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PARK AND CEMETERY 
At the recent annual meeting of the lot owners of the Dan- 
ville Cemetery Association, Danville, N. Y., the treasurer’s 
report showed the following statistics : Receipts : Balance 
on hand September i, 1901, $3,390.48; sale of lots, trust funds, 
etc., $2,157.90; total, $5,548.38. Disbursements: For labor, 
salaries, trust funds and funds in bank, mortgages, etc., $4,- 
833.20; cash in treasurer’s hands, $715.18; total $5,548.38. A 
portion of Greenmount is to be replotted and remapped. 
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A cloudburst during August caused much damage in Hill- 
side cemetery, Madison, N. J. Seventy-five caskets were un- 
covered by the rushing waters and many of them were swept 
from the graves. A brook runs through the cemetery. The 
water backed up for a distance of 400 feet and the torrent 
carried everything before it and for a width of fifty feet. 
Some of the bodies were found a mile from the cemetery 
and it is believed that others were washed into the Passiac 
river. Only forty bodies were recovered. 
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The Brooklyn Heights Cemetery Association, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., is to lay out a new cemetery of 102 acres in South 
Brooklyn. About $200,000 is to be expended in purchasing 
land and making improvements and it is the intention of the 
association to make a beautiful modern cemetery. The land 
was mortgaged for $180,000 to secure a bond issue for mak- 
ing the improvements. 
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Application has been made to the city trustees of Sacsa- 
mento. Cal., for permission to purchase land in the city 
cemetery for the erection of a crematory to cost between 
$20,000 and $30,000. In presenting and favorably recom- 
mending the application. City Trustee Devine said that many 
people who favored this method of disposing of the dead 
were obliged to send to San Francisco, but if there were 
any objections from lot owners he would favor the rejection 
of the petition for selling the land. 
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A cemetery, known as The Evergreens, belonging to the 
estate of the late W. S. Eno, at Pine Plains, N. Y., has been 
put up and sold under foreclosure of a mortgage held by 
the Atlantic Trust Company, of New York. The mortgage 
covers the unsold plots, walks, drives, etc., and was sold by 
W. E. Dean, referee, of Fishkill village. It is said to be the 
first cemetery in New York state to be put up for sale under 
foreclosure. 
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London, as well as Paris, is said to have a cemetery for 
dogs. It is near Victoria Gate at the Hyde Park Place en- 
trance to Hyde Park, and contains about 150 or 200 graves, 
all level with the turf, and showing evidence of careful at- 
tention. Small monuments with affectionate inscriptions 
mark all the graves, and a little greenhouse stands in one 
corner of the cemetery. The most elaborate monument con- 
sists of a decorated stone pedestal about eighteen inches in 
diameter, surmounted with a marble shaft about three feet 
high and six inches in diameter, with a carved vine trailing 
symmetrically around it. 
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The annual report of Secretary Jos. C. Spear, of Spring 
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, O., gives the following statis- 
tics: Receipts from sale of lots, $41,609.80; interments, 
foundations, single graves, $26,239.44; improvements of lots 
by gardener, $14,767.81 ; trust fund — perpetual care of lots, 
$6,247.76; from sale of U. S. bonds, $124,312.50; ground rent, 
$5,868.12; sale of property, $9,000. The total receipts includ- 
ing last year’s balance were $252,209.12. The total expendi- 
tures were $228,048.18. Some of the items of expense were 
as follows : Labor, material, watch and gatekeeper, $32,- 
296.63; interments and foundations, $9,011.17; salaries, $11,- 
900; planting and seeding, $1,059.19; repairs, $1,580.19; pur- 
chase of bonds, trust fund, $11,819.38; bonds, general ac- 
count, $19,547.50; ground rent, $125,000. There were no 
lots sold during the year, and 1,480 interments. The total 
■interments number 68,149, and the number of lot holders is 
10,491. 
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“Elmlawn, Buffalo’s New Burial Park,” is the title of an 
attractive booklet issued by the Buffalo Burial Park Asso- 
ciation, Buffalo, N. Y. Elmlawn occupies an ideal site on 
gently-rolling, and well drained land in the suburbs of the 
city, and is approached by Delaware Ave., which is paved 
thp entire distance from Buffalo, and can also' be reached by 
electric cars from that city and Tonawanda. The Associa- 
tion has under construction a modern mortuai'y chapel and 
receiving tomb of Gothic style, and has adopted progressive 
rules for the government of the cemetery. The trustees have 
provided that a fixed amount of the annual income shall be 
appropriated for the perpetual maintenance of the grounds, 
and in each deed is inserted a clause providing that the lot 
shall be always kept in good order without expense to the 
owner. Mr. Bellett Lawson, Jr., is secretary and superin- 
tendent. 
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Suit for an injunction to restrain the Odd Eellows Ceme- 
tery Association from conducting funeral parlors in San 
Francisco and in Oakland and maintaining a crematory and 
columbarium at the cemetery for persons other than lot own- 
ers has been filed in the Supreme Court of California. The 
proceeding is the outgrowth of the boycott levied upon the 
association by the United Undertakers. It is alleged that 
the trustees have expended $70,000 of the association’s funds 
in the erection and maintenance of a crematory and colum- 
barium for general use, in violation of the act of the Legis- 
lature by which it was incorporated and that $7,000 has been 
used in fitting up funeral parlors in San Francisco and Oak- 
land. The complainants aver that the majority of lot own- 
ers disapprove of the trustees’ actions. The defendants, on 
the other hand, assert that they are acting in behalf of owners 
of property in the cemetery. 
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The borough council of Collingdale, Pa., has secured a 
temporary injunction against establishing the Eden Ceme- 
tery, a cemetery for negroes which owns 50 acres of land, 
and has already made several interments. At a recent town 
meeting the matter was favorably reported to the council with 
a request that the company be allowed to proceed, but the 
council voted against the resolution. The attorney for the 
cemetery made the arguments that the council was passing 
class legislation, and that it could not prohibit an enterprise 
of this character unless it is proven beyond doubt to be a 
public nuisance. He argued further that the ordinance is not 
valid because it was passed at a special meeting at which 
general business was transacted, and further, that the rules 
under which council is working have never been properly 
adopted according to the Act of Assembly. The judge said 
that the main questions for the consideration of the court 
were whether the ordinance was legally passed and as to 
whether the authorities exceeded police power. He dissolved 
the injunction. In making its application the Cemetery 
