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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
another opportunity at the regular city 
election in April to vote upon the question 
of purchasing a site for the East Side 
park and to incur an indebtedness not to 
exceed $4,500. 
There has been much discussion in Beau- 
mont, Tex., as to whether that city can 
afford to make extensive improvements in 
Island Park. 
The bill providing legislative machinery 
necessary to the establishment of park and 
boulevard systems by the joint action of 
cities and counties was up for considera- 
tion in Jefferson City, Mo., recently. This 
bill opens the way to all Missouri cities for 
the establishment of outer park systems 
when they are needed. 
The Racine Daily Times recently pub- 
lished an extended illustrated article by A. 
A. Fisk, superintendent of parks, Racine, 
Wis., on plans for developing a park and 
boulevard system in that city. 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION. 
The ilustration on the cover of this issue 
shows a very ornamental pattern of 
wrought-iron entrance gate. The scroll- 
work and ornaments have been very elabo- 
rately carried out in a most effective de- 
sign that has much to commend it for 
beauty, massive dignity and substantial 
construction. It will be noted that the in- 
tricate pattern of the ironwork is consist- 
ently and harmoniously carried out, not only 
in both the drive and walk gates, but in the 
post-lanterns. The lanterns are an interest- 
ing feature of this design that not only 
serve their utilitarian purpose at night, but 
add an element of ornament to the posts 
by day. The Stewart Iron Works Co., of 
Cincinnati, who built the gate illustrated, 
are large manufacturers of these lanterns 
and have a special catalogue of this line. 
Those interested in these gate ornaments 
can get details and illustrations of many 
different styles from “Bracket and Post- 
Lantern Catalogue No. 2,” which the Stew- 
art Iron Works Co. would be glad to send 
on request. 
TRADE PUBLICATIONS 
RECEIVED. 
The Austin- Western Road Machinery Co., 
Karpen Bldg., Chicago, have just issued a 
little catalogue-memorandum book which is 
really a catalog of their catalogues and is 
a radical departure from the ordinary cata- 
logues and circulars. The cover design, 
“An Idyll of the Sea,” is lithographed on 
celluloid in twelve colors. One side of 
each page is left blank for notes and on 
the other side is the printed matter. They 
have adopted this form in order that their 
large, illustrated catalogues may reach cus- 
tomers at the right time; therefore this in- 
dex catalogue in which is listed their com- 
plete line. From it you can order any of the 
special catalogues in which you are inter- 
ested. Any reader of Park and Cemetery 
who mentions this notice may have one of 
these memorandum books on request. 
CMETCRY NOTES 
The Greenwood Cemetery Society, of will soon be improved by the erection of 
Woodstock, 111., is raising money for the 
cemetery fund. 
The annual election of the Carlyle Cem- 
etery Association, of Carlyle, 111., was held 
a short time ago. Mrs. Christine Conwell 
was elected president and Mrs. Jennie 
Heitmeier secretary. 
The trustees of the Silent Home Ceme- 
tery Association, of Cameron, 111., met re- 
cently and organized by electing W. C. 
Whitman president and F. M. Devoss sec- 
retary. 
At the annual meeting of the Rapidan 
Cemetery Association, of Mankato, Minn., 
the old officers were re-elected, as follows : 
President, George Ballard; secretary, Mrs 
Eric Holberg. 
The Cemetery Association of Channahon, 
111., met recently and Mrs. George Essing- 
ton was elected president and Mrs. Wm. 
Martens secretary. 
The Ladies’ Cemetery Aid Society, of 
Elgin, 111., met recently and elected Mrs. 
J. Q. Lang president and Mrs. Perkins 
secretary and treasurer. 
Superintendent M. A. Shank, of the city 
cemeteries of Salisbury, N. C.., recently in- 
stalled a cemetery record system. 
At a recent meeting of the Cemetery As- 
sociation of Kinmundy, 111., Mrs. E. C. 
Bargh was elected president and Mrs. Jas. 
T. Brown secretary-treasurer. 
At the annual meeting of the Ladies’ 
Linwood Cemetery Association, of Pana, 
111., Mrs. A. B. Corman was elected presi- 
dent and Mrs. J. Lee Robb secretary. 
The Ashland Cemetery Association, of 
Ashland, O., recently held its annual meet- 
ing and P. A. Myers was elected president 
and A. S. Miller secretary. 
John Siebert, Sr., was recently appointed 
city sexton at the Peru City Cemetery, 
Peru, 111. 
Members of the Cemetery Association of 
Keithsburg, 111., met recently and elected 
Mrs. E. Ott president and Mrs. W. C. Bas- 
sett secretary. 
Mrs. Carl Leopold and the Aspen Grove 
Cemetery Association, of Burlington, Ia.„ 
have donated fifty bird houses, to be placed 
along the public roads and in the parks 
and the cemetery. 
The Norwood Cemetery Association, of 
Hearne, Tex., elected the following officers 
for the year : President, Mrs. Pugh ; sec- 
retary and treasurer, Mrs. Henson. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
The Cemetery Association at Rockport, 
Tex., is preparing to make extensive im- 
provements this spring in concrete fencing 
and planting. 
The City Cemetery, Warrensburg, Mo., 
gateways and fencing and the construction 
of new roads and paths. 
An ordinance was passed recently appro- 
priating $2,617.43 for the filling and level- 
ing of the new addition to the Greenlawn 
Cemetery, Portsmouth, O. 
Directors of the Mountain View Ceme- 
tery Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, are 
planning to make extensive improvements 
to the grounds this spring. All lot fences 
and inclosures will be removed. 
The cemetery at Greenspring, O., has 
been enlarged at a total cost of $1,700. 
The first sections of Wasatch Lawn 
Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah, have been 
laid out and planted and are now ready 
for interments. This ground was devel- 
oped on the lawn-park plan by Ware & 
Treganza, landscape architects of that 
city, and will be maintained under per- 
petual care. 
The Ladies’ Cemetery Association, of 
Orange, Tex., is pushing a movement to 
enlarge the cemetery of that city. 
The Greenwood Cemetery Association, of 
Cedar Falls, la., was recently granted au- 
thority by the City Council to construct a 
gateway. 
Plans are being formulated for the or- 
ganization of a company to operate a new 
cemetery close to Newport News, Va. The 
capital stock of the new company will be 
from $10,000 to $15,000. 
Several members of the Lutheran and 
Reformed congregations at Amityville, Pa., 
have applied to the court for a charter for 
the St. Paul Cemetery Co. 
Application for a charter for the Rus- 
sian Cemetery Co. at Reading, Pa., has 
been filed by Rothermal & Manger for the 
establishment of a new cemetery for Rus- 
sians, Slavs and Greeks. The subscribers 
are Michael Kascur, Nicholas Kascur, Pe- 
ter Eiler, John Kocserka and Nicholas D. 
Kacsur. 
An association was organized at Galves- 
ton, Tex., with John C. Ott as temporary 
chairman and J. E. Boddeker as tempo- 
rary secretary, for the purpose of starting 
a campaign among lot owners for the beau- 
tification and improvement of Calvary Cem- 
etery. Some of the proposed improve- 
ments are the extension of the street rail- 
way to the cemetery gates, an extension of 
the city water mains to the cemetery, and 
to build around the entire enclosure an 
ornamental fence. 
The City Commissioners of Sacramento, 
Cal., have been requested to turn Helvetia 
Cemetery over to the Park Board for im- 
provement and beautification. The fence 
will be torn down, the hedges will be 
