Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-05-15
HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY COMPANY.
business of the Annual Meeting
AppeaI to Lot-Owners.


The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Hollywood Cemetery Company was
held yesterday afternoon at the City Bank
building. The president, Mr.. A. Barga-
min. submitted his annual report. in which
he says:
Your Executive Committee have COM
pleted the handsome cottage residence
for the superintendent, in accordance
with the instructions OF your Board OF
Directors. The old house formerly occu-
pied by him, with all the surrounding
buildings. has been removed, and the
grounds occupied by them been somewhat
beaut.aed.
an effort 10 obtain a better stand of
grass throughout the entire cemetery than
we have ever had before. This will. of
course, take time, but We hope to be event
ually successful. l would like to make
a direct appeal to every one who owns
a LOT in Hollywood Cemetery. and 10
convince them that the cemetery belongs
to them and not TO the officers OF the
company alone, and that everything they
is done for their own benefit. and not
for the benefit OF the directors or the
company. IL is or no more personal
benefit TO a director than TO any otner
their time and attention to the work
PEOPLE NOT INFORMED.
ut has always surprised me to see how
little the public know about the Holly
wood Cemetery. Company. they seem ,sri
to lose sight 1t,o OF ov the tacf 10, 'nn in
the cemetery Is a stakeholder, and
one of it's owners, and are as much obli-
gated as any one to do all they can 10
Improve t. | now make an earnest APP
peal to each and every one Of them TO
give their lots to the superintendent to
be cared for by the company. This Will
enable your officers 10 Keep the Whoie
grounds in better ana more UNIFORM
condition than they ever have been. or
ever will be able to do so long as so many
different people are allowed 10 work on
the lots. / am sure II would cost them
no more; their lots would De peter ana
more regularly attended 10. and We
would have fewer depredatiOns, as II Is I'M
possible for the officers Of the company
TO control all the children that are
brought In the grounds to assist in the
work on the sections that is done by out
siders. and I am satisfied that every one
Interested in tine cemetery ould be bene-
fitted, II no one except the hands en-
ployed by the superintendent We're al
lowed 10 work I'm the grounds ~ affords
me great pleasure to be able to state that
we have this year added 5000 to our re-
serve fund.
OTHER REPORTS PRESENTED.
The reports of Treasurer Brooke and
Superintendent Hooper were also sub
mitted and heard with satisfaction. The
Superintendent report IS very compre-
hensive It shows that 80 lots we're sold
during the year for $3.50. There were
40 interments. making the total number
of graves 15.S}s. Mr.. Hooper says the
sodd.ng OF graves, which Is included In
the care OF lots, causes more complaints
than all other things combined. People
insist upon having the lots sodded,
whether they need It or not, and the ST.
perlntendent recommends that this Item
be stricken from the system. making q
proper reduction therefor, and let persons
order the graves as they may see III.
All Of the Old officers were reelected.