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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Kansas City, Mo., the home of H. C. 
Flower, president of the Fidelity Trust 
Co., necessitated considerable change in the 
arrangements of the ground to give an ef- 
fective and logical relation to the house. 
A comprehensive rearrangement, including 
drives, walks, gardens and terraces, was 
designed by Hare & Hare, landscape archi- 
tects. The main garden consists of an 
open central lawn, 40 by 140 feet, sur- 
rounded by hardy herbaceous flowers, 
hedges and shrubbery. The feature will be 
a pergola and bird fountain at the farther 
end, supported by two groups of Lombardy 
poplars. Beyond this, and reached through 
the pergola, is the cut flower garden, de- 
voted to masses of annual and perennial 
flowers arranged in beds about a quaint 
brass sun dial. The dial is over 2O0 ! years 
old. 
The paving in the vicinity of the sol- 
diers’ and sailors’ monument in Clinton 
Square, Syracuse, N. Y., will be torn up 
and flower beds and fountains installed un- 
der the supervision of the Park Commis- 
sion, if aldermen who have interested them- 
selves in the project can carry it through. 
Citizens of Hagerstown, Md., are dis- 
cussing the advisability of securing Arm- 
strong woods for park purposes. 
CEHETERY NOTES 
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The new addition to Oakland Cemetery, 
Freeport, 111., will be dedicated June 8. 
This new addition is composed of two sec- 
tions, one of which will be entirely clear, 
and the other to be much the same as the 
old section. On the clear tract there will 
be no monuments, headstones set on a level 
with the sod to alone serve as markers. 
The plan is to allow a clear landscape. 
Action of the Assembly Judiciary Com- 
mittee recently on the San Francisco cem- 
etery bills, by which it was planned to park 
and build roadways through the unused 
burial grounds of the metropolis, was be- 
lieved to have definitely disposed of the 
cemetery disputes before the legislature. 
The committee decided to let the bills rest 
in committee. 
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Railway & Light 
Co. has proposed to try an experiment in 
the way of running automobiles from South 
Main street at Greenwood avenue to Dia- 
mond Grove Cemetery and return, to con- 
nect with the street cars. A universal trans- 
fer system will be inaugurated in connec- 
tion with the automobiles and a person may 
ride to the cemetery from any part of the 
city the street cars touch for a 5-cent fare. 
Conductors on the cars will give transfers 
good on the auto line and the auto driver 
will give transfers good on the street cars. 
John Mueller has been appointed sexton 
of the Naperville Cemetery, Naperville, 111. 
Announcement was made recently that 
the estate of Albert F. Holden, of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, will be devoted, after the 
death of his two daughters, to establishing 
in I.akeview Cemetery a mortuary ar- 
boretum, land set aside as a place of honor 
for the burial of illustrious dead, and to be 
developed into the best example of land- 
scape gardening and trees and plant devel- 
opment of any grounds used for burial. 
Fifty acres of the easternmost portion of 
Lakeview Cemetery have been set aside for 
this purpose. A fortune is to be spent 
yearly to make this arboretum and Lake- 
view Cemetery among the most beautiful in 
America. Eventually the sum to be ex- 
pended annually on the arboretum will ex- 
ceed $200,000. It is to be filled with the 
most hardy and most beautiful plants, 
trees and shrubs that can be found. The 
contract between the Lakeview Cemetery 
trustees and the trustees of the Holden es- 
tate provides for burial in the arboretum 
of “only those illustrious dead who have 
deserved well of nation or state, and for 
tile erection to them of such monuments 
and memorials as may seem fitting and 
proper to the persons having charge and 
control of Lakeview Cemetery, the expense 
of such monuments and memorials to be 
met by such funds as may be available 
therefor from any source.” The contract 
further provides that the arboretum "may 
he used for such tablets, cenotaphs and 
memorials of such dead as have deserved 
well of the city of Cleveland, as may seem 
fitting and proper to the persons then hav- 
ing charge and control of Lakeview Cem- 
etery.” 
F. E. Muzzy, of Springfield. Mass., on a 
recent visit to his old home town, Geneseo, 
Ilk, selected a site in Oakwood Cemetery 
upon which to erect a memorial chapel, and 
donated a liberal sum for that purpose. 
Kansas City, Mo., recently started suit 
against the Union Cemetery Association in 
the Circuit Court to collect $2,138.66 for 
the maintenance of that part of Main 
street lying in front of the cemetery 
grounds. 
The thirty-first annual meeting of the 
shareholders of the Mound Grove Ceme- 
tery Association, Kankakee, 111., was held 
recently. W. R. Hickox was elected presi- 
dent and C. F. Whitmore secretary. 
An ordinance regulating the arrangement 
of stones, foliage and graves in the South 
Pleasant View Cemetery, Kewanee, 111., and 
fixing the charges which shall be made for 
lots and for maintenance was passed by the 
City Commission at a recent meeting. 
From Cemetery Reports. 
The annual meeting of the Lakewood 
Cemeter}' Association, Lake City, Minn., 
was held February 8, and C. A. Flubbard, 
G. H. Lange and R. H. Neal were elected 
as trustees for three years. At the meet- 
ing of the trustees, February 20, H. A. 
Young was elected president and H. F. 
Jones superintendent. Following is the re- 
capitulation of the annual report: Total 
amount received, $2,278.73 ; total paid out, 
$2,278.73; total assets February 1, 1915, 
$18,226.79 ; gain for the year, $568.40. 
The annual report of Forest Hills Cem- 
etery, Jamaica Plain, Mass., for the year 
1914 sets forth the following statistics: 
General Fund — Income: From sale of lots 
and graves, $30,404 ; care of lots and 
graves, $13,271.10: perpetual care fund, 
$37,600; total, $99,371.39. Expenditures: 
Construction, $13,818.40; care of lots and 1 
graves, $47,528.76. The increase in the per- 
petual care fund is $35,672.19, making a 
total of $1,197,375.68, and in the perma- 
nent fund $9,719.78, making a total of 
$158,607.89. 
Mount Royal Cemetery Co., of Montreal, 
Canada, recently issued its annual report 
for the year 1914. Some of the statistical 
statements shown in this report are as fol- 
lows : Receipts : Mount Royal Cemetery, 
$72,871.07; Hawthorndale, $3,715.25; bal- 
ance from December, 1913, $5,715.84; total, 
$82,301.16; total expenditures for both cem- 
eteries, $73,376.33 ; balance in bank, De- 
cember, 1914, $8,924.83. 
The eighty-third annual report of Mount 
Auburn Cemetery, Boston, Mass., was re- 
cently issued by the trustees of this corpo- 
ration. The business of the corporation has 
been very prosperous during the past year, 
as shown by the treasurer’s report. It 
states that in the general account there is a 
cash balance of $42,535.21 and in the fund 
for repairs $18,798.36. 
The annual report of the Woodlawn 
Cemetery, Boston, Mass., describes in de- 
tail the rules and regulations and the by- 
laws governing this cemetery. Some of 
the facts shown by the treasurer’s report 
are as follows: Receipts: Cash, January 
1, 1914, $7,971.55; sales of lots and single 
graves, $25,264.32; total, $84,671.64. Dis- 
bursements: Repair fund, $25,551.06: main- 
tenance fund, $620: cash, December 31, 
1914, $10,049.23; total, $84,671.64. 
Cemetery Officers Elected. 
The Cemetery Improvement Co., of Fort 
Smith, Ark., has elected C. E. Speer presi- 
dent and C. W. Hughes secretary. 
The Rapidan Cemetery Association, of 
P.apidan, Minn., has elected Mrs. T. 0. 
Garberg president and Mrs. Chas. Bartsche 
secretary. 
The Maquon Ladies’ Cemetery Associa- 
tion held their annual meeting at Maquon, 
Ilk, recently, and elected Mrs. T. C. Bear- 
more president and Mrs. Elsie Hartsook 
secretary. 
At the meeting of the Marion Cemetery 
