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Cemetery Notes. 
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An opinion just handed down by the Supreme Court of 
New Jersey sets aside the proceedings by which the State 
Board of Health granted permission to the Lutheran Ceme- 
tery Association to operate a cemetery at Bloomfield, N. J. 
The cemetery was first refused a permit hy the town health 
authorities, and appealed to the State Board, which granted 
the desired permit. The Supreme Court now sets aside the 
proceedings of that board on the grounds that it did not 
give a proper hearing to those who opposed the cemetery. 
The cemetery was dedicated last summer. 
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FROIM THE CEMETERY REPORTS. 
Annual reports of the officers of the Citizens’ Cemetery 
Association, Johnstown, Pa., give the following statistics 
of the year: Total receipts, $7,602.31; cash on hand, 
$1,222.48. The reserve fund now amounts to $2,900, and the 
endowment fund has been increased $124.97 during the year. 
The number of deeds issued during the year was 133, and 333 
interments were made, bringing the total number of inter- 
ments to 5,491. Lot owners erected 14 monuments and 150 
headstones. . 
Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, N. J., reports receipts for 
the year amounting to $44,671.37, and expenditures of $.36,- 
510.92, leaving on hand a balance of $8,160.42. Among the 
receipts were the following items: for 75 lots, $20,483; 513 
single graves, $9,0,40; opening graves, $5,081; work on lots, 
$4,034.40. The expenditure for labor and salaries was $21,- 
092.53, and for land bought, $6,525. There were 1,059 inter- 
ments during the year, making a total of $36,831. The im- 
provements included the building of avenues in which 447 
tons of crushed stone were used, the laying out of a new 
single grave section, and the laying of 1,900 feet of water 
pipe. 
The sixtieth annual report of the trustees of Lowell 
Cemetery, Lowell, Mass., records receipts from the sale of 
lots as $1,395.83, and for the perpetual care fund, $6,864. 
The latter fund now amounts to $104,491.32, and the re- 
serve fund is given as $19,009,31. The expenditure for labor 
and salaries was $7,489.34, and the number of interments for 
the year, 127. 
At the forty-fourth annual meeting of the Woodlands 
Cemetery Association, Cambridge, N. Y., the financial con- 
c’ition of the cemetery was reported as follows: Total re- 
sources, $8,753.79; trust fund, $6,762.25; net capital, $1,991.54. 
There were seventy interments during 1901. making the total 
number. 3,268. The report notes with satisfaction a steady 
improvement in the character and designs of the monu- 
mental work. 
Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, Vt., has a trust fund 
of $15,732.50. The commissioners have received from the 
city treasury $15,232.50 and from individuals, $500. The re- 
ceipts for the year, including cash on hand at the begin- 
ning of the year, amounted to $4,520.95, and the expendi- 
tures to $2,479.51, including $1,967.93 for labor. 
At the annual meeting of the lot owners of the Chester 
Rural Cemetery, Chester, Pa., the secretary’s report showed 
the total receipts for the year as $8,712.11. Among the im- 
provements of the year are noted the expenditure of $1,535.89 
for new driveways, and $763.30 for filling in a new section. 
The council committee on cemeteries, Hartford. Conn., in 
its recent annual report, recommends that the system of ad- 
ministering the cemetery affairs through a committee which 
changes each year be discontinued, and suggests that the 
appointing of a chairman for a period of two years or of 
a commission, would insure more permanent and successful 
management. The report notes a number of substantial im- 
provements in the way of filling in and grading land, build- 
ing drives, re-arranging of sections and the building of a 
new fence for South Cemetery. An addition to Zion Hill 
Cemetery was purchased with a special appropriation of 
$7,000. The other expenditures for the three city ceme- 
teries were as follows: South, $48.55; Zion Hill, $1,754.96; 
North, $2,587.44; total, $4,390.95. 
The proprietors of Forest Hills Cemetery. Boston, IMass., 
have issued their annual report, containing the following 
statistics of the year: The perpetual care fund was increase,! 
by $21,381, and now amounts to $778,019.37. The perma- 
nent fund is now $63,698.63. and the increase for the year. 
$5,467. There are 5,118 lots in the cemetery, and the inter- 
ments for the year were 797, bringing the total number up 
to 33.748. 
The first annual report of the Linden and Rosedale Ceme- 
teries, the two new tracts laid out by a syndicate near Eliza- 
beth, N. J., last year, shows that there have been forty-one 
interments since the opening of the cemeteries last Septem- 
ber. Forty thousand dollars has been spent in imnroving 
and beautifying the grounds, and it is planned to spend as 
much more this season. The following officers were elected: 
President, M. T. Wilbur; vice-president. H. L. Dyer; secre- 
tary and treasurer, C. O. Smith. 
The Morris Cemetery Association. Morris 111 ., reports total 
receipts for the year, $4,373.31, including a balance on hand 
at the beginning of the year of $1,115.12. The association 
has expended $1,540.64, and has cash on hand amounting 
to $832.67. There were seventy interments during the year. 
The report of the treasurer of Oak Hill Cemetery, New- 
buryport. Mass., shows a balance in the treasury of $59,609.70. 
an increase of $5,109.60 over last year. The superintendent 
reports that 308 tons of crushed stone were used on the 
avenues and 75 tons of stone for foundations. Two thousand 
feet of new turf was laid, and 53 trees planted. A bequest 
was received from J. T. Brown providing for the erection 
of a stone memorial chapel after designs to be selected by 
his executors. 
The Cemetery Trustees. Marietta, Ohio, at their annual 
meeting received reports from the superintendent and treas- 
urer, showing receipts from the three cemeteries under their 
control amounting to $8,098.27. The expenditures for the 
year were $3,631.36, leaving a balance on hand April i, of 
$4,466.91. The receipts from sale of lots in Oak Grove 
Cemetery were $3,441.25, from interments in Mound Ceme- 
tery, $76.50, and from sale of lots and interments in the 
West Side Cemetery, $95.65. 
Hazel Cemetery, Hazelton, Pa., reports receipts for the 
year amounting to $3,573.12. which, with cash on hand at 
the beginning of the year, makes the total receipts $11,932.72. 
The annual expenditures footed up to $2,397.98, leaving cash 
on hand amounting to $9,534.84. 
At the annual meeting of the lot owners of Evergreen Cem- 
etery. Salem, N. Y.. the following facts were presented: 
Total expenditures $6,743.43, divided as follows: Labor on 
grounds, $1,064.06; running expenses, $1,712.24; repayment 
of loan, $1,004.82; new investments, $3,200; balance. $826.37. 
The annual report of the Board of Directors of the Lafay- 
ette Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa., shows receipts for 1901 
amounting to $4,392.68, and expenditures of $1,662.20. leav- 
ing a balance in the treasury of $2,730.48. The trust fund 
amounts to $937.47. 
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