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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ferred to it, did not act on this claim, and 
it has remained unsettled. The city and 
park board transferred the title of Forest 
Park to the board of education, and the 
cemetery board holds that it should be re- 
imbursed for a portion of the money at 
least which it, expended. The matter is 
now before the board of education. 
Several monuments and parts of monu- 
ments were stolen recently from the Oak- 
land Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo. 
The city of Carthage, Mo., is contem- 
plating the purchase of Park Cemetery in 
that city. The price set by the directors of 
cemetery association is $30,000. The city 
also plans to put the old portion of the 
cemetery on a perpetual care basis. 
Dr. A. S. Soper, of Detroit, Mich., by an 
award of three arbitrators, will receive $10,- 
000 for four acres of land to be used for 
an extension of Windsor Grove Cemetery. 
The arbitrators were James Anderson, 
Henry Clay and James Oliver. The cem 1 
etery board had made an offer of $7,500 for 
the land, but this amount was refused by 
the owner. 
The officers of the new Robinson Cem- 
etery Association, of Robinson, 111., have 
contracted with Robert A. Koerner, of 
Terre Haute, to make a topographical sur- 
vey of the grounds as a preliminary to 
the laying out of drives and platting the 
grounds. 
The contract has been let for the new 
administration building to be built in the 
cemetery at Ashland, O. The building 
will be of brick, 25x30 feet, and the first 
floor will be used for administration pur- 
poses and also for a shelter house. The 
basement will be used as a tool room and 
storage place. 
Amendments to the resolution passed by 
the city council some years ago fixing the 
height at which lot markers might be placed 
in Oakwood Cemetery, Dixon, 111., at one 
inch above the ground were passed, in- 
creasing the height to three inches. 
The Brookville Cemetery Association, of 
Brookville, Pa., recently held their seventh 
annual flower day at Bell Circle Hedge, 
where a program consisting of several 
musical numbers and addresses was en- 
joyed. The officers of the cemetery are 
W. H. Gray, president; G. W. Heber, sec- 
retary and general manager ; and J. B. 
Henderson, treasurer. 
A G. A. R. monument was unveiled re- 
cently on the G. A. R. plot in Ashland 
Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo., under the 
auspices of Custer Post, No. 7, Department 
of Missouri. The monument was designed 
by R. M. Abercrombie, of the Abercrombie 
Stone Co., of St. Joseph, and the contract 
awarded to the Pfeiffer Stone Co., of that 
city. The pedestal is of gray Barre granite 
surmounted with a bronze figure of an in- 
fantryman at parade rest, which was de- 
signed and cast by W. H. Mullins Co., 
Salem, O. The monument was manufac- 
tured by Burton Preston, of Mansfield, O. 
Cemetery Officers Elected. 
The Eastern Cemetery Association, of 
Jeffersonville, Ky., has re-elected Charles 
A. Schimpff, president, and John Best, sec- 
retary and treasurer. 
At the annual meeting of the Greenwood 
Cemetery Association, of South Superior, 
Wis., H. N. Rasmussen was re-elected 
president and H. C. Rasmussen secretary. 
At the meeting of the stockholders of 
the new Mishawaka Lincoln Gardens Cem- 
etery Association, of Mishawaka, Ind., the 
following eight directors of the association 
were elected: M. W. Mix, J. A. Herzog, 
A. S. Winey, H. G. Eggleston, Charles W. 
Cole, Stanley McIntosh, Joseph Werwinski 
and John W. Schindler. Victor M. Cole 
reported that $20,000 of the stock had been 
sold. An issue of $50,000 was made and 
$30,000 of this was offered for sale. Work 
will be started soon at the cemetery site 
and it is expected that before fall the 
grounds will be ready for burials. 
Wm. A. Huffman has resigned as super- 
intendent of cemeteries, Terre Haute, Ind., 
and Chas. E. Scott has been appointed in 
his place. 
The St. Peter's Cemetery Association, 
of Quincy, Til., has elected the following 
officers for the ensuing year: President 
and secretary, Father J. J. Driscoll ; trus- 
tees, J. J. Shanahan, John A. Connery, W. 
J. Cunnane and John J. Ernst. 
Harry M. Summers has been appointed 
to have charge of Diamond Grove Ceme- 
tery, Jacksonville, 111., and will succeed 
Philip Grant. John E. Pires will suc- 
ceed Newton Tribble as sexton of Jack- 
sonville Cemetery. 
At the meeting of the board of trus- 
tees of Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, 
O., Mr. Bixby was re-elected as secre- 
tary and Roy Haney as superintendent 
of the cemetery. 
The Pecan Grove Cemetery Associa- 
tion, McKinney, Tex., has re-elected 
Mrs. Sara Howell president and Mrs. F. 
B. Pope secretary. 
At a meeting of the Stoutz Grove 
Cemetery Association, Danvers, 111., the 
following officers were elected: Presi- 
dent, Frank Vance; treasurer, O. P. 
Skaggs. 
The Woodlawn Cemetery Association, 
of Green Bay, Wis., has re-elected 
Thomas Joannes, president and R. R. 
Campbell secretary. A total of $3,767.60 
was paid out for labor in improving the 
grounds. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
Another cemetery for Mishawaka. 
Ind., has been projected. Frank J. Cos- 
grove, of South Bend, head of the move- 
ment, states that the new concern will 
be known as the Mishawaka Cemetery 
Company, and that 30 acres of land im- 
mediately east and adjoining the present 
cemetery have been purchased and will be 
laid out at once. 
Calvary Cemetery, Hancock, Mich., is 
now open for interment. Thomas Perry- 
man is president, and James A. Daley 
secretary and treasurer of the associa- 
tion. 
The council of Racine, Wis., has de- 
cided to recommend the adoption of an 
ordinance providing for the issuance of 
$10,000 for the improvement of Grace- 
land Cemetery. 
The east wall of Oak Hill Cemetery, 
Livingston, 111., is being rebuilt. 
Work at Pine Hill Cemetery Park, 
Saginaw, Mich., is well under way. The 
plans call for the improving, grading and 
seeding of the ground between the west 
bluff and the stream which passes 
through the cemetery. Cement walks 
will intersect in the center near which a 
fountain will be built. 
A water meter was recently placed in 
Riverside Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION. 
On the front cover of this issue is illus- 
trated a particularly imposing style of 
modern cemetery entrance. This gateway 
was erected a few years ago at the main 
entrance to Forest Lawn Cemetery, Nor- 
folk, Va. Its architecture is in keeping 
with the bold, graceful relief produced by 
the landscape effect of this burial ground 
and is admired by all who have seen it. 
Our illustration presents the center drive 
gate with two ornamental iron walk gates 
of similar design on either side of the ap- 
proach, which forms a gradually widened 
driveway, with walks on both sides. These 
gates are hung from brick piers, capped 
with granite ornaments, and are over 15 
feet high. 
The main entrance, or drive gate, is 17 
feet 6 inches wide, very massively built of 
1-inch square wrought iron pickets, with 
2j/2-inch channel rails. The pickets of 
both gates and fence have forged points 
and are spaced 6 inches on centers. Gates 
are 13 feet 10 inches high at hinge sides, 
gradually sloping to the center, as plainly 
shown in the illustration. The heavy eye 
and socket hinge arrangement is secured 
by the lugs being built into the piers and 
so constructed as to distribute the weight, 
preventing any possibility of the gates sag- 
ging. 
The pattern of these gates is a very 
modern and pleasing design, especially at- 
tractive owing to the filigree work which 
harmonizes nicely with this particular 
style. Walk gates on either side of large 
entrance gates are similar in design and 
construction, each having an ornamental 
iron arch of the same material. The Stew- 
art Iron Works Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
designed, built and erected these gates for 
the cemetery association, which doubtless, 
like others, have seen the wisdom of proper 
protection, which, from a business' stand- 
point, is about as important as the beauti- 
fying of the grounds. 
