The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-09
A NEW CHAPEL TO BE BUILT
INN UAL MEETING OF THE EYER
GREEN CEMETERY ASsOOTATION.

The annual meeting of the Evergreen
Cemetery association was held in room
at 1872 Orange street, last evening, a
rather small attendance being present.
The president of the association, Bur-
ton Mansfield, presided. Reports were
submitted by the president, Benjamin
r. English, secretary, and James ID.
Dewell, treasurer. Mr. Englsh's report
contained the following facts: Number
of interments for the last year, 4SI;
number of interments recorded to date,
1922; number of lots sold the past
year. 56; remains in vault at last re-
port, 2; remains deposited in the vault
the past year, 2; remains removed from
the cemetery 2; remains remaining in
the vault, 2; paid to perpetual care
fund, $711.09; paid to j. D. DeWell,
treasurer, $13,674.41.
Mr.. Dewells report showed the
amount of the perpetual care fund to
be $2,416.11; total receipts during the
year, $14674.41; balance on hand from
last year, s4164.71; total payments, Sl7,-
117.6S; balance in the treasury, $1,721.44.
The following directors of the asso-
citation were elected: Burton Mansfield,
George NJ. Grant, j. d. Dewell, Herbert
c. Warren, Benjamin R. English. The
officers We're reelected.
The matter of building a new. NOR
tuary chapel was discussed and all the
gentlemen present expressed desire
that such a structure might be built as
soon as possible Mr. Mansfield stated
that the chapel would cost $4,000 to
$4,000 and that he believed work on
it would be begun within a year. The
matter of a permanent care fund was
also discussed.
Mr.. Mansfield's report is interesting,
as touching upon these points and other
important matters in connection with
the cemetery, and is in full as follows:
To the Lot Owners in Evergreen Gene
terry:
Leaving to their respective places
such details as properly come in the re-
ports of our treasurer and secretary,
your directors wish to call your atten-
ton first and foremost to the great
and immediate needs of a new chapel.
If any of you are tired of having this
matter reiterated again and again there
is but one way to surely remove it from
consideration, and that is by providing
for it forthwith. Some of you are al
ready familiar with the inception and
growth of this project, but there are a
great many to whom it is still un-
known, even at this late date, and to
whom therefore, a presentation thereof
will not be amiss. In 1888, an appeal
was made for subscriptions to this pro-
ject, which met with a fair response,
but to no such extent as justified at
that time any positive action towards
the perfection of our plans. Again in
1892, at their annual meeting, the lot
owners instructed the directors to push
the matter with as little delay as pos
sible. A second appeal was conse-
quently issued, the result of which was
| that, with the previous subscriptions
! made and paid, the sum of about $2400
was realized. In 1893, Also you further
| instructed your board to lay aside an
nually, one or two thousand dollars, as
| the treasury would admit, from the as
| sociation's receipts This has been
done persistently and regularly and we
now have, from all sources, the sum Of
| $7,115.
AS we have said in previous reports,
| the most satisfactory way to secure
| this result would be for some one, fol-
| lowing the example set, in most cases
of this kind, to erect a chapel as a
memorial. Few memorials would be so
| fitting or could be made so beautiful,
and none so useful. A chapel, suitable
| to our needs, commensurate with the
size and Importance of the associa-
| ton, harmonious in it's architecture,
convenient in it's appointments, and an
| ornament to both the cemetery and the
city, will cost from twelve to fifteen
thousand dollars. The need is urgent
and cannot be supplied too soon.
| Your directors, with this need in
view, have asked permission from the
| legislature, to issue, subject to your
| approval, the requisite amount of
bonds or certificates Of indebtedness, to
meet, with the funds on hand, the nee
| essary expense.
| Another matter of great Importance,
| to which, also, we have frequently re-
| ferred, but which, like the chapel, can
not be urged too emphatically, is the
matter of the perpetual care fund. AS
we said in our report of 1S93 "but a
| little more than two score years ago
| the first interment was made in this
| cemetery, and if the rate of interments
| in the coming two score years con-
tinues as high as that in the last, there
will be but little unoccupied territory
| at the end of that time, should no fur
| Lar roh Of land hn
perience proves that the rule of the in
| dividual may wisely be applied to an
| aggregation of individuals, and that
| the time to provide for old age is in
the midst of vigorous manhood. How
to apply this to cemetery associations
is a question which is receiving very
general attention by those interested in
cemetery management. A superficial
review even of the doings of other
| cemeteries, in this regard and of the
reports of cemetery associations and
conventions, of those interested in
cemetery matters. shows that this sub
ject is living and important one" As
you know. this report was supplement-
ed by vote establishing the fund
| which now amounts to S2,41611 This
is distinct from the fund held by the
board of trustees, of which we said in
the same report: We already have in
! connection with the Evergreen what