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MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY.

During the last year a number of improvements have been commenced
at Mount Auburn, and are now in an advanced state of progress,
though few of them as yet, are completed.

The introduction into the grounds of fresh running water, and the
construction of fountains in suitable parts of the Cemetery, has long
been thought a desirable object by the Trustees, and as they believe, by
a majority of the Proprietors. Such fountains exist in various Cemeteries
in the United States, and are among the highest ornaments in
landscape gardening. In the early part of the last year the Trustees
made appropriations for such an object, amounting in all to eight thousand
dollars, and appointed a committee with authority “to construct one or
more fountain jets at Mount Auburn.” The Horticultural Society also,
with a liberality which reflects on them great honor, voted to contribute
fifteen hundred dollars to the same object. After these provisions, the
work was began, and is now in a good state of forwardness. There
being no natural head of water to be obtained in the place, a well 26
feet deep and 24 feet in diameter has been dug in the lowest part of the
ground, on the eastern side, and secured with a brick curb. It is
believed capable of furnishing any amount of water which may be
required for the fountains. A reservoir 13 feet deep by 30 feet wide
has been constructed on the highest hill near the Tower, about 100
feet above the level of Auburn Lake. A communicating pipe 1740
feet in length, and 8 inches in diameter, made of iron and cement by
the Jersey City Water Pipe Company, has been laid about 43 feet under
ground, extending from the well to the reservoir, through Magnolia
and Mountain Avenues. An engine-house of brick, 28 feet by 22,
has been built near the well. A steam engine and pump, capable of
easily raismg 300 or 400 gallons per minute, and equal and similar
to that now used in Greenwood Cemetery, is about being contracted for
from Mr. H. R. Worthington, of New York, to be set up and in operation
early in the coming season. The water after beimg conveyed
through the reservoir and fountains, will be returned to the well from
which it is taken, and thus a constant supply will be kept up, deducting
only the small loss by evaporation and soakage, which the springs in the
bottom of the well are more than sufficient to supply. It is proposed