PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Cemetery Notes. 
The ministers of Minneapolis, Minn., have taken decided 
stand against Sunday funerals, and have the support of the 
majority of the undertakers and liverymen. * * * The 
Ministerial Association of Springfield, Ohio, has also gone on 
record as opposed to Sunday funerals, but has adopted no de- 
finite plan of action. 
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Jesse Hodgin, of Westfield, Ind., is reported to have placed 
an effectual safeguard against ghouls in the grave of his wife. 
The device consists of an ordinary gaspipe filled with nitro- 
glycerine which is placed immediately above the coffin. About 
a foot above the pipe are several dozen percussion caps, which 
will explode on being touched with a spade, and set off the 
nitro-glycerine. 
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Elm Leaf Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala., has installed a 
waterworks system connecting with the city main, and laid 
about 4,000 feet of pipe in the grounds. Hydrants are located 
at intervals of about 200 feet, and every lot can be reached 
with 75 feet of hose. The system cost about $700. The ceme- 
tery is less than two years old and has had about 300 inter- 
ments, which would indicate that it is meeting with public 
favor. 
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Trouble between the lot owners and trustees of the Odd 
Fellows’ Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal., has been carried into 
the courts. The lot owners complain that the trustees have 
unprofitably expended large sums in maintaining a cremato- 
rium, columbarium, and an undertaking business which they 
had no power to do. They maintain that the statutes only 
give the trustees power to conduct a cemetery, and not to 
engage in a profitable business. In the demurrer filed by 
the trustees it was contended that the lot owners had lost 
their right to protest through lapse of time. 
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The Lakewood Cemetery Association, of Minneapolis, re- 
cently held its annual meeting. The reports of treasurer and 
superintendent showed as the receipt for the entire year $76,- 
421 ; from the sale of lots, $37,599. The expenditures for labor 
were $19,244; miscellaneous expenditures, $42,544. The per- 
manent fund of the association is $99,111. The following offi- 
cers were elected: President, W. D. Washburn; vice-presi- 
dent, R. J. Mendenhall ; treasurer, C. M. Loring, secretary 
and superintendent, Arthur W. Hobart. 
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Burton J. Ashley, city engineer of John Alexander Dowie’s 
Zion City Colony, has laid out Mt. Olivet Cemetery for Zion 
City. The cemetery contains 60 acres, one-half of which will 
be put to immediate use. A broad park will extend along the 
front, and at the rear of this on the highest point in the ceme- 
tery will be the mortuary chapel. Small lakes or lagoons are 
also planned. The drives are to bo 20 and 25 feet in width, a 
border of five feet on either side for tree planting or water 
mains. Family lots contain 300 square feet, have 20 feet 
frontage and 15 feet depth all fronting on these foot paths. 
In designing the cemetery a topographical survey of the en- 
tire tract was made by taking readings at the corners of 50- 
foot rectangles, and then interpolating the contours on the 
map, enabling the designer to accurately locate all drives, ave- 
nues, blocks, lakes, etc. 
At the annual meeting of the lot owners of Oakland Ceme- 
tery, St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 24, the treasurer’s report showed 
net ordinary receipts of $28,470.78; balance at beginning of 
year, $455.94; gross receipts, $30,226.72. The chief items are 
seventy-five lot sales, $10,632.50; single grave sales, $1,407.00; 
interment fees, $1,939.00; tomb fees, $574.00; miscellaneous 
labor and foundations, $2,509.18; perpetual care on nine old 
lots, $587.37; income of perpetual care, $4,749.57; greenhouse 
sales, $5,649.45. The net ordinary expenditures were $21,- 
086.56; investments for the perpetual care funds premiums 
and accrued interest, $5,870.45. The chief item was the pay 
roll, amounting to $14,822.58. The perpetual care fund has in- 
creased during the year $4,102.77, amounting to $17,805.57, be- 
sides accumulated income of $5,499.58. Invested funds $114." 
000.00. * * * The superintendent's report shows 14-380 
square feet new ground graded and seeded; 15,930 square 
feet old ground regraded and seeded ; 698 square feet cement 
walk built; 4,160 square feet stone gutters built; 205 founda- 
tions built; 57 monuments and 148 grave marks placed; 230 
trees, shrubs and evergreens planted ; 16,291 square feet of 
ground sold in lots and graves ; Interments, 333 ; total to Oc- 
tober 31, 14,510. One hundred and twenty-one thousand five 
hundred and eighty-five plants were grown. The greenhouse 
furnished plants far decoration of the chapel and lawns valued 
at $1,394.00, making the total value of the greenhouse work 
$7,043.45. 
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NEW CEMETERIES, 
Miss Frances Smith, of Pine Plains, N. Y., recently pur- 
chased Evergreen Cemetery in that town for $3,200 at a 
foreclosure sale. It is reported that she will form an asso- 
ciation and incorporate it. * * * Ashland, Ore., has pur- 
chased sixteen acres of land for $1,600 to be used as a ceme- 
tery. * * * The Utica and Mohawk Valley Railway Com- 
pany has an option on a tract of land between Herkimer and 
Little Falls, N. Y., and is said to be planning to open a 
cemetery there. * * * Augustus Aucutt and others of 
Aurora, 111 ., are organizing a company to lay out a cemetery 
near that city, and have purchased 160 acres of farm land 
from the Sullivan estate. * * * The town of Dike, la., 
has passed an ordinance, providing for laying out a new ceme- 
tery within the corporate limits of the town. * * * Thomas 
Jackson, of Kenosha, Wis., has been given permission to plot 
a private cemetery of acres adjoining the city cemetery. 
* * * Ten acres of land at Burnside, near Hartford, Conn., 
have been purchased by St. Mar3'’s Corporation for a new 
Catholic cemetery. * * * The Bohemian National Ceme- 
tery Association, of Chicago, has bought 60 acres of land for a 
cemetery from W. S. Peterson. It is at the north end of the 
city and cost $1,000 an acre. * * * Ten acres of land at 
New Kensington near Pittsburg, Pa., has been purchased to be 
laid out as East Lawn Cemetery. * * * The new cemetery 
for Cleveland, O., comprising /|/|2 acres of land in Warrens- 
ville township, has been formally transferred to the city for 
$86,141. * * * A number of Lithuanian societies have 
bought 13 acres of land at Meriden, Conn., for a cemetery. * 
* * The Evergreen Cemetery Association, of Oakland, Cal., 
has been incorporated with a capital stock of $250,000 The 
cemetery comprises 60 acres of land on the San Leandro road, 
and extensive improvements have already begun. The asso- 
ciation is financed by the Alameda Realty Co. * * * The 
Montrose Cemetery Association, of Chicago, has bought 79 
acres of land for $75,000 at Bryn Mawr Ave. and N. 40th St. 
* * * A new cemetery occupying 18 acres, known as the 
Mount Peace Cemetery of Camden County, is being laid out 
near Barrington, N. J. 
