The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-05-04
ImPRovEmENr Al cEMErrRlEs


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Some at Eimwood
III a few years time. under the sys.
tematic manner Id which tine cemetery
commissioners are laying out and beau
tiiying the grounds ia the Hope and
Elmwood cemeteries, the city will have
two well kept and beautiful burying
grounds An important step in this d.
reetion WAS e0nsummabed last winter
when the commissioners purchased the
Alertes house and property at the en-
trance to Hope cemetery, and the city
decided TO the commissioners am Of the
land available for cemetery purposes,
0f what IS known as tne city's poor
farm property
The city also has agreed 30 remove
the poor farm buildings from the prop
lreyt not later than June T. 1914. 40
that an Of the land around the site
Of the buildings can be laid out into
lots and used as q burying ground,
After purchasing the Mertes property
the city with the understanding that
the city shall move the building away
within one year This house Is situat.
ed On Maple avenue right ut the corner
~ the entrance road to the cemetery.
and il fact the road has to curve around
one side Of the house. In order TO
make a suitable entrance 20 the ceme.
terry it was necessary that the house
should be removed some time ago, and
last winter it was purchased When
the house Is removed the road win be
straightened and the GROUNDS graded
and grassed over and the road all the
way up through the mvine into the
cemetery win be gravelled and trimmed
lup.
Already a gang 0f men are at work,
cleaning ont the brush and raking up
the leaves fom the banks grassed over
and where necessary new trees win Be
set out. Last summer the commits.
sioners spent several hundred dollars
leyelIng Of a knoll at the northwest
corner OF The cemetery and using the
dirt 70 fl up large ravine in the
grounds This work has been completed
this spring, and by it several thousand
square feet Of land has been gained and
the beauty Of the grounds enhanced
The ground viii Be seeded over this
spring.
Ihe commissioners have ruled that
an of the lots in this section Of the
cemetery shall be graded alike 50 that
the natural slope Of the land is left
and the grounds an about the momu-
.ments rased over and smooth as a
park Owing to The great number of
lots. which The commissioners have for
sale in this cemetery there is a large
income every year and to further in-
crease the income and have more funds
lat their disposal for fixing up the
grounds the commissioners wish the
public To knew that they are prepared
10 DO all ths grading, erect foundations
and set monuments and whatever Is
made ont 81 this work IS turned into
the funds 81 the cemetery.
Last winter the street department
was given permission 20 cut out all
of the big nnsightly trees on the north
bank ~ the cemetery above the city
dumping grounds and fater the commits
sioners VIII set cut new trees all along
the bank All the Yoads about the
grounds are now being gravpled and
tle siles trimmed up to the grass II
"a expected that hy Memorial day the
roads VIII be All ii shape "A new pot
ters field was vet oa 81 The city Just
above the present one and ia the rear
oi the poor farm buildings
At Elmwood cemetery the commits
siouers are hampered IN their work Of
fixing up the grounds BY the lack Of
funds As the lots are practically al
sold there IS but little Income from tnat
source and the only funds they have
to expend II this work comes from the
interest on few thousand dollars
However, the commissioners have this
spring and lest year trimmed up the
trees about The grounds and just lately
have graded around the two fountains
and seeded the ground around them A
beautiful bed Of quppies has been set
out near tne tomb this spring. The
flowers were given for this purpose by
Mrs Nellie Bfalee Of Burlington, who
has also sent a quantity Of Gamma bulbs
70 Be planted in the cemetery
The commissioner hope TO be able in
the near future TO have some provision
made for repairing the two entrances
to the cemetery and also a rev en-
closure erected around the grounds and
tbe hedge which ii ID miserable shape
now taken out,