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DESIGN FOR A CROSS MONUMENT. HARRISON GRANITE CO., NEW YORK. 
Company offered to contribute $i,ooo toward fixing roads and 
to remove 4,000 bodies from a condemned cemetery in Phila- 
delphia, paying the usual fee of $1.00 for each interment. 
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Dr. H. Wohlgemuth, president of the Board of Managers 
of Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, 111 ., has enlisted the aid 
of the local press in a crusade against cemetery desecration 
by fast driving and mutilation of coping along one of the 
new drives in that cemetery. 
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In a recent decision of the Common Pleas Court in Phila- 
delphia, the Olivia Cemetery Co. was sustained in its refusal 
to perform Sunday burials, in a suit brought by Susanna 
Watson, a lot owner. * * * Members of the Hackmen’s 
Association of Camden, N. J., have notified undertakers and 
liverymen that they will not attend Sunday funerals. They 
are supported by the clergymen of the city. * * * Under- 
takers of Homestead, Pa., have taken action looking toward 
the closing of the cemeteries on Sunday. 
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The cemetery committee of the City Council of Colorado 
Springs, Colo., has just adopted a set of progressive rules 
for the government of Evergreen Cemetery. In the new 
forestry addition all fencing or coping of any description is 
prohibited, and with regard to the rest of the ground the 
cemetery committee reserves the right to remove chairs, set- 
tees, vases, glass cases, artificial flowers, grave covers or 
anything of that kind considered objectionable. The superin- 
tendent is given full powers touching the planting of trees 
and shrubbery, and the owners of lots are required to obtain 
the approval of the superintendent before they can plant any 
tree or shrub, or erect monuments or headstones. 
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The cemeteries in the town of Newtown, L. I., contain 
1,800 acres, says the Brooklyn Standard-Union. They occupy 
about one-eighth of the area of the whole town. There are 
over 600,000 bodies buried in the 214 acres of Calvary Ceme- 
tery, or at the rate of 2,800 bodies to the acre. The number 
of interments in the Borough of Queens is 2,500,000, of which 
2,000,000 are in Newtown. For the quarter ending March 
30 last there were 5,668 interments in Calvary Cemetery, and 
for the quarter ending June 30 there were 4,714 interments, 
or at the rate of nearly 21,000 per year. 
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Oakland Cemetery, Freeport, 111 ., has nearly completed ex- 
tensive improvements costing $20,000, and was opened for the 
sale of lots in July. It contains 100 acres of rolling, wooded 
ground of much natural beauty, and has been made into a 
modern cemetery by expert landscape gardening. The super- 
intendent’s residence, and a handsome receiving vault have 
been completed, and eight natural springs on the grounds are 
being dammed, to form an artificial lake. Mr. O. T. Smith is 
superintendent. 
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The annual report of the cemeteries of Boston for the fiscal 
year 1901-2, is comprised in a book of 146 pages recently 
published, giving reports of the various officers, and rules 
and regulations. The appropriation for the year was $65,000. 
and interest on the perpetual care fund brings this amount 
up to $67,982.75 ; the receipts from other sources amounted to 
$30,240.30, and the total expenditures to $67,892.07. The 
total number of interments for the year was 2,092. The sys- 
tem of plans and card catalogues, locating lots, graves, and 
tombs in all of the cemeteries is being pushed to completion 
as fast as the accuracy of the work will permit. Work is 
still going forward on the history of the old burial grounds, 
and the report contains the latest one of these studies, an 
“Historical sketch of the old Granary Burial Ground.” It is 
substantially bound in cloth, and contains half-tone illustra- 
tions of many interesting monuments and scenes in the differ- 
ent cemeteries. 
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Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, N. J., is to build a new en- 
trance, near the present one. It will be sixty feet wide, 
with a driveway of twenty feet, and ornamental iron gates 
sixteen feet high. * * * The cemetery association at 
Brookfield, Conn., has begun the construction of a new stone 
receiving vault. It will be 10x12 feet, and will stand near 
the entrance. * * * Evergreen Cemetery Association, New 
Haven, Conn., will issue $25,000 in 5 per cent bonds, one-half 
of which will be devoted to the completion of the new chapel 
now in process of erection. The other half will be used to 
retire outstanding 6 per cent bonds. * * * Gray Cemetery, 
Knoxville, Tenn., will build a new entrance, embodying marble 
posts surmounted by urns and ornamental iron gates. * * * 
The Blake Memorial Chapel is to be erected at Harmony 
Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass. It is to be of granite, in early 
Gothic style, and will be 64 x 34 feet in ground dimensions, 
with a corner tower about 70 feet high. An administration 
building 35 x 24 feet will be connected with the chapel by 
a cloister walk. The chapel will seat about 125 people. * * * 
Lynwood Cemetery, Haverhill, Mass., has recently constructed 
a new entrance, embodying four granite pillars, and three 
ornamental iron gates. The pillars are fine-hammered and 
bear inscriptions ; two of them are 18 feet high, and the other 
two about 15 feet. 
