PARK AND CEMETERY 
256 
Cemetery Notes. 
FROM THE CEMETERY REPORTS. 
At the recent annual meeting of the directors of Swan 
Point Cemetery, Providence, R. I., the treasurer’s report 
showed the following financial statements : Total real and 
personal estate, $418,465.89; perpetual care and bequest fund, 
$310,857.15; permanent fund, $70,034.38; total assets, $420,- 
■923.43; liabilities, $419,129.61; receipts for the year, $137,- 
625.27; expenditures, $134,448.05, leaving a cash balance on 
hand of $3,177.22. The report of President Alfred Stone gave 
an interesting account of the growth of the cemetery, show- 
ing the increase in the number of lots under perpetual care 
in 22 years from 89 to 1,689, and gave the following statistics : 
Average number of men employed for month, 55 ; interments 
for the year, 312; total interments, 15,244; foundations to 
monuments built, 21 1; lots regraded and sodded, 30; land 
■sold, 15,103 sq. ft.; avenues regraded and macadamized, 44,- 
000 sq. ft. The board passed resolutions commending Super- 
intendent Timothy McCarthy for 26 years of faithful ser- 
vice, and voted to take out life insurance for the benefit of 
his family. 
Superintendent David Woods, of Homewood Cemetery, 
Pittsburg, Pa., sends the following annual statement of the 
eemetery’s affairs: Receipts from sale of lots, $68,000; ex- 
penditures for labor, $11,432; improvements by lot owners. 
■$59,000; improvements by cemetery, $143,299; interments for 
the year, 874. The total number of lot owners is now 2,500, 
and the perpetual maintenance fund amounts to $138,000. 
The yearly reports of officers of the Harmony Grove Cem- 
etery Corporation, Salem, Mass., show a prosperous condi- 
tion of affairs, with a number of substantial improvements 
provided for during the present year. An additional tract of 
land has been purchased and a new chapel is to be erected. 
The endowment fund now amounts to $104,045.10, and the 
permanent fund to $12,307. The receipts for the endowment 
fund during the year were $8,410, the largest in the history of 
the corporation, and provided for 28 lots and one grave. 
Superintendent Geo. W. Creesy was instrumental in securing 
this fund. There were 137 interments during 1901, and the 
expenses were less than for the preceding year. The green- 
house committee reported that about 17,000 flowering plants 
and 1,000 hardy shrubs had been planted and 3,000 shrubs 
propagated for the coming season. 
The report of Superintendent A. D. Smith, of Mountain 
View Cemetery, Oakland, Cal., shows statistics as follows : 
interments for the year, 1,002; total interments, 21,027. One 
hundred and ten lots have been surveyed and graded, and a 
number of new sections extended and improved. New cement 
walks have been laid, and the system of marking lots by 
impressing the numbers into the cement in front of the lot 
has been adopted. The trust fund shows a healthy growth 
and now amounts to a total of $175,431.16, divided as follows: 
Perpetual care fund, $143,462.50: perpetual guaranty fund, 
$31,968.66. The increase in the trust funds for the year was 
$25,170.55. 
The Pittsfield Cemetery Corporation, Pittsfield, Mass., re- 
ports receipts of $8,747.87, and expenditures of $208.02 less 
than that amount. The perpetual care fund amounts to 
$9,435, and the total assets of the corporation are $32,141.47. 
Interments for the year, 200: total interments, 6,786. 
The report of the treasurer of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 
Newark, N. J., shows a total fund amounting to $199,907.08, 
said to be the largest in the state. The receipts from sale 
of lots was $4,000, and the perpetual care fund now amounts 
to $15,483.85. Additional ground was purchased during the 
year at an expense of $3,000. Expenditures for salaries, 
$3,630 ; for labor, $3,000. 
J. C. Cline, superintendent of Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, 
O., reports the completion of a new power pumping plant 
during the year as the chief piece of improvement work. 
Headmarks to the number of 508 were put in and interments 
for 1901 were 804, making a total of 24,764. Lots sold 
amounted to 6,835 sq. ft., all with provision for perpetual care. 
The report of Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, Conn., 
shows a balance on hand of $4,245.83. Among the improve- 
ments planned for this year is the erection of a new chapel, 
the fund for this purpose now amounting to $8,829.14. The 
total amount of the trust fund is $24,286.52, and of the per- 
petual care fund, $5,588.44. Other statistics were : Lots sold, 
51; single graves sold, 67; annual interments, 930; total in- 
terments, 17,200. 
The fifty-first annual meeting of the shareholders of Mount 
Royal Cemetery, Montreal, P. Q., showed receipts for the 
year amounting to $43,379, and expenditures of $41,875. The 
new crematory is reported as finished and ready for use, and 
is equipped with all modern appliances. New vaults have 
also been constructed, and additions made to the greenhouse. 
The expense of the greenhouse and crematory was defrayed 
by Sir William MacDonald. There are 3,673 shareholders in 
the association, holding 7.670 lots. The innovation of a com- 
bined greenhouse and chapel is reported to have met with 
the favor of the patrons. 
The seventieth annual report of Mount Auburn Cemetery, 
Cambridge, Mass., shows that the perpetual care fund now 
amounts to $1,167,517.30, the increase for 1901 being $56,946.52. 
The permanent fund shows a gain of $16,029.90 for the year, 
and amounts to a total of $431,965.50. The general fund was 
increased by $15,726.37. and now foots up to $143,946.64. The 
receipts for the year were $121,300.98, and the balance on 
hand, $38,300.66. The accompanying report of Superintend- 
ent J. C. Scorgie shows a number of improvements, includ- 
ing the construction of concrete walks, sodding and grading 
of lots, building of catcb basins, and the erection of 317 
monuments and headstones. The number of interments for 
the year was 466, and the total interments, $33,412. The 
crematory has been successfully operated during the year, the 
number of cremations being 119. 
The cemetery trustees of Manchester. N. H., give the fol- 
lowing yearly statistics of the three cemeteries operated by 
that city. Pine Grove : Appropriation, $9.000 ; receipts. $10,- 
388; expenditures, $8,999.60. Valley Cemetery: Appropria- 
tion, $3,100: receipts, $1,841.33: expense to the city, $1,258.67. 
Amoskeag Cemetery reports that no more room is available 
for burials, and recommends the immediate purchase of addi- 
tional territory. 
The report of the officers of Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett, 
Mass., shows the corporation to be in good financial condi- 
tion. The perpetual care fund now amounts to over $200,- 
000, and 21 lots have been placed under perpetual care during 
the year. The maintenance fund amounts to $10,000, and an 
indebtedness of $15,000 has been decreased one-half. The 
treasurer’s report shows receipts for the year to be $157,- 
725.50, and the expenditures $142,208.42, leaving a cash bal- 
ance of $15,517.08 at the beginning of the year 1902. Super- 
intendent Marshall reports the interments for the year to be 
948, making a total of 29,662. There were 1,200 trees and 
shrubs planted in the cemetery and 2,500 added to the nur- 
sery. Foundations were built for 332 monuments, and 48 
monuments set. 
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