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Cemetery Notes. 
Lake View Cemetery, Galveston, Tex., is just effacing the 
last traces of the damage done by the terrible storm which 
de\astated that city September, 1900. The scars that were 
made in the brick wall are being repaired, and the interior 
of the cemetery was very little damaged with the exception 
of the overturning of all the monuments. 
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Tonawanda Cemetery is now being developed by the Union 
Realty Co. at Norfolk, Va. It is 72 acres in extent and is 
being laid out on the lawn plan. A railroad station, lodge, 
and mortuary chapel containing 36 catacombs a/e in process 
of construction. It is the only private cemetery conducted 
on non-sectarian lines in Norfolk county, and promises to 
lie a success. Mr. Hugh C. Risdon, formerly of Northwood 
and Somerton Hills Cemeteries in Philadelphia, and Kensico 
in New York, is superintendent, and Dr. J. D. Ennis, Ports- 
mouth, Va., president. 
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'I'he law recently enacted in Pawtucket, R. I., providing for 
an eight hour day for all city laborers is reported to have 
caused some complications in the management of the ceme- 
teries by bringing the eight-hour laborers in the city ceme- 
teries in competition with those of the private cemeteries 
where the regular day's work is ten hours. Under the old 
law the payment of $100, which secures perpetual care 
for a lot, was barely sufficient to provide proper attention, and 
the new regulation means an increase of 20 per cent in the 
cost of caring for lots. 
FROM THE CEMETERY REPORTS. 
The annual report of Dodge Grove Cemetery, Mattoon, 
111 ., contains the paper on The Influence of a Modern, Well- 
kept Cemetery on a Community, read by its Superintendent. 
John E. Miller, at the last convention of the Association of 
Cemetery Superintendents, and some suggestions and recom- 
mendations from him on cemetery management. He advo- 
cates a system of control by a Board of Incorporators under 
the state, which acts as a Board of Directors for the lot 
owners. They should have the power to purchase land, to 
borrow money and sell lots, and must themselves be lot 
owners and men of good financial standing. This, he thinks, 
would remove the cemetery from political influences, and 
place its management in the hands of those both personally 
and financially interested in its success. 
At the fiftieth annual meeting of the lotholders of Mag- 
nolia Cemetery, Charleston, S. C., the report of Chairman 
George W. Williams, of the Board of Trustees, showed that 
the total receipts from the sale of lots during the half cen- 
tury of the cemetery’s history was $193,000, and the number 
of lots sold 3,400. By agreement with the stockholders 20 per 
cent of the gross receipts from the sale of lots is set aside for 
a permanent improvement fund, which now amounts to $39,- 
000. The perpetual care fund is now $34,000, and the total 
number of interments, 11,400. 
The annual report of William S. Pirie, Secretary of Forest 
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis., shows receipts amounting 
to $91,877.58, and disbursements of $80,024.94. The deposits 
for perpetual care during the year were $6,554.50, and from 
sale of lots $19,997.25. Some of the other items among the 
receipts were as follows : Sale of graves, $2,400 ; cremations, 
$1,225; care of lots, turfing, etc., $22,810.55; foundations for 
monuments, $2,944.70. The disbursements included the fol- 
lowing; General care of cemetery, $10,872.51; for repairs. 
$2,130.10; for improvements, $9,060.27; salaries, $5,851.74. The 
reserve funds amount to $189,819.26, including perpetual care, 
$37,833.58. There were 730 interments during the year, and 
49 cremations. 
The fifteenth annual report of Cedar Grove Cemetery, Dor- 
chester, Mass., contains an historical account of the cemetery, 
and the following statistics : Receipts from sale of lots, 
$4,018.74; total receipts, $26,201.48; total expenditures, $20,- 
526.26. A brick office building well adapted to its purpose has 
been erected during the year. The real estate belonging to the 
cemetery now comprises 50 acres, and its personal estate in 
general account and care fund, amounts to $92,531.98. 
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb., in its annual report, tells 
of a numl)er of substantial improvements during the year, 
including grading, building of drives, construction of a new 
iron fence, and the digging of a drainage ditch. The total re- 
ceipts for the year were $13,945.65, and the expenditures, $13,- 
162.31. The total amount of securities in the hands of the 
custodian now amounts to $15,125.00. There ^yere 143 monu- 
ments and markers erected during the year, and the total 
number of interments is now 7>565- 
The annual report of Secretary Loudensleger, of the Oak- 
wood Cemetery Association, Fremont, Ohio, shovvs the total 
resources of the association to be $29,056.70, divided as fol- 
lows: Cash and bonds in care fund, $6,149.27; cash in gene- 
ral fund, $60.36; notes and accounts for lots sold, $2,402.59; 
bills for work on lots, $2,685.97; unsold lots, $17,758.51. I he 
receipts for the year were $2,503.47, and the interments, 73. 
The annual report of the Green River Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Greenfield, Mass., presents the following facts : The 
trust fund amounts to $7,655, the general fund to $901, and 
the cash on hand to $781. It was voted that a committee of 
five, including the president and treasurer, be appointed to 
solicit funds for the purpose of building a lodge or chapel 
and residence on the grounds. 
The annual report of Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield. Ohio, 
gives the entire income for the year as $13,003.17, and the ex- 
penses, $10,935.28. There were 106 family lots sold, and 
25 removals. The total number of interments since the open- 
ing of the cemetery in 1864 was 9,319, and the interments 
for the year numbered 371. 
At the forty-sixth annual meeting of the Fairview Cemetery 
Association, Altoona, Pa., the following statistics were pre- 
sented: Perpetual care fund, $16,527.38; total number of in- 
terments, 7,410; interments for the year, 217. 
The report of the treasurer of Franklin Cemetery Company, 
Franklin, Pa., shows the cash assets of the company as 
$6,146.03, including these items: Bills receivable, $1,076.53; 
accounts receivable, $1,459.50; cash, $1,010. The balance on 
hand April i. 1902, was $1,010, and the disbursments for the 
year, $2,448.66. 
In the annual report of Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg, 
Man., the expenditures for the last five years are given as 
$16,253, and a number of permanent improvements are re- 
ported. Five sections, embracing over five acres, have been 
levelled, and a mile and a quarter of gravelled driveways 
constructed. The board has also voted to purchase twelve- 
large trees for the driveway. 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Me., in its Treasurer’s 
statement, reports receipts for the year as $6,631.77, of which 
$3,160.45 was received from the sale of lots, and $1,161.64 
from income of investments. The disbursements amounted 
to $1,762.85 less than the receipts. The cash assets of the 
corporation are $24,746.55, and the trust fund is now $28,- 
080,082. Hon. Albert W. Paine, for 50 years secretary and 
treasurer of the cemetery, resigned his post, and the board 
passed resolutions, commending him for faithful service, and 
voting to continue his salary for life. 
