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work and improvements that have taken 
place in the various parks during the past 
year. Several instructive and interesting 
walks were taken through the parks under 
the leadership of a competent guide and 
the Saturdays of early fall were utilized 
for this purpose. The City Council appro- 
priated $9,000 for the Park Department 
for the relief of the unemployed and 265 
men received work at full pay per hour 
As an additional safeguard of the finan- 
cial future of Oak Ridge Cemetery, Spring- 
field, 111., the Board of Managers has now 
agreed upon an increase of from 10 to 25 
cents per square foot in the price of lots 
in the burial ground. It was also voted to 
create a sinking fund to be drawn upon 
where all lots have been disposed of, and 
a committee was appointed to formulate 
rules and regulations for the management 
of the new sinking fund. The committee 
is composed of President Lange, Fred Van 
Horn and H. K. Weber. 
Residents of East Lansing, Mich., are 
fighting the proposed establishment of a 
cemetery on the Ehinger property in East 
Lansing, and the matter already has been 
placed before the city attorney. 
A perpetual care fund of $63,994 will be 
set aside for purchasers of crypts in Rose- 
hill Cemetery, Chicago, according to the 
reorganization plans. Superior Judge Foell 
has granted the petition of the receivers to 
start the fund with $35,000 now on hand. 
Waterford Rural Cemetery, Waterford, 
N. Y., recently installed a Macey “Helfite” 
safe for the purpose of protecting the rec- 
ords of that cemetery. 
At the annual meeting of the trustees of 
the Mount Flope Cemetery permanent fund, 
Champaign, 111., the report of the treasurer 
showed over $14,000 in the fund. There 
was an increase in the endowment this 
year of nearly $2,000. The new road lead- 
ing from the proposed University macad- 
amized road through the west part of the 
cemetery to the east part was discussed, to- 
gether with many other improvements. 
Cemetery Officers Elected. 
The Wapella Long Point Cemetery, of 
Wapella, 111., has re-eletced F. M. Roberts, 
president; Abraham Summers, secretary, 
and A. D. Metz, treasurer. 
W. F. Ricks and C. O. Heggem were re- 
elected directors of the Massillon Ceme- 
tery Association, of Massillon, Ohio. 
The Union Cemetery Association, of La 
Moille, 111., recently elected M. Rapp as 
president for one year and as director for 
five years, and C. H. Hatch secretary and 
treasurer. 
The Elm Grove Cemetery Association, 
of Bluffton, Ind., recently elected officers 
as follows : President, A. B. Cline ; vice- 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
for the time they worked. The park work 
has become largely recreational and facili- 
ties for the usual sports were provided, 
which a large number of people took ad- 
vantage of. 
Mrs. J. Frank Eddy, of Bay City, Mich., 
has offered to erect in Wenonah Park, 
that city, a public rest pavilion as a monu- 
ment to her husband. 
president, J. A. Morris ; secretary, W. S. 
Smith, and treasurer, W. L. Kiger. 
At a meeting of the Cumberland Ceme- 
tery Association, of Cumberland, 111., A. P. 
McHenry was elected secretary-treasurer 
and W. P. Martin president. 
Five trustees of the historic cemetery at 
Paperville, Tenn., were elected as follows: 
J. W. Campbell, George Jones, M. B. 
Bushong, Robert Carmack and J. W. Broce, 
with Mr. Bushong as secretary and treas- 
urer. People interested in this graveyard 
recently cleaned up the grounds. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
Willisburg Cemetery Co. has been incor- 
porated at Willisburg, Ky., by F. H. Ash, 
John R. Rose and B. C. Rinkston. 
The Lawnside Cemetery Co. was incor- 
porated recently at Woodstown, N. Y., 
with a capital of $100,000. 
The new cemetery at Oak Harbor, Ohio, 
is now open for the sale of lots. 
The Ideal Cemetery Association has been 
incorporated at Ideal, Tripp County, S. D. 
The trustees are S. F. Schwitters, L. J. 
Aubel and R. J. Hamson, Jr. 
Mound Grove Cemetery Association, of 
Kankakee, 111., has just completed the 
erection of nearly 2,000 feet of iron picket 
fence. The fence stands 5 feet in height 
with a line post every 7 feet set in con- 
crete 2V 2 feet deep. 
A new five-foot walk into the Plainfield 
Cemetery, Plainfield, 111., from the east 
street line, was completed recently. A 
walk along the east street line on the Lin- 
coln Way was also laid. 
The preliminary work on the building of 
the new cemetery wall at St. Mary’s Cem- 
etery, of McHenry, 111., has been started. 
Four and a half acres of ground have 
been added to Green Park Cemetery, Port- 
land, Ind., which is now being plotted by 
Lewis Cole, landscape architect, of Chi- 
cago. Material changes in arrangement of 
driveways and entrances and in the beauti- 
fication of the cemetery are also under way. 
A new fence was recently erected around 
the old cemetery at Loraine, 111., and the 
grounds generally improved under the su- 
pervision of J. R. O’Daniels. 
Many improvements have been made in 
the City Cemetery, of Mishawaka, Ind. A 
sidewalk and curb has been built at the 
east of the property from the Grand Trunk 
tracks to the Jefferson road. A park be- 
tween the sidewalk and street curb is being 
constructed and a new fence on the north 
side of the cemetery is also being erected. 
The posts are of field stone, with an open 
effect at the top to be used for a flower re- 
ceptacle. 
The new cemetery addition at the summit 
of East Main street hill, Painesville, Ohio, 
is nearly completed. 
The cemetery road is being graded at 
Havana, 111., by the city. 
A portion of the new cemetery at Mur- 
rayville, 111., was surveyed in lots recently 
and the ground is now ready for use. 
NEW “PHILADELPHIA” LAWN 
MOWERS. 
The forty-eighth annual catalog of the 
Philadelphia Lawn Mower Co., just issued, 
illustrates the ‘‘Independence” and “Over- 
brook” types of mowers, which last year’s 
catalog did not contain and which are 
equipped with “Philadelphia” roller bear- 
ings. The book gives a very interesting 
description of the Philadelphia roller bear- 
ing as compared with the old ball bearing. 
By their method of construction — i. e., ream- 
ing both sides at one and the same time 
after frame is assembled and set — the 
straight alignment of the cylinder is as- 
sured. Their well-known regular line, in- 
cluding the “Graham,” all steel, and “A,” 
all steel, is also described and illustrated in 
detail in the new catalog. 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION. 
The illustration on the front cover of 
this issue shows to an unusual degree what 
a successful architectural effect can be se- 
cured in an entrance gate with brick posts. 
There is practically an unlimited variety in 
the styles of brick post gateways that can 
be made to harmonize with the ironwork 
of the gate and fence and with the sur- 
rounding landscape. This is especially true 
where there are brick buildings near the 
entrance, as is the case in many cemeteries. 
A unified and harmonious style of build- 
ings, entrance posts and fence may easily 
be secured in an effect like the one illus- 
trated. This particular design has been 
given something of variety and interest by 
the well-chosen stone trimmings that have 
been used to good ornamental purpose. 
The interlaced tracery that forms the or- 
namental parts of this gate is particularly 
decorative and graceful in line and seems 
to harmonize admirably with the general 
lines of the design. There is a richness 
and a decorative character to this design 
that make it distinctive and beautiful with- 
out being elaborate or gaudy. It will be 
noted at the sides that the same general 
effect has been very carefully carried out 
in the design of the fence. This gate was 
built by the Stewart Iron Works Co., of 
Cincinnati, O., who have many styles of 
attractive fence and gate designs similar to 
the one illustrated. 
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