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PARK AND CCMRTERY 
CEMETERY NOTES— Continued, 
One of the worst cases of cemetery desecration that has 
been reported was recently perpetrated in the cemetery of 
the Keneseth Israel congregation, Shenandoah, Pa. The en- 
trance gate was battered down, and nearly every grave in the 
cemetery injured in some manner. Tombstones, head-boards, 
and foot-boards were upset, and many of the boards driven 
into the ground level with the surface. All marble monu- 
ments were overturned, and a number of grave mounds lev- 
eled to the ground, making it very difficult to locate them 
again. The congregation has offered a reward of $200 for 
information leading to the arrest of the vandals. 
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The forty-eighth annual report of Oakland Cemetery, St. 
Paul, Minn., shows a flourishing financial condition. The 
receipts, including sale of lots, flowers, deposits for the per- 
petual care fund, and interest on that fund amounted to 
$27,801.97, $2,612.68 more than for the previous year. The 
asssociation expended $20,537.65 for improvement and care, 
and has a balance on hand of $445.94. W. B. Dean, H. P. 
Upham, and C. P. Noyes were re-elected trustees. The per- 
petual care fund now amounts to $103,702.80. The greenhouse 
sales amounted to $5,248.75; interment fees, $1,892; sales of 
lots and graves, $1,285 1 pay roll, $14,283.26. There were 331 
interments during the year, making a total of 14,177. 
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Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, is erecting a 
conservatory chapel and crematory, which it expects to have 
completed soon. The chapel is fronted by a stone porch 
of Gothic design, divided into two chambers and surmounted 
by a cross. The roof of one of these is formed of open 
arches, while the other is ceiled over and divided by stucco 
work into panels. The greater part of the walls are of glass, 
since the side will be used for plants and flowers, and the 
center reserved for funeral services. From the conservatory 
a short passage leads to the crematory. It is of the same style 
of architecture as the rest of the building, the roof of the 
passage being ceiled and paneled, while the crematory cham- 
ber has open vaulting. The furnaces are modeled after those 
successfully in use at Troy, N. Y., and can consume four 
bodies at a time. 
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Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, Cal., is to build a new 
gateway, chapel and office building, and a superintendent’s 
lodge. The chapel and office building is to be a single story 
stone structure, 50 feet by 30, surmounted by. a tower con- 
taining a chime of bells. The floors will be of concrete and 
tile and the roof will be spanned with concrete, tiled arches, 
making the building as near fireproof as possible. The lodge 
will be of stone, 40 by 30 feet, and a story and a half high. 
The buildings are to be connected by ornamental fencing. 
Hollywood consists of 100 acres of land, and was organized 
in 1899, and laid out on thoroughly modern plans prepared 
by competent landscape architects. All lots are under per- 
petual care, and the planting of all trees and shrubs must be 
done by the association according to the plans of the land- 
scape gardener. * 
The following additions and improvements to cemeteries 
are noted this month: The Supervisors’ Cemetery Commit- 
tee, Buffalo, N. Y., has granted permission to the Pine Hill 
Cemetery Association to acquire four acres of additional 
territory to be exempt from taxation. * * Oak Hill Ceme- 
tery, Lebanon, Ind., is raising money to purchase additional 
territory, and make needed improvements in the sprin^^ 
* * Greenwood Cemetery, Owen Sound, Ont., has added 
four acres which is now being laid out. * * A new shelter 
house and reception room is under construction at Rockville, 
Conn. * * ^ landscape gardener has made preliminary 
plans for extensive improvements in the cemetery at Mon- 
mouth, 111 . * * The cemetery at Rangely, Me., has built 
a new receiving vault, a new iron fence, and improved walks 
and drives. * * Grove Cemetery, Belfast, Me., has com- 
pleted a new iron fence with three arched entrance ways, 
having a total length along the front of 1,141 feet. * * * 
Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Mass., has built a new 
greenhouse, 18x100 feet, and made an addition to the old 
one. * * The new cemetery at Hiawatha, Kas., has built 
a drive around the entire territory, and is laying out walks 
and drives. * * Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, N. Y., 
is building a new bridge across the creek, and constructing a 
new roadway to traverse the cemetery. * * Fairmount Cem- 
etery, Denver, Col., has just completed an artesian well at a 
cost of $2,800, and is to expend $10,000 in further improve- 
ments. A new greenhouse to cost $5,000 is under construc- 
tion. * * Fair View Cemetery, Amsterdam, N. Y., has built 
a new greenhouse and a chapel and receiving vault. The 
latter is finished in polished marble and contains forty-six 
catacombs.* * Park View Cemetery, Schenectady, N. Y., is 
improving the property acquired by them during the past sum- 
mer, and will build a new receiving vault in the spring. * * 
The new Mount Royal Cemetery, comprising 200 acres, near 
Pittsburg, Pa., is erecting a receiving vault to contain 150 
catacombs. * * A triangular tract of land lying between 
the two cemeteries at Oxford, Conn., has been purchased, and 
the two tracts will be joined. * * A new receiving tomb is 
in course of erection at Oak Grove Cemetery, Plymouth, Mass. 
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NEW CEMETERB S. 
The Sacred Heart Society, Manchester, N. H., has bought 
land in Laconia Highlands, and established The Sacred Heart 
Cemetery. * * The Polish Catholic Church, Ithaca, N. Y., 
has purchased ii acres of land for $3,900, and is now laying 
it out as a cemetery. * * The Board of Supervisors, Gen- 
eseo, N. Y., have approved plans for a new cemetery at the 
Livingston county home. * * The first two sections of the 
new St. James Cemetery at South Manchester, Conn., have 
been laid out. * * Engineers have surveyed and plotted the 
new cemetery for the town of Southwick, Mass. Maple trees 
have been planted and a new iron fence contracted for. * * 
A new Catholic cemetery has been established at Penfield, 
111 ., under the direction of Rev. John F. Purcell, rector of St. 
Lawrence church. * * Business men of Freeport, 111 ., have 
formed the Oakland Cemetery Association, and are laying out 
a lOO-acre tract of farm land, and building a side-hill receiv- 
ing vault. Chas. F. Hildreth is secretary. * * A new Jew- 
ish cemetery is to be laid out by the Grand Lodge, I. O. A. I., 
at Brockton, Mass. The site is at Marshall’s corner. The 
purchase money is to be furnished by the grand lodge, and the 
local lodge will pay for fencing and gateways. * * Bridge 
View Cemetery is being laid out at Mt. Jewett, Pa. About 
2,000 trees are to be planted and the work is under the direc- 
tion of G. H. Lyon, of Ormsby, Pa. * * A cemetery asso- 
ciation with a capital of $5,000 has been formed at Winber, 
Pa., for the purpose of laying out a five-acre cemetery. * * 
The city council of Roanoke, Va., is to ask the legislature to 
allow a bond issue of $25,000 for the purchase of land for a 
park and cemetery. * * A new cemetery is to be laid out at 
Winnipeg, Man., after plans now being prepared by Frank 
H. Nutter, of Minneapolis, Minn. * * Elm Leaf Cemetery, 
Birmingham, Ala., opened Nov. i, 1901, has had 119 inter- 
ments and sold 43 lots during its first year. * * The city 
council of Atlanta, Ga., has advertised for bids offering a 
tract of land for cemetery purposes not less than 300 acres in 
area. 
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