48 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Forest Mills Cemetery Co., of Delaware, 
was recently incorporated by W. C. Arnold, 
of Philadelphia, Pa., with a capital stock 
of $500,000. 
The Central Cemetery Association, of 
Chicago, announces that it has its land 
bought and improved at a total cost of 
$240,000, and that it is all paid for except 
a debt of $6,000. There is still due the 
company $175,000 on notes given for stock. 
Of this money $150,000 will be set aside as 
a maintenance fund. The capital stock is 
$300,000. Land in the cemetery is sold 
for $1.50 a square foot and between 11,000 
and 12,000 feet have been sold and partly 
paid for. 
William Allen, superintendent of Home- 
wood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, recently had 
the misfortune to fall and break two bones 
in his ankle, and was confined to the house 
for some time with his leg in a cast. 
Members of Mt. Hope Cemetery Commis- 
sion, Rochester, N. Y., recently held a con- 
ference over the question of abolishing an 
old rule that automobiles were excluded 
from the cemetery. After the discussion 
it was decided to allow the old rule to 
stand, and in the future, as in the past, au- 
tomobiles will not be allowed to enter the 
gates of the cemetery. The report of the 
city treasurer of Rochester, who is also 
treasurer of Mount Hope Cemetery, for 
the year ending December 31, 1914, sets 
forth the following statistics : General 
fund, $7,247.66; repair and sinking fund, 
$83,795.52 ; perpetual contracts, $127,772.43 . 
Total receipts for the year: General fund, 
$49,427.28; repair and sinking fund, $7,- 
624.29; perpetual contracts, 11,091.68, 
amounting to $68,143.25. Total expendi- 
tures for the year : General fund, $51,- 
632.12; repair and sinking fund (interest 
on general fund), $2,859.07; perpetual con- 
tracts (interest on general fund), $4,513.59, 
amounting to $59,229.78. Excess of re- 
ceipts over expenditures, $8,913.47. Balance 
December 31, 1914, $218,815.61. 
D. M. Bickel and E. C. Best, of Elkhart, 
Ind., are organizing a stock company to 
purchase a fifty-acre tract about a mile 
south of this city for cemetery purposes. 
The organization is called the Sunnyside 
Cemetery Association. Stock is sold at 
$100 a share, the capital stock being $25,- 
000. The cemetery will be conducted on 
the perpetual care plan. A rough estimate 
of the number of graves that could be dug 
in the tract is placed at 48,000. The total 
is indicated by counting 160 lots to the 
acre and six graves to the lot. 
At the annual meeting of the stockhold- 
ers and trustees of the Spring Grove Cem- 
etery Association, of Batavia, Wis., G. E. 
Barker was re-elected president and E. D. 
Fiske secretary. 
Will Sheen was elected president and 
Isaac Griffith secretary at a recent meeting 
of the Paris Corners Cemetery Associa- 
tion, of Kenosha, Wis. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
Provision has been made in the general 
park and boulevard budget for the main- 
tenance and improvement of Oak Grove 
Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan. The ground 
will be terraced and new driveways con- 
structed. 
Mt. Holly Cemetery, of Little Rock, Ark., 
was greatly improved recently under the 
direction of W. W. Wagner. 
At a recent meeting of the Linwood 
Cemetery Association, Pana, 111., it was de- 
cided to plant shrubbery and to employ a 
landscape gardener to plan the planting 
of it. 
The Biloxi Chapter, Lhiited Daughters of 
the Confederacy, held a very successful 
“Tag Day” in Biloxi, Miss., a short time 
ago, from which they derived a large sum 
of money to be used in the upkeep of the 
cemetery of the Beauvoir Soldiers' Home. 
Calvary Cemetery Association, of Galves- 
ton, Tex., is planning a membership cam- 
paign by which it hopes to add 500 new 
names to its rolls. The object is to fur- 
ther beautify Calvary Cemetery. 
Frank Crocker, architect, has made plans 
for a half-timbered stucco superintendent’s 
lodge at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, St. Joseph, 
Mo., to cost about $5,000. The plans in- 
clude a concrete receiving vault with bronze 
doors. 
The American Park Builders, of Chi- 
cago, have begun work on the new ceme- 
tery at Matteson, 111., which will serve 
the entire south side of Chicago. The site 
is one of great natural beauty and bids 
fair to be developed into one of the finest 
cemeteries in the state. 
A reorganization of the Board of Trus- 
tees of the Hobart Cemetery Association, 
Llobart, Okla., and outline of a plan to im- 
prove the grounds, was made at a recent 
meeting. For the purpose of utilizing the 
water from the lake, constructed sometime 
ago, a committee composed of D. S. Wal- 
finger and J. L. Burke was appointed to 
investigate the cost of installing a water 
system. 
A number of ladies of Lawton, Okla., 
have petitioned the city commissioners to 
build an iron fence around Lawton Cem- 
etery. 
Eli Clayton, backed by a Denver syndi- 
cate, has purchased from Clyde Lance 400 
acres of land just west of Roswell, Colo., 
Theodore Strawn, of DeLand, Fla., has 
contracted for what will be a very unique 
and at the same time very efficient irriga- 
tion plant on what he calls his Island 
Grove at DeLeon Springs. The distribu- 
tion of water in this plant is to be through 
a new type of sprinkler known as the 
Turbo-Irrigator, which when placed on 
stand pipes 100 feet distant from each 
other and extending up through trees will 
thoroughly and evenly distribute water in 
which is to be used for a cemetery site. 
The purchase price is said to be $15,000. 
A meeting to organize a cemetery asso- 
ciation to promote the new cemetery at 
Rantoul, 111., was held at the county court 
room a short time ago. 
At a meeting of the directors of the 
Glendale Cemetery Association, Monmouth, 
111., held recently, it was decided to re- 
survey and replat part of the cemetery 
grounds. 
The Cemetery Association at Ross, N. 
D., is planning to have a vault erected in 
the cemetery and have other improvements 
made. 
The Clearmont Cemetery Association, 
Maryville, Mo., is making preparations for 
a general improvement of the cemetery 
grounds. 
Bids are being received by the cemetery 
committee on improvements to be made in 
Hazlewood Cemetery, Springfield, Mo. 
At a public meeting held in the Circuit 
Court room at Robinson, 111., recently, a 
resolution was adopted to proceed with the 
establishment of a new cemetery by ar- 
ranging for purchase of the Woodworth 
tract, east of the city. A committee was 
appointed to confer with the officers of 
the association incorporated a few years 
ago and determine if it is feasible for that 
organization to take up the present project; 
if not, then to arrange for the organiza- 
tion of a new society under the laws of 
the state. 
Farmers belonging to Cathedral parish 
recently assisted in the improvement work 
being done in Green Mount Cemetery, 
Belleville, 111. Four hundred and fifty feet 
of road were built in two days. Concrete 
gutters will be made this spring and a 
number of trees will be planted. 
Mishawaka, Ind., is reported to be in 
need of a new cemetery and a number of 
prominent citizens are trying to establish a 
cemetery in the eastern part of the city. 
An effort is being made to have Con- 
gress appropriate a sum of money to pre- 
serve Huron Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan. 
This is the only exclusively Indian ceme- 
tery in the country. 
A site for the new Cedar Rapids (la.) 
crematory has been donated to the crema- 
tory association by the Bohemian Ceme- 
tery of that city. 
the form of fine rain over the entire sur- 
face. The stand pipes, which on account 
of the trees being very large, average over 
20 feet in height, will be supplied with wa- 
ter under pressure by an underground 
pipe system forced direct by a two-stage 
centrifugal pump operated by an oil en- 
gine situated at a nearby lake. The large 
area covered by these sprinklers, which are 
manufactured by J. P. Campbell, of Jack- 
sonville, Fla., greatly reduces the cost of 
BRIEF BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
