PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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CmtTERY NOTES 
W. H. Graves, superintendent of both the 
Hudson City and Cedar Park cemeteries, 
relates his experience with Dixon’s Silica- 
Graphite Paint in a recent letter to the 
Dixon Company : “Since adopting Dixon’s 
Silica-Graphite Paint for our cemetery 
fences, in 1911, we have used it to the ex- 
clusion of all other paints on the iron fence 
work. I intend to try out Dixon's Olive 
Green this year on the wood benches also. 
Our boundary fence of nearly one-half 
mile, painted in 1911 with two coats of Dix- 
on's Natural Color, has given excellent 
wear, considering the hard shape it was in 
when painted. Last year about one-third 
was given another coat of Dixon's Silica- 
Graphite Paint and we shall go over more 
of it this summer.’’ By writing the Joseph 
Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N. J., 
some very interesting paint information 
will be obtained. 
The forty-eighth annual report of the 
trustees of Forest Hills Cemetery, of Bos- 
ton, Mass., has been issued. One of the 
most important features of last year’s work, 
outside of construction, was the extension 
of the water system in the southerly por- 
tion of the grounds, and this system will be 
continued until the whole cemetery is ade- 
quately supplied. Much work has been 
done preparing lots on Milton Hill. The 
perpetual care lots in Section No. 14 and 
Section No. 23 have been regraded. The 
roads in Section No. 10 and part of those 
in Section No. 22 have been greatly im- 
proved by a recoating of asphalt. The in- 
crease in the perpetual care fund was $28,- 
103.71, making a total of $1,225,479.39, and 
to the permanent fund was added the sum 
of $12,505.04, making a total of $170,646.18. 
Following are some statistical statements : 
The general fund income from sale of lots 
and graves was $46,262.50, and from the 
perpetual care fund $38,400; total income 
was $118,364.55. 
Following are some items from the an- 
nual report of the Oakland Cemetery .-\s- 
sociation, of St. Paul, Minn. : Receipts 
from sales of lots, $20,205 ; miscellaneous 
labor and foundations, $4,470.10; special 
care funds, $2,000; income from invest- 
ments, $6,292.50; grand total, $55,720.72. 
Some of the expenditures were ; General im- 
provement, $1,393.84; perpetual care, work- 
ing fund, $6,770.03; miscellaneous labor, 
foundations, cases and vaults, $2,808.54; 
greenhouse — seed, stock, etc., $5,645.99. Ex- 
tensions of the water service to all im- 
proved portions of the ground have been 
made, and a consitlerable amount of gutters 
have been constructed. A beginning has 
been made in surfacing the roads with 
crushed rock, which has greatly improved 
the roadways and decreased the cost of 
maintenance. The perpetual care fund has 
been increased $5,007. 
At the annual meeting of the trustees of 
Lakewood Cemetery, Lake City, Minn., H. 
A. Young was elected president, and N. C. 
Pike, secretary. Following is the recapitu- 
lation of the annual report ; Cash on hand 
February 1, 1915, $659.79; received — annual 
care, $60; water care, $218.08; perpetual 
care, $320 : special care, $175 ; sale of lots, 
$1343.25 ; total, $3,014.56. Paid — Sexton’s la- 
bor, $460.68; sexton’s assistants, $545.47; 
repairs and supplies, $105.90; new invest- 
ments, $8C0; cash on hand, February 1, 
1916, $911.86: total, $3,014.56. Total assets, 
February 1, 1916, $19,278.86; investments 
and cash last year, $18,226.79 ; gain for the 
year, $1,052.07. Total perpetual care and 
special fund, $16,449.04. 
The Board of Trustees of the Green- 
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y., recently 
presented their report of the manage- 
ment and condition of the cemetery 
during the year 1915. The receipts 
for the sale of lots were $158,903.82. 
The trust fund for the special and per- 
petual care of lots was increased $104,- 
579.79, and the fund now amounts to $1,- 
750,908.39. The general fund for the im- 
provement and perpetual care of the ceme- 
tery was increased by $177,517.81, and now 
amounts to $4,254,426.25. That portion of 
Prospect Park West, extending into the 
cemetery at Twentieth street, was pur- 
chased from the city at a cost of $8,235.75, 
and it is proposed to change the entrance 
at Ninth avenue and Twentieth street to 
the line of Prospect Park West. The trus- 
tees communicated so far as possible 
during the year with lot owners in ref- 
erence to leaning monuments, etc., and 
were successful in securing the removal of 
94 unsightly enclosures and the resetting of 
a considerable number of monuments, at 
the owners’ expense. 
Following are some statistical state- 
ments of interest taken from the an- 
nual report of the Woodlawn Cemetery, 
Everett, Mass., for the year ending Decem- 
ber 31. 1915: Receipt*; — Cash, January 1, 
1915, $10,049.23: sales of lots and single 
graves, $22,297.72; care of lots, interments, 
foundations, etc., $27,826.80; maintenance 
fund, 1,801.56; repair fund, $27,0ID.80; 
total, $88,665.63. Disbursements — .Annu- 
itant, $6.(X)0; salaries, labor, supplies, etc., 
$.39,795.06; repair fund, $29,855.80; mainte- 
nance fund, $310.65; chapel, $440.24; cash, 
December 31, 1915, $12,023..36; total, $88,- 
665.63. I'airlawn, the new single grave sec- 
tion of this cemetery, will be open for in- 
terments about May 1. The trustees have 
fixed the price in this new section to in- 
clude perpetual care. The trustees have 
made a new rule whereby no interment 
shall be permitted in the cemetery on holi- 
days. 
Wm. C. Rapp, superintendent of Fort 
Plain Cemetery, Fort Plain, N. Y., has 
made substantial improvements there. This 
cemetery is all under perpetual care and lot 
owners are not taxed. They have about 40 
acres under cultivation, and there are over 
ten thousand interred here. They have one 
of the finest chapels in the Alohawk Valley, 
Ijuilt by Mrs. Henry Harper Benedict, of 
New York City, as a memorial to her 
mother, Mrs. Catherine Nellis. This chapel 
was built of Indiana limestone and is a 
beauty in every respect. Mrs. Benedict at 
her death left the cemetery association 
$5,000 to provide a perpetual care fund for 
the upkeep of the chapel. It is equipped 
with electric light, city water and furnace 
heat, and the office and lavatory, also the 
vault, are all arranged in a most convenient 
manner. They have a fine fund of well- 
invested bonds and mortgages, which is 
protected by a special act of the legislature 
of this state, making it a misdemeanor to 
use it for any other purpose than a per- 
petual care fund. 
Mayor Marshall, of St. Joseph, Mo., 
recently gave his consent for the welfare 
board to establish a farm on part of the 
city cemetery tract! The welfare board’s 
plan is to grow vegetables on the ground, 
thus providing work for the unemployed 
and food for the needy. The mayor has 
also arranged to have the workhouse pris- 
oners set out plants and flowers at the city 
cemetery this spring. 
The trustees of Vance Cemetery, two 
miles east of Industry, 111., are soliciting 
money toward a trust fund to be estab- 
lished for the purpose of upkeep of the 
cemetery. They desire to raise $1,500. A 
state charter has been secured and the con- 
duct of the cemetery will therefore be un- 
der the jurisdiction of the state. The trus- 
tees are AI. C. Springer, J. \V. Wilhelm. 
Calvin Russell. Hiram Davis, Chas. Hin- 
shaw and bred Stiner. 
Senator Campbell, of Baltimore, recently 
introduced in the senate a bill to have the 
governor appoint an unpaid commission of 
twelve men to consider the establishment 
of a Maryland State Cemetery. The mem- 
bers of the commission are to be chosen 
from the congressional districts. 
The Cemetery .Association, of .Atlantic, 
la., has donated $1.0(10 in all to the fund 
for paving the road to the cemetery. 
The Oak Ridge Cemetery Board, of 
Springfield, 111., was recently paid $5.(XX) 
by the members of the hoard of education 
for h'orest Park site, where the new high 
school is being erected. The board of edu- 
cation now has a quit claim deed to the 
