450. 
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Additional territory has been added to the following cente- 
teries : Fairplains, Grand Rapids, Mich, has plotted and laid 
out a new section of nine acres and will soon open the sale 
of lots on it. * * The building of a driveway by the Met- 
ropolitan Park Commission will give an addition to the ceme- 
tery at Cambridge, Mass. The Cambridge Cemetery has a 
total of 24,000 interments, and very little land remains un- 
sold. * * The Bristol Cemetery Association, Bristol, Vt., 
has purchased six acres of land from E. H. Daniels for an 
addition to the cemetery. * * Solomon’s Church Cemetery, 
Macungie, Pa., has acquired two acres of adjoining territory, 
which will be laid out in about 200 lots. * * Fishkill Rural 
Cemetery, Fishkill, N. Y., has just added six acres to its ter- 
ritory, which, with nine acres acquired some months ago, 
makes an increase of fifteen acres. * * The city council 
of Quincy, Mass., has come to an agreement with the Greeii- 
lief Land Associates to purchase land for an addition to Mt. 
Wollaston Cemetery at an expense of $25,000. * * The 
Catholic Church at Richmond, Vt., has purchased seven and a 
half acres of land for an addition to Riverview Cemetery. 
* * Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque, la., has been presented 
w’ith forty-seven acres of adjoining territory by Archbishop 
Keane. 
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NEW CEMETERIES. 
A new Catholic cemetery embracing fifteen acres of land 
between Pascoag and Harrisville, R. L, is being surveyed and 
plotted and will be consecrated next spring. * * Grand 
View, the new sixteen-acre cemetery being laid out near 
Lafayette, Ind., will incorporate, and has engaged Arthur W. 
Hobart, the Minneapolis landscape gardener, to lay out the 
grounds. * * A committee of the town council, Wroxeter, 
Ont., has purchased a site of nine acres for a new cemetery 
at a cost of $400. * * The Grandview Park Cemetery As- 
sociation has purchased land for a cemetery at Hopkins, 
Minn. The tract is on a knoll said to be the highest point 
in Hennepin County, and cost $25,000. * * The city council 
of Norwich, Conn., is seeking a site for a new cemetery, as 
there are now but twenty-five lots unsold in the Yantic Ceme- 
tery. The Osgood farm of 100 acres, which can be pur- 
chased for about $8,000. is regarded as the most available site. 
* * Articles of association of the Beech Grove Cemetery As- 
sociation have been filed at Lebanon, Ind. The capital stock 
is $10,000, divided into shares of $100 each. The association 
controls the Adair farm of 148 acres. * * St. Patrick’s 
Cemetery Association has been incorporated at Brasher 
Falls, N. Y., for the purpose of conducting a Catholic bury- 
ing ground. * * The officials of the Catholic cemeteries 
in and near Canton and Massillon, O., are considering the 
advisability of consolidating all of them into one large ceme- 
tery to be located between the two towns. * * Holy Cross 
Cemetery Association, Indianapolis, Ind., has purchased a 
tract of thirty-one acres south of and adjoining the present 
cemetery, and is now surveying the tract. This association 
has now the management of the Catholic Cemetery of In- 
dianapolis, and has made many improvenfents in the past ten 
years. The lawn plan and other modern methods prevail 
throughout. ’•’ * A forty-acre tract of upland at Lewiston, 
Me., has been purchased and is being laid out as a cemetery. 
Citizens of Lewiston and Auburn are behind the organization 
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