Mount Auburn Cemetery

326

Sept 24 [187]3

C.H. Kingsley Esq Pres^t. Cambridge Water Board.

Dear Sir

Our fountains are four in number and are run on an average 4 hours to 5 per day. The openings are as follows,

						Areas.
Alice Fountain	10	holes	1/8	inch	in diam.	0.1227 sq in
Hazel Dell	7	do [holes]	1/8	do [inch]	do [diam]	.0859 [sq in]
Auburn Lake	1	do [holes]	13/16	do [inch]	do [diam]	.5185 [sq in]
Lawn	1	do [holes]	1/4	do [inch]	do [diam]	.0491 [sq in]

in the center and an opening an 1/8 of an inch wide around the circumference and equal to difference between the areas of circle having diamter of 2 inches and 1 3/4 |.7313| Total area of openings |1.5125 [sq in]|

head is about 70 feet

Respectfuly J.W. Lovering

[calculation in pencil: 3.1146 - 2.4053 = .7363]

441

Shedd & Sawyer

Dec. 8 [187]3

Dr Sirs

Have you any notes of a line of levels new in 1871 from lot #1587 Spruce Ave to Lawn Fountain?

If not please run the line for me from #1587 Spruce along that avenue to #1721 & thence to the pond on Lawn.

I would like a good profile say not over a tenth out from the starting point to end.

If you can continue the line on the same base used last summer from Chant Lot to Spruce Ave - I should prefer it.

Please have line run & send me profile as soon as you can & at the same time, I can show Mr [B. Landise?] one or two things to be added to sectional plans.

Yrs truly J.W. Lovering

Dec. 9 [187]3

Messrs M^cDonald & Sons. Quincy

Dear Sirs

Your bill received. Please deliver us no more posts till say the middle of February as we have enough at hand now. I want no more than the number ordered & when you have finished that amount please deliver no more, unless I write you to the contrary.

Yours truly J.W. Lovering

Boston June 10, 1862 Mrs. C. P. Sumner

Dear Madam,

I have communicated your request to have your lot taken care of for the present year; Mr. W^m H. Spooner Jr., the Gardener, will take charge of the same for ($3) three dollars. I was requested by the lady who called yesterday to return this information.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y Mt Auburn

Boston June 4, 1862 Geo. W^m Bond Esq Treas^r

Dear Sir,

At the meeting of the Trustees of Mount Auburn June 2^d 1862, the following votes were passed;-

"That the Committee on Grounds be authorized to raise the upper part of the Lawn one & a half feet higher than it has already been raised, and at an expense not exceeding $500.-"

That the Committee on Grounds be authorized to complete the Receiving Tomb now in progress, or a part thereof, as they think proper, at an expense not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars. ($3,500).-

That the Treasurer be authorized to pay to Mr Spooner the amt of said Spooner's note to Jona. Mann, amtg. to $250 and interest, being one of the votes secured by the mortgage of the Greenhouse now owned by the Trustees, upon the said note being deliver [?} the Treas- canceled." [?]

417

16 Pemberton Square

May 18 [186]8

My dear Sir,

I feel much mortified at my long neglect of your note of Nov^r 27^th [18]67, inquiring where you "can procure such a jet as is in the Lawn Fountain". --

First let me thank you for the beautiful "Handbook for Greenwood" by Mr Cleveland. It is executed in a style of rare elegance.

I was unusually engaged in the winter in preparation &c. connected with the removal of our office, and since being here have found difficulties in replying lucidly to the question, owing to the fact that the jet, while in use in two or three places, was made by persons now away. Still it is thought by two or three of whom I have inquired that it can be easily produced.

I have finally been advised to refer you to Mott's Iron Works 266 Water St, New York, & enclose the card of Messrs Lockwood & Lamb giving the reference. If you have any difficulty of getting it made there, and wish one, I have no doubt they can do it here. I understand that it is a very simple thing: it might be called "the reversed umbrella jet". If I can be of further aid, command my services.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge

J.A. Perry Esq

208

Feby. 1, 1869 _

Trustees' Annual Report _ Trustees' Report.

Among the occurrences worthy of note in the last years' history of Mount Auburn, is the purchase of two lots or pieces of land situated on the oustide of the Cemetery, and separated from it by an intervening road. One of these, sometimes called the "Stone Meadow" is situated on the easterly side of Coolidge Avenue, and has been brought of the heirs of Cornelius Stone, at the price of $1000 ~ per acre, the lot containing over five and a half acres, and costing the Corporation $5,543.75. This lot, consisting in part of low or wet land, is to be used as a place of temporary deposit for stone, rubbish and building materials, thereby releasing a more valuable portion of land now used for the same purposes within the Cemetery. It is possible that, at some future time, the engine house with its appurtenances may be removed in the same direction, with the same economical purpose. The other purchase is that of a part of an acre of land, with a dwelling house thereon, situated nearly opposite the front gate of the Cemetery, and bought of A. M^cDonald, for $4,000 ~. For various reasons, it was thought desirable that the Corporation should control this estate.

The work of reclaiming low lands in eligible situations has gone steadily forward. The entire hill on which the Superintendent's house stood, thirteen years ago, has been levelled, and the earth used to fill up the meadow about Halcyon Lake, and also to restore the necessary grade where made lands have settled, as in some parts of the Lawn, and of the meadow adjoining Thistle Path.