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PARK AND CEMi^TERY 
Cemetery Notes. 
It is illegal in the State of Minnesota to form a corporation 
to own or manage a cemetery for pecuniary profit. In the 
case of P. E. Brown and others against the Maplewood Cem- 
etery Association of Luverne, the Supreme Court reversed the 
lower court and decided that the private incorporators who 
took in over $6,000 from the sale of lots as owners of the 
cemetery, must account for it to the lot owners, as stock- 
holders, and use it in improvement of the cemetery. 
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John Alexander Dowie, of Chicago, has purchased a new 
tract of 300 acres of land near his Zion City colony in Michi- 
gan, 58 acres of which are to be set aside, as a cemetery for 
the exclusive use of his followers. This action is a result of 
the dissatisfaction of the people of Benton, Mich., with his 
interference with the patrons of their cemetery during the 
recent funeral of Dowie's daughter. The ground is being plot- 
ted for improvement. 
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Oak Grove Cemetery, Tomah, Wis., has recently added 
four acres of territory, making the total area 20 acres. The 
ground has been plotted and ninety rods of ornamental fencing, 
with entrance gates of artistic design, have been built. Su- 
perintendent H. L. Burdick writes of the wonderful improve- 
ment the grounds have undergone in the past two years, and 
credits Park and Cemetery with some share in aiding the 
work. 
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I'he promoters of the St. James Lutheran Cemetery have 
again granted permission to establish a burial ground at 
Bloomfield, N. J., in their second application to the State 
Board of Health, made necessary by the litigation which has 
been in progress for the past year. After the Bloomfield 
Towm Council had granted the cemetery people permission to 
go ahead the local Board of Health refused to consent, and 
the cemetery people appealed to the State Board and obtained 
its consent. The opposition carried the case to the Supreme 
Court, which set aside the State Board's permit mainly upon 
the grounds that the opposition had not been given a hearing. 
The cemetery people then made a second application to the 
State Board of Health, which w'as successful. There are sixty 
acres to the cemetery, thirty of which are in Bloomfield and 
the balance in Belleville and Franklin. No work has been 
carried on about tbe cemetery since November 23d, but it is 
stated that the work of completion wdll now be continued. 
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A tract of farm land 48 acres in extent has been purchased 
near Flushing, Pa., to be used as a Chinese cemeterv. It will 
have one or more temples and will be laid out and will in 
every particular conform to native Chinese cemeteries. The 
principal pagoda or temple will be nine stories high ; from the 
balconies of the different stories projectiles will extend con- 
taining bells or gongs that are rung at stated intervals of the 
day and night, certain ones to keep evil spirits away and 
others to guide the good spirits. The cemetery will be the 
only one of its kind in America, though a plot of ground 
embracing 2,500 square feet has been purchased in Homewood 
Cemetery, Pittsburg, to be used exclusively for Chinese bur- 
ials. A bowlow, or incense oven, was erected on the plot by 
Campbell & Horigan, of Pittsburg, to be used in burial ser- 
vices. It was designed by a Chinaman, is made of Barre 
granite, and somewhat resembles a miniature joss house. In 
the base is a bronze grate upon which the manuscripts and 
other effects of the deceased are burned with incense called 
“pong sticks.” The ceremony is performed after the casket 
has been lowered into the grave and the ashes from the bowlow 
are sprinkled reverently over the coffin. The bodies of about 
thirty Chinese are to be moved from other cemeteries and 
buried in this plot. 
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Ladies of Bloomfield, Ohio, have organized the Bloomfield 
Cemetery Improvement Association, and are to take up the 
work of graveling the drives and otherwise improving the 
grounds. The association meets each month at the cemetery 
and charges the members nominal dues of 25 cents a year. 
It was organized in May, and at the June meeting they re- 
ported about too members and $35 in the treasury. 
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NEW CEMETERY STRUCTURES. 
The following .cemeteries are to erect new buildings or en- 
trance gates : Oakwood, Syracuse, N. Y., will erect an arched 
entrance way to cost $10,000. I'he contract has not been 
awarded. * * Riverside, Three Rivers, Mich., will build 
a receiving vault this summer to cost about $1,200. * * The 
Cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre, Newark, N. J., will build a 
new office and storage building after plans by O’Rourke & 
Sons, architects. It will cost $8,000. * * The New York 
Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, N. J., has given out the contract 
for a stone arch over the Ocean Avenue entrance, to take the 
place of the present wooden structure. The new arch is to 
cost upwards of $5,000, and will be completed in October. 
* * The City Council of Providence, R. I., has passed a res- 
olution directing the city treasurer to borrow $30,000 for the 
erection of a receiving tomb in the North Burial Ground. * * 
Mrs. F. F. Thompson will present Woodlawn Cemetery, Can- 
andaigua, N. Y., with a new gray stone chapel to cost $5,000. 
* * Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Cal., will erect a new 
receiving vault after plans by Architects Howard & Train. 
It will be a single story fire-proof structure in brick, iron and 
cement, built in Doric style. It will be 35.X60 feet in ground 
dimensions and is to contain forty-eight catacombs. * * 
Mt. Hebron Cemetery Co., Winchester, Va., awarded contract 
for erection of mortuary chapel to Henry Deahl and Willey 
Bros., to cost $10,000. * * The Scandinavian Cemetery, 
Rockford, 111 ., will build a new chapel and receiving vault. 
The chapel will be of red brick and will seat 200 people. The 
vault will be of stone and will contain 25 catacombs. The 
new Rural Cemetery, Rensselaer, N. Y., will erect a public 
chapel and tomb of Gothic architecture. It will be of Chester 
granite, and wnl be erected by Flint & Co., of Albany, N. Y. 
* * Plans are being prepared by Architect Gouge, of Utica, 
N. Y., for a new memorial gateway to St. Agnes Cemetery in 
that city. The design embodies six columns eight feet high. 
The base will be of Oxford stone, and the rest of the struc- 
ture of Indiana stone. It is a memorial to the Carton family. 
* * The corner-stone was recently laid for the Wilde 
Memorial Chapel at Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Me. It 
is a gift to the association from Mrs. Mary E. Wilde, of 
Montclair, N. J., in memory of her husband, and is to cost 
$23,000. * * Maple Grove Cemetery, Findlay, Ohio, is to 
build a new receiving vault after plans by Kramer & Harp- 
ster, of that city. It is to cost about $7,000. * * The Oak- 
wood Cemetery Association, Syracuse, N. Y., has let the con- 
tract for a new arch at the Renwick avenue entrance, to cost 
$21,000. A new greenhouse, and an office building to cost 
$10,000, will also be erected. * * Evergreen Cemetery, 
Bennettsville, S. C., has recently erected new iron entrance 
gates of attractive design, and enclosed the grounds with a 
substantial fence. The improvements are the gift of Miss 
Ida Dudley, in memory of her father, who established the 
cemetery. Among the other improvements of the year was 
the planting of an avenue 30 feet wide with live oaks. 
