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Cemetery Notes. 
Oakdale Cemetery. Wilmington, N. C.. is to make extensive 
improvements for beautifying the entrance on plans by Super- 
intendent Timothy Donlan. A stream flowing along the front 
of the 'cemetery is to he turned from its course, and bridged 
with a brick culvert having two archways. The fence will 
be moved so as to throw a considerable area of swampy ground 
into the cemetery, which will be drained, filled in, and turfed 
to show greensward on either skle of the entrance, giving a 
good view of the pretty brown-stone lodge illustrated in these 
pages some time ago. 
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Trustees of the Palmer Burial Ground, Philadelphia, have 
brought suit in the Court of Equity in that city to restrain 
Jacob G. Fenemore, a monument dealer, from building foun- 
dations for monuments in the cemetery. In September, 1901, 
the cemetery authorities gave to the superintendent sole 
authority to build foundations for monuments and sod graves, 
and the bill alleges that Mr. Fenemore has broken this regu- 
lation. In his demurrer to the bill the counsel for the de- 
fendant argued that the regulation preventing the Iniilding 
of foundations by any one hut the superintendent amounted 
to a monopoly, and was, therefore, illegal. He contended 
that the only provision of the original deed for the government 
of the cemetery besides the appointment of the trustees, was 
for the services of a grave digger, and that any possible 
monopoly ended there. In reply the counsel for the ceme- 
tery argued that under the deed the trustees were required 
to care for the grounds, and that the only source of income 
for that purpose arose from the fees for digging graves and 
laying foundations. 
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Cemetery Improvements. 
Improvements and additions to cemeteries are reported this 
month as follows : Extensive improvements, to cost $2,000, 
are l^eing made at Woodlawn Cemetery. Winona, Minn. They 
will include considerable grading work and the building of 
dams in the ravines. * * Hillside Cemetery, Thomaston, 
Conn., will add 20 acres to its territory. The land is higher 
than the rest of the cemetery, and is now being surveyed for 
improvement. * * St. Peter's Cemetery. Lowell, Mass., has 
set out about 300 trees and built a new office building during 
the spring and summer. * * The City of Waco, Tex., has 
purchased 60 acres of land at $300 per acre as an addition to 
Oakwood Cemetery. * * The Woodlawn Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, Lima, Ohio, has added 20 acres to its territory. * * 
Superintendent Burns, of Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, 
Mich., is building new roads and cutting a canal through the 
cemetery. Plans for these and other improvements w'ere fur- 
nished by O. C. Simonds. * * Improvements to cost $5,000 
are under way at Dunmore Cemetery, Scranton, Pa. They 
include the laying of water pipes for sprinkling purposes, 
throughout the grounds, and making connections with the 
city water mains. * * Mound Cemetery, Monroe, Ohio, has 
received a legacy of $4,000 from' the late John Maud. The 
fund is to be invested, and the income used to care for and 
beautify the grounds. * * A new section, embracing two 
acres, has been laid out as an addition to Hoboken Cemetery, 
Hoboken. N. J. * * The South Lyons Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Lyons, N. Y., has made application to the Supreme Court 
for permission to acquire by condemnation eight acres of land 
as an addition to the cemetery. * * Oak Ridge Cemetery, 
Altoona, Pa., has voted to purchase nine acres of additional 
territory. * * Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, 
Ind., has laid out a new section containing 400 lots in the cen- 
ter of which is a circular spot reserved for old soldiers. 'I'he 
work was done by Earnshaw & Punshon, of Cincinnati. * * 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Mass., has added about 
eight acres to its territory. * * Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 
Worcester. Mass., is to he surrounded by a wall to he 1,342 feet 
long and four feet high. It will he two feet thick at the base, 
will have a surmounting granite cap. and is to cost about 
$2,000. * * The Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, Emporia, Kas., 
has purchased eight acres of ground for $2,000. * * 'I'he 
town of Vineyard Haven. Mass., has voted $1,000 for the en- 
largement of Oak Grove Cemetery. * * St. Stephen’s Cath- 
olic Cemetery, Attleboro, Mass., has added three acres of 
territory, and contemplates erecting a new entrance. * * 
Fifty acres, to be purchased by the Council for $12,000, will he 
added to Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, Ind. * * Wyo- 
ming Cemetery, Melrose, Mass., has authorized the trustees 
to expend $5,000 for improvements. * * \ public receiving 
vault, containing 96 catacombs, is being erected in Forest 
Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Neb. 
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New Cemeteries. 
Crown View Cemetery, near Sheridan, Indiana, has been 
organized. The tract embraces eleven acres of land, and is 
now being improved for use as a modern cemetery. * * 
Riverview Cemetery, recently laid out near South Bend, Ind., 
is progressing rapidly with the work of improvement. 'I'he 
sections have been laid out and sodded, and the new chapel 
is approaching completion. A new receiving vault, to be 
of stone with a marble interior, is also under construction. 
All lots are to be sold with perpetual care, and other modern 
features will be in force. * * 'I'he Chicago Cemetery Asso- 
ciation has purchased 120 acres of land at Kedzie avenue and 
119th street, Chicago, to be laid out as a Swedish cemetery. 
The price paid for the property was $58,000. N. A. Nelson is 
Secretary of the association. * * 'I'he Maplewood Ceme- 
tery Corporation has been organized at Anderson, Ind., to 
develop a tract of 216 acres on the line of the Anderson and 
Muncie electric railway. 'Fhe corporation will issue $50,000 
worth of preferred stock for improvement purposes, to bear 
interest at 4 per cent, and be redeemed as the funds from 
the sale of lots will permit. After redeeming the preferred 
stock, all funds from the sale of lots are to be used for 
improving and l)eautifying the grounds. John P. Sears is 
Secretary of the corporation. * * The Greenwood Ceme- 
tery Association has been organized to operate a large tract 
of land as a cemetery at Hoisington, Kas. * * 'fhe Redon- 
do Cemetery Association has 1 )een incorporated at Redondo, 
Cal., with a capital stock of $10,000. * * The Locust W’ood 
Cemetery Company, of Haddonfield, N. J.. has been incorpo- 
rated by N. J. Smith, J. H. Schriver and Isaac Braddock ; 
capital stock, $150,000. * * 'I'he Richmond Hill Cemetery 
is to be established in the Borough of Richmond, New York- 
City. It embraces too acres of farm land on Staten Island. 
* * A committee of tbe City Council, Cleveland. Ohio, is ar- 
ranging for the purchase of a site for a new East Side Ceme- 
tery. A resolution is to be introduced providing for a bond 
issue of $200,000. * * Notre Dame Cemetery, a tract of 
ten acres, has been purchased by six business men of Gard- 
ner, Mass., and presented to tbe Holy Rosary church. * * 
Woodlawn Cemetery, of Pittsburg, is to be laid out on a tract 
of 82 acres of land near Wilkinsburg, ' Pa., to cost about 
$150,000. 'fhe purchasing company is capitalized at $300,000, 
and contracts are to be let for extensive improvements, in- 
cluding the grading and macadamizing of four miles of drive- 
ways. and the erection of a soldiers’ monument and receiving 
\'ault. * * Odd Fellows of Sacramento, Cal., are to estab- 
lish a cemetery of their own on a tract of 13 }^ acres. 'I'he 
purchase price will be about $10,000. 
