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PARK AND CEMKTERY 
The recent annual report of the Marion Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, Marion, O., shows a successful year of progressive 
management. At the annual meeting a rule was adopted 
fixing the charges for all interments or vault funerals held 
on Sunday at double the regular fee unless ordered by the 
Board of Health. The report of the Secretary and Treasurer 
shows receipts for the year amounting to $9,278.62, and 
expenditures of $5,379.34, leaving a balance of $3,899,28. 
Forty-six lots were sold during the year, for which $4,530.88 
was received. Lots endowed for perpetual care are sold for 
25 cents per square foot, of which ten cents goes to the 
endowment fund. The latter fund now amounts to $35,391.80, 
and the total assets to $41,364.58. 
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The following improvements and additions to cemeteries 
are noted this month: The Pittsfield Cemetery corporation, 
Pittsfield, Mass., is to erect a new steel fence i 54 miles long 
and several entrance gates, at a cost of $10,000. .. .The Bald- 
win Cemetery, Oakland, Mich., has received from the late 
Oscar Perry, of Orion, Mich., a bequest of $1,000 for 
improvements and maintenance. .. .The Fairmount and 
Riverside Cemetery Association, Denver, Col., is con- 
sidering the advisability of erecting a crematory. The 
association has built new greenhouses for both of the ceme- 
teries under its control, and plans to spend about $8,000 
in the erection of reservoirs and a water main during the 
present year. .. .Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago. 111 ., has 
purchased 60 acres of additional territory, at a cost of $45,- 
000. The land adjoins Waldheim Cemetery on the west 
and Concordia on the south.... The selectmen of Templeton, 
Mass., have filed a petition with the county commissioners, 
asking permission to take ten acres of territory from the 
Baldwinville hospital land for an addition to the cemetery. 
The hospital officials will contest the petition. .. .The Ypsi- 
lanti Cemetery Association, Ypsilanti, Mich., has voted to 
purchase ten additional acres of territory for $2,000. .. .The 
city cemetery at Hickman, Ky., has been enlarged by the 
purchase of five acres of adjoining land, at $100 an acre.... 
The improvements to be made by the Elmwood Cemetery 
Co., Detroit, Mich., during the coming year include the con- 
struction of a nevv fountain and a tunnel under a recent ad- 
dition of territoiy. . . .The city treasurer, Lowell, Mass., re- 
ports that $4,125 has been added to the perpetual care fund 
during the past year, making a total of $20,775 i'l that fund. 
....Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah, will make 
extensive improvements and annex forty acres of additional 
territory. .. .Oakland Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark., will spend 
$8,000 in improving a recent addition, the funds to be raised 
from the sale of another tract of land....Mt. Auburn Ceme- 
tery, Cambridge, Mass., is making preparations to purchase 
five acres of additional territory ... .The late John T. Brown, 
of Newburyport, Mass., has bequeathed to Oak Hill Ceme- 
tery, in that city, the sum of $10,000, to be used for the 
erection of a memorial chapel .... St. Gabriel’s Cemetery, 
Hazelton, Pa., will add four blocks of adjoining territory 
and surround the entire tract with a new fence.... Im- 
provements planned for Oakdale Cemetery, Los Angeles, 
Cal., comprise the building of a complete water system and 
drives, and extensive planting of shrubs and flowers. .. .Fort 
Plain Cemetery, Fort Plain, N. Y., has a steadily growing 
surplus of about $15,000. .. .Beach Grove Cemetery. Muncie, 
Ind., has constructed two lakes during the past summer and 
fall, one of them covering three-quarters of an acre, and 
has built about a mile of driveway. 18 feet wide. 
-A.!! act was passed by the Ohio Legislature March 4, re- 
quiring the County Commissioners of all counties in the 
state to put all abandoned public burial grounds in good 
condition, the costs to be paid out of the general fund of the 
county. After they are placed in good repair they are to be 
kept in proper shape by the township trustee;, and the ex- 
pense paid from the township fund. 
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Organizers of the Chicago Federation of Labor are re- 
ported to be forming a grave-diggers’ union among the em- 
ployes of the various cemeteries in the vicinity of Chicago. 
There are about 85 of them employed in the cemeteries, the 
majority being Luxembourgers by birth. They are said to 
be dissatisfied with a rule which limits the number of graves 
a man shall dig to four a day, at 50 cents a .grave. There 
is some question as to whether the dissatisfied employees 
should be admitted to the Federation of Labor, or the 
Building Trades Union. 
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Roselawn Cemetery has been incorporated at St. Paul, 
Minn., to lay out a cemetery upon a tract of 250 acres of 
land half a mile north of Como Park and west of the high 
service reservoir at the end of Dale street. The land in- 
cludes the site of the house in Rosetown, for many years 
occupied by the Blake family, and is especially adapted to at- 
tractive development, with extended views, long slopes and 
wooded knolls. The intention is to expend about $30,000 in 
the construction of a chapel, catacombs, or receiving tomb, 
and offices. The plans for the buildings are being drawn 
by Thomas G. Holyoke, of St. Paul, under the direction 
of Cass Gilbert. They show a chapel in the style of an Eng- 
lish country church on one side of the gateway, and the ad- 
ministration building, with waiting room and business offices 
on the other side. It is hoped to let the contracts for these 
improvements so that the buildings may be completed by De- 
cember. About $30,000 additional will be spent upon the con- 
struction of roads and paths, the creation of lawns and the 
general development of the property from the landscape side. 
The laying out of the ground plan and the direction of the 
landscape work will be under the direction of Leonard W. 
Ross, of Knollwood Cemetery, Boston, Mass. 
FROM THE CEMETERY REPORTS. 
The lotholders of the Monument Cemetery, Broad and 
Berks streets, Philadelphia, Pa., at the 65th annual meeting, 
received reports of officers showing total assets of $51,256.50, 
and annual expenditures of $6,724.87. The perpetual care 
fund, started one year ago, has a principal of $1,500, and is 
yielding a net income of five per cent. There are more than 
4.000 lotholders and the cemetery is one of the oldest in 
Philadelphia. The total number of interments since its open- 
ing is 23,000. 
At the annual meeting of the Board of Cemetery Trustees 
of the Findlay, Ohio, Cemetery, the following statistics were 
presented: Total receipts, $7,127.35, including: grave and 
vault rent, $990.33; sale of lots, $1,680.85; foundations, $463.50. 
The expenditures amounted to $4,952.20, leaving cash on hand, 
including bills receivable, of $5,475.15. 
The annual report of Secretary and Treasurer Boice, of 
Oakwood Cemetery, Geneseo, 111 ., shows that all indebted- 
ness has been wiped out, and a surplus left on hand. The 
affairs of the Association have been satisfactorily conducted 
in every way, and all of the officers were re-elected. Trees, 
shrubs and flowers have been planted freely during the past 
year, and the perpetual care fund increased by $500. Oak- 
wood contains 80 acres of territory, a fine natural growth of 
timber, and well laid-out drives. 
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