PARK AND CEMETERY 
474 
Cemetery Notes. 
In the annual report of the Oakland Cemetery Association, 
St. Paul, Minn., . given in our cemetery notes of last month, 
the perpetual care fund was, through a typographical error, 
given as $17,805.57, when it should have read $107,805.57. 
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The Supreme Court of New Jersey has recently rendered a 
decision sustaining the action oi the State Board of Health in 
granting permission to the Lutheran Cemetery Association to 
locate a cemetery in Bloomfield, N. J. This is the second time 
that the ca-e has been before the Supreme Court. When the 
Bloomfield Board of Health refused to give its consent tc the 
establishment of the cemetery after the Town Council had 
approved the project, an appeal was made to the state board, 
with the result that the latter body decided in favor of the 
cemetery promoters. An appeal was then made to the Su- 
preme Court, which set aside the state board’s permit on the 
ground that the objectors had' not been given an opportunity 
to be heard. In May last argument was again heard by the 
state board, and it passed a resolution permitting the location 
of the cemetery in Bloomfield. The matter was taken to the 
Supreme Court on certiorari proceedings, the right of the 
State Board of Health to confirm the action of the municipal 
authorities being attacked. 
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In the report of President J. M. Curtiss, of the Riverside 
Cemetery Association, Cleveland, O., presented at the recent 
annual meeting, the following facts concerning the cemetery’s 
affairs are given: “The association has sufficient funds on 
hand to warrant it in placing the amount reported by your 
committee ($50,000) in a permanent fund for tbe perpetual 
care and maintenance of the cemetery when the sale of lots 
no longer yields an adequate income. The report also shows 
that we are nearing the point when the income from sources 
other than sale of lots will provide for the running expenses. 
* * * The benefit of this large and grow’ing fund accrues 
alone to the lot owners. Every penny of that fund belongs 
to them, to be sacredly kept to beautify their cemetery.- The 
income from this fund is to be used in keeping the general 
grounds in order and giving your lot and mine such ordinary 
care and attention as that it can never become a blot, even 
should a family permanently remove, or become scattered or 
extinct. * * * The clerk's report show's the total receipts for 
the year to have been $26,082.90. This, w'ith the balance, $43,- 
992.64, on hand at the beginning of the year, makes a total 
of $70,075.54. The total disbursements for current expenses 
and permanent improvements w'ere $8,990.43, leaving the 
splendid balance of $61,085.11 in the treasury November 30. 
This with the $12,096.39 in good book accounts gives a total 
asset of $73,181.50. The sales of lots were $17,305.50. J. C. 
Dix was re-elected secretary and superintendent. 
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Improvements and additions to cemeteries are reported as 
follows this month : An extension is to be added to the 
cemetery at Wrightsville, Pa., which will double its area. * 
* * A committee is raising $4,000 to be invested as a per- 
petual care fund for the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Frankfort, 
Ind. * * * Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Harvard, 111 ., has 
recently installed a waterworks system, including 2,000 feet 
of pipe, a windmill, and an elevated steel tank with a capa- 
city of 140 barrels. * * * The cemetery at Ithaca, Mich., 
has added territory sufficient for 418 lots, and is to proceed 
at once with the work of improvement. * * * addi- 
tional plot of land is to be annexed by Prospect Hill Ceme- 
te^v, Sidney, N. Y., and a landscape gardener engaged to care 
for the grounds. * * * Hillside Cemetery, Farmington, N. 
H., has laid 2,679 feet of water pipe, placing every lot in the 
cemetery within 50 feet of a faucet. * * * Col. C. E. Boi- 
ler, assistant quarttnnaster-general of the war department, is 
to carry out the plans in regaid to preserving and beautify- 
ing old Fort Crawford cemetery at Prairie du Chien, Wis. 
Congress made an appropriation of $3,500 to carry out the 
work. * * * The city of Colorado Springs, Colo., is to 
establish a perpetual endowment fund for Evergreen Ceme- 
tery. * * '1= The city council of Medford, Mass., is con- 
sidering the purchase of about 14 acres of land as an addi- 
tion to Oak Grove Cemetery.* * * Maple Grove, Findlay, 
O., is to build a new mortuary chapel after plans prepared by 
Kramer & Harpster, architects, of that city. * * * q'he 
cemetery commission, of Waltham, Mass., has let the con- 
tract for new entrance gates to the city cemetery, to cost 
$1,600. * * * The Lakeside Cemetery Association, Pekin, 
111., will plot ten acres of additional territory. * * * 
Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Mass., is constructing new 
entrance gates of Maynard red sandstone and wrought iron 
grill work. It is 40 feet wide, with a drive of 12 feet, and 
pathways 4/2 feet wide. * ’i' * 'j'he 1 . O. O. F. Cemetery, 
Alexandria. Ind., has added a plot of ground embracing 26 
lots. * * * Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Me., is nego- 
tiating for the purchase of four acres of additional territory 
at an expense of about $10,000. * * * An additional plot 
including 228 lots will be laid out in Victoria Lawn Cemetery, 
St. Catherines, Ont. * * * Fairview, Wrightville, Pa., is 
erecting a new fence around a recent addition of six acres, 
and will make other improvements to cost $2,000. * * * 
The City Council of Zanesville, O., has purchased an addition 
to Woodlawn Cemetery for $2,259.11. * * * Pasadena 
Cemetery .Association, Pasadena, Cal., has improved its water 
w'orks system by building a 267-foot well and installing a gaso- 
line engine and pump. * * * The new mortuary chapel at 
Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, O., w'hich w'as illustrated 
in Park & Cemetery in June, igci, was recently dedicated. * 
* * .A new receiving vault costing $7,000 has been dedicated 
at Forest Law'n Cemetery, Omaha, Neb. * * * Extensive 
plans for beautifying Hope Cemetery, Galesburg, 111 ., have 
Ireen prepared by Dr. J. V. N. Standish, president of the 
Board. I'he w'ork includes re-grading, planting and laying 
out walks. * * * A new' receiving tomb is to be built at the 
North Burial Ground, Providence, R. I., after plans prepared 
l)y Martin & Hall, architects. Providence. * * * Competi- 
tive designs are soon to be submitted for an entrance gate and 
lodge for the Pueblo Cemetery .Association, Pueblo, Col. 
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NEW CEMETERIES, 
The Hickory Grove Cemetery .Association has finally se- 
cured permission to lay out a 300-acre cemetery near Mamara- 
neck, N. Y., after litigation brought by the wealthy property 
owners. * * * Lone Mountain Cemeter}', Carson, Nev., embrac- 
ing 130 acres, bas been purchased by W. J. Downey, an under- 
taker, who will make many improvements. * * * The City 
Council of Ephraim, Utah, has voted to purchase ten acres of 
land for a city cemetery. * * * The Monessen Cemetery 
Association has been formed at Monessen, Pa., to operate a 
cemetery embracing 34 acres. The association is to be incor- 
porated and will spend $10,000 in improvements. * * * A 
new Swedish cemetery, “Oak Hill,” has been opened at 119th 
St. and Kedzie Ave., Chicago, by a stock company. The Bo- 
hemians of this neighborhood have also bought 40 acres of 
land to be laid out as a cemetery at iiith St. 
