Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-12
THE EVERGREEN CEMETERY.

Annual Meeting of the Association and Trust Fund Committee Last NIght-Reports from Secretary, Trea- surer and Directors.
 The annual meeting of the Evergreen Gem | etery association was held in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce last evening. The directors submitted the following for | tieth annual report:
 To the members of the Evergreen Cemetery association:
 During the past year we have partially I improved the new addition on Davenport avenue. Ths old house has been moved to | the lower part of the grounds; the same is I now in good repair and occupied by an em- ploye of the association. The house former ly occupied by Mr. Mariner Beecher was re- purchased by him and removed some months since. The iron fence has been extended and wood fence built over the intervening space. The entire grounds are now protected on the street front; the new part has been graded and portion laid out ready for interments. Much grading has been done on that portion of the old section set apart for single graves, and burials in the improved portion have already been commenced. Main avenue Path D and OaF avenue have, at considerable expense, been hardened with broken stone Other avenues should be treated in like man. ner whenever the finances will permit, Improvements of the nature above stated have cost many thousands of dollars, but the money has been expended with great econo- my and with needs of the future in view.
 The new board should go forward with the unfinished work now in progress to the end that our labors in the past be not lost, but rather that renewed efforts be put forth to make this magnificent more and more beau tiful as time wears on; thus shall we honor the dead and delight the living.
 Permission has been obtained from the State to remove the iron fence from the sol- diers' lot and substitute curbing; this matter should have attention during the coming summer.
 The grounds are sadly marred by neglect- ed lots here and there {mostly in the old part) sunksn graves, broken and fallen head stones, forming the worst features. Your directors would urge upon those contemplat- ing erecting memorials the necessity of sub- stituting for the thin marble slab, so com monly used, our own New England granite
 The president of the association was early appointed committee to solicit subscrip tions for stone chapel and receiving vault, the estimated cost to be ten thousand dol lars. He has commenced his labors with the following result: To date, received in cash and pledges. from c. s. Maltby $2OO, Thomas F.Rowland $100, Washington Yale $10O,I.W. Beecher $100, Mrs. Josephine E. S. Porter S1OO. E. s. Greeley $100, J. D. Dewen s1O0, Alice s. H. Davies $100, Mrs. o. F. Winchester $100, John 0. Anderson $100, Mrs Edward HS Po0' -. =. IOoS.0oo ~ OoiAS 9oO, ooI" emiah Barnett $25, H. J. Kettendorf $25, E. A. Chat6eld $25, R. M. Everit $20. Lewis Fitch $20, N. W. Merwin 6 Go. $1O, Eliot H. Morse $10, Mrs. H. L. Cannon $5, Mrs. M. E. Peck $5, John Ruff $5; total $1 1850. This list embraces but small per cent. of the members, and as the needs of the associ. stion are constantly increasing in this direc- tion, will you not assist in this meritorious work2 Your directors in the fulillment of their duties are simply performing labor of love-kindly hold up their hands, and by your confidence, your advice and your purse enable them to treasure well and safely guard this great and rapidly growing city of the dead.
 The receipts from sale of lots and the num- Der of interments are largely in excess of former years, for particulars of which we re- fer you to the reports of the secretary and treasurer.
 JAMES D. DEwELL,
 GEORGE BLAKEMAN,
 JOHN P. FUTILE,
 EDWARD O. BEEcHER,
 FRED H. WALDRoN, M Directors. kdf,urer English's report for 1889 shows 1 as folIows: Number of intsrments the past year. 459 | - recorded to date. 7,843 1
 lots sold. .....:....,............... S4 ed ~, single graves sold ..............- l10 | claims unsettled. ed.......,....... 12 |
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